Bill Hall Hits for the Cycle ...

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Yet we still lose.  I need to get some pitching!!!

BOXSCORE: 2005 Scotia Schooners At 2005 Kenosha Titans              4/17/2005
 
  Schooners          AB  R  H RBI AVG     Titans             AB  R  H RBI AVG
  D.Jeter SS          6  3  4  0 .333     J.Rollins SS        5  1  2  0 .250  
  J.Varitek C         5  2  2  1 .207     R.Mackowiak RF,CF   5  1  1  0 .333  
  J.Bay LF            5  1  2  3 .281     P.Polanco 2B        5  1  1  1 .387  
  T.Glaus 3B          5  0  2  2 .291     H.Matsui CF,LF      4  2  1  1 .316  
  T.Hunter CF         6  1  2  2 .316     M.Piazza C          5  0  0  1 .263  
  T.Walker DH         4  1  2  2 .286     D.Dellucci DH       4  1  1  0 .286  
  M.Sweeney 1B        5  1  2  0 .320     B.Hall 3B           4  1  4  3 .255  
  J.Encarnacion RF    4  3  3  1 .643     D.Ward 1B           3  0  0  0 .242  
  R.Belliard 2B       5  0  1  0 .200     T.Hollandsworth LF  2  0  0  0 .176  
                                        A-M.Cuddyer PH,RF     2  0  1  0 .276  
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         Totals      45 12 20 11                 Totals      39  7 11  6
 
A-Pinch Hit For Hollandsworth In 5th Inning
 
Schooners....... 0 1 2  0 0 5  2 0 2  - 12 20  1
Titans.......... 5 0 1  0 0 0  0 1 0  -  7 11  1
 
Schooners (10-5)         IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
J.Bonderman               0 1/3   5   5   5   1   0   0   9.82
V.Chulk                   4 1/3   2   1   0   1   2   0   1.46
J.Frasor WIN(1-0)         3 1/3   4   1   1   1   1   1   2.92
F.Cordero                 1       0   0   0   0   1   0   4.50
Totals                    9      11   7   6   3   4   1
 
Titans (6-9)             IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
D.Wells                   5      12   5   5   0   4   0   7.31
U.Urbina LOSS(0-1) H(1st) 0 1/3   2   3   3   1   0   0   5.40
A.Fultz BS(1st)           1 2/3   3   2   2   1   3   0   3.37
S.Torres                  1 1/3   3   2   2   0   0   0   5.25
D.Sanchez                 0 2/3   0   0   0   1   0   0   1.69
Totals                    9      20  12  12   3   7   0
 
ATTENDANCE- 34,292 DATE- Sunday, April 17th 2005 TIME- Night 
UMPIRES- Eric Cooper, Marvin Hudson, Larry Young, Fieldin Culbreth
T- 3:41
LEFT ON BASE- Schooners:11  Titans: 8
DOUBLE PLAYS- Schooners: 0  Titans: 1
ERRORS- T.Glaus, R.Mackowiak
DOUBLES- D.Jeter(5th), J.Varitek(2nd), T.Hunter(2nd), T.Walker(1st),
         R.Belliard(1st), H.Matsui(4th), B.Hall(3rd)
TRIPLES- J.Bay(2nd), B.Hall(2nd)
HOME RUNS- B.Hall(1st)
SACRIFICE FLIES- T.Walker
WALKS- J.Varitek, J.Bay, T.Glaus, H.Matsui, D.Dellucci, D.Ward
HIT BY PITCH- J.Encarnacion
STRIKE OUTS- D.Jeter, J.Varitek, J.Bay, T.Glaus, T.Walker, M.Sweeney,
             R.Belliard, R.Mackowiak, P.Polanco, M.Piazza, D.Dellucci
GIDP- T.Hunter
BALKS- D.Wells
WEB GEMS- Top 8th: Placido Polanco robbed Todd Walker of a base hit.
 
Left fielder Jason Bay had 2 base hits and 3 RBI as the Scotia Schooners
defeated the Kenosha Titans 12 to 7 at Fenway Park.
 
Jason Frasor(1-0) got the win with a steady relief outing.  He went 3 and 1/3
innings allowing 4 hits and 1 walk.  Scotia lit up the scoreboard in the 6th
inning with 5 runs on 5 hits.  Scotia had 20 hits for the night while Kenosha
had 11.  
 
Ugueth Urbina(0-1) absorbed the loss in relief.  He pitched 1/3 of an inning
and surrendered 2 hits and 1 walk.

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.500 Ballclub

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If I finish .500 in my NABL league this year, I would be happy.  Right now I am playing a practice league.  You know, getting to know my players, trying out different line-ups, etc.  I'm also seeing how good the competition is, even though I set all their lineups and the computer manages them.  It has been real fun so far.  Most of the teams that I predicted to be good, have been winning their games and leading their divisions thus far.

BOXSCORE: 2005 Auburn Anacondas At 2005 Kenosha Titans              4/12/2005
 
  Anacondas          AB  R  H RBI AVG     Titans             AB  R  H RBI AVG
  J.Kendall C         4  0  0  0 .256     J.Rollins SS        5  2  2  0 .222  
  M.Giles 2B          3  0  1  0 .262     R.Mackowiak RF      4  2  2  0 .375  
  T.Helton 1B         4  0  0  0 .385     P.Polanco 2B        4  2  3  3 .439  
  M.Ramirez LF        4  0  0  0 .205     H.Matsui CF         4  1  3  2 .316  
  C.Tracy DH          2  0  1  0 .357     M.Piazza C          4  1  1  3 .293  
  J.Rivera CF         3  0  0  0 .300     D.Dellucci DH       4  1  2  1 .310  
  J.Gibbons RF        3  0  1  0 .320     B.Hall 3B           4  0  0  0 .200  
  J.Crede 3B          3  0  0  0 .200     D.Ward 1B           3  0  0  0 .381  
  O.Cabrera SS        3  0  1  0 .256     T.Hollandsworth LF  3  0  0  0 .222  
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         Totals      29  0  4  0                 Totals      35  9 13  9
 
 
Anacondas....... 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  0  4  1
Titans.......... 2 0 2  1 1 0  0 3    -  9 13  1
 
Anacondas (4-6)          IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
J.Johnson LOSS(0-2)       7      12   9   9   1   3   2   6.43
K.Correia                 1       1   0   0   1   1   0   6.00
Totals                    8      13   9   9   2   4   2
 
Titans (5-5)             IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR    ERA
J.Westbrook WIN(2-1)      9       4   0   0   1   8   0   4.86
Totals                    9       4   0   0   1   8   0
 
ATTENDANCE- 22,391 DATE- Tuesday, April 12th 2005 TIME- Day 
UMPIRES- Fieldin Culbreth, Eric Cooper, Marvin Hudson, Larry Young
T- 2:43
LEFT ON BASE- Anacondas: 4  Titans: 4
DOUBLE PLAYS- Anacondas: 1  Titans: 3
ERRORS- J.Kendall, D.Ward
DOUBLES- M.Giles(2nd), O.Cabrera(3rd), R.Mackowiak(2nd), P.Polanco(6th),
         H.Matsui-2(3rd)
HOME RUNS- M.Piazza(5th), D.Dellucci(3rd)
STOLEN BASES- J.Rollins-2(6th), R.Mackowiak(3rd)
CAUGHT STEALING- T.Hollandsworth
WALKS- M.Giles, D.Ward, T.Hollandsworth
HIT BY PITCH- C.Tracy
STRIKE OUTS- J.Kendall, M.Giles, T.Helton-2, M.Ramirez, J.Rivera-2, J.Crede,
             J.Rollins, R.Mackowiak, D.Dellucci, T.Hollandsworth
GIDP- T.Helton, J.Rivera, J.Gibbons, H.Matsui
WEB GEMS- Bot 3rd: Marcus Giles robbed Hideki Matsui of a base hit.
 
Jake Westbrook pitched 9 strong innings and second baseman Placido Polanco had
3 base hits and 3 RBI as the Kenosha Titans topped the Auburn Anacondas by a
score of 9 to 0 at Fenway Park.
 
Westbrook(2-1) pitched one of his finer games as he simply was too much for
the Auburn batters.  He allowed only 4 hits and 1 walk in 9 innings seeing
his ERA drop from 10.57 to 4.86.  Kenosha managed 13 in their victory.
 
Jason Johnson(0-2) was hit with the loss.  He was not very effective,
surrendering 9 runs in 7 innings.

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1st practice game of the spring

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I hope this works.

BOXSCORE: 2005 Kansas City Kings At 2005 Minnesota Mins
 
  Kings                    AB  R  H RBI   Mins                     AB  R  H RBI
  D.Dejesus CF              4  0  0  0    S.Stewart LF              4  1  1  0 
  C.Ambres DH               4  1  2  1    L.Rodriguez 2B            4  0  2  0 
  M.Sweeney 1B              4  1  1  0    J.Mauer C                 4  0  1  0 
  T.Long LF                 4  0  1  0    J.Morneau 1B              3  1  1  2 
  E.Brown RF                4  0  0  0    T.Hunter CF               2  0  0  0 
  A.Berroa SS               4  0  2  1  A-N.Punto 3B                2  0  0  0 
  J.Buck C                  3  0  0  0    J.Jones RF,CF             4  0  0  0 
  M.Teahen 3B               3  0  0  0    L.Ford DH                 3  0  1  0 
D-A.Guiel PH                1  0  0  0    M.Cuddyer 3B,RF           3  1  2  1 
  J.McEwing 2B              2  0  0  0    J.Castro SS               3  0  0  0 
B-M.Stairs PH               0  0  0  0                                         
C-R.Gotay 2B                0  0  0  0                                         
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         Totals            33  2  6  2           Totals            32  3  8  3
 
A-Subbed Defensively (3B) For Hunter In 5th Inning
B-Pinch Hit For McEwing In 7th Inning
C-Subbed Defensively (2B) For Stairs In 7th Inning
D-Pinch Hit For Teahen In 9th Inning
 
INJURY: Torii Hunter INJURED (for 3 more games) in 4th inning
 
Kings........... 0 0 0  0 0 2  0 0 0  -  2  6  1
Mins............ 2 1 0  0 0 0  0 0    -  3  8  1
 
Kings                    IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC
D.Carrasco LOSS           6 1/3   7   3   3   0   1   2  98
A.Burgos                  1       1   0   0   1   0   0  23
A.Sisco                   0 2/3   0   0   0   0   1   0   7
Totals                    8       8   3   3   1   2   2
 
Mins                     IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC
J.Santana WIN             8       6   2   2   2   7   1 116
J.Nathan SAVE             1       0   0   0   0   1   0  17
Totals                    9       6   2   2   2   8   1
 
ATTENDANCE- 25,753 TIME- Day 
UMPIRES- Ted Barrett, Alfonso Marquez, Rick Reed, Terry Craft
T- 2:50
LEFT ON BASE- Kings: 6  Mins: 6
DOUBLE PLAYS- Kings: 1  Mins: 1
ERRORS- M.Teahen, T.Hunter
DOUBLES- C.Ambres, M.Sweeney, A.Berroa, S.Stewart, L.Rodriguez, J.Mauer
HOME RUNS- C.Ambres, J.Morneau, M.Cuddyer
WALKS- J.Buck, M.Stairs, J.Morneau
STRIKE OUTS- D.Dejesus, C.Ambres, M.Sweeney-2, T.Long, J.Buck, M.Teahen-2,
             T.Hunter, N.Punto
GIDP- J.Buck, J.Morneau
WILD PITCHES- D.Carrasco
WEB GEMS- Bot 4th: Joe McEwing robbed Jacque Jones of a base hit.

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Since you've been gone or Welcome February

So I haven't written for quite some time now and I think that my last four posts have begun this way so I am really going to have to change that.

So I missed Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and January. But February is here now!!! That only means 2 things: Michelle's month (her birthday and valentine's day make it her month) and the new Strat-o-Matic baseball cards come out. No laughing Montsy.

First and by far foremost is Michelle's month. We have a lot of fun things planned this much. First is this sunday. Super Bowl XL. Michelle has been angry with the NFL the last couple of years. She wrote them a letter inquiring, "why the switch from January to my month." The NFL has yet to respond. We are having my buddy, who is the world's biggest packer fun (don't hold that against the guy - he is a homer, but at least he know something about football, unlike most packer fans - I swear they think brett favre is god) and his wife over. Also pudd is probably going to stop by. He's coming from East Lansing and headed to Milwaukee, but I hope that he stays for the game. He's in love - but aren't we all? It's February. Then next saturday the 11th, Mish and I are celebrating an early valentine's day dinner at the club with mish's parents. Next of course is valentine's day, a big part of february. Then saturday the 18th, I am inviting, couples only, (sorry mcclane...unless ann can make it) to a special event at Apple Holler. It is a type of clue, murder mystery/desperate housewife theme. You can dinner and get to engage in a show at the same time. $39.95 per person - anyone interested? (that means you chief) Finally, on the 20th is Mish's birthday. I believe it lands on a Monday this year. Maybe we will let her pick the restaurant this year. Last year it was Chuck E. Cheese.

The #2 thing (a very distant 2nd) that happens in Mish's month is the arrival of the new strat cards. I am particularly excited this year because this is the first year that I will be in a real league. Typically I play by myself. I used to play with my buddy Nick when I moved to Kenosha, but then he moved to cali, then to michigan, then to ohio, and now he is with Judy Garland in Texas. I tried to get our old youth pastor at our church to play with me, Aaron Monts, a huge cubs fan, but he kind of looked at me weird and said something like, "Don't you know they have video games now." So I guess that would be a no, huh montsy?

But now I am in a real strat league. It is called NABL or North American Baseball League. If you check it out, my team is the Kenosha Titans. There are three teams from Racine and one from Milwaukee. My buddy, Chris, got me on the waiting list. We play softball together and got talking about baseball and I asked him if he had ever heard of Strat-o-Matic. He was excited that I knew about the game and told me about the league he had been in for awhile. I, of course, asked him if I could get on the waiting list for a team. He obliged. About 2 years later, I inherited a team. Immediately I took a look at my roster. The team had won its division the year before, but was extremely old. The average age was like 35. So I quickly traded a bunch of players for younger players and for draft picks. My team is in a bit of a rebuilding year, but that way I have low expectations, right?

Anyways, the cards should be here next week sometime. I will anxiously be awaiting the little brown truck.