Straight Pitch League Week 5 Results

[Baines]

Ryno and I just split the first 2 games of our series bot by the score of 11-6.   If two games of this score took place in portsmouth, much drunkenness and celebration would take place.  We'll play the tiebreaker after he gets in his MVP with Bonny and I get in some more Old Style and college basketball. 

Ryno will have to post his HR stats as I usually use the break in the action to tip up my Old Style rather than write down opponents stats.  also feel free to correct me on any of the writeups.

Game 1:

Baines wins his 2nd game of the year.   Timmy Burks comes out of a season long slump to hit two bombs and another double high off the wall.  The game was close most of the way until Phil Garner came off the bench with a 3 run blast followed by the nail in the coffin by Eric Davis.

Baines HR's:  Burks (2), Baylor, Garner, EDavis


Game 2:

The Parish State bats never showed up for this oneother tahan a 4 run 4th.  Brett hit a quality late inning blast off the bench.  the difference in this one was Parish State's manager failing to give their pitchers the hook in time  with Saberhagen and Kerfeld both giving up dingers on sub 50mph pitches.

Baines HR's:  Chet Lemonparty, Eric Davis, George Brett


Edit - Just cleaning up the thread subject.

[Stock]

Wow!!  Gena Davis held in the park for 2 games!

[Baines]

Yeah, pretty surprising.  I don't even know if he got on base.

[RedBarron]

Following game three, Hoggs manager will be shooting charlie kerfeld in the fucking head.

Game 1 hogg homers:  Raines, Murphy 2


Game 2 hogg homers:  Carter, Spier, Murphy, Dw Evans, Dawson,

[Baines]

The Parish State manager will help you pull the trigger.

[RedBarron]

The Parish State manager will help you pull the trigger.

I'm gonna stick a broom stick up his ass first.


bristle end first!!!!!


ready for game 3?

[Baines]

Let's get em.

[Baines]

Parish State plays the role of spoiler as they come through with their first series win with a 12-10 victory.  The PSU pitching continued to be worthless, giving up 8 bombs to the Hoggs.  Dawson continued to make the PSU staff his bitch with another 2 homers but PSU's bats came through with some clutch hitting from Ellis Burks and Chet Lemonparty, scoring 8 runs in the 7th and 8th innings to earn the comeback victory.

Baines HR's:  Lemonparty (2), Burks (2), EDavis

Hoggs HR's:  Dawson (2), Murphy (2), Carter, Dw Evans, Heath, Baines

[RedBarron]

I have the 87 Cubs on my team. . . .and by damn, I play like the 87 cubs.


Full of potential. . . . pure shit on the mound. . . . super duper pooper scooper home run hitters at the plate.

Fernando can suck a big phat billy goat dick, as can dave smith.

Baines strapped on the rec specs and gave me a beating like the bitch that I am.

congrats, homie.

a winner is you

[Baines]

Parish State = Wisconsin Milwaukee

[Lips]

JoeDirt...can you play now?

[JoeDirt]

damn, i really can't...but damn...okay, i will.......................................................................

[RedBarron]

kill him, lips.

[fightonusc]

Put him in a body bag...

[RedBarron]

cut his fucking head off

[Lips]

League-leading JoeDirt welcomed The Thundercats to Tengen Field.  This matchup had the makings to be a pitcher's game, with The Express facing off against The Rocket.

The Thundercats tried to take the game into their own hands in the first inning.  Rupperto got them going with a solo homer and RBI followed suit to quickly put The Thundercats up 2-0.  After the initial homers, The Thundercats' hitters slowed to a crawl.

And in the middle innings, JoeDirt came back with two solo shots of his own, with Trammell and Puckett.

With the score knotted at 2-2, neither club got their offense going for the rest of regulation.  So they went to SHROVERTIME (aka extra innings)...

The 10th and 11th innings passed, and the score was still square at 2-2.  The pitchers were definitely stealing the show.

But in the top of the 12th inning, RBI went yard AGAIN...this time, it was a 2-run shot.  That was enough to hold off JoeDirt.  And with that victory, The Thundercats joined the Poopybutts as the only two teams to have beaten JoeDirt in the Straight Pitch League.

The Homers...

JoeDirt:
Trammell 1
Puckett 1

The Thundercats:
Jones 1
Rice 2

Game 2 to follow shortly...

[Lips]

After the excruciating long game, The Thundercats were hoping to sneak in some runs against Nolan again.

And indeed, they did...  Nolan powered through Leonard and Jones to start off the game, but both Rice and Jackson found ways to get on base.  Ahhh, and we all remember the Whitaker/Sheridan snafu at the draft (thanks again, Nails...really).  Sheridan proved his worth here, with a huge 3-run home run.

And with that shot, Sheridan set the mood for The Thundercats' early innings.  After the 3-run first inning, The Thundercats came back very strong in the second with a 5-run inning...which included a 3-run shot by RBI.  And in the third, The Thundercats tacked on one more run.

The rest of the game was pretty much JoeDirt fighting off the slaughter, which he successfully did.

The Thundercats won 10-2, to take a (2-0) series lead.

The Homers...

JoeDirt:
Hrbek 1
Puckett 1

The Thundercats:
Rice 1
Jackson 1
Sheridan 1
Pendleton 1
Gedman 1

Game 3 to follow shortly...

[Lips]

All good things come to an end...

The Thundercats came out scoring in the first inning for the third straight game, this time netting only a run.  But you can't keep a good man down forever...  JoeDirt came back with a vengeance, scoring four runs in the first.

With the tables turned, how would the Thundercats react?  Well, they have seen better days.  In their attempt to fight back, the Thundercats pulled to within two runs multiple times, before JoeDirt went off with another 4-spot in the mid-innings.

The second 4-run inning was enough to mentally break The Thundercats.  While they had hopes of the sweep after finishing Game 2, reality suck in and the straight pitch league leader, JoeDirt, showed up for some payback.

JoeDirt won 9-3.

The Homers...

JoeDirt:
Trammell 1
Guerrero 1
Mattingly 1
McGwire 1
Mitchell 1

The Thundercats:
Jones 1
Jackson 1

[Lips]

To clarify...
The Thundercats won the first game, 4-2, in 12 innings.

[Nails]

(thanks again, Nails...really)

No problem, man.  Great games, Lips and JoeD.

Where the hell is Stock?  The commish is MIA.  He hasn't logged in for 3 days...