UMEBA Walkoff Watch 2041, Sim #4

[Fat Nige]

The Walkoff Watch Terminology

Balkoff - When a pitcher balks in the winning run.

Derpoff - When a pitcher walks in the winning run, hits a batter with the bases full, or the winning run scores due to a wild pitch or error.

200-proof walkoff - When the home team scores in the bottom of a previous inning to extend the game and then scores with a walkoff in a subsequent inning.

Pimpoff - When the home team scores a walkoff following the visiting team tying the game to cause extra innings (or more extra innings) or scoring what would have been the winning run if the home team hadn’t responded.

Table of Contents
Sim: Player & Team Highlights
Sim: Outcomes
Heroes
Goats
Derps
200% Proof
Pimpoff
Season Table


Player & Team Highlights Sim #4

Now the UMEBA teams are starting to work that ninth innings, in sim#4 we actually got six runs in the bottom of ninth, true only two really mattered, but at least that final innings action is hotting up. We also got our longest game of 2041 when Cairo took Mumbai to 15 innings (after the Chariot Archers led 7-2 at one stage), but the winning run was popped over the fences in the top half of the innings with Mumbai unable to respond in the all important bottom half.

Outcomes
On the final day of the sim we were treated to, not one, but two walkoffs for the first time in 2041. First, we had Manama at Beirut, the game had been tied at two since the bottom of the fourth innings. Only one runner had got as far as third since then when we reached the bottom of the 9th. Manama closer Alistair Grieves, flawless in eight outings so far, stepped onto the mound. He gave up a single first batter but a fielder’s choice and a fly out left him needing just that final out to send the game into extras. His fourth batter faced sent the ball into left field to advance the runner into scoring position at second base. Chester Owens, a .264 hitter stepped into the batters box. The first pitch was a ball before Owens sent the second skipping past first and on into right field. The runner at second made third and looking up at the ball rolling agonisingly between the outrushing 1B and the inrushing RF, scooted home for the win.
Meanwhile at the same time across the desert we had Bagdad at Jerusalem. The Hebrew Hammers, already the subject of the two 2041 walkoff games before this sim, wanted a bit of the glory themselves. Jerusalem had tied the score at 2-2 in the bottom of the eighth with a solo homer and had kept the Kings to just a single in the top of the ninth. Looking to keep the score where it was Bagdad sent closer Lucas Meech, 0-2 on the season with 2 saves, to the mound. Things started badly as Meech gave up walks to the first two batters, but a strikeout gave him hope of getting out of the jam. The Hebrew Hammers sent a pinch hitter to the plate, Woo-jong Kang, his record so far in 2041 was 4-13. He took a ball, fanned on the next two and left the fourth alone for a ball. Meech fired in the fifth pitch of the AB and Kang slapped a fierce line drive past the right side of second base and left the runner at second a simple jog round the final bases to claim 2041’s first 200-proof walkoff


Heroes

Primio Anastcia, (Bucharest)
Randolph Webber (Mumbai) – Pimpoff
Chester Owens (Beirut)
Woo-jong Kang (Jerusalem) – 200 Proof


Goats

Brian Soper, (Jerusalem)
Simon Bamber (Jerusalem)
Alistair Grieves (Manama)
Lucas Meech (Bagdad)