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Pelicans - 12 LP: Cody Gladney (3-1) 2B: Boston Coppedge, Luc de la Soujeole It seems like every O's starter has one bad game on the resume this season. This was Cody's. Gladney got the start and he seemed to have some control issues, allowing the first four batters to reach (three via walk). A sac fly and a win aided home run later, the O's were down 5 early. The O's offense loaded the bases in the first but couldn't convert that into runs so it was a bit of a worst case scenario. The second inning didn't go much better with the Pelicans putting another three runs across to push the score up to 8-0. The 3rd inning finally saw the O's get on the board with Jake reaching on an error. A one out single from Frenchie gave the O's two on and the O's scored on a passed ball to bring Jake in. After a Coppedge walk, McEasy singled home Frenchie to put the O's back to 8-2. Unfortunately, the Pelicans put up their own two spot and regained their eight run lead. The comeback effort started in the fourth with the help of a couple errors. After a pop-up to the shortstop for the first out, both Cass and Sweetbeard reached with the help of the other team. PCB singled to load the bases and Jameson brought him in on a fielder's choice. The two out rally brigade came to play with a single from Kevin Simmons to bring home one. Frenchie doubled to put runners on second and third and Bachelor followed with a four pitch walk. After the pitcher threw a 5th straight ball, Coppedge laced a double down the left field line, clearing the bases and getting the O's nearly all the way back at 10-8. After three innings, Gladney gave way to M. Garrabrants who ended up throwing three solid innings himself, giving up two runs and helping keep the game close. The O's had another late rally, loading the bases with two outs in the 7th but just couldn't come up with enough hits to claw all the way back. News and Notes:
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Game 1:
Orioles - 13 Old Fashioneds - 3 WP: Timmy "Cannon" Hanan (3-1) 3B: Anthony Cass 2B: Carlos Colon, Steve Garrabrants While the game might have had two halves a month apart, both of them were dominated with the pitching of Timmy "Cannon" Hanan, throwing a combined seven innings as the Orioles rolled to a 13-3 victory. In the first half of the game, Timmy had his most efficient four innings in his long history with the Orioles, throwing only 50 pitches through four innings, allowing only three hits and three walks. The Orioles offense got going in the second inning with Anthony Cass earning his way on with a bruise. After a passed ball moved him to second, a single from "Special K" Karnowski moved him over to third. With two outs, Jake Bellington hit a comebacker to the mound which was promptly overthrown, allowing Cass to score and put the O's up 1-0. The O's got it started again in the 3rd with Sweetbeard leading off with a single and Coppedge drawing his second walk of the day. Two wild pitches later, Sweetbeard scored and moved Coppedge over to third. Hanan helped his own cause and gained an RBI with a groundout to third to score Coppedge. Anthony Cass followed that with a single and stolen base and scored on another single from PCole to push the score to 4-0. After this, a mini-monsoon laid waste to the Lake Highlands field so the game's second half was moved to Jesuit about a month later, and the offense started off hot, scoring three more in the 5th. Hanan walked and stole second and moved to third on another hit from Cass. Although Cass was thrown out on a fielder's choice from PCole, a single from Special K and then a big double from Carlos Colon to score them both made the lead 7-0 and effectively ending the game at that point. The Orioles finished with 16 hits in the game, led by Cass going 3-4 with triple, 3 R scored, and two RBI. Cass is hitting a robust .324 on the year and is tied of the team lead in triples on the year. Miracles never cease. Timmy threw another solid three innings and finished the game with 7 IP with only 1 ER allowed. A solid effort from the Cannon who made a nice return to the mound and tied Gladney again with three wins. The last two innings were thrown by Jameson and PCole. PCole had a nice 1-2-3 inning on the mound and has maintained his high K/9 rate all year, ranking in the top 3 on the team in the stat. Game 2 Orioles: 10 Old Fashioneds: 6 WP: Josh "McEasy" McEachin (6-1) SV: Tim "Cannon" Hanan (4) 3B: Preston Cole 2B: Steve Garrabrants, Kevin Simmons The Orioles came out hot with the sticks in Game 2 and a familiar face closed it down during the doubleheader sweep. The Orioles offense seems to be rounding into form and the evidence of that was on display on Sunday afternoon. After taking the first game easily, the O's got started with four early runs in the first. Frenchie drew another walk, stole second and was driven home by yet another extra base hit from Steve Garrabrants. That was followed by a singles from McEasy and Timmy Hanan which scored runs. A couple of hits and an error later, the score moved to 4-0 and the O's were off to the races. The second inning held more of the same. A single from PCB and a double from Simmons to score him felt familiar. A walk to Frenchie and singles to Garranbrants and McEasy pushed it to 7-0. Kurt "Special K" Karnowski continued his hot hitting with another single (his 4th in a row at that point) to swell the lead to 8-0. The O's put McEasy on the bump and he pitched like the ace that he is. While he didn't have his best stuff, he didn't struggled much with the 'Neds offense, giving up 2R (1ER) on a two run bomb from the 'Neds catcher. While he must feel some slight shame from this discretion and his lack of strikeouts on the day, he only allowed two walks and six hits over his five innings of work. He had the nice cushion to work with so he just went about his business on this day. Steve Garrabrants came on in relief and threw some quality innings of relief. Throwing mainly fastballs on the outside corner, Garrabrants threw three innings, allowing two runs and not giving much to the 'Neds in terms of building a rally. Things did get a little dicey towards the end with the 'Neds putting a couple on the board against Special K in the 9th. The O's had Matty Garrabrants warming up in the 'pen but the O's short stop wanted the ball so he got the ball. Cue the Cannon. Timmy Hanan came in and made quick work of the game, striking out his first batter and inducing the game ending groundout to Frenchie at short. Since the tying run was on deck, technically Tim gets a save out of the deal which doesn't hurt his feelings. News and Notes:
We've hit another quarter pole in the spring season which means it's time for updated stats. Below are the top 3 (and ties) in the major categories. Steve Garrabrants and Nick Bird are left off due to lack of AB's to qualify. Also does not include partial game with Old Fashioneds. Those stats will be put in when game is completed on Sunday.
Hitting Batting Average Tanner Stevenson - .500 Jake Bellington - .448 Luc de la Soujeole - .389 Team Average: .273 RBI's Boston Coppedge - 12 Matt Garrabrants - 8 Tanner Stevenson - 8 Hits Luc de la Soujeole - 14 Tanner Stevenson - 14 Jake Bellington - 13 Hits/Game: 8.2 Runs Luc de la Soujeole - 16 Tanner Stevenson - 11 Anthony Cass - 10 Runs/Game: 6.8 Walks (includes HBP) Josh McEachin- 13 Luc de la Soujeole - 12 Carlos Colon - 12 BB/Game: 6.4 On Base Percentage (OBP) Tanner Stevenson - .600 Jake Bellington - .568 Luc de la Soujeole - .542 Team Average: .405 Stolen Bases Luc de la Soujeole- 10 Tanner Stevenson - 7 Josh McEachin - 6 Total Bases Luc de la Soujeole - 20 Tanner Stevenson - 17 Josh McEachin - 15 Home Runs Matt Garrabrants - 0 Pitching Wins Josh McEachin - 5 Cody Gladney - 3 Tim Hanan - 2 Saves Tim Hanan - 3 Josh McEachin - 1 ERA (Min. 4 IP) Alex Faught - 1.29 Cody Gladney - 1.57 Matt Garrabrants - 1.93 Team ERA: 3.209 K/9 Ratio Josh McEachin - 11.64 Tim Hanan - 11.45 Preston Cole - 10.80 Team K/9: 9.313 WHIP (Walks + Hits/IP) Alex Faught - 0.857 Cody Gladney - 1.00 Kevin Simmons - 1.125 News and Notes
7/5/2016, Graham Field
Orioles - 6 Indians - 1 WP: Cody Gladney (3-0) Playing on the beautiful Graham Field at Prestonwood Christian Academy, the Orioles followed a strong start by Cody "QB1" Gladney to put down the Indians 6-1 on Tuesday night. Gladney had been slightly overlooked going into this year with the three headed monster of McEasy, Timmy "Cannon" Hanan, and Alex Faught thought to take up the bulk of the innings. We need to consider him now the 4th horseman with his latest start on the year. Gladney worked around two first inning walks to get out of trouble and pretty much hit cruise control after that. Only an error from Kurt "Special K" Karnowski led to the Indians only runner to reach past second base for the entire game. Gladney's line: 5 IP, 1 R, 0 ER, 3 H, 5 K, 2 BB. Another great day for Gladney, who lowered his ERA to an incredible 1.57 on the year. He's also averaging nearly 6 IP per start, easily the highest on the team. The game was a competitive one deep into the game. The O's got started with their scoring in the 2nd with walks to McEasy and M. Garrabrants and moved up a base on a passed ball. Gladney helped his cause with a groundball to score McEasy and even reached base when the shortstop flubbed the throw to 1st. After a couple of quick outs, Special K continued his hard hitting with a nice stroke into right to score Garrabrants and put the O's up by two. The O's had opportunities go to waste with loading the bases in the 5th and not scoring and having a couple of guys thrown out on the basepaths (more on that later). The O's broke through in the 7th with M. Garrabrants starting off with a sharp single up the middle and stealing 2nd base to show everyone that he's still got some wheels. Garrabrants hit another deep ball that was caught at the warning track earlier in the game and seems to be heating up at the plate...just in time for the playoffs. Nothing gets Garrabrants rolling like the smell of playoff baseball on the horizon. After a single from Gladney and a walk for Carlos Colon, Anthony Cass drew a bases loaded walk to score Garrabrants. Special K followed with a grounder to 1st who threw home for the force at home to get Gladney. Unfortunately for the Indians, the catcher tried to make it a double play and threw it all the way down the right field line, scoring Carlos and Cass and pushing the lead to 5-1. Jameson followed with a chop to the pitcher, who had to dive for the ball, which allowed Kurt to score from 3rd and push the lead to the final score of 6-1. M. Garrabrants and McEasy both got an inning of relief and both guys kept up their stellar seasons on the mound. Garrabrants had a ho-hum 9 pitch, 1-2-3 inning and McEasy got some pen work in, striking out two to close it down in the 7th. News and Notes: Boobstick Transfer: Ah yes. We have another transfer of the BS. This week's winner: Frenchie. Luc lined a single and though he could stretch it into two bases. He was wrong by a good 15 feet. Can't win them all Frenchie. With the win, Gladney moved into 2nd on the team in innings pitched and wins with three, meaning he has passed Timmy "The Cannon" Hanan in that column, a point he is especially proud of. Tim has a chance to tie him up on Sunday when we resume the Old Fashioneds game he was dominating through four innings. Gladney has volunteered to start off that game for Tim to get in line for the win and then let Tim go back into the game to finish it out. We'll find out from Hanan if he's alright with that idea. We have a double header of sorts on Sunday with the conclusion of the previous Old Fashioneds game followed immediately by another game against the 'Neds. The first game will resume at 11:00 am at Jesuit HS so let's try and have those hangovers minimized earlier than normal, shall we gentlemen? Stats have also been updated and will be posted tomorrow. Next game(s): Sunday, Away vs Old Fashioneds, 11:00 am/1:00 pm, Jesuit HS P. Starters: T. Hanan, J. McEachin Due to working conditions and the holiday weekend, this writer is a little behind with the write-ups but not to fear, we're going to knock out both today so Kirk Pruitt can see who owns the boobstick on this day. 6/28/16, McInnish Park #11 Braves - 5 Orioles - 7 WP: Josh "McEasy" McEachin (5-1) 2B: Boston Coppedge In what has become routine this year, the Orioles downed the Braves with McEasy on the bump by a score of 7-5. McEasy has had a stellar run in his first season with the O's and tonight was no different with him facing his former club for a 3rd time this season. He started off the game doing it all himself with 2 K's and a popout to himself in the first three batters. While he didn't have the strikeout numbers that we've come to expect, he did still mow down four Braves in his four innings of work to give him 20K's in 12 IP against the Braves. He did finally give up a run in the 4th on a sac fly but that was all the damage he would allow on this night. The Orioles offense came alive in the 3rd, sending 9 guys to the plate and scoring 4. One out walks to Cody "QB1" Gladney and Carlos Colon set the stage for Jake "Jameson" Bellington who singled home Gladney and continued his hot hitting on the year. After a flyout to center by Kevin Simmons, the Braves made an error, allowing Frenchie to reach base and allowing the inning to continue. Boston Coppedge lined a double to right, scoring two and pushing the score up to 3-0. He was followed by longtime Oriole Steve "Lostboy" Garrabrants, smashing a single through the left side, scoring Frenchie and pushing the lead up to 4-0. After a empty threat to score by the O's in the 4th by loading the bases and not scoring, the Braves pushed one across to make it 4-1. That was as close of a serious threat as they would have with the O's pushing another three across in the top of the 5th. Frenchie started it off with a one out single and stole second base. He came home on another Coppedge hit to make it 5-1 and give Coppedge his 3rd RBI on the night. Back to back singles from Lostboy Garrabrants and McEasy scored another two runs and push the lead up to 7-1. Lostboy also made his 2016 debut on the mound and faced the minimum for two innings. Striking out his first batter to show he still had something in the tank, he did allow a single in the mix which was later erased on the common 2-1-5 putout to end the 5th. Another efficient 6th with a groundout to 3rd and two K's to finish his night capped the night for S. Garrabrants. Preston "PCB" Cole came on to finish up the 7th and ran into a little trouble with his command. PCB hadn't pitched in over a month when he threw two shutout innings against the Athletics so it was natural to have a little bit of rust. After a couple of walks and a single, he got a big first out on a flyout to left. While he did allow a double and hit a batter, P. Cole settled down after a quick conversation on the mound with B. Coppedge and proceeded to strike out his final batter to seal the win for the O's and push their record to 11-2-1. News and Notes Boobstick Transfer: McEasy seemed destined to receive the BS last game but was bailed out by Jameson's running error. This week, he was not as lucky. McEasy was running from first when Matt Garrabrants hit a high drive to the left field corner. A great play by the left fielder turned into a double play since McEasy was already at 3rd base, assuming the catch wouldn't be made. It does seem fitting that he would get it against his former club which he dominated through the season. Price to pay I suppose. |
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