Don't Forget the Special Events Log!

If you aren't checking this file weekly, you're missing a lot!

Two recent gems:
- Beau Brummel pitchers walk 20 batters in a single game
- Willie Stargell shows the rest of the league what a REAL hitting streak looks like.

Pedro Joins the 93 GS Club

Earlier this year Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux hurled the best games of the year, each compiling a 93 Game Score. In Sim 8A, Pedro Martinez of Warning Track Power duplicated the feat:

July 28: 93 GS, 9 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 11 K, 115 Pitches, Win

The Greatest ATB Game Ever?

July 22 - Warning Track Power def. DC Chips, 9-7 in 22 innings. I could never do justice with a write-up, so just look at the box score. But, here's why you should click the link:

• 44 hits
• 32 position players
• 18 pitchers
• 30 putouts by one fielder alone
  
• Beginning with the bottom of the 9th, an incredible and stressful 10+ consecutive innings of no-run ball
  
• That included14 half innings ending with runners in scoring position through the end of the game.
  
• 6-runs scored in the 8th and 9th, the last one a 2-out base knock in the Top of the 9th to tie the game
  
• Both teams scored single runs in the 20th, one thanks to a key error, the other thanks to a key stolen base.
• The bottom of the 10th ended with a bases loaded double play.

Check it out!

Strargell's Big Night

What a night for Willie Stargell.

On July 24, the right handed DH for the Rusty Kuntz Traveling All Stars became just the the second player of the season to record 12 total bases in a single game. Out of 1973, the big left hander recorded 7 of his teams 8 RBI, highlighted by a bases clearing 3-bagger in the 6th. Stargell also walked in the first, homered in the third, singled in the 5th, and homered again in the 8th.

Wild Night in the Baker Bowl

What a game Downsouth. The Rusty Kuntz Traveling All Stars (20-22), struggling to get back to the .500 mark, added another tick mark to the laundry list of the problems plaguing the Downsouth Brews (15-27). After scoring three runs in the bottom of the 8th to break a 4-4 tie and perhaps propel the Brews to an all too scarce win, their bullpen blew the game giving up 5 runs of their own in the top off the 9th.

Duane Ward came in to pitch the the last frame but was blitzed despite retiring two of the first three batters. Catcher Carlton Fisk went down easy enough on three straight pitches but Ward coughed up a ground ball single to the left side by .320 hitter Fred Lynn. He then retired Will Clark for the second out and the game seemed in hand, but 5 consecutive All Star hits ended that line of thinking.

Pinch hitting, Ken Caminiti doubled down the first base line, putting runners on the corners. With the tying run at the plate, the Brews elected to intentionally walk the feared Barry Bonds (his 5th walk of the night!) but this backfired as the next batter, Frank Thomas, singled home both Lynn and Caminiti, making the score 7-6.

That was all for Ward, and the manager summoned Fred Beene from the pen to face Willie Stargell. Batting .218 with 8 HR's, the right fielder has been all or nothing for much of the season. He got all of Beene's first pitch fastball, drilling the ball deep into the night, well over the right center field wall. Three runs scored and the Brews could not recover.

Still, the line of the game belonged to Barry Bonds. 0-0, R, 5 BB, 3 IBB. Bonds has 11 HR and 29 RBI on the season.