Arcade Watch Season

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I think I'll start it this week, I was planning on waiting until I wrote some gaming scoring program to track stats, but realize that isn't going to happen and that scoring each game would take too long anyhow.  So I'll just go same format as the NES season with 4 games against each team and I'll post recaps for each group of 5 games, and maybe I'll post video of the best game.

I'll use the ROM we used for the cartridge with BOPs and normal NES gameplay so 10 run rule will apply only after the end of an inning.

[Big Hath]

I'm so pumped for this!

[Attezz]

Can you add a pole to vote on who will win?

My money's on Atlanta

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Puhl added Here are quick approx odds IMO

Oakland 8-1
Atlanta 5-1
Houston 60-1
St. Louis 25-1
Chicago 10-1
Dodgers 25-1
Giants   4-1
Reds    12-1
RedSox 10-1
Yankees 6-1

[TβG]

i'll take the redsox.  do you do a playoff series at the end, or just a regular season champion?

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Top 3 to playoffs, 2v3 to see who plays 1 in WS

I'm attaching the ROM to the first post

[Gantry]

Going with the Yanks - since it's watch season they probably don't use subs.  New York has a stacked lineup and when they do use a sub it'll be Roger Maris.  Teams with their best bench players 3rd and 4th on the list will be in trouble...

[Attezz]

Atlanta has only two holes in their lineup, Ramirez/Garr, then it's 8 mashers and Adcock on the bench.

It's all about the ATL.

[TbT]

I want the cardinals....in watch mode anything goes.

[Gantry]

Adcock is first off the bench as well, which is huge...  Good pick, though I'm sticking with the Yankees...

[RedBarron]

fantasy Arcade RBI season, anyone?

[Gantry]

I'm down like Julie Brown, assuming I have to do none of the work after drafting...

[RedBarron]

I'm down like Julie Brown, assuming I have to do none of the work after drafting...

I'm down like Julie Brown, assuming I have to do none of the work after drafting...

took the words right outta my mouth

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Week 1 Games (The Cincy/St. Louis game is game of the week and movie is attached, summary to come later):

Oak 12 Hou 3
Vida Blue pitched a complete game shutting down Houston's horrible offense.

Atl 14 Bos 4 3 inn
The Braves showed what their offense can do hitting 5 HRs in 3 inning (Murphy, Aaron, Torre, and Matthews(2)) to destroy the RedSox

SF 15 ChC 7
Down 7-5 in the 6th, the Giants scored 10 runs over the next 2 innings thanks to HRs by Cepeda, Mays, McCovey, and Ott.  Jody Davis and Billy Williams homered for the Cubs

LA 12 NYY 11
Ford and Koufax both pitched well as the game was tied at 2 after 4.  A 2 run PH Hr by Maris in the bottom 7th gave the Yanks a 5-4 lead, but a 3 run shot by Guerrero in the 8th put the Dodgers up 8-5, and pulled ahead 12-5 before the Yanks scored 6 with 2 outs in the 9th, capped by a 3 run shot by DiMaggio to make if tight.

Cin 19 SL 17
Tony Perez and George Foster each had 3 run HRs as Cincy recovered from a 4 run first by the Cards taking a 15-7 lead, but St. Louis tied it thanks to A Musial Grand Slam, but a 2 run PH HR by Hank Groh and bad baserunning by the Cards in the 9th were the deciding factors.  Jack Clark had 3 HRs for the Cards.

[TbT]

St Louis is powerful..doing some arcade watch gaming my self and STL is taking it to the Yanks...5-1 thru 5 innings.  Brock, Hornsby, and Musial have all gone yard. 

Edit
The cards take it 12-6.  4 homers for each club as hack a jack adds one.  trailing 10-1 the yanks get blasts from gehrig and mantle to have a glimmer of hope in the 7th, but the 8 doubles and 2 triples by STL are too much to overcome.

Game 2.  NY used both starters, but STL still has tudor.  Brock beats out a grounder to shortstop and Hornsby cranks out a 2 run shot in the 1st and the cards are up early again.

In the 4th Ruth and Mantle go yard.  Top 5 and Brock leads off with a triple, and Clark brings him in with a 2 run shot.  all tied up at 4.

Back to back to back shots by Musial, Clark, and Boyer(??) blow the game wide open, and ST louis takes  A 7-4 LEAD INTO THE BOTTOM OF THE 7TH.  Ruth and mantle respond with back to back homers and NY leads 8-7 thru 7.

top 8th Hornsby goes yard again, and STL leads 9-8.  Scoreless bottom for NY.  Mcgee and medwick get PH rbi's and Brock sac fly drives in another.  12-8 heading to the bottom of the 9th.  Rizuto due up.  Gehrig homer is all they get. STL wins 12-9.  Card keep even w/ homers at 6 for the game and 10 for the series.  STL leads 2-0.

Game 3.  Musial shot gives the card 2 runs in the 1st.

didnt watch much of this game but shots my maris and lazzeri pull ny with in 1 the 7th with stl leading 9-8.  However the cards score 3 more and lead 12-8 heading to the bottom of the 8th.  dimmagio homers....STL goes scoreless in the 9th, and holds on for the 12-10 win, and a 3-0 lead.  finally NY outhomers STL (4-2), but the cards rack up more doubles and triples.

Game 4   Yanks use a late power surge to take game 4 12-11.  Game 5. NY is smoking STL 10-5 in the 8th, but a 2 out rally and a 3 run hornsby shot and its 10-9.  back to back double by Musial and Clark tie it up.  STL'sd big 3 have been huge this series.  However a Ruth rbi, and a Mantle 3 run shot seal it for the yanks...14-10.     STL leads 3-2.

Its all fkn over with.  NY leads 17-11 bottom of the 8th in Game 6.  they will win this and game 7 and defeat the lowly birds.  im going to end it all now and go to bed.   

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I added the Stl Cincy recap and I guess I just start posting all 5 games at once, I'll only post a video if something significant happens like pitcher HR.

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Week 2:

Oak 14 Atl 4 (6 inn)   
Oakland scored all their runs in the 4th-6th innings and Vida Blue did a solid job against a dangerous Brave lineup.   
HRs:   Tenace, McGwire(2), Mathews, Horner, Canseco

NYY 11 Hou 6   
The Yankees scored in each of the first 7 innings, and ran away with this one, Hou got 3 in the 9th to make it respectable   
HRs:   Lazzeri, DiMaggio(3), Maris, Gdavis, Thon, Bass

Bos 14 SL 2 (6 Inn)   
A shellacking by the RedSox   
HRs:   Fisk, Twilliams (2), Foxx, Yaz (2)

Cin 17 Chc 13   
The Reds jumped out to 13-4 lead after 6, which the Cubs cut to 13-11, but the Reds added 4 in the 8th to put it away.   
HRs:   Santo, Perez(2), Banks (2), Foster(3), Bench(2)

SF 19 LA 17   
The Giants scored 8 in the 5th to take a 14-8 lead and led 16-10 with 2 outs in the 8th when Lopes hit a 2 run PH HR and Willie Mays went on to make a rare error to allow 3 more uneaned runs to score as LA cut it to 16-15, but that's as close as it got as SF added 3 in the bottom of the 8th.   
HRs:   Dark, J. Robinson (2), Cey, Mays(2), McCovey, Guerrero, Bonds, Lopes

[Gantry]

Houston sucks...

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---Week 3    After 3 games, already no undefeated teams left

SL 13 Oak 12   
Vida Blue got rocked as STL jumped out to a 13-4 lead after 5, and it could have been worse as they left a ton of guys on base, but Oakland cut it to 13-12 in the 7th capped by a 3 run HR by Gene Tenace, but Oakland failed to generate any more offense and that's how it ended.   
HRs:   Hornsby, McGwire (2), Campeneris, Jackson, Tenace

ATL 21 Hou 10 6 inn   
Hou had an offensive outburst with 5 in the top of the first and the it was all ATL   
HRs:   Watson, Thon(2), Aaron(3), Mathews, Johnson, Murphy(2)

Bos 21 Chc 20   
The Cubs score 7 in the top of the 5th to take a 13-6 lead, but the Sox cut it to 15-14 after 6 and scored 7 in the 8th capped by a 3 run PH HR by Tris Speaker to take a 21-17 lead and hold on.   
HRs:   Wilson(3), Banks, TWilliams(3), Dawson(2), Bwilliams, Speaker

LA 25 Cin 11 (7 inn)   
The Dodgers got 10 in the 7th without a HR to break the game open.   
HRs:   Garvey, Snider(2), Perez, Bench, Guerrero, Cey, Robinson

NYY 14 SF 6   
The Yankees shut down the Giants offense and Berra had a couple of clutch 3 run HRs.   
HRs:   Gehrig, Berra(2), Mays, McCovey, Mantle

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Ted Williams leads the league with 5 HRs while Aaron, Murphy, McGwire, Mays, Foster, Perez, and DiMaggio each have 4.