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Sable/Gerbl Day 8 Washington ends skid, LA Makes it 3 straight, Vikings Pillage Texas, Rivertown rolls Juneau

Posted: August 8, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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Washington 4 New York 3

Corey Dickerson went 3-3 with 3 RBI & Jose Quintana threw a full nine innings to end Washington two game skid with a 4-3 defeat of the New York Yankees in DC

The damage against CC Sabathia (L 0-2) started in the 2nd. Marwin Gonzalez tripled to center to start the inning. and with two outs Corey Dickerson singled to right driving him in. A throwing error by Sabathia on a pickoff attempt sent him to third but he struck out Christian Vasquez to get out of the jam

Two innings later the cast was mostly the same. Gonzalez singled with one out and Billy Hamilton followed with one of his own. After a ground out that sent the runners to second and third Dickerson singled to right scoring both Gonzalez and the fleet footed Hamilton and the score was 3-0.

Meanwhie while the yanks managed the odd baserunner and even two of them in the 4th they didn’t break through off Jose Quintana (W 1-0) until the 6th. With one out Giancarlo Stanton singled to left and scored when Gleyber Torres drove a ball that in any other part would have been long gone. Torres had to settle for a triple but scored anyways when third baseman Anthony Rendon decided to go to 1st on Miguel Andujar’s grounder rather than trying to make a play at the plate making it 3-2. But in the bottom of the inning Jesus Andujar didn’t have to settle for three as his one out drive carried 435 feet to left to give Washington a 2 run lead again. Dickerson singled again to follow chasing Sabathia who was replaced by Zach Briton who gave up another single to Vasquez bringing up Quintana who was not pulled for a pinch hitter and struck out.

At first it looked like Washington’s faith in Quintana would be costly when with one out in the 7th Brett Garnder hit a ball over the fence down the right field line cutting the lead to 4-3 but that would be all as Quintana would retire the last 8 in a row as the ready arms in the bullpen watched and the fans applauded.

Notes: Billy Hamilton called up to the majors before the game went 1-4 starting in center for Starling Marte who while perfect in the field has been a disapointing at the plate. CC Sabathia became the 1st pitcher to lose two games this season giving up 8 hits without a walk in 5 2/3 innings. While the top of Washington’s lineup was a combined 0-12 the 4-9 hitters went 9-21. Reynaldo Lopez (1-0) gets the ball for the Senators tomorrow against Masahiro Tanaka (1-0) for the Yanks.

LA 8 Boston 2

The Dodgers struck for seven runs in the 1st two innings more than enough for Hyun-Jim Ryu as LA pounded Boston 8-2

Kyle Gibson (L 0-2) wasted no time loading the bases in the 1st on Cody Bellinger Walk, A Yasiel Puig Single and a Max Muncy walk and LA took advantage Bellinger scoring on a Manny Machado Grounder (Puig out at 3rd) another on a Joc Pederson single scoring Muncy and finally a sac fly by Matt Kemp on a drive to deep left scoring Machado.

It got worse in the 2nd Kiki hernandez walked and Chris Taylor singled him to 2nd. With one out Yasiel Puig hit a slow ball to 2nd that should have been the 2nd out but Aleg Bregman throw pulled Jose Abreu off the bag to load the bases so when Muncy popped out it didn’t end the inning. That gave the red hot Manny Machado a shot to do damage and he did depositing a pitch over the Green Monster for a grand slam driving in four unearned runs and it was 7-0.

Hyun-Jin Ryu (W 2-0) didn’t need half of them as he kept the Red Sox batters guessing striking out eleven and bearing bearing down when he needed to, most notably in the 4th when they loaded the bases with one out on a Christian Yelich double, a Ronald Acuna Jr walk and a one out Abreu infield single. Ryu got the 2nd out on a deep fly to the Triangle by Bregman scoring Yelich and moving both runners but retired Yan Gomes on a popup to keep the game out of reach, and striking out the side in between a walk and single in the 5th.

The Sox had one more chance to gt things closer in the 7th. With two outs Kris Bryant doubled in Ben Zobrist who had singled before him but Scott Alexander came in not only striking out Yelich but only allowing a walk and a hit batsmen the rest of the way to close out the victory.

Notes: The Dodgers last run came on a one out double by Puig driving in Bellinger who walked. Despite the rough start Gibson pitched seven full innings giving up only 3 earned runs. Manny Machado had another big game driving in 5 and scoring twice. Alex Wood will try to keep the winning streak going against Dallas Keuchel for Boston.

Vikings 14 Texas 1

The Vikings sent 19 men to the plate in the 8th and ninth turning a pitching duel into a rout as the pulverized the Thunder 14-1

It certainly didn’t look like it would end that way as Texas’ Kyle Freeland (L 0-2) and King Ragnar’s Gerrit Cole (W 2-0) spent most of the game trading zeros Freeland putting down threats and Gerrit not evening letting them get started.

The only lapse was in the Vikings 5th. Eddie Rosario singled and was replaced on the basepads by Jed Lowrie on a fielder’s choice. Whit Merrifield drilled Freeland’s next pitch to right center, it rolled to the wall scoring Lowrie and sending him all the way to third.

With a man on 3rd and one out the Vikings played smallball, Mallex Smith bunted and beat Tucker Barnhart’s throw to 1st Merrifield scored. A Kentel Marte single sent Smith to 3rd but Freeland retired Elias Dias and Juao Soto to hold the Vikings to a 2-0 lead. That’s were it was when Keone Kela relieved Freeland in the 7th. It didn’t stay there long.

the Vikings 8th started with a Rene Rivera walk. Jean Segura doubled to left putting runners on 2nd & 3rd with nobody out for the 2nd inning straight. In the 7th Kela pitched out of it without damage, not this time. Rosario shot a double into left center scoring Rivera and Segura, moved to third on Lowrie’s single and scored with Kela 2nd pitch to Merrifield went to the backstop. When Merrifield singled to first Rasiel Iglesias came in to relieve Kela in the hope he could keep it a 5-0 game. For a moment it looked like he just might. Nolan Arenado was ready for Smith 2nd attempt to bunt a man home nailing Lowrie at the plate and when Marte grounded to 1st moving Merrifield to third and Smith to 2nd Iglesias was one out away from doing his job. But Anthony Rizzo’s single drove in Merrifield and Juan Soto’s plated Marte. Rivera followed with a double to right scoring both Rizzo and Soto and it was 9-0. After a Segura walk Rosario hit a ball to right center scoring Rivera making it 10-0 but mercifully for Texas he tried to turn that single into a double and was cut down on a great throw by Mike Trout.

Texas managed a run in the bottom of the inning on a leadoff triple by Javier Baez and a two out pinch single by George Springer off of Ryne Stanek but in the 9th Nathan Eovaldi coming in after a Jed Lowrie leadoff walk gave up singles to Merrifield and Smith (Lowrie thown out at home) A sac fly to Gerardo Parra a stolen base to smith another run scoring single to Rizzo and finally a 2 run homer making it 14-1 going into the last of the ninth where Texas would go down in order happy to put this game behind them.

Notes. Jed Lowrie would be thrown out at home twice once on a squeeze and once by George Springer from center. The Vikings struck for 20 hits 4 each off of the three Texas relievers who worked a single inning while Cole gave up only 2 hit and one walk while striking out 11. Texas answers tomorrow with Mike Clevinger (1-0) against Noah Syndergaard (0-1) for the Vikings

Rivertown 7 Juneau 1

Patrick Corbin struck out 13 and Rivertown went yard five times as the Raiders took game one of their series against Juneau 7-1

The Bombs began in the 3rd as Shohei Ohtani (L 0-1) gave up a lead off dinger to Paul DeJong to left one out later Jose Ramirez took one to right center Giving the Raiders a 2-0 lead.

Juneau answered off Patrick Corbin (W 2-0) in the 6th Mookie Betts drew a walk to start the inning and Buster Posey drove the 1st pitch he saw into the gap in left center. Mgr Carden brought in Andrew Benintendi to run for Posey who after Bryce Harper went down on strikes promptly stole 3rd. But Corbin k’d Moustakas swinging and coaxed a flyout from Matt Chapman preserving the 2-1 which would be all he would need.

That didn’t stop Matt Carpenter from leading off the bottom of the inning with another homer to right center making the score 3-1. Carpenter would do so again in the top of the 9th off Brad Ziegler and after a Jose Ramirez double drove in Paul DeJong who had singled Paul Goldschmidt drew the final blood with a Shot over the left center wall.

Notes: All but one one of Rivertown’s runs came on homers which is a good thing for them because they were only 1-7 with runners in scoring position. This was Ohtani’s 1st start since his last game was washed out by rain. Juneau lost the DH when Bryce Harper went into right field causing Othani to bat, he popped to 3rd in the 7th. It will be Rivertown’s Charlie Morton (0-1) against Miles Mikolas (0-1) in game 2

Sable/GERBL Day Six: The Jacob DeGrom show opens in DC, Yanks Shut out Juneau. Boston beats Texas, Dodgers Down Rivertown

Posted: August 2, 2019 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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King Ragnar’s Vikings 5 Senators 1

Jacob DeGrom pitched a complete game and drove in two key late runs ending giving the Vikings a 5-1 victory over the Washington Senators.

Sean Newcomb (L 0-1) found himself constantly in trouble allowing a run in the 2nd on a Jed Lowrey single driving in Anthony Rizzo who doubled before him and another in the 3rd when Ketel Marte singled in Mallex Smith who ended up on 2nd on an infield Single after Trevor Story threw the ball away. But despite having baserunners in every inning more often than not he pitched his way out of trouble stranding Marte on 3rd after a triple in the 1st Smith on 2nd with no outs in the 5th and Rizzo on 2nd with one out in the 6th and when he came out of the game with one on and one out in the 7th he was only down 2-1 and Washington had a real chance to win.

Unfortunately for Washington DeGrom (W 1-0) wasn’t given them chances to convert. Other Trevor Story (2-3 with a solo shot in the 3rd) Washington batters were kept in check. Their best chance to tie came in the 5th. Story singled with one out and Newcomb bunted him to 2nd and Sterling Marte’s slow roller that Lowrie couldn’t come up with put runners on the corners with 2 out, but deGrom coaxed a weak grounder to Rizzo at first and the threat was over.

The Critical moment in the game came in the top of the 8th when after a two out single by Lowrie, First baseman Jesus Aguilar misplayed a grounder hit right to him putting Jean Segura on 1st and Lowrie on second with deGrom’s spot up. Manager Gank had to choose between a chance to break the game open with a pinch hitter or sticking with his starter who had allowed only four hits and one walk in 7 innings. He got the best of both worlds when deGrom not only drove a Jesus Familia fastball into the gap in left center scoring Lowrie and Segura but retired six of the next seven hitters to complete the game and the win for King Ragnar.

Notes To this point the Vikings have not won a game that their bullpen has appeared in. Despite a respectable performance vs the Vikings Sean Newcombe remains last or tied for last on Washington staff in six categories including ERA, hits runs earned runs and walks allowed. Trevor Story has homered in every game that he’s committed an error in. Juan Segura was 1-3 with a run scored and remains is the only Vikings player to place in the top 10 in any offensive category currently 4th in batting .350 and 8th in on base percentage .409.

NYY 4 Juneau 0

Luis Severino gave up 4 hits in 8+ innings and Brett Gardner scored all four Yankee runs and New York Shut out the Juneau Muffen Men 4-0.

Gardener started making trouble for Anibal Sanchez (L 1-0) right at the start singling to center to lead off and stealing 2nd with one out to put himself in a perfect spot to score on Miguel Andujar’s single to make it 1-0. In the 3rd he reached again this time on a Sanchez error scoring on Aaron Judge’s one out double making it 2-0 and took advantage of both his skill and the Muffin Men’s defense in the 5th doubling to right center and taking 3rd on Bryce Harper’s error allowing Judge’s one out single to score him again and finally came home on a bases loaded walk issued in the 7th to Giancarlo Stanton by reliever Joakim Soria.

While NY in general and Gardner in particular were taking advantages of Juneau miscues the Muffen men failed to do the same. In the 2nd Andrew Benitendi grounded to 2nd after getting a 2nd chance when Judge dropped his foul fly. Mookie Betts reached 2nd on a walk followed by a wild pickoff throw by Severino but remained stranded as Joey Votto grounded out. In the 3rd Benintendi singled and Harper walked with one out but Bettis was k’ed by Severino and Votto grouned out again. In the 4th Shohei Ohtani walked but was thrown out by Gardner at 3rd when he tried to take an extra base on Scotter Gennett’s one out single. No other Washington batter would reach 2nd till the ninth when Jonathan Holder (who came in for Severino after he complained of pain after his 1st pitch of the inning) gave up an infield single to Votto and he reached 2nd on a grounder where he would remain till Gennett flew out to end the game.

Notes: Two of the Yankees four runs were unearned. Juneau and NY combined for six errors the most so far by any pair of teams this season. The Yankees Severino is considered day to day but thanks to the travel game after tomorrow is expected, barring setbacks to make his next scheduled start. It will be JA Happ (0-1) for NY against Mike Foltynewicz (1-0) in the finale

Boston 6 Texas 1

Kris Bryant went 2-4 including a solo shot in the 5th and Justin Verlander pitched like…Justin Verlander and Boston defeated Texas 6-1 at the Ballpark in Arlington.

Corey Kluber’s (L 0-1) long day began in the 1st when Brandon Nimmo tripled to get things started. After a walk to Ben Zobrist, Kluber retired the next two and looked like he might escape undamaged until Alex Bregman singled to left scoring Nimmo to make it 1-0.

It was more of the same in the 3rd. Nimmo led off with a single and Zobrisst followed with the same sending Nimmo to 3rd. It might have been a disaster but JD Martinez hit a sharp grounder to short that Lindor converted into a double play scoring Nimmo but eliminating the chance for a big inning. A solo shot by to start the fifth by Kris Bryant made it 3-0 but Kluber would settle down and keep his team in the game and out of trouble until the 9th.

Unfortunately for him Justin Verlander (W 2-0) didn’t give Texas an opening allowing only a stray hit or walk until the 8th when Tucker Barnhart doubled to right with two out scoring Ryan Brawn who singled with one out to make the game 3-1.

Given Verlander’s performance to that point (8 IP 3 H 1R 12k) the odds were long for a comback in the bottom of the 9th but they became much longer once Boston came up again Kluber who gave up a leadoff single to Hoskins who made it to 2nd on Brawn’s error followed by another single to Ronald Acuna Jr. Putting runners on 1st and 3rd with nobody out. Nathan Eovildi came in and immediately gave up a pair of singles one to JT Realmuto that scored Hoskins and one to Bryant that scored Acuna. When Martinez added a bases loaded single scoring Realmuto with one out the only question left was what would Verlander’s final line would be (it was 13 K’s and four hits).

Verlander is the 1st pitcher to reach two wins this season. Even after being held to five hits Texas has three starters hitting .308 or better (Freeman .400, Lindor .308 & Brawn .538). The Thunder hit into more double places (2) then they had at bats with runners in scoring position (1). only had one man bat with runners in scoring position the entire game. Despite having two hits and scoring two runs Brandon Nimmo was 0-2 with men in scoring position. Zach Grenkie (1-0) of Texas will face Blake Snell (0-1) in tomorrow’s finale.

Dodgers 5 Raider 2

Los Angeles hit three home runs to Rivertown’s one and Dodger ace Kershaw outpitched Rivertown ace Sale las LA won the battle of the lefty aces by a score of 5-2

Clayton Kershaw (W 1-1) started slow didn’t start well giving up a single to Lorenzo Cain to start things off. One out later he grooved a pitch to Paul Goldschmidt that he put over the left field wall for a early 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the 2nd LA stuck back. against Chris Sale (L 1-1) Matt Kemp put Sales 1st pitch of the inning over the center field wall, Max Muncy drew a walk and Chris Taylor followed with a drive not quite as deep to right center but more than deep enough to give LA a 3-2 lead.

That was more than Enough for Kershaw who retired the next nine in a row before being relieved in the 6th by Pat Venditte the 1st of three relievers who would give Rivertown more of the same. Their only real threat came in the 7th when Marcell Ozuna singled to left to start the inning and Nelson Cruz walked with two out and Ozuna on 2nd. The put the go ahead runs on for Yadier Molina. Alas for Rivertown he grounded into a force to end the threat and when in the bottom of the inning Diego Castillo, after relieving Sale with a man on and one out, grooved a pitch that Corey Bellinger absolute crushed to right center it was all over for the Raiders:

Notes: Bellinger’s homer traveled 488 Feet one of the longest of the season.
Lorenzo Cain hat two of Boston’s five hits but was caught stealing in the 8th after his 2nd hit. Kenley Janson (s3) pitched a perfect 9th for his 3rd save. It will be Walter Buehler (0-0) for LA vs Aaron Nola (1-0) to finish things up.

The new Sable baseball blog is up…

Posted: February 16, 2010 by datechguy in baseball, gaming, hobbies
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…started by our new commissioner as we enter our 23rd year of play.

If you have any interest in face to face tabletop baseball and our league click here to see what is going on.

If you have an interest in joining for our 24th year leave a comment at the site and contact our commissioner . the league dues are $35, we are playing a 60 game season this year (our shortest for a while) running from March 20th to Oct 2nd with 6 weeks off. We play in Fitchburg so if you are willing to travel one day a week for some camaraderie and to see if you could be a great Manager or GM if you only had the chance, let us know.

Intoxicated by the heady drug of victory…

Posted: August 28, 2009 by datechguy in baseball, gaming, hobbies, Sable Baseball
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…I find myself unready to make the last two trades that I should in the Sable Baseball league that I’m playing in.

I made a big trade at the all star break with the team in first, Picking up 5 players: Tori Hunter, Armando Galarraga, Adam Lind, Kevin Millwood and Orlando Cabrera for Jose Reyes who had an incredible card last year but will be a “fringe player” (unusable in our league) next year. (Dynasty Baseball generates cards based on the previous years performance). I also added from wavers veteran Omar Vizquel as extra defense and hit and run ability off the bench.

Since then I’ve gone 9-6 including series wins against three different playoff teams. Ironically I’ve gone 8-5 since Losing my starting first baseman and right fielder to injury (yes your players can get injured and suspended in this game). Hunter is hitting over 300 and has 5 homers in 15 games. Galarraga is 3-0 with one ND and in his first relief appearance for me came into a bases loaded no outs situation and struck out Pat Burrell and Lance Berkman before coaxing a ground out from Nick Markakis to end the inning. The team was so inspired they managed to score 7 (including a Solo Shot to start the inning and a two run triple from David Wright who won the previous game with a walkoff homer in the 12th) in the 6th to win 11-6. The team has not lost any game that Galarraga has appeared in.

Our trading deadline in in two weeks. Galarraga will not have a valuable card next year and Milton Bradley (.436 OBP last year, best on my team) is unlikely to be kept with Jason Bay in Left. Both have very high trade value. I have three teams I will need to pass in order to make the playoffs. Although next year I will not be managing this team (I’m league treasurer and took over when a player moved to Minnesota) the greatest value I can get for these players is right now…

…but looking at my remaining schedule It’s very possible that I can go 10-5 and perhaps even 12-3. I’ll be playing three of the teams I need to pass and I finish against the best team in the league that will have clinched their playoff spot long before then and resting starters to avoid injury or suspension. This team is clicking I KNOW I have a chance…

…but It is still much more likely I’ll go 8-7 or 7-8 but I just can’t bring myself to give up.

My next series is the last one before the trading deadline. If I manage win 2 of 3 I just HAVE to go for it.

Are you a fantasy baseball player? What do you think?

Oh and if you live in Central Massachusetts and are interested in taking over an up and coming team next year, let me know in comments and I’ll have our league commissioner contact you about our spot in our 22 year old tabletop league.

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