September Review (2036-10)

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September Review (2036-10)

Post by Fat Nige » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:06 am

The final month of the season thankfully had arrived for the Sluggers and their fast reducing fans, they were on course to fall below two million through the gate for the first time since 2027. Although everyone had known for months that Louisville would miss the play-offs it wasn’t mathematically confirmed until September 10th and just to mark the relief Sean Maguire launched three homers into the Kentucky Truck Plant stadium stands against New Orleans as Sluggers posted an increasingly rare win. In fact, once more for the second straight month Louisville only won nine games and they only once strung together a string of more than one consecutive wins. They managed three consecutive wins at the end of the second week, unusually enough against three separate opponents. They beat New Orleans 9-1 in the final game of their series at KTP, won 10-3 in Phoenix in a make-up game and went on to win 9-3 in Rockville in the opening game of their series there. Not only a strange combination but three major scores coming the three days after they had mathematically been eliminated from the post season. It was a token gesture and they only won twice more in their final 15 games of the season to finish the month with a 9-19 record and 63-99 overall, 18 games below the .500 they finished 2035 with.

In such a crap month it was no surprise that the team leader in wins only had two wins. The surprise was that the pitcher was Doug Clement who had basically been rubbish all year and owned a 4-13 record going into September. The only other pitcher with a winning record was Kevin Morales, finally picking up a little of his form, he had a 1-0 record from his five starts; he had surrendered just 11 runs in those five games (a small number for Sluggers pitchers) and had a 29/7 K/BB ratio. Pepe Jaramillo was 0-2 in five starts, Julio Barajas was 1-3 in five starts, Felipe Chavez posted another 1-3 while Ramon Gaza was recalled from Double-A and could only manage a 1-2 record. Lando Klomp posted the only three saves earned by Louisville pitchers in this month and indeed only two holds were awarded as well, one to Samuel Cant (who pitched just three innings in the month) and one to rising star rookie Yasuoka Okamura unfortunately to go with his 1-2 record.


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Joey O'Brien received his first BBA cup of coffee at the age of 19


A few of the batters did actually flash the bat though, Jose Vazquez hit the ball 45 times in his 24 starts for a .441 average and scored 15 times with five homers and 17 RBI, earning him his second JL Rookie of the Month Award. Also hitting well was Jamie Ramirez whose .326 allowed him to score 13 times while Vince Osborn ended up with a .321 average and 14 runs scored, disappointingly though his three homers only netted six RBI. Pedro Debesa led the team in homers & RBI with nine and 20, just missing a .300 average. On the other hand, Shag Hopkins flailed wildly at anything and struck out 35 times, hitting just three extra-base hits including his only homer of the month. Top prospect, 19-yr-old Joey O’Brien, received his first BBA cup of coffee after several non-roster invites to Spring and gave the organisation food for thought as he hit .350 in six outings, scoring twice but failing to record any EBH. After hitting .336 in 103 Triple-A games this year he could be arriving at Spring Training in 2037 with a realistic chance of making the team. Louisville’s two base stealers kept the accelerator on, Ramirez stealing 12 from 14 attempts leaving his season tally at 62 from 71 starts while Pedro Saldana stole 10 from 13 leaving him with a career high 50 steals from 58 attempts on the year. The only other player with more than five steals was Vince Osborn with 16 but that was from 37 attempts.
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