Virtual Baseball Season/Franchise Updates

40-35, 2 games back of the Angels.

We dropped two of three to Arizona at home and then took two of three from San Diego before going on the road to the Dodgers and taking two of three there.  Continuing on the road to New York to face the 37-42 Yankees.

In my start against San Diego, Griffey Jr. went 5-5 and hit for the cycle, getting the elusive triple in his last AB.  That was the first time I've ever done that in a video game.

Good luck with that "Show" thing. :-)

I also look for Quality Starts, which is 6IP and 3 or fewer ER.  But it seems about 50% of the time I get them, at best.

As for my season: Pitching has continued to be pretty good, but hitting has let me down big-time and we've slumped to 8-15.  Still have time to catch up in the second half of the season, but need to hit more consistently.  Team as a whole is OK, and Sean Casey is amazingly hot with 8 HR, but Carlos Lee is around .160 with no HR and Victor Martinez (.280 and .290 the last two years) is a ridiculous .125 with 2 HR.  Those two "automatic outs" are killing me in 1 or 2 run games, and the possible replacements are not significantly better.  Three game set with the first-place Yanks was a painful 5-3 loss in 14 innings, another painful come-from-behind 7-5 loss, and finally a 5-2 win.

46-38, 0.5 game back of the Angels.

We lost two of three at the Yankees and I lost my start 4-3 against a very tough Joba Chamberlain.  We had a chance to tie it late, but Griffey Jr. got picked off third base and killed our momentum.  We really couldn't do anything until we got into their bullpen.

On to Boston where I won my start with Brendan Morrow 2-1 against a very tough Brad Penny.  Morrow went 7.1 innings and gave up 5 hits and 1 ER, but struck out 13!  It was really a fun performance to play/watch.  We went on to sweep Boston in 3 games.

Traveled back home to face the struggling Orioles who we took 2 of 3 from.  I won my start 4-3 with Felix Hernandez pitching a complete game to give the pen a little rest.

We now finish out the home stand against Texas.  Four games against the Rangers and then the All Star break.  This is a big series because if we do well we might take over first in the division and if we do poorly Texas is going to gain ground on us as they are 6.5 back of us.  I think I'll post some player stats at the break.

I'm playing with those sliders from OS that were posted way back when.  With a couple of tweaks.

Thanks Ted, I'll have to try those out.