Week 2: April 7th-13th
Well, it didn’t take long to hit the bottom of the Frontier. Maybe we were unlucky, a lot of the defeats were close affairs, but maybe we are a complete pile of shit?
Game 7 @ Mexico City Aztecs
4/7 @ Mexico L 1-3
The Aztecs snatched a share off the 4-game series with a come from behind win. Wichita scored the game’s opening run when rookie Guillaume Martin drove in his seventh run in seven games. Mexico fought back though and by the end of the fifth innings they had turned the game around and added the insurance run in the eighth. Martin had another multi-hit game as he went 2-4 with that RBI while Damon Tipping was tagged with his second loss of 2044 despite only allowing two runs in seven innings.
Games 8, 9 & 10 vs Boise Spuds
4/9 vs Boise W 10-9 (F/13) (37,366)
4/10 vs Boise L 3-9 (37,859)
4/11 vs Boise L 5-8 (34,032)
The first game of the series started badly as Aviators were 4-1 down after two innings. Wichita clawed the game back as made it 5-5 after eight innings, Boise thought they had won it with two runs in the top of the 10th but Wichita hit back with two runs in the bottom of the 10th. Both teams plated two more runs in the 12th innings, leaving the game at 9-9 going into the 13th innings. Finally it was sorted out as Jason Bowen led off the bottom half of the 13th innings with a walk-off solo homer. Backup catcher John Todd had managed a pinch hit homer as well while Jorge Reyes went 3-5 with two RBI and scoring once. Matt Chambers had three hits in six AB’s, driving two runs in and scoring twice. Aviators managed six doubles and four homers, but this was the highlight of the series unfortunately for the Aviators. Boise scored twice in the second innings of game two and although Wichita got as close as 2-3 in the fourth, they fell away as Spuds just couldn’t stop adding runs. Four errors didn’t help Aviators, Luis Maldonado did try his best though, twice throwing French out at home plate from right field. Wichita took a 2-0 lead in the first innings of the series’ final game and a 4-2 lead after three, but again they couldn’t stay the pace of the Spud’s run machine, four runs in the sixth sealed the win for Boise. Jorge Reyes hit his first homer as an Aviator and went 3-4 while Bowen hit another homer, finishing 2-4 with two RBI and scoring twice. The Wichita again showed off their arms as Juan Hernandez added another outfield assist throwing a Spud out at the plate.
Games 11 & 12 vs Las Vegas Hustlers
4/12 vs Las Vegas L 4-5 (33,263)
4/13 vs Las Vegas L 6-7 (F/18) (33,298)
Things just never seen to go Wichita’s way at home as Las Vegas twice put the one-run hurt on them. Aviators led 2-0 after one but needed two more runs in the seventh to tie the game at four. Hustlers though took the game an innings later when Julio Velasco coughed up a solo homer. Duane Whitley Jr went 2-4 including a 2-run homer. Takanori Goto finally didn’t get tagged with a loss despite giving up eight hits and four runs, he still shows no sign of regaining last years form. Game two was a real marathon, Aviators came back from 4-1 down with a Grand Slam by Duane Whitley Jr in the fifth innings but then still needed Jason Bowen’s third homer of the week in the eighth to tie the game at 6-6 and send us to extra-innings. We went scoreless all the way to the 18th innings then until Las Vegas managed two consecutive doubles to get the winning run home.
Regular Season Standings (April 13th)
2044 Record v Johnson League
Frontier | HW | HL | AW | AL | Atlantic | HW | HL | AW | AL |
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Boise | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Atlantic City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Calgary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Brooklyn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Edmonton | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | Charlotte | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Las Vegas | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Charm City | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mexico City | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Jacksonville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Phoenix | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Montreal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
San Antonio | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New Orleans | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wichita | X | X | X | X | Rockville | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
TOTALS | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | TOTALS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |