2035.7 Week 2 and home opener

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After a rough start to the season the team rebounded a bit to go 3-4 over the course of the second week of the season. A big improvement but not without a big cost as after only 2 games into the week, the teams best reliever has now gone down for the rest of the season. Expectations were high when young Bill Marsh was moved full time to the pen. The coaches had been raving about the extra zip on his pitches with the narrowing down of his pitching skillset. Hopefully Marsh can come back and make an impact as a late inning guy out of the bullpen next season.

April 12, 2035 will be a date that Boise fans won't soon forget. Nearly 35,000 fans made their way to the shiny new F. Nepghi Grigg Memorial Stadium in downtown Boise to attend the first ever home baseball game for the Spuds. Staff ace Cris Rios would be going head to head with Omaha's ecxiting young South African pitcher Edris Mtume. The Hawks would strike first pushing a run across the plate in the 3rd inning but that would be all they would get. Rios would scatter only 5 hits across his 7 strong innings. Mtume held off the Boise offense for 7 plus innings but the Spuds would tack on one run in the 8th and would walk off on a JJ Mcquade line drive single. The fans certainly got their money's worth.

The pitching staff as a whole got roughed up a bit less but still subpar while the offense continues to get even better. The team continues to just crush homeruns at a fantastic rate leading to a lot of offensive output. JJ McQuade is playing like his hair is on fire and continues to endear himself to the Boise faithful. Juan Parra continues to mash but the real story is that Jose Rivera and Richard Beran have come out of nowhere. Beran's offense is making waves while his double play partnership with McQuade is astounding (both players have an 11 turn double play rating). Rivera on the other hand has cemented himself as the starting catcher and is quickly making people forget about that Claudio Perez guy we have lurking in AAA.