Cartwright Cup, 1996

[recte44]

Are we ready???? Anyone around??? I'm going to start the sim in less than 7 minutes.

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Game 1:

Chet "Rocket" Steadman has been unstoppable for the Chicago Black Sox this postseason. He improves to 3-0 in leading CHI to a 6-0 win over Louisville. (CHI leads series, 1-0).

IN the FL, Hackensack's J.R. Riles, Jr. has been mirroring Rocket. He improves to 3-0 with a complete game win over Austin, 6-2. Teammate Alistar Sharpe hit his 3rd and 4th homers of the postseason for the Bulls. (HAK leads series, 1-0).

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Game 2:

Luke Nastay was strong for Louisville as they were able to even the series at 1 game apiece with a 5-3 win over Chicago and their struggling SP Juan Nieves. (Series tied 1-1).

A 14 inning affair is what it took for Austin to even the FL Cup. They were able to push a run across the board in the bottom of the 14th to take Game 2, 4-3. John Behnke was 5-5 in the win for the RIverbats! (Series tied, 1-1).

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Game 3:

The Black Sox traveled to Louisville but took total control of Game 5, winning 5-1. Guy Corngood (2-0) went 7.2 solid innings, and the offense was led by Washu Hakubi who was 3-4 with a HR and 2 RBI. (CHI leads series, 2-1).

Tied 2-2 in regulation frames, the FL affair went to extra innings for the second game in a row. IN the top of the 10th, Austin's Guam Fantomhorsfli hit a 2 run homer off Ken Quinney to give Austin the lead. In the bottom of the tenth, the Bulls challenged with Alistar Sharpe continuing his hot hitting with an RBI single, but Christian Palabra was able to settle down and retire the next two batters to earn the win and give the underdog Riverbats the series lead. (AUS leads series, 2-1).

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Game 4:

Chicago is making this look too easy. Bjorn Nepal cruised through 8 solid innings after the Black Sox had scored 5 runs in the first two innings off Louisville's Steve DiBartolomeo. (CHI leads series 3-1).

Incredible FL series here. THIRD STRAIGHT EXTRA INNINGS GAME!!!!! An awesome pitching duel that saw this game go into the 10th inning tied up at 1-1. Austin ends up winning this one with smallball. JOhn Behnke leads off the 12th with a single. Monty Lynch, pinch hitting, drops a sac bunt to move "Bunny" to second base. After Toby Borland, the Bulls relief pitcher, follows with two walks, Chris Modrzewski hits a sacfly to bring Bethke home. Woodrow Talamantes is able to get a 1-2-3 bottom of the 12th for Austin to close the 2-1 win over Hackensack. And now the Bulls, who were thought to be an unbeatable juggernaut, find themselves one game away from their season coming to an end. (AUS leads series, 3-1).

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Game 5:

Chet Steadman is dam good. On short rest, he comes back and shuts down the mighty Sluggers again to improve to 4-0. His Black Sox offensive teammates did their part, taking a 4-0 lead into the ninth inning when they decided to put an 8 run exclamation mark on this series victory, 12-1 over Louisville. (CHI wins series, 4-1).

The 1996 Frick League Cartwright Cup will go down in history as one of the best postseason series in the storied history of the MBBA. Not an extra inning affair in this one for the first time since Game 1. Another great pitching duel, expected from Hackensack's J.R. Riles (9.0 IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 7 K)...but it was Austin's Randy Tomlin who matched him pitch for pitch (8 IP, 6 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 8 K). And incredibly, by sweeping the Bulls on their own homefield which the creator of this league built with his own millions, the Austin Riverbats win Game 5 1-0 and win this series to move onto the Landis Memorial Series. (AUS wins series, 1-0).

So it is the two underdogs that will be squaring off for all the marbles:
The Johnson League Champion Chicago Black Sox against the Frick League Champion Austin Riverbats in the 1996 Landis Memorial Series!!!!

[tylertoo]

Congrats to Louisville on a fine season and a good series. Thanks for the write-ups Matt.

[recte44]

Then I accidentally pressed an extra day of simming.....and not sure how to approach this. CHI took it on the chin in Game 1 of the LMS, my fault......there's really no way I can go back. What say you, Mike? I know it sucks, but having spent Steadman on Game 5 I'm not sure how you would have gotten around not using Nieves in Game 1 anyways.

14-3, Austin wins Game 1 of the LMS (simmed by user error). Sorry!!!!

[aaronweiner]

I don't see how Austin's really the underdog here...I mean, they did have the better record.

Gotta give some love to the Midwest!

And omg Matt.

[tylertoo]

Then I accidentally pressed an extra day of simming.....and not sure how to approach this. CHI took it on the chin in Game 1 of the LMS, my fault......there's really no way I can go back. What say you, Mike? I know it sucks, but having spent Steadman on Game 5 I'm not sure how you would have gotten around not using Nieves in Game 1 anyways.

14-3, Austin wins Game 1 of the LMS (simmed by user error). Sorry!!!!

Matt and I discussed this on AIM. Shit happens, not a problem. Black Sox hope to take Game 2 with Chet and make it a 5-game series. Good luck to Austin.

[recte44]

I don't see how Austin's really the underdog here...I mean, they did have the better record.

Gotta give some love to the Midwest!

And omg Matt.

I am burning the candle at both ends, something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. Tonight tho, for the first time in a while, I remembered why I enjoy doing this. Having a great time forgetting about life for a while!

[Afino]

fuckkkkkkkkkkkk not again

[DoubleB]

Congrats Joel... what a series.

[cramsey51]

That FL series was awesome, what a battle!

Thanks for the write-ups Recte Better than just looking and finding out the results

[mad0die]

I totally forgot about this last night!

[mad0die]

Great series. The top 2 MBBA pitching staffs faced off and my small ball offense got the job done.

[mad0die]

I've exported for the finals.