NationStates Jolt Archive

The NS World Cup of Baseball is finally here!!! (after much scandal in the tradition of baseball dating to the Blacksox and as recently as Palmeiro.)
Here is the schedule. Note that each "game" in the schedules actually represents a three game series.

Series 1. Bye
Series 2. Kaze Progressa
Series 3. Sarzonia
Series 4. Yafor 2
Series 5. Wingarde
Series 6. Milchama
Series 7. Liverpool England
Series 8. Tonissia
Series 9. New Montreal States
Series 10. Clavis
Series ll. The Foylands
Series 12. Bipedal Apes

Series 1. Bipedal Apes
Series 2. fmjphoenix
Series 3. Bye
Series 4. Sarzonia
Series 5. Yafor 2
Series 6. Wingarde
Series 7. Milchama
Series 8. Liverpool England
Series 9. Tonissia
Series 10. New Montreal States
Series 11. Clavis
Series 12. The Foylands

Series 1. The Foylands
Series 2. Bipedal Apes
Series 3. fmjphoenix
Series 4. Kaze Progressa
Series 5. Bye
Series 6. Yafor 2
Series 7. Wingarde
Series 8. Milchama
Series 9. Liverpool England
Series 10. Tonissia
Series 11. New Montreal States
Series 12. Clavis

Series 1. Clavis
Series 2. The Foylands
Series 3. Bipedal Apes
Series 4. fmjphoenix
Series 5. Kaze Progressa
Series 6. Sarzonia
Series 7. Bye
Series 8. Wingarde
Series 9. Milchama
Series 10. Liverpool England
Series 11. Tonissia
Series 12. New Montreal States

Series 1. New Monteal States
Series 2. Clavis
Series 3. The Foylands
Series 4. Bipedal Apes
Series 5. fmjphoenix
Series 6. Kaze Progressa
Series 7. Sarzonia
Series 8. Yafor 2
Series 9. Bye
Series 10. Milchama
Series 11. Liverpool England
Series 12. Tonissia

Series 1. Tonissia
Series 2. New Montreal States
Series 3. Clavis
Series 4. The Foylands
Series 5. Bipedal Apes
Series 6. fmjphoenis
Series 7. Kaze Progressa
Series 8. Sarzonia
Series 9. Yafor 2
Series 10. Wingarde
Series 11. Bye
Series 12. Liverpool England
The rest of the schedule should be coming out later today. Remember, when you list your roster, list your overall batting and pitching ratings and the individual ratings for your starting rotation and starting lineup. Plus, list the order of your rotation and your batting order. (If you don't do remember to do these things, all of your pitchers will have a rating of 50 and all of your batters will have a rating of 16, a tremendous disadvantage.) The tournament itself should begin (at the very latest) after labor day, or whenever all the teams turn in their rosters. I'll try to do one set of serieses every three weekdays. Play Ball!!!!!!!1!!1!!!!!one!!!!exclamation point!!!!1!!!!

Here are the rest of the schedules.

Series 1. Bye
Series 2. Tonissia
Series 3. New Montreal States
Series 4. Clavis
Series 5. The Foylands
Series 6. Bipedal Apes
Series 7. fmjphoenix
Series 8. Kaze Progressa
Series 9. Sarzonia
Series 10. Yafor 2
Series 11. Wingarde
Series 12. Milchama

Series 1. Milchama
Series 2. Liverpool England
Series 3. Bye
Series 4. New Montreal States
Series 5. Clavis
Series 6. The Foylands
Series 7. Bipedal Apes
Series 8. fmjphoenix
Series 9. Kaze Progressa
Series 10. Sarzonia
Series 11. Yafor 2
Series 12. Wingarde

Series 1. Wingarde
Series 2. Milchama
Series 3. Liverpool England
Series 4. Tonissia
Series 5. Bye
Series 6. Clavis
Series 7. The Foylands
Series 8. Bipedal Apes
Series 9. fmjphoenix
Series 10. Kaze Progressa
Series 11. Sarzonia
Series 12. Yafor 2

Series 1. Yafor 2
Series 2. Wingarde
Series 3. Milchama
Series 4. Liverpool England
Series 5. Tonissia
Series 6. New Montreal States
Series 7. Bye
Series 8. The Foylands
Series 9. Bipedal Apes
Series 10. fmjphoenix
Series 11. Kaze Progressa
Series 12. Sarzonia

Series 1. Sarzonia
Series 2. Yafor 2
Series 3. Wingarde
Series 4. Milchama
Series 5. Liverpool England
Series 6. Tonissia
Series 7. New Montreal States
Series 8. Clavis
Series 9. Bye
Series 10. Bipedal Apes
Series 11. fmjphoenix
Series 12. Kaze Progressa

Series 1. Kaze Progressa
Series 2. Sarzonia
Series 3. Yafor 2
Series 4. Wingarde
Series 5. Milchama
Series 6. Liverpool England
Series 7. Tonissia
Series 8. New Montreal States
Series 9. Clavis
Series 10. The Foylands
Series 11. Bye
Series 12. fmjphoenix

The New Montreal Reformed Expos

Batting Order Overall Rating 54

CF Ty Leiper Rating: 20
SS Stro Caslow Rating: 20
RF Willy Williams Rating: 20
C Zach Summers Rating: 20
1B Eric Stier Rating: 20
DH Dude Cardoni Rating: 20
3B Cory Caslow Rating: 14
LF Luke Vaughn Rating: 14
2B Matt Hoesly Rating: 14

Pitching Rotation Overall Rating 56

SP - Drew Pirtle Rating 65
SP - Jared McCullick Rating 59
RP - Tyler Laning Rating 56
SP - Bryce Birky Rating 50
RP - Alex O'Brien Rating 50

Manager: Felipe Alou clone number 3
Bench Coach: FelipeAlouRobot Mk IV
Pitching Coach: Joe Kerrigan
Hitting Coach: Felipe Alous clone number 1
3rd base coach: Nate Hawkins
1st base coach: Chris Metzger
Official mascot: Morganna

Fixed, thanks for the explanation.

The New Montreal Reformed Expos

Batting Order Overall Rating 54

CF Ty Leiper Rating: 6
SS Stro Caslow Rating: 5
RF Willy Williams Rating: 7
C Zach Summers Rating: 6
1B Eric Stier Rating: 5
DH Dude Cardoni Rating: 7
3B Cory Caslow Rating: 6
LF Luke Vaughn Rating: 5
2B Matt Hoesly Rating: 7

Pitching Rotation Overall Rating 56

Drew Pirtle Rating 13
Jared McCullick Rating 10
Tyler Laning Rating 11
Bryce Birky Rating 12
Alex O'Brien Rating 10

What I did was assign 50 points to the overall rating, than split 10 more between them. Then I took the totals and divided them up between the players. If I messed this up please tell me so I can fix it, since I'm still confused about the whole deal...
You did right as far as deviding the ten points among your overall batting and pitching ratings but you didn't do the individual ratings correctly. The total of the individual ratings of all your starting pitchers should be 5 times your overall pitching rating. The total of the individual ratings of all your batters should be 3 times your overall batting rating.

Tonissia High Heaters Roster

Off 49
1B Ty Liggio 32
2B Hiram Josef-Viscnew 30
3B Kenny Yount Jr 26
SS Guarez Takoma 28
LF Jentry Smith 31
CF Ken Joe Marquettes 43
RF Deon Diyon 21
C Tim Jefferson 15
DH Ian Ister 21

Pitchers 51

SP Dean Wopham 85
SP Dean Hawking 60
SP Lorne Babcock 35
SP Tagio Juan 25
SP Hernado De Rizza 20
SU Diez Fernando
RP Greg Kinneyatta

Tonissia High Heaters Roster

Off 52
1B Ty Liggio 5
2B Hiram Josef-Viscnew 6
3B Kenny Yount Jr 6
SS Guarez Takoma 5
LF Jentry Smith 6
CF Ken Joe Marquettes 5
RF Deon Diyon 9
C Tim Jefferson 6
DH Ian Ister 4

Pitchers 58

SP Dean Hawking 15
SP Lorne Babcock 6
SP Tagio Juan 8
SP Hernado De Rizza 9
SU Diez Fernando 8
RP Greg Kinneyatta 12
I'm doing a very poor job here aren't I.
Before You Post Your Rosters The total of the individual ratings of all your batters should be 3 times your overall batting rating. The total of the individual ratings of all your starting pitchers should be 5 times your overal pitching rating. (I know it seems odd and unnatural, but it makes sense on a very deep and philosophical level. Trust me. ;) ) ) Also, you should have 5 starting pitchers, no more no less. The only players with ratings should be your starting pitchers and your starting batters. You can (and should) have other players, like relievers, pinch hitters and utility players, but those players should not have ratings.

The Clavis Falcons

Batting Order Overall Rating 55

SS Ronny Lanham Rating:23
2B Percy Milner Rating:20
CF Chris Burke Rating:17
RF John Gibbs Rating:15
1B Rex Stephens Rating:24
DH Pat Lloyd Rating:20
LF Corey Harrison Rating:24
3B Homer Castillo Rating:10
C Nelson Fernandez Rating:12

Pitching Rotation Overall Rating 55

Lester Jordan Rating:74
Lamar Bush Rating:62
Floyd Hampton Rating:56
Warren Patterson Rating:48
Damon Torres Rating:35

Bench
LRP Angello Holland
MRP Victor McGee
CP Bobby Stewart
1B/3B Julius Reed
OF Angelo Ward
2B/C Matt Hines
Pinch Hitter Alton Lynch
Pinch Runner Bill Warren
SS/2B Wendell Spencer
1B/C Tommie Fitzgerald
OF Wallace Tran
Manager Terence Wood

P.S do we play by AL or NL rules?

P.S do we play by AL or NL rules?
Well, we're using a DH, that's the only difference. Right?

The Clavis Falcons

Batting Order Overall Rating 55

SS Ronny Lanham Rating:23
2B Percy Milner Rating:20
CF Chris Burke Rating:17
RF John Gibbs Rating:15
1B Rex Stephens Rating:24
DH Pat Lloyd Rating:20
LF Corey Harrison Rating:23
3B Homer Castillo Rating:10
C Nelson Fernandez Rating:12

Pitching Rotation Overall Rating 55

Lester Jordan Rating:74
Lamar Bush Rating:62
Floyd Hampton Rating:56
Warren Patterson Rating:49
Damon Torres Rating:36

The total of your batters' individual ratings is one too low and the total of your pitchers' individual ratings is two too high.
To make the addition easier just click on the Internet Explorer icon on your desktop (you don't even have to exit your NationStates window.) and go to google. Just type in your equation (in your case 74+62+56+49+36, for example) and google will calculate it for you. Oh, and your best pitcher is rated way too high. Given your pitching rating, the limit would be 68.75.

OOC: I know how to play the game itself, but I don't know what do the abbreviations mean (SS, 2B, LF, C, etc.). I'm sorry, I'm quite new to baseball. It's not played in my country. :confused:

OOC: I know how to play the game itself, but I don't know what do the abbreviations mean (SS, 2B, LF, C, etc.). I'm sorry, I'm quite new to baseball. It's not played in my country. :confused:
It's ok. If we did a Crickit RP I wouldn't know the first thing about it.
The abbreviations stand for the positions
P=Pitcher (SP=Starting Pitcher RP=Relief Pitcher {LR=Long Reliever SU=Set Up Man CL=Closer})
C=Catcher
1B=First Baseman
2B=Second Baseman
3B=Third Baseman
SS=Short Stop
RF=Right Fielder
CF=Center Fielder
LF=Left Fielder
If you have any more questions here's the Wiki article on baseball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball).

OOC: Alrighty then! Here goes nothing!
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Wingarde Black Hawks

Batting Order
Overall rating: 57

CF - Victor Cromsten: 22
1B - Leonard Masterson: 21
C - Albert Oprhein: 20
DH - Adler Reimann: 19
3B - Ritter Waldschmidt: 17
LF - Rudolph Bach: 19
SS - Walter Farber: 18
2B - Frederick Kunstler: 18
RF - Werner Mehlman: 17

Pitching Rotation
Overall rating: 53

SP - Otto Weber: 58
SP - Hugo Lichtermann: 55
SP - Albert Sandler: 53
SP - Helmut Lehrer: 50
RP - Dieter Schenker: 49

OOC: There. Tell me if I did anything wrong (or rather, if I did anything right :p ).

Milchama
Red and White
Warriors
Roster:
Batting 54
Outfielders
1 Matan Williams
2 Adam Greenberg
3 Barrett Hamilton
4 Kenny Marrick
5 Shawn Green
6 Tris Speaker
Infielders
7 Hank Greenberg
8 Andy Cohen
9 Al Rosen
10 Buddy Meyer
11 Meir Slavsky
12 Michael Flinter
Catchers
13 Harry Danning
14 Yonatan Horowitz
Pitching 56
Starters
15 Philip Foster 57
16 Manny Rodriguez 56
17 Stan Romanson 56
18 Erskine Meyer 56
19 James Rickey 55
Relievers
20 Larry Sherry
21 Pat Vernon
22 Dvir Lalton
23 Chad Fernayo
24 Scott Mayer
25 Matt Commnick

Starters w/DH
C Harry Danning
1b Hank Greenberg
2b Andy Cohen
3b Al Rosen
ss Buddy Meyer
LF Barrett Hamilton
CF Tris Speaker
RF Kenny Marrick
DH Shawn Green
Batting Order
Kenny Marrick 20
Buddy Meyer 20
Hank Greenberg 21
Shawn Green 20
Al Rosen 20
Tris Speaker 20
Barrett Hamilton 20
Harry Danning 11
Andy Cohen 10

Sarzonia Silver

Manager Jim Paulsen
Bench Coach Johnny Martin
First Base Coach Clem Barker
Third Base Coach Lyle Menifee
Hitting Coach Geoff Yancey
Pitching Coach Jim Wiesen

ROSTER

Pitchers
Starting Rotation
12 John Morgan (RHP): Woodstock Mountaineers Led the Sarzonia League in victories with 14 in its inaugural season and finished third in strikeouts with 100. Rating: 60
22 Charlie Palmer (LHP): Portland Fishermen Known for having the best changeup in all of Sarzonian baseball, he was named the first-ever Jim Palmer Award recipient for postseason MVP after leading the Fishermen to a Sarzonia Series crown. Rating: 55
27 Brian Edwards (RHP): Lexington Flight Despite the Flight's last place finish in the Incorporated League, Edwards was a 10 game winner (10-6, 3.11 ERA). He doesn't strike out many and relies on a sinking fastball to get ground ball outs. Rating: 54
34 Brad Baxter (RHP): Nicksia Nighthawks Baxter led the Sarzonian major leagues in wins (16), innings pitched (164) and strikeouts (142). He just pitched two days before the team assembled, so he was pushed back in the rotation. Rating: 65
40 Ken Sutcliffe (RHP): Portsmouth Pilots Sutcliffe is the veteran of the rotation, turning 36 at the end of the season. He's known for being a heady pitcher but he can still throw the ball past hitters when he has to.Rating: 42

Bullpen
32 Kenny Spencer (RHP): Saugerties Streakers Spencer is arguably the best setup man in the history of the sport in Sarzonia. He has only three saves in his career, but makes a living closing the door in the eighth inning.
29 Jay Ballard (LHP): Nicksia A specialist at getting lefthanded hitters out, Ballard made only one career start in secondary school. He threw a two hit shutout in the state championship in that start.
33 Roger Tolliver (LHP): Avalon Aeros The lefthanded long reliever for the Aeros, he led the league with most innings pitched by a reliever (82) without making a start. His 36 appearances was tied for the most among all relief pitchers.
17 Kerry Clark (RHP): Woodstock The league leader in saves with 27, Clark has a devastating curveball and fastball. He's working on developing a changup.
39 Alvin Dryden (LHP): Rypien Rhinos Dryden is the lefty closer on the national team and will alternate with Clark depending on the opponent. Dryden led all of Sarzonian baseball with 29 saves.

Position Players (starters in bold
C 10 Fred Carlton: Grovesmont Gryphons Carlton is the best defensive catcher in Sarzonian baseball. Calls a great game, threw out 41 percent of opposing baserunners. His problem: He hit .218 with only one home run.
1B 44 Hank Everly: Woodstock Led the Sarzonian League in home runs with 30 and finished tied for second in runs batted in with 95. His batting average of .269 is lower than his coaches want.
2B 8 Dewey Griffin: Avalon The sparkplug for the Aeros, Griffin led both major leagues with 34 stolen bases and nine bunt hits. He was tied for second in the league in sacrifice hits (bunts or flies).
SS 2 Chris Spontanelli: Townshend Tigers: One of the many shortstops in the Cal Ripken mold, Spontanelli led his team with 15 homers and 72 RBI. At 6'5", he's the tallest starting shortstop in Sarzonia.
3B 9 Kate Schmidt: Bristol Bears: The only female to earn a starting spot on the national team, she hit .317 to lead her team and smacked a surprising six home runs since her August callup.
LF 19 Tyrell Gordon: Portland Set a record for most outfield assists in college or high school baseball with 133. Had only two outfield assists this season when major league teams decided not to risk running on him.
CF 23 Drew Bradley: Avalon A speedster, Bradley is known for his graceful play in center and led his league in outfield assists with 10.
RF 24 Mark Dwight: Nicksia Not much with speed or a throwing arm, but Dwight specialises in being at the right place at the right time. He led the league with a .344 batting average.

Reserves
OF 36 Skip Hale Woodstock: Hale played in a career high 39 games for Woodstock due to injuries to other outfielders. He's known as the best pinchhitter in the league and can serve as the starting DH if necessary.
OF 7 Tyler Hunter Bristol: Can play either corner outfielder position, but his throwing arm is arguably the worst in the league.
C 13 Mario Salvidotti Avalon: Improving as a receiver, Salvidotti led his team with 20 home runs and 81 RBI.
IF 3 Russ Fraley Bristol Handled his demotion to reserve behind Schmidt with surprising grace and honed his skills as a shortstop so he could play short or third and is learning first base in training camp.
IF 5 Bryan Carroll [/u]Portland[/u] Extremely valuable asset to his team, he can play any position in the infield. Could serve as the emergency catcher if necessary.

Starting lineup
2B Griffin 19
CF Bradley 15
SS Spontanelli 21
1B Everly 22
DH Hale 20
RF Dwight 19
3B Schmidt 20
LF Gordon 16
C Carlton 13

Home colours are white and metallic grey. Road uniform is a dark grey with black and white lettering. The third uniform is black with white lettering.

Starting Order

Batting Order (Bats/Throws/Other Positions)
(Offense 57)
1- CF Brian Mcclinton [L/R/OF] 25
2- 1B Walter Britt [S/L/3B] 19
3- SS Arthur Holston [R/R/2B] 19
4- DH Marcus Weller [R/R/LF] 27
5- LF Mark Ashburn [L/L] 16
6- RF John Lebel [S/R] 15
7- 2B Benjamin Weller [S/R] 15
8- 3B Marvin Sessions [R/R/RF] 18
9- C Nathan Kaye [R/R] 17

Pitchers (53)
SP1 Jonathan Beaudry [R/R] 65
SP2 Mike Umphree [S/L/C] 65
SP3 Timothy Francis [R/R] 55
SP4 Gregory Turyical [L/L] 40
SP5 Thomas Francis [S/R] 40
Relief "Monster" Greene [R/L]
Relief Jeremy Siveh [R/R]
Relief Tony Buchanan [R/L/1B]
Closer Gordon Asimovich [R/R]

CF Brian Mcclinton


LF Mark Ashburn RF John Lebel





SS Arthur Holston 2B Benjamin Weller


SP1 Jonathan Beaudry


3B Marvin Sessions 1B Walter Britt



C Nathan Kaye

More extensive roster to come.

-snip-
ooc:You get 25 more points to spread among your individual pitchers and 15 more points to spread among your individual batters.
ic:The Sarzonian national team shows room for improvement.

Kaze Progressa KANGAROOS

BATTING ORDER | overall rating 57

2B Barivana Roltaek [22]
CF Butnia Jakakila [20]
SS Kiyo Obno [17]
DH Butu Basritakia [26]
LF Naurew Nutir [15]
RF Stehlik Kazimpa [16]
3B Stopano Oroe [20]
1B Onsek Korsa [18]
C Jauti Crunama [17]

[Bullpen: Arista Aqaral, Mert Tinitek, Mert Zarai, Naurew Tilizara, Atarko Roltaek]

PITCHING ROTATION | overall rating 53

Tarvik Katinatu [62]
Quaza Arivara [60]
Mert Mutujaek [53]
Arvin Taranuzek [45]
Arvin Yikpa [45]

[Relief pitchers: Jaulinta Jerorda, Anvitak Kigia, Quaza Jarita. Closer: Matipoto Garjeno]

The Republic of Bipedal Apes Steal-Basers

Manager:
Ms. Spleendockle (Professor of Foreign Hurled Objects, Bipedaleen University)

Coaches:
Aggle (1st base)
Wuggle (3rd base)
Mogoog (Batting)
Pleebow (Pitching)
Ingleberty (Bench)


Starting lineup:
Player Home team Pos Bats Avg. HR SB Rating
Walljointer CFWN 2B Right .291 3 42 16
Blump FBM LF Right .305 15 25 23
Oxto 1033 RF Left .310 17 11 25
Crestmoop BEI 1B Right .284 38 2 19
Bleetle FBM 3B Switch .298 23 5 19
Blenznarp CFWN DH Left .294 13 8 18
Lidlebum BI C Right .251 6 1 11
Anthrosmug 1033 SS Right .302 13 10 20
Ringtingtingle CAFO CF Right .288 9 17 14

Bench:
Player Home team Pos Bats Avg. HR SB
Zonkting BMI C Right .260 20 5
Wangstooper CAFO Util Left .283 10 11
Blenznarp CFWN 1B/3B Left .294 13 8
Berjoop BEI OF Left .300 2 13
Hongamoo BMI OF Switch .276 15 4

Pitcher Home Team Throws W L Saves ERA Rating
Gromsbrook BI Right 18 4 0 2.21 65
Biltchung TSC Left 19 6 0 2.74 60
Labdoober FF Right 15 1 0 2.09 55
Wuggappo BanMo Right 16 7 0 2.89 50
Humblum BI Right 13 5 0 3.01 45
Bandrumma CAFO Left 3 6 4 1.05
Ottleby 1033 Right 8 2 2 1.34
Whoabark UCI Right 1 5 32 1.10

OOC: if my opponent RPs first I'll go with their RP unless it contradicts the possible permutations. If you inadvertently do something weird but possible, I'll work that into my RP. I'll only make corrections if absolutely necessary.

Player Home team Pos Bats Avg. HR SB Rating
Blump FBM LF Right .305 15 25 26
Oxto 1033 RF Left .310 17 11 29
Crestmoop BEI 1B Right .284 38 2 22
ooc:When I said that no series of three consecutive batters may be rated more than 25% higher than the team's overal batting rating, I meant that the sum of three consecutive batters' ratings could not extend beyond that point. The ratings of these three batters, for example, add up to 77, which is 6.25 too high. I defenately need to be more clear with the rules, sorry. :( The next tournament should be hosted by someone more experienced in role playing, but we will continue this one, no matter how pathetic it is. If we don't, the terrorists win!!!! :eek: ;)

OOC:60 on pitchers; 50 on batters. That means I've got 200 on batters and 300 on pitchers, correct? And sorry, but there's a tilde on "Ibanez" that I didn't put in.

BIC:

Starting Batting Line-up, Yafor 2 East Wind

1)Rey Ibanez Position: Right Field. Age:23. Bats:Lefty. Rey is one of the best Right Fielders every to play Yaforite baseball. He started his career as a Utility Infielder, then switched to First Base. He was then moved to LEft, during a period of time when his Yaforite League team had no Left Fielder. His magnificent arm was thence discovered and he is now playing Right Field, as one of the best defensive players in Yaforite Baseball. His speed is excellent, his being in the top in steals each year. He can also hit for power. Rating: 25

2)Adolf Von Vladimir Position: Shortstop. Age: 27. Bats:Switch-Hitter. Von Vladimir is a switch-hitting shortstop who is perfect in the number two hole. He often bunt it over so that Ibanez can advance. While he is sadly lacking in the area that many call power, he often hits for average, ending each Yaforite League year with an average over .280. Rating:24

3)Anthony Walker Position: First Base. Age:25. Bats:Righty. Walker is one of the weak spots in this Yaforite Line-up. His potential is amazing, with his power well known. He has a very good eye, but he is very inexperienced. He is not built to bat third, thus his low rating comes forth. Rating:21

4)Henry Izturis Position: Center Field. Bats:Lefty. Rating:26

5)Sebastian Telemaco Position:Third Base. Bats:Switch-Hitter. Rating:22

6)Robert Fletcher Position: Second Base. Bats:Righty. Rating: 22

7)Trimiane Casey Position: Left Field. Bats: Lefty. Rating:19

8)Eric Santaro Position: Designated Hitter. Bats: Righty. Rating: 24

9)Matt Inzint Position: Catcher. Bats: Lefty. Rating: 28

Bench

Tom Ahern (1B, 3B), Miguel Akandalay (LF, CF, RF), Tommy JAiler Jr. (C), Juan Torres (2B, SS)

Starting Rotation

1)Pedro Alvar Pitches: Right. Wild fireballer, can be effective when pitching in zone.. Rating: 54
2)John Rean Pitches: Left. Smart pitch locator. Rating: 65
3)Willie Jarvis Pitches: Right. Smart pitch locater with fast fastball. Rating: 61
4)Micheal Klem Pitches: Right. Good fastball, good curve. Rating: 62
5)Samuel Cledart Pitches:Right. Good fastball, locates well. Rating:58

Bullpen

Shannon Hawkins (RHP, middle reliever winning)
Maxmillian England (LHP, middle reliever losing)
Kieth Locker (LHP,middle reliever losing)
Domenic Molora (LHP, middle reliever winning)
Donny Harrison (RHP, long reliever losing/winning)
Thomas Munro (LHP, long reliever/middle reliever losing)
Justin Koch (RHP, closer)

OOC:To be finished later. 8/30/05 - Will elaborate later; players posted now.

OOC:60 on pitchers; 40 on batters.
The ambiguity terrorists strike again!!! We will not give up without a fight!!! Yafor 2, if you choose to have a rating of 60 in pitching, that gives you a rating of 50 in batting. You start with a rating of 50 in each then get 10 additional points to assign to batting or pitching as you choose.

ooc:When I said that no series of three consecutive batters may be rated more than 25% higher than the team's overal batting rating, I meant that the sum of three consecutive batters' ratings could not extend beyond that point.

Edited.

ooc:You get 25 more points to spread among your individual pitchers and 15 more points to spread among your individual batters.
ic:The Sarzonian national team shows room for improvement.OOC: Edited.

The ambiguity terrorists strike again!!! We will not give up without a fight!!! Yafor 2, if you choose to have a rating of 60 in pitching, that gives you a rating of 50 in batting. You start with a rating of 50 in each then get 10 additional points to assign to batting or pitching as you choose.

OOC:Yay! Edited.

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ENGLISH Translation: I edited mine to

OOC: I've edited the name of my team: Wingarde Black Hawks.

It looks as if the An Archists have managed to terminate the threat of terrorism that has been looming over the tournament. When asked about the prospect of a terror free World Cup one fan responded, "Really, no terrorism. That sounds pretty boring." Nevertheless, most fans are excited about the beginning of the tournament. "I'm not sure when they're actually gonna start this thing," said John Alberts, another loyal baseball fan, "but when they do I'm buying season tickets." On the matter of beginning the Cup, Andy Anderson, owner of Andicorp and the most powerful man in the country, said, "We'll get around to it. Right now we have other priorities. Also, we have to make sure all the teams have actually made it to the country alive. We're cautiously optimistic concerning this prospect." At any rate the tournament could be starting any day now and that possibility is making baseball fans very excited.

Silver stretch wings for 'great unknown'

For a team coming into the World Cup of Baseball with a lifetime record of 2-0, Sarzonia Manager Jim Paulsen is certainly not taking his team's abilities for granted. The Silver earned that 2-0 mark in the aborted NS World Series when controversy surrounding the umpiring crews led to the cancellation of the series.

"We never got a chance to prove ourselves against teams like the [IDF] White Sox or the [Bipedal Apes] Steal Basers," Paulsen sighed. "We showed some guts coming back in the bottom of the eighth with three runs to win our last game, but it's been a while since we've played a game that counts."

Paulsen is counting on righthanders John Morgan and Brad Baxter to anchor the team throughout the 33 game qualifying stages. Morgan tossed a complete game in the opener of the NS World Series and with a long layoff, he will be given the first chance to start. Paulsen said lefthander Charlie Palmer and righthander Brian Edwards will start the second and third games, respectively to force teams to adjust to their different pitching styles.

"Morgan's a hard thrower from the right side, Charlie's a tough leftie with a live fastball, Edwards changes speeds real well and has great control from the right side, then Baxter's another hard thrower. Then Sut [righthander Ken Sutcliffe] is just a cagey old bastard. You want to keep the other team's hitters on their toes."

The team's offence may also keep opposing pitchers on their toes. Third baseman Kate Schmidt was one of the standout hitters for the Silver in the two games of the NS World Series, hitting a home run and driving in runs from the sixth spot in the batting order. She will stay in the lineup as long as she produces, dispelling rumours in some media outlets that she would be benched in favour of a male player.

"Why would I do that," Paulsen asked incredulously. "She's one of my best players and the guys all love her to death. I'm not cutting off my nose to spite my face just because someone doesn't want to play with girls."

ooc: I've explained the rules for creating rosters thuroughly. If you are uncertain of any of the rules, read through all of my posts from both NSWCB threads (especially this one (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9494777&postcount=30).) If you break any of the rules when creating your roster, I will correct them before I scorinate the games without informing you of the corrections. The method for making these corrections shall be as follows:
If a batter or pitcher is rated too high, I will simply subtract from his/her rating and devide the points equally among the other players. If your overall batting or pitching rating is too high, I will subtract from that rating and deduct an equal number of points from each batter/pitcher. If you have allotted more individual batting/pitching points than your overall batting/pitching rating allows, I will subtract an equal number of points from each batter/pitcher. If you make a mistake that hinders your chances of winning, I will not correct that mistake. Players that have not created a roster will be given a rating of 50 for every pitcher and a rating of 16 for every batter. Simply put, it is highly in your interest to follow all the rules very carefully when creating your roster.
Actually, most of you have managed to figure out the rules very well despite my ambiguity. So, in general, I'm not particularly upset at anyone for the mistakes they have made in creating their rosters, since, for the most part, it has been my fault. At this point, however, I have explained everything very thuroughly, so, if you're carefull, you ought to be able to make a proper roster. (If you have questions about making a proper roster, I'll certainly answer them for you, though.) I know assigning these ratings is complicated and different from the other sports RP's, but it's also more interactive and that's what I've been going for.

The games will start tomorrow afternoon. Yay!!:)

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Milchama gets ready for baseball tournament

The Milchama Warriors baseball team are in hot preparation for the beginning of the baseball world cup tommorow. The bookies association is also excited and decided to show what they think will happen in the tournament.

(assuming these are done like series this will be correct)
Series 1. Tonissia We win 2 out of 3. Win the series look for Tris Speaker to do well
Series 2. New Montreal States They have our new soccer coach so we at least split the third game will come down to whose starting pitcher is better.
Series 3. Clavis The Falcons are good and we're destined to lose one series we only get one out of 3.
Series 4. The Foylands We sweep right thru the Foylands with the clutch hitting of Hank Greenberg being the difference.
Series 5. Bipedal Apes Tough team but we think we can win and with our confidence up we win at least one game. Two games not so sure.
Series 6. Fmjphoenix- Doesn't get any easier but we can beat Fmj because this is not soccer. no sweep
Series 7. Kaze Progressa Their good but their not great we can be great and we win 2 out of 3 games here
Series 8. Sarzonia With their ongoing war the baseball might not have their full focus on the baseball field and we will have ours we win two out of 3 and might sweep. Unless the war is over then we win at least one if not two.
Series 9. Yafor 2 We can beat them and we will. two out of 3 we win
Series 10. Wingarde Our second sweep of the tourney comes right here not because we are better but because we can out manage Wingarde who's managers and players are still learning the game of baseball.
Series 11. Bye good thing to we need one right before we face
Series 12. Liverpool England One of the best baseball teams in all of NS and will be tough to beat. We could win one game or we could get swept. Depends on how we come off the bye.
That's our predictions and yes Milchamians are known for being overly optimisitic.

Bipedal Times
Trans-border newspaper of the RBA

World Cup of Baseball set to begin

by Ingbaba

An archy—Hundreds of apes have made the trek from Anarchy to An archy, spending weeks aboard bananaboats to travel from the governmentally-challenged Republic of Bipedal Apes to the Citizens’ Club of An archy. The reason? Baseball, the “Grand Matriarch” of Bipedaleen sports. A squad made up of the best professionals in the Bipedaleen National League have been assembled under Ms. Spleendockle, representing most of the BNL teams and prepared to test their muster against some of the top trans-border human players in the world.

The opening series against Kaze Progressa (best known in the RBA for their intellectual game-show Trans-border Challenge) begins today (Tuesday, Coastal Bipedaleen time) with Gromsbrook facing Tarvik Katinatu in what should be an excellent pitchers’ duel. Bananton Independent’s dominating starter has never faced humans before, and some have suggested that she may have trouble finding the strike zone. Whether Katinatu may have similar difficulties—or if she has played against apes—has not been revealed by Kaze Progressan management.

The following games will feature Biltchung against Quaza Arivara and Labdoober facing Mert Mutujaek. First pitch today is set for 23:05, BCT.

Paty Paterson: This is Patty Paterson reporting to you live from An Archia. The very first game in the history of the NS World Cup of Baseball is about to begin. The nation of Bipedal Apes will play the nation of Kaze Progressa in this historic matchup. Andy Anderson has just stepped onto the field to throw out the opening pitch!! This is so exciting! It's a perfect strike!!! What a perfect way to begin the tournament. Now, as is the tradition in the Citizens' Club, the home team will be decided by the flip of a coin.
Andy Anderson: Gromsbrook of Bipedal Apes call it in the air.
Gromsbrook: Tails.
Andy Anderson: That makes sense, because apes have tails. And it is tails! Bipedal Apes will play as the home team.
Crestmoop: Apes do not have tails you condescending idiot! :mad:
Patty Paterson: This is a rather awkward moment. Andy Anderson, owner of Andicorp and the most powerful man in the nation, has just greatly offended the entire Ape community. The tension is so thick you actually can't cut it with a knife, you'ld need a chainsaw.

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Gromsbrook (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 4 Bipedal Apes: 1

Starters: John Morgan vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 -
Final Score: Sarzonia: 4 The Foylands: 5

Starters: Lester Jordan vs. Unkown (Yafor 2 is the Home team)
0 1 2 2 1 0 2 0 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 2
Final Score: Clavis: 8 Yafor 2: 6

A thrilling display of pitching from Tarvik Katinatu proved decisive as Kaze Progressa won the first ever match in the NS World Cup of Baseball 4-1 over Bipedal Apes.

Not that this seemed likely when, after three Gromsbrook strikeouts, Oxto hit a monster 446-foot home run in the bottom of the first. Six goose eggs - and a succession of superb pitches from Katinatu in particular, with Bipedal Apes helped by Walljoiner's speed in the outfield to chase down fly balls that were anything but lazy. Then both Korsa and Crunama hit successive line drives for doubles to level things up for the Progressans at the top of the fifth. In the sixth, Barivana Roltaek hit a 409-foot homer to give the Progressans a lead they never relinquished, and tripled with a Basritakia homer of just under 400 feet with Obno already at first base. No more runs would be scored in what was generally a pitching masterclass, punctuated with three good homers just to confirm the batsmen weren't playing terribly, merely facing a mostly excellent calibre of pitching - especially considering the species difference, which was rumoured to be causing problems for pitchers on both sides.

Game 2 should be another cracker, but the Progressans can claim a real momentum boost after this come-from-behind win.

Starters: Drew Pirtle vs. Otto Weber (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: New Montreal States: 3 Wingarde: 5

Starters: Philip Foster vs. Dean Wopham (Tonissia is the home team)
0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 7 Tonissia: 3
Patty Paterson: Today was an exciting first day in the NS World Cup of Baseball. After Andy Anderson insulted the Ape community with his now infamous remark about apes having tails, the Steal-Basers lost 4 to 1 in their opening day matchup against Kaze Progressa. Neither Andy Anderson nor the Bipedaleen leaders were available for comments at this time. In other baseball news, The Foylands upset Sarzonia 5 to 4 and Clavis defeated Yafor 2 in an exciting 8 to 6 game. Later in the day, Wingarde won at home against New Montreal States, while Milchama beat Tonissia 7 to 3 on the road. Stay tuned for business news after a word from our sponsers.

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Milchama beats Tonissia in first game looks for win in second game against ?

The Milchama Warriors came out and dominated today beating Tonnisia 7-3 in a great game played all around. Philip Foster dominated going 7 innings and giving up only 6 hits. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Its nice to have a victory in the first game of the tournament now we can go out and try to win the second game."

Inning by inning report:
1st inning: Nothing much happened as both teams were retired in order. Looked to be a pitchers duel with both pitchers really putting the heat on. 0-0
2nd inning: Shawn Green led off getting a single followed by HOFer Al Rosen getting him to third on his own single. Then on an 0-2 count fellow HOFer Tris Speaker he did what he does best get a double leading to 2 runs and a 2-0 lead for the Warriors. They almost scored 3 but Speaker was thrown out at he plate with a perfect throw by Marquettes. Foster retired the Tonisians in order again. 2-0 Milchama
3rd inning: Andy Cohen walked for Warriors while the Tonnisians were again retired in order. 2-0 Milchama
4th inning: Rosen singled to lead off the inning. Speaker bunted him over to second then Barrett Hamilton hit a 2 run homer to make 4-0 to the Warriors. Foster lost his perfect game when he walked Yount Jr. but nobody scored. 4-0 Milchama
5th inning: Kenny Marrick doubled, stole third and was driven home on Buddy Meyer's single. Foster again pitched a perfect inning. 5-0 Milchama
6th inning: The Warriors finally were retired in order after Wopham found his curveball. Foster's no hitter was ruined when Ty Liggio blasted one over the fence to give Tonissia their first run. 5-1 Milchama
7th inning: Wopham really found himself as he retired the side in 5 pitches. Finally Foster started to struggle as he gave up a lead off single to Yount Jr. He was followed by another single Guarez Tacoma moving him to third. Then Yount and Tacoma both came around on a double by Jentry Smith. Finally Ken Joe Marquettes singled and Smith was thrown out a stupid baserunning play trying to score from second when Meyer already had the ball. After that Foster retired the next 3 and left the game to a standing ovation from the Milchama crowd. 5-3 Milchama
8th inning: Wopham really did settle down giving up yet again another 1-2-3 inning. The Warriors reliever Matt Commnick gave up one hit but no runs. 5-3 Milchama
9th inning: As Larry Sherry was getting reved up to get the save, the Warriors came out hitting against reliever Diez Fernando. Al Rosen singled and went to third on another Tris Speaker double. They were both driven home by Andy Cohen with 2 outs and a 3-2 count. Sherry still came in and retired the Tonissians in order to win the game 7-3.
A nice win for the Warriors who start the tourney off on a good note
OOC: my 100th post yeh!

PIRTLE SLAPPED AROUND IN 3RD INNNING

Gives up 4 runs, all earned; Leiper's homer passes un-noticed

Ty Leiper was all smiles for the first 3 innings after his lead-off home run gave the Paladins an early 1-0 edge over Wingarde. Then his smile slowly faded, as well as the smiles of every other Reformed Expos' fan, as Drew Pirtle got shellacked for 4 runs in a disastrous third inning as the Expos went down 5-3.

A lead-off double by Black Hawk catcher Albert Ophein set the stage for a dismal performance by the entire NMS defense, with a two-run triple by third baseman Ritter Waldschmidt and a successful squeeze bunt giving Wingarde a lead they would never look back from.

"We weren't looking good out there, to say the least. We played well enough on the field, except in the third inning. We can't afford mental lapses like that," said manager Felipe Alou Clone 3.

Pitching fails Silver, 5-4

The long layoff between the NS World Series and the NS World Cup of Baseball proved to be a problem for the Sarzonian national baseball team, as starter John Morgan tired in the fifth inning and the Silver's bullpen couldn't hold the lead en route to a 5-4 loss in the opener of a three game set against The Foylands.

Morgan cruised through the first four innings, allowing only a single while pitching to one hitter over the minimum, but ran into trouble as his pitch count hit the 80s. He allowed a three run homer to the eighth place hitter and Manager Jim Paulsen went to the bullpen.

"I thought I could at least get into the late innings with Morgan," Paulsen said. "But it looks like I didn't get the pen up in time. We've got two more games so we still have a chance to win the series."

Third baseman Kate Schmidt tied the score in the top of the eighth with a single down the right field line that scored designated hitter Skip Hale with two out, but relief pitcher Kerry Clark gave up a solo homer while ahead 0-2 in the count and Sarzonia went down in order in the top of the ninth.

"We just need to do a better job out there," Hale said. "We just didn't drive runners in when we had guys in scoring position. That's got to change."

The team's defence also didn't help matters, as Sarzonia made three errors, causing Paulsen to shake his head.

"We're going to have to get better in all phases, pitching, hitting, defence, fielding. It's got to be better or we won't be doing very much in this World Cup."

OOC:Finished Schedule outline.

<snip>Then both Korsa and Crunama hit successive line drives for doubles to level things up for the Progressans at the top of the fifth. In the sixth, Barivana Roltaek hit a 409-foot homer to give the Progressans a lead they never relinquished, <snip>
OOC-Yoiks! There's only one way that's possible...

<snip> Roltaek hit a 409-foot homer to give the Progressans a lead they never relinquished, and tripled with a Basritakia homer of just under 400 feet with Obno already at first base.<snip>
OOC-But this doesn't quite work. I'll just edit your scorers a tad.

IC-
Bipedal Times
Trans-border newspaper of the RBA

Prime Matriarch considers war
Spleendockle considers baseball

by Ingbaba

An Archia, An archy-- With Her Apely Highness the Prime Matriarch of the RBA considering the merits of waging war against the esteemed human nation of An archy, Blimptoople yesterday led the Steal-Basers against the Kangaroos of Kaze Progressa in their first official trans-border game. Talk of war began circulating among Parliamentary ministers and construction workers alike after An archian commentator Anderson stated on trans-border television that apes have tails. Although she was quickly corrected by Bipedaleen firstbaseape Crestmoop, the damage had been done. It is not known at this time how many humans now believe as a result of the broadcast that apes have tails, but it is clear that in the minds of some, millions of years of evolution have been undone in one careless swoop.

Bipedaleen hawks point out that among the advantages to be gained from invading An archy, power, prestige, and control over the World Series of Baseball would be primary. Advocates of not invading counter that there is some danger to be posed by the An archian defense forces, and that even if we won the war, all we’d be getting is a bunch of humans in a perpetual state of anarchy. Proponents re-counter that the RBA is in a perpetual state of anarchy, too, and that’s not such a bad thing, to which anti-proponents rebut that we’d be seen as the aggressors in the eyes of the world. Pro-war thinkers say that’s just what we need to toughen up our trans-border image, while doves imply that toughening up our image by going around invading other countries is just stupid. Those who favor invasion summarize their opposition to this statement with a hearty, “Oh yeah?” to which the only adequate response is, “Yeah,” followed by a shoving match. When they have it all worked out, they’ll let us know whether or not we’re going to war.

Meanwhile, baseball.

It was Gromsbrook on the mound today for the Steal-Basers, against the Kangaroos’ Katinatu. Thanks to the magic of coinflip technology, the Steal-Basers took the field first and Gromsbrook began in fine form, striking out the side in the first to send Roltaek, Jakakila, and Obno down on fourteen pitches. Katinatu seemed to have good control early on as well, and aside from a hanging breaking ball that Oxto powered 136 meters over the fence in right-center, the Steal-Basers managed little offense.

Gromsbrook’s control began to slip in the third, as Oroe led off with a single over Walljointer’s reach and Oxto twice went to the warning track to protect the lead she’d put on the board. Roltaek came up to strike out for the second time, and a single in the fourth by Basritakia came to naught. Kazimpa led off with a strikeout in the fifth looking at a 148-kph fastball but Oroe sent a 1-2 pitch to the warning track in right. Back-to-back line-drive doubles by Korsa and Crunuma tied things up, but the Kangaroos’ catcher strayed too far from base and Gromsbrook picked her off with a 2-2 count on Roltaek.

The secondbasewoman led off the sixth with a 125-meter shot that just cleared the fence in right as Oxto looked on. After Jakakila grounded to Walljointer, Obno drew Gromsbrook’s first walk, earning a conference with Lidlebum. Basritakia lofted a soft fly to Ringtingtingle in short center, but after Nutir singled, Kazimpa walked on five pitches to load the bases. Spleendockle started Bandrumma warming in the bullpen, but Oroe became the seventh strikeout victim to end the inning.

Gromsbrook came back on for the seventh and retired Korsa on a fly to center, but after Crunama singled to left, Spleendockle came out to the mound. Bandrumma came in and struck out Roltaek, the secondbasewoman’s third of the day, but Jakakila knocked it 122 meters to just clear the left field fence, giving the Kangaroos a commanding 4-1 lead. Bandrumma got Obno on a weak grounder and came back to retire the side in the eighth, but with the Steal-Basers never challenging Katinatu, it mattered little.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
KP 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 10 0
RBA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0

WP- Katinatu (1-0), 1 ER, 7.2 IP
SV- Garjeno (1), 0 ER, 1.1 IP
LP- Gromsbrook (0-1), 3 ER, 6.1 IP
Bandrumma, 1 ER, 1.2 IP
Ottleby, 0 ER, 1 IP

Kaze Progressa
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Roltaek 5 1 1 1 0 3 1
CF Jakakila 5 1 1 2 0 1 1
SS Obno 4 0 1 0 1 1 0
DH Basritakia 4 0 2 0 0 0 0
LF Nutir 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
RF Kazimpa 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
3B Oroe 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
1B Korsa 4 1 1 0 0 1 0
C Crunama 4 1 2 1 0 0 0

Republic of Bipedal Apes
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Walljointer 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
LF Blump 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
RF Oxto 4 1 1 1 0 1 1
1B Crestmoop 4 0 0 0 0 2 0
3B Bleetle 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
DH Blenznarp 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
PH Berjoop 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
C Lidlebum 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
SS Anthrosmug 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
CF Ringtingti. 3 0 1 0 0 0 0

OOC: Thanks for spotting that error. I knew I'd do *something* wrong in that RP. My knowledge of baseball is primarily from... get this... a kiddie game with dinosaur players, DinoMight Baseball. Yes, really.

Nice stat update too. :)

Black Hawks smash the NMS Paladins: 5-3

Wingarde's men earn their first victory with a decisive offensive in the third inning. Great start in the World Cup for the Black Hawks.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Baseball fans rejoice all over the archipelago, for the national team couldn't have started the world championship any better. The Black Hawks ended the first inning in bad shape due to Paladin center fielder Ty Leiper's home run, which scored a single run to the NMS team. Nevertheless, a lead-off double by catcher Albert Oprhein set the stage for a dismal performance by the entire NMS defense, with a two-run triple by third baseman Ritter Waldschmidt and a successful squeeze bunt giving our team a lead they would never look back from.

The team assumed a defensive stance when it reached the five runs, and managed to hold the Paladins at bay, except from a lone run scored in the sixth inning. The game's final score exceeded coach Wildersen's expectations.

"We were lucky. New Montreal has an excellent team, but I reckon their guys lacked concentration once they were on the field." Commented starting pitcher Hugo Lichtermann.

The Black Hawks are now up against the Clavis Falcons in the next series. The team's training hard and won't underestimate their opponets.

"The Falcons will be tough adversaries. The throws from their star pitcher, Lester Jordan, will be difficult to stop. We'll have to work on that, it's gonna get rough." The coach gave his opinion to our reporters.
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OOC: Milchama, can you please edit your post so that your title doesn't ridiculously stretch the page? And Kaze Progressa, me too, most of my baseball experience comes from Backyard Baseball for the GBA. :p

ooc: This
Nevertheless, Albert Oprhein's admirable grand slam in the third inning definitely turned the table for our country's Black Hawks.
directly, contradicts this.
A lead-off double by Black Hawk catcher Albert Ophein set the stage for a dismal performance by the entire NMS defense, with a two-run triple by third baseman Ritter Waldschmidt and a successful squeeze bunt giving Wingarde a lead they would never look back from.
One of you should edit your post.

OOC: I don't mean to be arrogant, but I should decide what my team does. Maybe we should coordinate next time via PM or telegram. :)

OOC: I don't mean to be arrogant, but I should decide what my team does. Maybe we should coordinate next time via PM or telegram. :)

OOC: Don't mind me, but the general etiquette for NS sports is that the person who RPs first gets to decide what happens. As long as the second person to RP doesnt change the stated facts, then they can do what they like.

You can work around other ways of doing this, of course, like sorting out between you what happens before you RP, or setting some RP Guidelines for others to follow etc etc.

OOC: That's why the NS World Cup has a set of guidelines where you can answer questions as to what your opponent has the right to do. If your opponent doesn't answer any of those questions at all, you can assume you have full permission to do whatever. If they've posted, you're asked to respect the guidelines set.

It can get tricky in a sport where such a setup is not included because some people don't care if you give their starting third baseman AIDS or chicken pox or whatever, but others will get on you if you RP their team going to the bullpen in the sixth inning instead of the seventh inning. As a courtesy, you should find out where along these extremes your opponent lies.

OOC-I agree with Starblaydia and Sarzonia's comments. For the record, if my opponent RPs first I'll go with their RP unless it contradicts the possible permutations. If you inadvertently do something weird but possible, like have the last two batters in an inning hit doubles, I'll work that into my RP. I'll only make corrections if absolutely necessary.

I don't know if I'm going to bother with a detailed box score for every game, but I'm definitely going to post a line score including R, H, E and WP/LP/SV for every game I RP. If you don't want me to decide your relievers and stuff if I RP first, please let me know when we meet.

ooc: The standard for the NS World Cup of Baseball will be that the first poster has complete authority over the RP of a game except in certain situations. The first poster will not be allowed authority over the RP of a particular event only if both of the following conditions are met:

1. The participant who did not post first must specifically state, during the tournament and before the game in question that he/she reserves the right to RP certain events. (It would be best to do this out of charactor in your Roster post.)
2. The only events which a participant may reserve the right to RP will be the event of a scored run for his/her team, the event of a pitcher change for his/her team or an injury event for his team. In the event of a scored run for his/her team, the reserving participant will have the right to RP which batters appeared in the inning and the results of their plate appearances. The first poster, however, will have the right to determine how the outs were recorded. In the event of an injury a the backup who replaces the injured starter will have the same rating as that starter.

(Note that all RP's are limited by what is possible within the game of baseball. For example, in a scoreless inning you cannot RP that seven batters reached the plate.)
In this particular case, Wingarde's post should be edited since he did not specifically state beforehand that he reserves the right to RP a run scoring event for his team. I apologize to him, however, for not clarifying this issue beforehand.

OOC: Don't mind me, but the general etiquette for NS sports is that the person who RPs first gets to decide what happens. As long as the second person to RP doesnt change the stated facts, then they can do what they like.
OOC: Alright, alright. I'm new to NS sports, so I just assumed as the RPing was carried out the same way as in wars, for instance. I'll follow the rules from now on. :)

OOC: Alright, alright. I'm new to NS sports, so I just assumed as the RPing was carried out the same way as in wars, for instance. I'll follow the rules from now on. :)

OOC- Oh, if only the wars in NS followed some basic rules of etiquette, imagine how much less chaotic the boards would be! See, this is exactly why I don't play in the war threads.

It may seem pedantic... but having some guidelines helps us all write coherent stories.

Falcons win 8-6 to take first game in three game set agnist Yafor 2

Yafor 2- Ronny Lanham and Rex Stephens were the heros of the game as each of them hit crusial homer as the Clavis Falcons beat Yafor 2 at Yafor 2 yesterday 8-6.

The game started under a hot day where the mecury hit 97 degrees farenheight and both teams started off slowly until John Gibbs hit a shot to rightfield that would of only been a double if Robert Fletcher didn't drop the ball at second bace thus allowing Gibbs to get a triple. Gibbs got home on a balk by Yafor 2 pitcher Pedro Alvar thus putting the Falcons up 1-0.

In the bottom of the second Henry Izturis hit a homer 413 feet to centerfield to tie the game up 1-1. In the top of the second Nelson Fernandez hit a sigle up the gut to centerfield and then Percy Milner hit a weakly offerd curveball to rightfield putting Fernandez on third and Milner on second. Chris Burke then shot a sacrifice fly to deep centerfield thus allowing Fenandez fo come home and give the Falcons a 2-1 lead. John Gibbs got a line drive down the right side thus scoring Milner making this a 3-2 Falcons game. Stephens and Harrison both his homers in the top of the third to give the Falcons a 5-2 lead over Yafor 2.

Jordan went three up three down in the bottom of the third to keep the game 5-2. With both sides scoring in the fourth the Falcons with Burke cashing in Lanham and Yafor 2 Fletcher cashing Walker in to make it a 6-3 Falcons game. The fifth inning was a defencive masterpese with both outfielders making amazing catches but Yafor 2's rightfielder Rey Ibanez hurt his elbow when robbing Falcon's Homer Castillo of extra bases. The Injury's progress not being known till Yafor 2 will make a press confrennce to tell us about the injury after the game. Rex Stephens then hit a 385 foot two run blast to leftfield to give Clavis a 8-3 lead. With Clavis being up by five in the the bottom of the seventh inning manager Terence Wood desided to sub in Victor McGee to replace a tired Lester Jordan. Clavis would score no more and the Falcons would hold off a late charg to take the game 8-6.

Patty Paterson: We're live in downtown An Archia where Andy Anderson is about to issue a statement concerning his infamous "Apes have tails" remark. Commentators say that they are unsure of the nature of this statement. Can you explain this to us John?
John Johnson: Essentially, we're not sure whether this statement will be an apology or something of a different nature. In the past, Anderson has acted as if apologizing were below him, but he has not yet had to consider the possibiliy of a costly war. I think today's statement will tell us how important Andy Anderson's ego is to him.
Patty Patterson: Thank you, John. We now take you live to this vitally important statement by Andy Anderson.
Andy Anderson: When I was growing up, we were taught in schools that Apes are a lesser species than Humans. Now I understand that this is not the case. The Bipedaleens and the An Archists have the potential to contribute so much to each other both culturally and economically. We should not waste this potential because of one misguided statement. I understand that I have offended millions of Apes, and I am so deeply sorry for my actions. I hope that in the future our nations can build a strong intercultural relationship and move on from this awkward begining. Also, I encourage parents and teachers to educate their children about Ape culture so that we can create an understanding between our two societies. Furthermore, we should all realize how much we have in common with each other. Both the An Archists and the Bipedaleens have long traditions of rule by biker gangs and pro-business, socially liberal establishments. We both have strong pacifist tendencies as neither nations spends a monetary unit on defense or law and order. It isn't just our style of government, however, that is similar to the Bipedaleens. They are also hard-working and intelligent, traits which we An Archists boast. The future of this relationship looks so bright, and I am so sorry that I have potentially ruined it.
Patty Paterson: What a moving speech! Now an update from the NS World Cup of Baseball.

Starters:Quaza Arivara vs. Biltchung (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 1 Bipedal Apes: 2

Starters: Unknown vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 2
Final Score: The Foylands: 4 Sarzonia: 5 (in 11 innings)

Starters:John Rean vs. Lamar Bush (Clavis is the home team)
0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 3 Clavis: 5
ooc: I'll scorinate the other two games tommorow morning.

Most analysts in Kaze Progressa thought their Kangaroos had a decent set of hitters, but were worried about their pitching staff. After a nailbiting 2-1 loss to Bipedal Apes in a second successive match of glorious pitching on both sides, one suspects the reverse might be true.

As in the first match, the Apes made the ideal start - pitching first, Biltchung picked up a goose egg before Walljointer's line-drive double was followed by a triple from Blump into the gap in left-centre. Quaza Arivara restricted the damage, however, by striking out the rest of the team.

After each pitcher picked up another goose egg in the second, the catcher Crunama hit a powerful line drive to right-centre that bounced off the wall at high speed, causing confusion between Oxto and Ringtingtingle. Such confusion, in fact, that Crunama - not the quickest player - was able to get a triple. Biltchung showed a cool head to strike out Roltaek on a payoff pitch, but the luck would soon swing back to the Kangaroos as a Jakakila fly ball was almost caught by Bleetle at third base, only to carry over him just out of his reach - thus enabling Crunama to level the scores.

That was as good as it got for the Kangaroos though - Walljointer and Blump hit consecutive doubles to score what proved to be the last runs of the game, the last six innings dominated by superlative pitching and fielding, with hitters proving almost helpless. The Kangaroos almost saved the game in the ninth, Nutir bunting for a single and stealing both second and third bases - but with two other hitters already out, Kazimpa's slight mishit was superbly caught by the diving Anthrosmug and that was that.

Patty Paterson: Now for more World Cup action!

Starters:Jared McCullick vs. Hugo Lichtermann (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
2 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 -
Final Score: New Montreal States: 4 Wingarde: 6

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Dean Hawking (Tonissia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 -
Final Score: Milchama: 3 Tonissia: 4

[OOC1: Usually, the same team remains at home for an entire three game series or plays away for an entire three game series.

OOC2: For any present and future opponents, please leave ALL lineup decisions about my team to me. Godmods will not be viewed kindly. Remember my example about the guy who'd get pissed off if you took out his starter in the sixth if he's planning to take the guy out in the seventh? That's me. Thank you.]

Silver strike late, 5-4

After Sarzonia's opening game starter tired in the middle innings, manager Jim Paulsen didn't have much reason for optimism in the second game of the Silver's three game series against The Foylands. After all, a strong performance by John Morgan in the early innings turned into total collapse and the Silver dropped a game they should have won.

But baseball is a sport known for quickly changing fortunes, and the Silver rallied in the bottom of the 11th inning to pull out a 5-4 victory over The Foylands. The rubber game of their three game set is tonight.

"We showed a lot of character battling back," Paulsen said. "To give up a run in extra innings, you feel like you've got to fight like heck to get back. To our credit, we did that."

After Morgan collapsed in the middle innings of Game 1, pitcher Charlie Palmer steadied the staff with 7 2/3 strong innings and the Silver's bats came alive with two runs in the eighth and a solo homer by third baseman Kate Schmidt with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to force extra innings. Schmidt was the hero once again in the bottom of the 11th when she hit a slicing double down the left field line to drive in the game winning run.

"It's a great feeling," she said after she was mobbed by teammates. "You live for these opportunities if you're a baseball player."

The Silver's goal of taking two out of three in the series against a quiet Foylands team remained in reach thanks to a player some baseball wags didn't want on the team. But try finding someone in Sarzonian colours who wants Schmidt to leave the Silver now.

"She can play this game," Paulsen said. "She's going to prove it to everyone who's got a chance to watch."

[OOC1: Usually, the same team remains at home for an entire three game series or plays away for an entire three game series.
ooc: Yes, but in An Archy the "home" team is decided by a coin flip and has absolutely nothing to do with where the came is played. To be entirely clear here, I don't actually flip a coin. I use a random computer program with 50% odds.

Patty Paterson: It's day three at the NS World Cup of Baseball and fans are very excited as four of the five serieses will come down to the last game. The atmosphere at these games will be more wild than anything we've ever seen, even here in the Citizens' Club. Inside Anderson field now is John Johnson.
John Johnson: Thank you, Patty. You're right; the fans in here are going insane and they're hungry for some baseball action. After last night's emotional victory, the Sarzonian fans are particularly upbeat. It's amazing how one swing of a baseball bat can affect the mood of an entire nation.
Sarzonian Fan Jumping in front of the Camera: WOOT!! TEH $!L^3R R0%04$!!!1!!!
John Johnson: Even if you don't understand a word of Sarzonian, you could tell how excited this fan is.

Starters:Labdoober vs. Mert Mutujaek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progresse: 4 Bipedal Apes: 5

Starters:Unkown vs. Brian Edwards (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0 1
0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
Final Score: The Foylands: 6 Sarzonia: 4

ooc: Yes, but in An Archy the "home" team is decided by a coin flip and has absolutely nothing to do with where the came is played.
OOC- works for me. For IC purposes, I presume a coinflip precedes the first pitch in each game?

An extraordinary finish to a fabulous opening series in the NS World Cup of Baseball, and the pitchers' stranglehold on this series was spectacularly broken in the space of a few amazing minutes.

Mert Mutujaek had struck out the first five batters, and after the sixth, Blenznarp, took a walk - Mutujaek trying too hard to find the edge of the strike zone - the seventh was also struck out. No Bipedal Ape had laid bat to ball. Not one.

When one did come, from Anthrosmug - who killed off the second game with a superb diving catch in the ninth - it was a monster, 488 feet right over centre field. Suddenly, the whole momentum of the game changed.

Ringtingtingle was next, and didn't have to do anything at all - thrown four consecutive pitches outside the strike zone as Mutujaek was caught trying too hard, presumably in frustration (the first two of these pitches exceeded 93mph, a figure he had never exceeded before). Walljointer took a single off a bunt. Blump took a single off a gentle line drive into the gap in right-centre, thus loading the bases. Oxto was next. The first two pitches were balls, the next two strikes, the next a ball. A payoff pitch with the bases loaded, clearly a series-determining moment.

Oxto smashed it 492 feet over left-centre. 5-0.

But not game over. The response from the Kangaroos was a 444-foot strike from Roltaek at the bottom of the same inning. 5-1. In the bottom of the fifth, Oroe and Korsa hit successive line-drive doubles into the same gap in right-centre. 5-2. In the bottom of the sixth, Jakakila hit a 450-foot home run over right-centre (5-3), then Obno hit a single and Basritakia a triple (5-4). A magic comeback was on the cards.

But it wasn't to be, and in the end it was another wonderful piece of fielding that proved the difference. It was Oxto, hero with the bat, who turned hero with the leather when he produced a spectacular leap to catch a fly ball that would most likely have just cleared the fence otherwise. With two other players out, that was that, and the Apes had won. Just. Based on aggregate scores of the three games, they had actually lost. But they'd won the two out of three games required to take the series.

OOC- works for me. For IC purposes, I presume a coinflip precedes the first pitch in each game?
ooc: Yes.

Starters:Willie Jarvis vs. Floyd Hampton (Clavis is the home team)
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 3 Clavis: 2

Starters:Tyler Laning vs. Albert Sandler (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: New Montreal States: 2 Yafor 2: 1

Starters:Stan Romanson vs. Lorne Babcock (Tonissia is the home team)
0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 5 Tonissia: 2

Silver Struggle

A Sarzonian national baseball team that was expected to be a favourite coming in has started off the first-ever World Cup of Baseball with a thud, dropping the rubber game of their opening three game set against The Foylands 6-4.

Manager Jim Paulsen may be second guessed by the team's fans for leaving in starting pitcher Brian Edwards to finish the sixth, as he gave up two runs in the frame to give up a 4-2 lead, then the bullpen couldn't hold The Foylands off the scoreboard.

"I wanted to get [Edwards] through the sixth to give the bullpen a break going into the series against the Bipedal Apes," Paulsen said, clearly agitated when a reporter asked him why he left Edwards in during the sixth. "Our bullpen has been overworked these first three games. I even had [Game 4 starter] Brad Baxter warming up in the ninth."

Sarzonia seems to have little trouble getting hits and runs, as the team put four runs up on The Foylands courtesy of a three for four night for first baseman Hank Everly. His first homer of the World Cup drove in shortstop Chris Spontanelli in the bottom of the fifth inning to give the Silver a lead that Edwards and losing pitcher Roger Tolliver (0-1) couldn't hold.

"Our pitching's got to do better," Everly said. "We're going into a series against a good baseball club in the Steal Basers. We need our pitching and defence to catch up to our bats or we're going to be a lost cause."

Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquierer

Now Milchama's official newspaper for the NS Baseball World Cup

Sports Section

Milchama win's one and blows one late

The Milchama Warriors won their first series in the World Cup of baseball today. Winning 2 out of 3 games from the Tonissia High Heaters.
Game 2 Report:
The game started late forcing the Tonissians and the Milchamians to play a double-header. The first game or the double header went well for the Warriors until the 8th inning when Matt Commnick and Scott Mayer preceded to give up two runs and a the Warriors first loss of the tournament 4-3. Manny RodrigueZ (don't get the spelling of my player's names wrong An archy) started the game well striking out 7 of the first 9 outs he had. The Warriors offense though was stopped by Dean Hawking who did just as well as Rodriguez did having a perfect game through 4 innings. Finally the Tonissians broke through first when in the 4th inning DH Ian Ister hit a long gone homer to make it 1-0 to Tonissia. In the top of the 5th Milchama struck back when lead off man Shawn Green homered to make it 1-1. In the bottom of the sixth again Tonissia found insurance in the homer when clean up man Guarez Takoma homered to make 2-1. The Warriors again struck back in the top of the next inning when Hank Greenberg singled in Kenny Merrick to tie the game back up at 2. In the top of the eighth the Warriors struck again when Kenny Merrick hit a double that brought in Barrett Hamilton to give Milchama the lead 3-2. Unfortunately the bullpen could not hold the lead giving up 2 runs on a double by Diyon. Final score 4-3 Tonissia.
Game 3 report: It's the second game of the day so we're only gonna tell you
How they scored:
4th Inning: Milchama- Kenny Merrick steals home with two outs in the inning.
Tonissia- Jentry Smith knocks in Yount Jr. with a single.
5th inning: Milchama- Barrett Hamilton hits his second home run of the tournament a 2 run blast driving in Tris Speaker.
6th inning: Tonissia- Ty Liggio homers a solo shot.
8th inning: Milchama- Shawn Green was driven home on a double by Tris Speaker. Then with two outs and a 3-2 count Harry Danning hit another double to drive in Speaker.
Final Score
Milchama 5
Tonissia 2

OOC: Again, please don't strech the page with your extra-long title, Milchama.

OOC: Again, please don't strech the page with your extra-long title, Milchama.

Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquierer

The Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquierer has become the official newspaper for the NS Baseball World Cup today according to Prime Minister Liam Horowitz. Despite international protests and several complaints from the world to not have the newspaper be the official carrier Prime Minister Horowitz said, "They have the best coverage of the MBL in all of Milchama and it would frankly be stupid not to allow their baseball to not be able to do their reporting on an international level." He went on to say that no other Milchamian newspaper would be allowed for international readers to get to read about the Baseball World Cup outside of the Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquirer.

OOC: Live with it Wingarde. The newspaper is not changing so you better accept it

(OOC: Milchama: I second wingarde's statement. It's killing my browser. You've got to make the concession.)

Patty Paterson: Baseball fans across the globe are complaining that the name of Milchama's national newspaper is too long. Prime Minister Liam Horowitz has issued a statement that the Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquirer is now the official Milchamian newspaper of the World Cup. This decision is sure to cause some controversy, as many news companies from around the world are sure to run out of ink every time they quote from the Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquirer. In world cup action,

Starters:Arvin Taranuzek vs. Unkown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 5 fmjphoenix: 3

Starters:Wuggappo vs. Brad Baxter (Sarzonia is the home team)
1 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 0
3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 6 Sarzonia: 5

Starters:Micheal Klem vs. Unkown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 4 The Foylands: 0

OOC: Live with it Wingarde. The newspaper is not changing so you better accept itOOC: I *third* the request. Wingarde's request was polite, and Liverpool England's request is also polite. Future requests may not be.

Frankly, your attitude toward Wingarde isn't going to endear you to anyone. I suggest you keep that in check in the future.

ooc: Milchama, I agree with the others that you should, at least out of courtesy, refrain from posting that long browser killing title at the beginning of every post.

Starters:Warren Patterson vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 3 0 2 0 0 -
Final Score: Clavis: 3 Wingarde: 6

Starters:Bryce Birky vs. Erskine Meyer (Milchama is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 -
Inal Score: New Montreal States: 2 Milchama: 5

Starters:Tagio Juan vs. Jonathan Beaudry (Liverpool England is the home team)
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 4 5 5 6 2 3 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 2 Liverpool England: 26

OOC:

Two things:

- Milchama, I wasn't asking you to remove content from you title, but to shrink it a bit or put spaces between the words and the dashes. That way, the title would be cut to fit the standard message box. Otherwise, the script takes the whole title as a single word and puts it all together, wildly stretching the page.

- An archy, I won two games and lost one against NMS. I assume I won that series, right?

Silver's pitching can't hold on

Coming into the first game of a three game set against Bipedal Apes, Sarzonia manager Jim Paulsen knew his team was in for a tough fight. His team has shown an appalling weakness in its pitching staff, with starters tiring in the middle innings and the bullpen blowing leads in the late innings. The Silver followed that same script tonight en route to a 6-5 loss that leaves the team at 1-3.

"It's becoming a broken record," Paulsen said. "We can't get more than five innings from our starting rotation and our bullpen has not been producing. We're going to end up needing ten arms in the 'pen at this rate."

The Silver's offence certainly hasn't been a problem. Sarzonia is averaging 4.03 runs per nine innings, a figure Paulsen said "should have us at 3-1 or 2-2 at worst," but the pitching staff has worked to a 4.97 earned run average over 38 innings. Sarzonia's only victory game in the second game of the series, a game in which Charlie Palmer worked 7 2/3 innings.

"When we're able to pitch and play defence, we can play with anyone," third baseman Kate Schmidt said. "But we're not doing the little things like moving guys up or getting bunts down or hitting the cutoff man. Little by little, those things add up and cost you ballgames."

Indeed, Sarzonia have benefitted from being the home team in three of their four games in the World Cup of Baseball, but they've only celebrated one win.

"Eventually, we're going to have to straighten things out," said first baseman Hank Everly. "We're too good of a baseball team to keep slumping."

"There's still 29 games left in the group stage," Paulsen said. "Now isn't the time to panic, but we've got to start playing with more urgency out there."

BIRKY GETS RAPED

Pitching fiasco against Milchama in 5-2 drubbing

NEW MONTREAL - What's wrong with our pitchers?

This is the national question amongst baseball fans, as Brice Birky got whipped for a 3-run inning as the Paladins went down 5-2 against Milchama.

"These huge innings are killing us," said manager Felipe Alou clone 3. "We have to turn this around fast, or else we'll get left in the dust."

[QUOTE=Wingarde]OOC:
- Milchama, I wasn't asking you to remove content from you title, but to shrink it a bit or put spaces between the words and the dashes. That way, the title would be cut to fit the standard message box. Otherwise, the script takes the whole title as a single word and puts it all together, wildly stretching the page.
[QUOTE]
OOC: I can do that so I will Wingarde. this is my concession

Milchama National News- Tribune- Sun- Times- Post- Gazette- Chronicle- Journal- Dispatch- Telegram- Star- Monitor- Enquirer

Sports Section

Inside: New header format for our international edition

Milchama wins game on 3 run 5th

The Milchama Warriors won today's game based on a 3 run 5th inning as the bats came alive for the largest run producing inning this World Cup. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "It's nice to start off 3-1. Now if we can win or even sweep this series this puts us in prime shape for our next set of series against Clavis. Also winning the first game is the most important win of the series - except of course the rubber match - because it gives you control of the series so that you can lose one game and not have to freak out about having lost the entire series." He was very philosophical today. On to baseball
Game Report:
Erskine Meyer did not start off well for the Warriors who seemed a little to hungover after their series win against Tonissia. Meyer gave up hits to the first 3 batters in the Reformed Expos lineup. These hits led to one run on the Willy Williams single to center. After being retired in order in the bottom of the first the Warriors struck back when Tris Speaker doubled home Al Rosen in the bottom of the 2nd inning. Unfortunately Meyer could not hold the tie as again he gave up hits to the first 3 batters in the Reformed Expos order. And in almost a carbon copy of the 1st inning Willy Williams drove in Ty Leiper with a single to center. The Warriors though struck back in the bottom of the third when Kenny Merrick tripled and was brought home on the sac fly by Hank Greenberg to tie the game up at two. After the rocky first 3 innings, Meyer really settled down and retired after giving up that 2nd run 14 in a row. After Birky got the side out in order in the fourth. He started to struggle in the 5th when he gave up hits to Al Rosen and Tris Speaker to put men and first and third. Then Adam Greenberg hit a sac fly to drive home Rosen to make it 3-2. The next batter Harry Danning struck out. With 2 outs Andy Cohen showed again why he is such a clutch as he doubled and drove home Speaker. The next batter Kenny Merrick singled and that brought Cohen home to make it 5-2 Milchama. The rest of the game was boring. One thing of note though, Erskine Meyer pitched a complete game.

In other news in the Baseball World Cup today, Liverpool England showed why they have the best baseball team in the world today crushing Tonissia in their opening game 26-2. The Milchama National News-Tribune-Sun-Times-Post-Gazette-Chronicle-Journal-Dispatch-Telegram-Star-Monitor-Enquirer will get stats from that game as soon as we can. In the mean time everybody in Milchama is scared that despite how good our baseball team has played internationally we just, "Might not be good enough to beat them in our series with them or *crosses his fingers* in the World Series."

(OOC: An archy, if possible SP3 Timothy Francis (55) will start game two and SP2 Mike Umphree (65) game 3 'cos Umphree came in as relief catcher...

And for those of you wondering why Juan has 24 ER and yet Tonissia have no errors, if on two outs a fielder fails to make a routine play through no fault of his own [thus no error] any further runs from then on are not scored earned runs, as far as I understand the game.)

Liverpool England crush Tonissia 26-2
Tonissia AB R H BI BB K HR
1B Ty Liggio 4 1 1 1 0 2 1
2B Hiram Josef-Viscnew 3 1 1 1 0 1 1
3B Kenny Yount Jr 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
SS Guarez Takoma 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
LF Jentry Smith 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
CF Ken Joe Marquettes 2 0 0 0 1 1 0
RF Deon Diyon 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Tim Jefferson 3 0 0 0 0 2 0
DH Ian Ister 3 0 0 0 0 0 0



SP Tagio Juan (LP) IP 8.0 ER 24


Liverpool England AB R H BI BB K HR
CF Brian Mcclinton 6 3 3 4 0 1 1
1B Walter Britt 5 4 3 1 1 0 1
SS Arthur Holston 6 4 4 3 1 0 0
DH Marcus Weller 4 2 2 5 2 0 0
LF Mark Ashburn 6 2 4 4 0 0 0
RF John Lebel 6 3 4 2 0 0 1
2B Benjamin Weller 4 3 1 0 2 0 0
3B Marvin Sessions 6 2 2 6 0 0 2
C Nathan Kaye 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
PH Michael Woods 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
C Mike Umphree 1 1 1 0 0 0 0


SP1 Jonathan Beaudry (WP) IP 6.2 ER 2 K 7 BB 1
Relief Tony Buchanan IP 1.1 ER 0 K 1 BB 0
Closer Gordon Asimovich (SV) IP 1.0 ER 0 K 1 BB 0

HR (on, out): W. Britt (1st inning off Juan, 0 on, 1 out); B. McClinton (2nd inning off Juan, 3 on, 2 out); J. Lebel (3rd inning off Juan, 1 on, 2 out); M. Sessions (4th inning off Juan, 2 on, 1 out); M. Sessions (2, 5th inning off Juan, 2 on, 2 out)
GIDP (on, out): M. Ashburn (5th inning, 1 on, 0 out, 1-4-3)


Inning/Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 + R H E
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 2 0
1 4 5 5 6 2 3 0 - - 26 24 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 2 Liverpool England: 26

The runs came big in Liverpool England's first game of the Baseball World Cup, the team showing why they are quite possibly the best team in the world by scoring the most runs yet in a single game this tournament - and perhaps more than some other teams who've played three games, combined - 26, overcoming Tonissia by twenty-four runs.

There was, quite possibly, a record number of homeruns hit - seven - five by Liverpool England, and two by Tonissia. Tonissia came up to bat first, and almost immediately - on the second pitch dealt - Ty Liggio, first baseman, hit a 381-foot drive over the fence in right-centre. Liverpool England were shaken, but starting pitcher Jon Beaudry went on to strike out seven over 6.2 innings (20 outs) - two in the first inning.

When Liverpool England came up to bat, Tagio Juan almost wished he'd never started the game - with Tonissia's bullpen depleted after their first series, he'd been told at the start that he'd have to last the whole game - or at least twenty-one outs (7 innings). Brian McClinton flew out to rightfielder Deon Diyon, but Walter Britt came up and smacked the first of five Liverpool England homers against Juan - a line drive to left which went 400 feet.

Shortstop Arthur Holston then grounded out to Juan, and Designated Hitter Marcus Weller, who's hitting .384 in the Liverpool England domestic league, popped up to Liggio in foul territory to end the inning.

Liverpool England went on to smack four homers in four innings - including two three-run shots from Marvin Sessions in the 4th and 5th innings, and a grand-slam home run to deep centre in the 2nd inning by 1-spot hitter McClinton with two out which travelled 450 feet.

Second baseman for Tonissia Hiram Josef-Viscnew managed to salvage some sort of pride by hitting another solo homer off Beaudry in the fourth, but that was the end of Tonissia's attack - but for one walk, Beaudry, Tony Buchanan and Gordon Asimovich retired all the remaining batters in the game.

Liverpool England went on to score five more runs off line-drive doubles by Britt and Holston, in the sixth and seventh innings, piling on to their 21-2 score at the end of the fifth.

In the end, it was but a whitewash - such that Liverpool England could even afford to call in Starting Pitcher 2 Mike Umphree as a relief catcher. Umphree will therefore start Game Three (against Tonissia's number one starter), while SP3 Tim Francis starts Game 2 against the fifth Tonissian starter.

Extensive wrapup of the previous four games!

Game 1 - Clavis: 8, Yafor 2: 6

It was sweltering day in the heat of Ajer, with the thermometer reading 97 at gametime. Starting Pitcher Pedro Alvar, however, couldn't benefit from the heat, by adding his own heat. Alvar, who lasted only four innings, giging up six earned runs, with five walks. It was a very wild Alvar, who had less strikes than balls, and yet hit 100 on the meter often. Rey Ibanez picked up an injury, but he was able to come back, with only a sore elbow. Heros of the game included Henry Izturis, who hit two home runs, as well as Thomas Munro, who pitched four two-run innings in relief of Alvar.

Game 2 - Clavis: 5, Yafor 2: 3

This was a very well-pitched game by starter John Rean. He went seven three-run innings, with the runs all coming on solo home runs. He, however, was completely out-pitched, and ending up losing, despite having seven strikeouts and no walks. Yaforite heros include Rean and Trimaine Casey, who had a two run homer in the fifth.

Game 3 - Yafor 2: 3, Clavis: 2

Starter Willie JArvis lasted seven two-run innings, pitching incredibly. He walked none, had thirteen strikouts, and gave the YAforites something to smile about. Closer Justin Koch allowed a solo home run, but still got his first save. YAforite heros included Jarvis, who was stunning, as well as DH Eric Santaro, who had all three RBI's.

Game 4 - Yafor 2: 4, The Foylands: 0

Starter Micheal Klem completely overwhelmed the opponent's line-up. He pitched a two-hitter for his first victory. He threw only 87 pitches, an amazingly low pitch count. Klem had eleven strikeouts, against three walks, with his fastball consistantly hitting 95 on the radar. Other heros, apart from Klem, included Anthony Walker, who hit a two-run homer, and robbed a player of a double on an excellent leaping grab with a man on in the fifth.

(OOC: An archy, if possible SP3 Timothy Francis (55) will start game two and SP2 Mike Umphree (65) game 3 'cos Umphree came in as relief catcher...
ooc: Unfortunately, that is not possible. All of the rules, especially those concerning rosters, are very delicate and I cannot allow for exceptions.

And for those of you wondering why Juan has 24 ER and yet Tonissia have no errors, if on two outs a fielder fails to make a routine play through no fault of his own [thus no error] any further runs from then on are not scored earned runs, as far as I understand the game.
Not quite, those runs would count as earned runs and apply toward Juan's era.
- An archy, I won two games and lost one against NMS. I assume I won that series, right?
Yep. Just so there isn't any confusion the two teams in the final series will be the winners of the most games, not necessarily the winners of the most serieses.
BIRKY GETS RAPED

Pitching fiasco against Milchama in 5-2 drubbing

NEW MONTREAL - What's wrong with our pitchers?

This is the national question amongst baseball fans, as Brice Birky got whipped for a 3-run inning as the Paladins went down 5-2 against Milchama.

"These huge innings are killing us," said manager Felipe Alou clone 3. "We have to turn this around fast, or else we'll get left in the dust."
NMS, this is a rather short RP post. Since each RP post adds to your team's rating points for the next Cup it would be best if you make all of your posts at least moderately long. I'll count this one but in the future I won't include short RP posts in your count. Note that this applies to everybody.

New scores will come in today. If anyone was surprised by the sudden absence of new scores, I apologize, but I generally never log onto NS on the weekends, so there will not be any weekend games. (Also, I probably won't be posting new scores on any American holidays.)

Patty Paterson: The first week of World Cup action was very exciting. Here are the standings so far.

Wingarde 3-1
Milchama 3-1
Bipedal Apes 3-1
Liverpool England 1-0
Kaze Progressa 2-2
Yafor 2 2-2
Clavis 2-2
The Foylands 2-2
fmjphoenix 0-1
Sarzonia 1-3
Tonissia 1-3
New Montreal States 1-3
Wingarde, Milchama, and Bipedal apes are tied at the top with three wins and one loss apiece. Liverpool England is the only undefeated team left with a 26 to 2 bombardment of Tonissia. Kaze Progressa, Yafor 2, Clavis, and The Foylands, are all even after four games. Yafor 2 has the only shutout of the tournament. Fmjphoenix is winless at 0-1, while Sarzonia, Tonissia, and New Montreal States are stuck in last place with records of 1-3.

Starters:Unkown vs. Arvin Yikpa (Kaze Progressa is the home team.)
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 4 Kaze Progressa: 1

Starters:Humblum vs. Ken Sutcliffe (Sarzonia is the home team)
1 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 3
0 0 2 0 0 2 0 1 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 9 Sarzonia: 5

Starters:Samuel Cledart vs. Unkown
0 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 4 The Foylands: 2

The Progressan series against Fmjphoenix will go to a rubber match after a superb show of fielding from Fmjphoenix in the second game cancelled out a fine Progressan show of batting in the first.

Fmjphoenix are favourites for the decider, as the freshness from having a bye week to begin their campaign may help them - but to cancel this, the Progressans have had more games to hit the ground running, even if they did lose their opening series 2-1 to Bipedal Apes - who must now be considered favourites for the trophy after stunning Sarzonia with two consecutive wins, the second a 9-5 thriller secured with three runs in the top of the ninth.

Earlier, Liverpool England began their campaign in quite astonishing fashion by destroying Tonissia 26-2 - if their hitters continue in anything remotely like this form, they will be well worth watching, while Tonissia must be wishing they'd never even entered now.

'Door closed' to Silver after loss

The problems the Sarzonian national baseball team is having with pitching and fielding came to a head in the team's 9-5 loss to Bipedal Apes, dropping the team to 1-4 as the team's bullpen collapsed around them by giving up three runs in the top of the ninth. Following the Silver's third straight loss, Manager Jim Paulsen closed the door to the team's clubhouse for 50 minutes.

"We just played like [dirt] out there," Paulsen said. "We can't get anyone out when it counts and we can't catch the [expletive] ball. We're playing like a last-placed team."

Paulsen refused to tell a reporter what he told the team in the closed door session saying, "that's between me and the team," and "that's none of your Goddamned business," but first baseman Hank Everly was far more forthcoming.

"He told us we had to shape up or there were going to be some major changes," Everly said. "He said he'd bench anyone he felt wasn't producing or go to a four man rotation or whatever he needed to get the job done."

Things got so bad for the Silver that a position player warmed up in the bullpen during the Steal Basers' three run ninth. Paulsen didn't bring him in to pitch, but the move sent a message to his team: "Do your job and get people out or I'm going to make serious changes."

The only highlight for the Silver was Everly's two homers, his fourth and fifth of the World Cup, driving in three runs, while third baseman Kate Schmidt drove in one with a RBI double. The fifth run came in when a Bipedal Apes outfielder bobbled the ball, allowing the fifth run to score. Everly's eighth inning homer, his second of the game, brought the Silver within a run going into the ninth, but that meant the bullpen would have to hold the lead. That was too much to ask for a bullpen that has been overworked each game.

"I've got to keep making the moves I think will win us ballgames," Paulsen said. "I've just about run out of ideas."

More scores:

Starters:Dieter Schenker vs. Damon Torres (Clavis is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Wingarde: 5 Clavis: 2

Starters:James Rickey vs. Alex O'Brien (New Montreal States is the home team)
1 1 2 0 1 0 2 1 2
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 10 New Montreal States: 2

Starters:Hernando De Rizza vs. Timothy Francis (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 1 2 0 0 2 1 0 0
0 0 7 0 4 4 1 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 6 Liverpool England: 16

"He told us we had to shape up or there were going to be some major changes," Everly said. "He said he'd bench anyone he felt wasn't producing or go to a four man rotation or whatever he needed to get the job done."
ooc: Sarzonia, just to make everything clear, for RP purposes you can make all the lineup adjustments you want but I will not change the lineup I use for your team for the purpose of scorination. I will, however, list as the starter whichever pitcher you ask me to, so long as he has had at least three days rest (not including weekends). Liverpool England, I've decided to give in to your request to change your starting pitcher for your second game against Tonissia. Again, this only applies to RP purposes so Timothy Francis was rated a 65 as he replaced Mike Umphree who will be rated the same as whichever pitcher he replaces. Everyone, note that any change you decide to make to your starting line up will not have any effect on the lineup I use for scorinating games. In other words, if you start a backup or rearange your pitching rotation or batting order I will pretend as if it never happened as far as scorination is concerned.

ooc: Sarzonia, just to make everything clear, for RP purposes you can make all the lineup adjustments you want but I will not change the lineup I use for your team for the purpose of scorination. I will, however, list as the starter whichever pitcher you ask me to, so long as he has had at least three days rest[OOC: That's fine. That was all part of a RP of a team royally frustrated after starting the World Cup 1-4 when it had chances to win each of the games it lost. If I were going to RP changes to my starting lineup, I'd let you know OOCly what changes I'd need to make.]

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Milchama Crush NMS in what nation hopes is prediction of U21 clash

The Milchama Warriors crushed the New Montreal States Reformed Expos today 10-2, in their best offensive output of the tournament so far. This offensive outburst came at the heels of the Warriors knowing that they were in a 3 way tie for first place. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Its nice to get a win espiecially the way we won the game today. I'm optomistic about us getting the win tommorow although I never want to be to sure."

Today considering the amount of runs produced we decided to do an inning by inning report.
1st Inning: First two Milchamians get out on two pitches. The 4th pitch in the inning by Alex O'Brian is launched 378 feet for a home run by Hank Greenberg. Next guy got out. NMS got a single.
2nd Inning: The Warriors struck again this time, Barrett Hamilton driving Tris Speaker in on a double after Speaker got a double of his own. NMS got a leadoff double but they could not drive him in.
3rd Inning: After a Harry Danning single Andy Cohen got him to third and Kenny Merrick drove one of them in with a single. Then Meyer got out. Greenberg then drove Cohen in on a sac fly. NMS got a run this time as Willy Williams drove in Stro Caslow on a double.
4th Inning: Milchamians finally go scoreless as a leadoff double by Rosen proves fruitless. NMS finally retired in order by Rickey.
5th Inning: Kenny Merrick singles. Steals second and is bunted over to third by Buddy Meyer. Hank Greenberg then doubles to drive him in to get Milchama's 5th run. NMS is again retired in order by Rickey.
6th Inning: Both teams are retired in order.
7th Inning: Tris Speaker doubles and is driven in on Barrett Hamilton homer. NMS strikes back when the leadoff batter Dude Cardoni homered right back to make it 7-2.
8th Inning: The subs came in fast and furious. Matan Williams made the most of his oppurtunity as he homered off reliever Tyler Lanning. NMS was retired in order by Matt Commnick.
9th Inning: Again the subs struck this time Adam Greenberg singled and Micheal Flinter doubled him home. And then Yonatan Horowitz, who usually can't hit, managed to get a single and drove Micheal Flinter home. And then Matt Commnick again retired the side in order to finish the win for the Warriors 10-2.

NMS WHUPPED 10-2

"So bad that we don't want to watch anymore," said one player.

NEW MONTREAL - Last night's 10-2 asswhuppin' at the hands of Milchama was watched by a blindfolded dugout.

Every man on the 25-man roster who was not out on the field had blindfolded himself, as well as all the coaches, after a 2-run inning by the Warriors in the top of the 3rd pushed the score to 4-0.

"Gawd, this is ugly," said Felipe Alou clone number 3, the team's manager. "Why would I want to watch this crap? I feel sorry for the people who actually paid to watch this. To all NMS fans, I apologize. To all neutral fans, sorry you paid to watch this, and I've heard that Liverpool England is fun to watch nowadays."

The blame can be laid, as usual, at the hands of the pitchers, as five pitchers each gave up at least one earned run during the game.

There is a general sentiment among the team that the public has adopted an attitude of "wait 'till next tournament" for the team, and centerfielder Ty Leiper couldn't agree more.

"Man, I don't want to have people watch us play like this," he said. "I hope nobody's watching at all tomorrow. Hell, with the Cherry Cup starting soon, nobody would be watching anyways."

Patty Paterson: The second set of serieses is winding down and Liverpool England's offense has been unbelievable. Having scored 42 runs so far, it seems that the Tonissian pitching staff cannot handle them. Fans here in An Archia are excited about what has easily been the best display of offense in the short history of the World Cup. We have with us the Liverpool English third baseman Marvin Sessions. Mr. Sessions, what were your expectations coming into the cup?
Marvin Sessions: Well, you never expect to start off as well as we did, but at the same time you always try to raise the bar compared to your last performance.
Patty Paterson: Do you think Dean Wopham, the Tonissian ace might be significantly more difficult than their two previous starters?
Marvin Sessions You know, that's what we're afraid of and that's why you give your best every time you take the field.
Patty Paterson: Thank you, Mr. Sessions. Coming up next, the Andicorp Game of the Week between Liverpool England and Tonissia.

Starters:Mike Umphree vs. Dean Wopham (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 2 Liverpool England: 3

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Unkown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
3 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 9 fmjphoenix: 1

Starters:Gromsbrook vs. John Morgan (Sarzonia is the home team)
2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 6 Sarzonia: 4

ooc: I'll get the rest of the scores tomorrow morning. I think I did this last Wednesday. Yeah, Wednesdays kind of suck for me with 5 classes. This might become the norm.

Bipedal Times
Trans-border newspaper of the RBA

World Cup of Baseball going so quickly we can’t even keep up
Lots of winning by Steal-Basers, hooray!

by Clumpo

An Archia, An archy-- Whoo! Second series in World Cup of Baseball just ended, and Steal-Basers swept Sarzonia Silver. Now RBA 5-1, and that pretty good. Since Bipedal Times only come out every week or so, here the recap of last two games against Kaze Progressa.

Game two: Kaze Progressa at RBA
Starters were Quaza Arivara and Biltchung.

Bizarre quasi-pitching duel saw starters both go distance, with sporadic spurts of power or clusters of errors resulting in runs. After Biltchung set down side in first, Walljointer led off with second-pitch double, followed by resounding triple into left field gap by Blump. Down a run with ape on third and no outs, Arivara met with catcher Crunuma briefly. Quickly became apparent that signs had been crossed, for Oxto, Crestmoop, and Bleetle struck out, first two swinging at nasty sliders, and third looking at 155 kph fastball.

Single by Basritakia in second came to naught, but in third pair of errors led to unearned run for Kangaroos. With one out, Crunama hit double off right-center wall and miscommunication between RF Oxto and CF Ringtingtingle allowed runner to advance to third. Fielding error charged to Ringtingtingle was Steal-Basers’ first of tourney. Biltchung caught Roltaek looking on a full-count fastball to get second out, but lazy line drive by Jakakila on next pitch went over Bleetle on third baseape’s late jump, making for second error and Kangaroos’ first run of game.

In bottom of inning Walljointer and Blump continued power show with consecutive one-out doubles to earn second run, making everyone wonder just what in world was going on with Arivara. Another quick conference with Crunuma and all was put right, as human pitcher gave up only two more singles through rest of game. With Biltchung continuing a superb performance, giving up only one more hit herself, Steal-Basers would come out with first win of tourney.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
KP 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
RBA 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 - 2 6 2

WP- Biltchung (1-0), 0 ER, 9 IP, CG (1)
LP- Arivara (0-1), 2 ER, 8 IP, CG (1)

Kaze Progressa
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Roltaek 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
CF Jakakila 3 0 0 1 0 1 0
SS Obno 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
DH Basritakia 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
LF Nutir 3 0 1 0 1 1 0
RF Kazimpa 3 0 0 0 0 1 0
3B Oroe 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
1B Korsa 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
C Crunama 3 1 1 0 0 0 0

Republic of Bipedal Apes
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Walljointer 3 2 2 0 1 0 0
LF Blump 4 0 2 2 0 0 0
RF Oxto 4 0 0 0 0 2 0
1B Crestmoop 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
3B Bleetle 4 0 0 0 0 2 0
DH Blenznarp 3 0 0 0 1 1 0
C Lidlebum 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
SS Anthrosmug 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
CF Ringtingti. 3 0 1 0 0 1 0

Game three: RBA at KP
Starters were Labdoober and Mutujaek.

Exploding apes produced five runs in third, giving Steal-Basers all the offense they needed or would get. Unlikely 149-meter home run by Anthrosmug started it off; perhaps air in An Archia just thin, as Oxto hit 150-meter grand slam to cap it. Labdoober pitched five decent innings but got into trouble in sixth, giving up home run to Jakakila and hits to Obno and Basritakia to bring score to 5-4. But Spleendockle gambled on her for seventh and got away with it. Bandrumma pitched scoreless eighth and Whoabark came on to earn first save of series, pitching perfect ninth.


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
RBA 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 0
KP 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 4 9 0

WP- Labdoober (1-0), 4 ER, 7 IP
Bandrumma 0 ER, 1 IP
SV- Whoabark (1) 0 ER, 1 IP
LP- Mutujaek (0-1), 5 ER, 2.2 IP
Jarita, 0 ER, 2.1 IP
Jerorda, 0 ER, 3 IP
Kigia, 0 ER, 1 IP

Kaze Progressa
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Roltaek 5 1 1 1 0 1 1
CF Jakakila 4 1 1 1 1 0 1
SS Obno 4 1 2 0 0 1 0
DH Basritakia 4 0 1 1 0 0 0
LF Nutir 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
RF Kazimpa 4 0 1 0 0 0 0
3B Oroe 3 1 1 0 1 0 0
1B Korsa 4 0 1 1 0 0 0
C Crunama 4 0 1 0 0 1 0

Republic of Bipedal Apes
AB R H RBI BB K HR
2B Walljointer 5 1 1 0 0 1 0
LF Blump 5 1 1 0 0 2 0
RF Oxto 4 1 2 4 1 1 1
1B Crestmoop 4 0 1 0 0 1 0
3B Bleetle 4 0 0 0 0 1 0
DH Blenznarp 3 0 2 0 1 0 0
C Lidlebum 4 0 0 0 0 2 0
SS Anthrosmug 3 1 1 1 1 0 1
CF Ringtingti. 3 1 0 0 1 0 0

Black Hawks on fire!

The players' admirable performance shows: the team's tied with Milchama and Bipedal Apes for the first place in the weekly standings.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Following the second victory against the Clavis Falcons, the Black Hawks seem unstoppable! Having won 3 out of 4 games, it's hard to see any obstacles between the team and the cup. The disappointing second game against New Montreal made Wingardian baseball fans hold their breaths, but the subsequent victories ensured the fact that the Black Hawks have skill, not bare luck. We interviewed first baseman Leonard Masterson on the performance of the team.

"Well, I must admit the other teams are quite good, too. We've won most games, but that doesn't mean they were easy. We seem to be able to pinpoint the other guys' weaknesses once we spend some time in the field with them."

Masterson was very excited about the current standings, and the rest of the team is as euphoric. On the other hand, the training regime, according to coach Wildersen, has been purposedly intensified.

"We can't allow ourselves to lower our guard at this point. If we get too cocky, that may have severe consequences. That's why we're training twice as much as we did before."

The coach explained his and his men's determination thoroughly. With the second victory against Clavis, the second series are ensured progress for Wingarde. However, one can never know what future holds in store.

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OOC: Forgive me for not posting anything in the last few days. I've been kinda busy.

more scores:

Starters:Pedro Alvar vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 4 0 1 1 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 8 The Foylands: 7 (in 11 innings)

Starters:Otto Weber vs. Lester Jordan (Clavis is the home team)
2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
0 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Wingarde: 5 Clavis: 4 (in 11 innings)

Starters:Drew Pirtle vs. Philip Foster (Milchama is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 -
Final Score: New Montreal States: 1 Milchama: 3

Patty Paterson: The second set of serieses is complete in the first ever NS World Cup of Baseball and the Wingarde Black Hawks are five and one. In their latest victory, Wingarde won an eleven inning thriller against Clavis. It was the second extra inning game of what proved to be a very exciting day at Anderson Stadium. Earlier in the day, Yafor 2 defeated The Foylands also in eleven innings. Here are the standings so far.

Wingarde 5-1
Milchama 5-1
Bipedal Apes 5-1
Liverpool England 3-0
Yafor 2 4-2
Kaze Progressa 3-3
Clavis 2-4
The Foylands 2-4
fmjphoenix 0-3
Sarzonia 1-5
Tonissia 1-5
New Montreal States 1-5
Today, in what could prove to be a bitter rivalry long into the future, the two nations with the most absurdly long names will square off to start the third set of serieses. New Montreal States, with 19 characters including spaces will play Liverpool England with 17 characters including spaces. Brian Mcclinton, the Liverpool English center fielder weighed in on the issue earlier:
Brian Mcclinton: I don't see why spaces should count. I mean, we have just as many letters as them. Anyway, we're better at baseball and that's what this tournament is all about.
Patty Paterson: Felipe Alou clone number 3 also commented.
Felipe Alou clone number 3: We won't let them take this title away from us. You know, they're a great baseball team. They don't need this distintion to feel special. We do.
Patty Paterson: This looks like the start of fantastic rivalry.

Starters:Gregory Turyicalm vs. Jared McCullick (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 0
2 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 New Montreal States: 8

Silver swept by Steal Basers

Even a closed door meeting couldn't save the Sarzonia national baseball team from a slump that now numbers four consecutive losses. Sending opening game starter John Morgan to the mound also didn't help, as the Steal Basers put up six runs on Morgan in 4 1/3 innings, forcing Manager Jim Paulsen to go to his beleagured bullpen. Despite a three run rally in the bottom of the fifth, the Silver couldn't parlay relief pitcher Roger Tolliver's 4 2/3 scoreless innings into a victory.

Sarzonia dropped three straight games against Bipedal Apes, including a 6-4 score in the third game of the series against the Steal Basers, and a discouraged Paulsen said he "was all out of options.

"We had our chances to win each of the ballgames we've lost," Paulsen said as his cap hung over his eyes. "We could just as easiy be 5-1 if we could catch the ball and make the pitches we needed to make."

Now Sarzonia (1-5) takes on Fmjphoenix in what Paulsen is calling a "must win" series. The team has left hander Charlie Palmer starting the opener of the series and the third and fourth starters in the rotation. Paulsen said he was considering shifting to a four man rotation, if only to give the rest of the beleaguered bullpen some rest.

"Our bullpen is on the brink of exhaustion," Paulsen said. "The only starter who's given us a good outing of the six games we've played is Charlie. Roger Tolliver just did us a huge favour by giving the rest of the 'pen a night off. We can use a couple of guys we couldn't before now thanks to Tollie."

The decision whether to go to a four man rotation and a six man bullpen "will be made when it's time," bench coach Johnny Martin said. "Right now, we're going to play it by ear. If we can win a couple of games against Fmjphoenix, we might still have a chance to do something in this World Cup."

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 Sarzonia: 3

Starters:John Rean vs. Biltchung (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 -
Final Score: Yafor 2: 0 Bipedal Apes: 4

Starters:Hugo Lichtermann vs. Unkown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Wingarde: 3 The Foylands: 2

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Lamar Bush (Clavis is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 2 Clavis: 0

WAIT...WE WON?

Reformed Expos as confused about final score as Liverpool England

AN ARCHY - In the most surprising result of the tournament to date for the Expos, juggernaut Liverpool England fell 8-5 to NMS in what actually seemed to be a decent baseball game. This is a great rarity whenever NMS plays, so fans enjoyed the moment while they could.

"The other guys have the bases loaded in the top of the 6th," said Laura Klokkenga, one of the handful of NMS diehards who have stuck around this long in An Archy. "That much I'm used to. But not only were we trying to protect a lead, we also managed to end the rally while giving up only one run. That's a new one on me."

Felipe Alou clone number 3 agreed. "Hey, the stars align every once in a while, and we played some decent ball. Maybe we could do this again tomorrow! It'd be fun. Who knows?"

After comments made in the An Archic press about the rivalry between LE and NMS over who had the longest name, the Ministry of Dredging Up Really Stupid Stuff pointed out that LE lost 2-0 to the NMS in World Cup 11 quarterfinals. Knowledgable observers, however, expect this development to have little to no impact on the tournament, pointing out that World Cup 11 was about 90 years ago.

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Milchama sweep NMS and beat up on Clavis

The Milchama again swept their second double header today. In two well pitched games the Warriors only scored 5 runs but they gave up 1. The score of these two games a 3-1 win over New Montreal States and a 2-0 win over Clavis. Considering they were so few runs we will tell you how they scored.
Vs. NMS
2nd Inning: Shawn Green came up to the plate and he went back to the plate after he hit a ball 401 ft. over the wall in right for a home run.
3rd Inning: Barrett Hamilton doubled and was sacrificed over by Harry Danning. Andy Cohen then singled to drive him in and make the score 2-0.
5th Inning: Foster left one pitch after going ahead on Ty Lieper 0-2 and Lieper hit it very far and in fact over the wall to make the game 2-1 in favor of Milchama. The Warriors then struck back with two outs Andy Cohen singled and went flying around the bases on the Kenny Merrick double to the wall.
Philip Foster did really well going 8 innings. Larry Sherry got the save.
Vs. Clavis
1st Inning: Buddy Meyer singled and went to third on a Hank Greenberg single. He was then brought home when Shawn Green did a sac fly to bring him home.
8th Inning: Al Rosen singled and was driven home yet again on another Tris Speaker double.
Manny Rodriguez got the complete game shutout. Best performance by a pitcher so far in the tournament
OOC: I'm sorry for all the crap on this post I did it on a mac and it is much harder to do the newspaper headings and things on mac so just live with it and i'll change when i get to windows computer

Silver breaks through with close win, 3-2

Finally, the Sarzonian national baseball team won a game in which it pitched well and played solid defence. The Silver defeated Fmjphoenix 3-2 courtesy of a three run fifth inning and eight strong innings by Charlie Palmer and improved their record to 2-5.

"We finally put it together in this game," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We got a great effort from Charlie and our defence was key to this game." Fmjphoenix grounded into four double plays and the Silver made no errors for the first time in the NS World Cup.

Palmer (1-0) took full advantage of the team's tough defence with a sinker that worked to perfection. He limited Fmjphoenix to four hits, striking out seven and walking one. Kerry Clark worked a scoreless ninth for his first save of the World Cup.

"Our bullpen has been hammered all Cup," Palmer said. "It feels good that I've been able to give them some time off two games in a row." Paulsen said the team should be able to use any of its bullpen guys except for relief pitcher Roger Tolliver who worked 4 2/3 innings the previous night. With Brian Edwards starting, Paulsen said he hoped the team would get some innings out of Edwards.

"We haven't been able to get rest for our bullpen until tonight," Paulsen said. "If we can start getting some good starting pitching, we can set up our pen the way we want it."

((OOC: If it's okay with you, An Archy, the Baseball WC2 Signups have been started. I don't intend to host it though, just the signups.))

Black Hawks still on the lead

The team's winning streak continues as the Wingardian team enters the third series, against The Foylands. The players are expectant.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Fans all over the archipelago rejoice to see their favourite team advancing unbeatable through many games. The Black Hawks culminated the second series with an astonishing standing of 5-1. They have also won their first match against The Foylands. Excellent batting by Cromsten and Masterson in the second and third innings earned the team three runs at the very beginning of the game. Victory seemed assured, but occasional runs by the Foylands' team got the fans nervous, especially the one scored in the eighth inning, so close to the end.

Nevertheless, the Black Hawks emerged victorious in the face of their opponents after a rather difficult game. Coach Ronald Wildersen gave us his opinion about the performance of the national team.

"As a matter of fact, we didn't play particularly well. Our pitching and batting were specially bland after the third inning; we just couldn't score more runs. The Foylands' team played noticeably defensively after we scored our first three runs, but that style harmed their offensive power considerably. They could barely take advantage of our mistakes during the rest of the game."

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Patty Paterson: The Second weak of games is coming to an end today and massive crowds have been packing into Anderson Stadium every game. So fat, the average attendance has been over 180,000 in the 200,000 seat domed stadium in downtown An Archia. A random passer-by had this to say.

Random Passer-by: The whole city, in fact the whole country, is just so excited about this tournament. It's not just the baseball fans either. These games are social events, with big time celebrities like William Williamson showing up for nearly every game. This is the most fun and exciting thing to happen in An Archy since they legalized prostitution.

Patty Paterson: It's also been helping business. Sales for Andicorp have increased 340% during the cup. Said Andy Anderson,

Andy Anderson: It's just beautiful. I expected to pocket a few extra dollars from this tournament, but now it's become a national phenomenon. Every day, Andicorp is making tens of millions of dollars. By the end of the tournament it should add up to well over a billion.

Patty Paterson: These are the scores for today's games.

Starters:Brian Edwards vs. Unkown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
1 1 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Sarzonia: 6 fmjphoenix: 4

Starters:Labdoober vs. Willie Jarvis (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 5 Yafor 2: 1

Starters:Albert Sandler vs. Unkown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 4 1 0 0 0 2 1 0
1 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0
Final Score: Wingarde: 9 The Foylands: 5

Starters:Stan Romanson vs. Floyd Hampton (Clavis is the home team)
0 2 0 1 0 0 3 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Milchama: 6 Clavis: 2

Starters:Thomas Francis vs. Tyler Laning (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0
0 0 3 0 1 7 0 1 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 New Montreal States: 12

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Milchama win again

The Milchama Warrior won yet again today as they beat Clavis 6-2. After scoring only 5 runs in two games yesterday the Warriors offense came back charging scoring 6 runs today including 3 runs in the 7th inning. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "I just hope we can keep this pace up. Having only 1 loss is nice but we can go downhill fast and I do not want that to happen."
Today because this paper is becoming more and more incompatant and lazy we will only say the bare bones of what happened today on the field.

The two teams went out there. A Barrett Hamilton double scored both Shawn Green and Tris Speaker. Rex Stephens homered. Kenny Merrick stole home again. Hank Greenberg hit a 3 run homer. Rex Stephens doubled in Percy Milner. The teams left the field. Stan Romanson went 7 innings in the win. Floyd Hampton went 6 1/3 innings in the loss.

EXPOS PICK UP ANOTHER WIN OVER LE

Monastic scholar announces impending apocalypse

AN ARCHY - The Reformed Expos picked up a 12-5 romp over Liverpool England. We'll repeat that, just to prove that you haven't misread your morning paper: NMS 12, LE 5.

Hermit monk Fr. Alain of the Isolated Mildewy Cave came out briefly yesterday, stating that his intrepretation of the book of Revelations states that "A French Canadian, Orthodox Christian baseball team playing decent ball two days in a row" is one of the signs of the apocalypse. He called on sinners to repent and on Fr. Mathieu the Icon-Painter to pay back the $250 he lent him back in seminary.

The players have announced a self-imposed moratorium on comments to the press until they get to .500. Manager Felipe Alou clone number 3 said that: "Hey, we won again! Wow. Who knew? We'll play again tomorrow and see if we win. But really, this winning thing is kinda neat."

NMS TOURISTS BRING LOCAL WILDLIFE TO AN ARCHY.

Customs agents "baffled" as to how they were smuggled in

AN ARCHY - A random passerby, the national animal of the New Montreal States, was sighted speaking to an An Archic reporter, and was later quoted in the local paper. NMS zoologists and customs agents are baffled as to how the creature, which is sentient but certainly not humanoid in form, managed to get out of NMS.

"We'll conduct a through investigation," said head zoologist Pierre Lesavant. "We're trying to contact a member of An Archy's biker gangs who'd be willing to help investigate this situation.

OOC:

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Silver starting right streak, 6-4

Sarzonia's national baseball team still has a long way to go before it can pull itself out of the hole it created for itself, but it seems to be righting itself nicely against Fmjphoenix. The team scratched out a 6-4 win over Fmjphoenix and, except for a shaky fifth inning, got a strong game from starter Brian Edwards.

"We needed to win a couple of games in a row to start getting a good feeling about the World Cup," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "You're never as good as you look when you win, but you're also never as bad as you look when you lose. We'd been pretty down in the dumps before, but we had our chances to win ballgames."

Sarzonia (3-5) weathered a four run fifth inning by Fmjphoenix (0-5), which can't seem to catch a break in this World Cup. Paulsen said he considered going to the bullpen in the fifth after Edwards gave up a grand slam, but he wanted to see Edwards handle adversity. The next two hitters struck out and Edwards retired the last eight hitters he faced.

"Our bullpen is getting more rest now," first baseman Hank Everly (two for four, 2 RBI). "That's going to be key for those times when we really need them."

Perhaps more important for Sarzonia, they can wake up tomorrow morning knowing that they've won the series against Fmjphoenix and they have a chance for a series sweep after getting swept by Bipedal Apes. Paulsen said his team would continue to follow its one game at a time mantra and wouldn't get caught up in anything more than the next game.

"You can't win three games in one day unless you play a tripleheader," Paulsen said. "If we keep playing solid baseball, we'll be all right."

more scores:

Starters:Brad Baxter vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 0 3 4 1 2 1 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Sarzonia: 11 fmjphoenix: 2

Starters:Wuggappo vs. Micheal Klem (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 -
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 2 Yafor 2: 3

Starters:Helmut Lehrer vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2
3 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 -
Final Score: Wingarde: 6 The Foylands: 8

Starters:Erskine Meyer vs. Warren Patterson (Clavis is the home team)
2 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 1
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Milchama: 8 Clavis: 3

Starters:Jonathan Beaudry vs. Bryce Birky (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 New Montreal States: 1

EXPOS BACK TO NORMAL

LE claims 5-1 win in final game of series

AN ARCHY - A sigh of mild disgruntlement broke out amongst the three dozen remaining NMS fans still in An Archy as the Expos regained their losing form, dropping the final game of their series with Liverpool England 5-1.

"We played like crap," said manager Felipe Alou clone number 3. "The more things change, the more they stay the same, or so it would appear."

The Expos' return to form came in the top of the sixth, with a three-run homer by Liverpool England putting the game completely out of reach for a floundering NMS offense.

"T'aint good, that's for sure," said Ty Leiper on his team's offensive flop. "Gotta turn that stuff around tomorrow, or else we gonna crash and burn like, whatchamacallit, the Hindenburg or something like that."

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Milchama gets second sweep as bats awaken

The Milchama Warriors picked up their second sweep of the World Cup of Baseball crushing the Clavis Falcons 8-3. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We're doing better than our newspapers expected and our newspapers expected a lot. It's nice to see that if our pitching is not great our hitting is good and if our hitting is not good then our pitching is great. If this balance can continue then we can do well real well."
And now our daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Kenny Merrick singled, stole second, and scored on a Buddy Meyer single. Meyer in turn was doubled in by Shawn Green.
2nd Inning: Barrett Hamilton led off the inning with a moon shot of a 505 ft. home run.
3rd Inning: Buddy Meyer singled and went to third on the Hank Greenberg double. Then with two out a Tris Speaker single drove both of them in. This time Clavis responded with a two run homer by Pat Lloyd started to bring Clavis somewhere.
4th Inning: The end of the Warriors struck as Harry Danning singled and was driven in on a Andy Cohen double. The score at the end of 4 inning Milchama 6-Clavis 2
7th Inning: Barrett Hamilton homered again this time though the home run was slightly shorter a mere 432 foot blast.
9th Inning: With two out Shawn Green singles and goes to third on another single by Al Rosen. Right after Rosen, Tris Speaker doubles yet again, Green scores easily but Rosen is thrown out at the plate by a brilliant defensive play by Corey Harrison. Things looked secure but Clavis started a little rally as Burke singled to lead off and went to third on Gibbs' single. Then Rex Stephens hit a long fly ball that was snagged by Kenny Merrick with a wonderful leaping catch. Unfortunately Burke scored easily from third to give Clavis their third run.
Final Score
Milchama 8
Clavis 3

Black Hawks fall to second place

Disappointing performance results in a defeat against the Foylands' team in the last game of the third series.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Wingarde's long maintained lead was lost today before the Foylands. The national players barely managed to score a run while their opponents scored seven. Only in the seventh inning did the Black Hawks begin to improve, adding five more runs to the team's total. Nevertheless, it wasn't enough to beat the Foylands.

Coach Wildersen admits the team members were tired because of the intensive training that had been going on from several days now. The tight schedule ultimately did more harm than good to the Black Hawks' performance during the last game. Third baseman Ritter Waldschmidt expresses his concern about the training regime.

"The coach's been really strict with the training scheme, and at first we understood he wanted us to be the best. However, this is one of the cases when TOO much training actually hurts our performance. I believe he has realized that by now, so we should be easing up on our work from now on. But don't think for a second that'll make us worse!"

Wildersen has stated that he would be reducing the intensity of the team's training in sight of the last game's disaster, just enough to provide maximum performance boost without tiring the men. It has also come to attention that Milchama has taken the first place in the standings alone, since Bipedal Apes has also lost the last game of these series. Rest assured, though, for the Black Hawks will do everything in their power to retake the top.

Silver sweeps Fmjphoenix with rout

Now Jim Paulsen feels a lot better about his team.

The Sarzonian national baseball team rode a complete game rout courtesy of a complete game five hitter by Brad Baxter and a grand slam home run by first baseman Hank Everly en route to an easy 11-2 win that completed a three game sweep of Fmjphoenix.

The Silver (4-5) enter their three game set against Kaze Progressa feeling like a team that still has a chance to win the World Cup, according to third baseman Kate Schmidt.

"The mood here is night and day," Schmidt said (3 for 5, 2 RBI). "We've been playing well but we weren't getting the wins. Now we've gotten back into the thick of things. We've got to keep playing well and start playing well against good teams like we did against Fmjphoenix."

Fmjphoenix dropped to 0-6 after the three game sweep at the hands of the Silver. The team's media and fans have been quiet as the team has stumbled to their 0-6 record.

"We're not in a position to judge that team," Paulsen said. "We played well and we need to keep doing that."

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Patty Paterson: It's hard to believe it, but the NS World Cup of Baseball is already in it's fourth set of serieses. So far, fmjphoenix has gone winless in six games. An fmjphoenix fan had this to say.

fmjphoenix fan: We totally suck! I mean, you look at the team and you're like "Wow they're bad." Then you look at the actual performance of the team and you curl up into the fetal position and suck your thumb.

Patty Paterson: For the most part, fmjphoenix fans are focusing on soccer, a sport at which the nation dominates. In other baseball news, Milchama looks unstopable with two consecutive sweeps and an overall record of 8 and 1.

Starters:Unknown vs. James Rickey (Milchama is the home team)
1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 1
Final Score: The Foylands: 5 Milchama: 6 (in 10 innings)

Starters:Unknown vs. Samuel Cledart (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 Yafor 2: 3

Starters:Ken Sutcliffe vs. Quaza Arivara (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 -
Final Score: Sarzonia: 2 Kaze Progressa: 6

more scores:

Starters:Humblum vs. Dieter Schenker (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 0 2 0 3 -
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 1 Wingarde: 8

Starters:Damon Torres vs. Mike Umphree (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 -
Final Score: Clavis: 2 Liverpool England: 6

Starters:Dean Hawking vs. Alex O'Brien (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 2
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 7 New Montreal States: 1

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Games Getting Closer. Milchama wins in 10 innings

The Milchama Warriors almost suffered their second loss of the tournament before a two out home run by Hank Greenberg in the bottom of the ninth inning. Then in the 10th Inning Andy Cohen continued his clutch hitting getting a game winning double that drove in Harry Danning to win the game for the Warriors. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We got lucky today. We cannot depend on luck to win our games. We almost lost this game because we were cocky and thought we would crush the Foylands but we were wrong and got lucky to come away with a 6-5 victory today. Tommorow we might now get so lucky."
And now the daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: The first basemen homered of James Rickey. Then the Warriors struck back as Kenny Merrick tripled and was driven in on Buddy Meyer's ground out. 1-1
4th Inning: The first two men singled to put men on first and third with no outs. Then the big first basemen doubled again to score both of the runners. He was in turn driven in by the shortstop on a two out single. The Warriors struck back as Tris Speaker doubled in Shawn Green and Al Rosen. 4-3 the Foylands.
8th Inning: Even with Rickey out the big first basemen could not be stopped and he homered again this time off of Chad Fernayo. The Warriors struck back again as Andy Cohen singled, stole second, got bunted over to third and scored on a sac fly by Buddy Meyer. 5-4 The Foylands
9th Inning: With none on and two out Hank Greenberg saw one good pitch to hit from the Foylands and he hit it very hard and very far to tie the game at 5. 5-5 tie.
10th Inning: The Warriors first extra inning game ended happily as Harry Danning singled with one out. Then the next batter Andy Cohen brought the count to 3-2 before shooting the ball in the gap to the wall to score Danning easily. Final Score 6-5 Milchama.

Silver win streak snapped, 6-2

After a three game sweep of Fmjphoenix, the Sarzonian national baseball team came back to Earth against Kaze Progressa, as starter Ken Sutcliffe essentially pitched his way out of the starting rotation when he couldn't get out of the sixth inning in the Silver's 6-2 loss to Kaze Progressa.

"We're trying to consider all the options," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "But the way I see it, we've got a bye coming up after Kaze Progressa, so we can have a chance to reset the starting rotation a little bit with some rest."

Paulsen may also want to consider defensive drills. His team committed three errors, leading directly to two Kaze Progressa runs, although Sutcliffe managed to avoid the big inning. However, Sutcliffe (0-2) threw 108 pitches in 5 2/3 innings of work, forcing Paulsen to go to his bullpen, which was ineffective, allowing two runs in 2 1/3 innings pitched.

"Pitching and defence failed us again," Paulsen said. "But this time, our offense was virtually non-existent." The Silver scored two runs on only five hits after putting up 11 runs against Fmjphoenix, which dropped to 0-7 after a 3-2 loss to Yafor 2. Sarzonia (4-6) has its first two starting pitchers going in the next two games of the series, which Paulsen said gives the team hope that it can still take the series.

"We've got our best arms going," he said. "With the bye, we should be able to come right back with our top three guys and we'll go from there." Paulsen said he would finalise the team's decision about whether to shift to a four man rotation then, saying that he could promote a reliever to the starting rotation.

"A lot of that's going to depend on what the starters do or say," Paulsen said. "I might go to a bullpen by committee approach if I have to every fifth game."

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Pedro Alvar (Yafor 2 is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 1 Yafor 2: 6

Starters:John Morgan vs. Mert Mutujaek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0
Final Score: Sarzonia: 5 Kaze Progressa: 4

Starters:Gromsbrook vs. Otto Weber (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 4 Wingarde: 1

Silver hopes their recovery has started

John Morgan gave a tiring bullpen a much-needed break and pitched into the eighth inning and first baseman Hank Everly hit a three run homer in the second inning to propel the Sarzonian national baseball team to a 5-4 win over Kaze Progressa in the second game of their three game series.

The Silver (5-6) have a chance to gain momentum heading into their bye week by taking the rubber game of the series with Charlie Palmer slated to start.

"All series long, I've said we needed to get good pitching and defence and we've started showing some signs of getting both," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "It was good to finally see John Morgan (1-2) show us what he's showed us before this World Cup began."

The Silver got their offence going early, getting all five runs in the first four innings against losing pitcher Mert Mutujaek, who hit the showers after getting only 10 outs. From there, Kaze Progressa's bullpen shut the door on the Silver, but according to Paulsen, "it was like closing the barn door after all the horses got out."

For the Silver to have a legitimate chance of advancing to the second round, they are going to have to get consistently strong outings from their starting staff, but Paulsen said he believes the team has gotten past the worst of their outings.

"We played like a team that hadn't had any regular competition in a while," he said. "Now we seem to be getting into the rhythm of baseball and that should be a big help."

So should the bye week. It should allow Paulsen to rest a weary bullpen and reset his rotation to have his best three starters open the series against Sarzonia's Woodstock Pact allies Yafor 2. Paulsen said he hasn't yet committed to shifting to a four man rotation or promoting a relief pitcher to the starting rotation, but he said much would depend on the team's record heading into the bye week.

"Right now, we should have a pretty good idea of where we are as a team since we're now about a third of the way through the preliminary stages," Paulsen said. "There's now 22 games left in this stage for us to round more fully into form."

Palmer said he hoped to pitch well enough to last at least eight innings and keep the rest of the bullpen fresh going into the bye week.

"Absolutely. I'm a competitior and I want to go nine every time," he said. "But if I can give us a strong outing going into the bye, we can come back with a full arsenal of arms ready to pitch out of the 'pen."

An exciting battle between Sarzonia and Kaze Progressa will go to a rubber match after the Sarzonians held on for a 5-4 win in the second match of the series. The damage was done in the top of the second, which produced all three Sarzonian runs after the Progressans had picked up the lead with consecutive line-drive doubles with their first two hitters. The fourth inning provided another two runs for Sarzonia, and Mert Mutujaek hit the showers. A fine performance from the bullpen made a comeback possible, and the Progressans produced a single run in each of the sixth, seventh and eighth inning (the last courtesy of a 439-foot home run). It wasn't to be in the end, as the Progressans were stopped in the ninth with three strikeouts.

But it could be worse. Pity the poor fans of Fmjphoenix, who have now gone 0-8 after two defeats to Yafor 2. At least this Progressan team aren't that bad.

Black Hawks face monkey troubles

The national team is entangled in a fierce series against Bipedal Apes. An initial 8-1 lured the Black Hawks into a false sense of security.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Baseball fans in Wingarde are now biting their nails. At first, it seemed that the devastating victory against the Bipedal Apes' team would prophetize an easy series for the Black Hawks. That was wrong. The national team got bashed 1-4 in the last game, making the third one the one which will decide who keeps the second place in the standings and who falls down to the third. Second baseman Frederick Kunstler gives us his opinion about the situation.

"It seems we caught them off-guard during the first game, but we didn't realize that until it was too late. We thought they were quite unskilled when we beat the by seven runs, but I fear it was quite a trick. I guess we underestimated them in the second game, too much."

Meanwhile, Milchama remains at the lead, defeated only once during one of the first series. Their team seems to be able to plough through almost every opponent, defendind the first place with considerable vigour. The Black Hawks are already having a little bit of trouble against Bipedal Apes; will they be able to stand up to Milchama and retake the lead?

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Patty Paterson: So far, the Milchama national baseball team has an unbelievable record of nine and one. Jack Yosefon commented earlier on his team's success.

Jack Yosefon: We're a talented team. It's as simple as that. Yeah, we give our best effort, but alot of other teams like Sarzonia do too and they aren't nine and one.

Patty Paterson: Confident words, but with the best record in the cup, this team has reason to be confident. Felipe Alou clone number 3 had this to say about Warriors.

Felipe Alou clone number 3: Of course they're a great team. They've brought back some of the greatest ballplyers in history. I mean, look at that lineup. Hank Greenberg, Tris Speaker, Al Rosen. You just can't compete with that.

Patty Paterson: The team has also inspired many young Jewish ballplayers to take up the game. Andy Cohen has even sponsored the formation of a youth baseball league at the An Archia Jewish Community Center.

Andy Cohen: I'm just trying to give something back to my community. From what I've heard, there used to be alot of anti-semitism in An Archist sports. The fans are treating us great, though, so I have nothing against them. The unfortunate thing is that, even though the anti-semitism thing hasn't been very prominent over the last few decades, most Jewish kids don't play baseball just because there's never been an impetus for them to start. I think we're creating that impetus.

Patty Paterson: Today Milchama will face off against The Foylands.


Starters:Unknown vs. Philip Foster (Milchama is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: The Foylands: 5 Milchama: 1

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Timothy Francis (Liverpool England is the home team)
1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0
Final Score: Clavis: 6 Liverpool England: 5

Starters:Lorne Babcock vs. Drew Pirtle (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 0 New Montreal States: 6
ooc: There won't be any games tomorrow.

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Milchama finally lose again bullpen not pitching up to standards[/

Everybody knew it was coming sooner or later but it finally as the Milchama finally lost their second game of the tournament today losing to the Foylands 5-1. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We were bound to lose one eventually and we did not the majority of the Milchamian newspapers said we would two out of 3 to Clavis and we swept them. So losing one now should not be a concern." The problem for the Warriors is that next series is against the Steal Basers of Bipedal Apes. Barrett Hamilton said, "They are a tough team and we should be worried because it will be a tough series. We were hoping for an easy series against to build team confidence but it did not happen. Whatever we're 9-2 now its not like we'll suddenly stop winning."
The daily dose of how they scored:
4th Inning: After sweeping thru the order the first time in typical Phil Foster fashion. Foster started threw one bad pitch to their big first baseman. And that first baseman hit one very far indeed to make the score 1-0 to the Foylands.
5th Inning: The Warriors struck back to tie the game at one as Tris Speaker again doubled in Al Rosen after a one out single to center. The score was tied 1-1.
7th Inning: Phil Foster got hit on the hand with a line drive and had to be pulled from the game. With two out and one on Scott Mayer came in to pitch. The first guy he faced singled to make it first and third. The next guy he faced doubled both of them in to put the Warriors down 3-1. Pat Vernon them came in and got the next guy out.
8th Inning: Vernon stayed into pitch the 8th inning. He got the first guy out but the second guy got a single. The inning should have been over after the supposedly routine 6-4-3 double play that was muffed by Hank Greenberg. That allowed the big first baseman to come up with a man on first and 2 outs. He hit his second home run of the day drive in two and put the nail in the coffin who lost the game 5-1.
So far that first baseman has hit 4 homers this series and has gone 6 for 8 the sooner we do not have to face him the better. He has gotten offers from 7 different teams in the MBL. Including World Series finalists the Chi Cubs.

PIRTLE THROWS NO-HITTER

Offense provides some backup as Expos romp 6-0

AN ARCHY - Drew Pirtle pulled a no-hitter out of his sleeve, pitching NMS to a 6-0 win over Tonissia.

"Wow, it's just, y'know, an incredible feeling," he said in a postgame interview to a crowded locker room. "I mean, to go out there against some of the finest ballplayers in the world and pick up a no-hitter, that's just something else."

"I concur," said manager Felipe Alou clone number 3. "Pirtle was just lights out tonight. Every once in a while the planets align and you get something like this."

Pirtle was remarkable efficient, throwing only 113 pitches over 8 innings. With the exception of a leadoff walk in the 3rd inning he was flawless.

Good things happened on the other half of the game as well, with Ty Leiper going 3 for 4 with 2 RBIs to spark a formerly anemic Expos offense to a 6-run performance against a variety of Tonissian pitchers.

"I did okay tonight," said Leiper. "But Pirtle was the real deal."

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Patty Paterson: After a long weekend the NS World Cup of Baseball is set to continue later today. Many fans from around the world have complained about the An Archist tradition of avoiding all forms of work on the weekends. One Warrior fan had this to say.

Miclama Fan: When is the World Cup going to start again? I paid good money to travel across the world with my family to see the Warriors and now we all have to go home for work and school. This sucks!

Patty Paterson: When asked whether he would consider discontinue the tradition of workless weekends Andy Anderson responded as such:

Andy Anderson: Of course not. This is one of the most important institutions of our society. Noone works on the weekends, and that includes umpires and peanut vendors.

Patty Paterson: From the looks of it foreign fans and players will just have to get used to baseball free weekends.

ooc: I'm probably going to start scorinating more games per day starting tomorrow.

ooc: The World Cup Continues.

Starters:John Rean vs. Unknown (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 5 fmjphoenix:1

Starters:Arvin Taranuzek vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 4 Sarzonia: 2

Starters:Hugo Lichtermann vs. Biltchung (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 1 0 0 1 3 0 1 2
0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 2
Final Score: Wingarde: 8 Bipedal Apes: 6

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 0 0 3 0 3 2 1
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1
Final Score: Milchama: 9 The Foylands: 5

Starters:Gregory Turyical vs. Lamar Bush (Clavis is the home team)
1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 1
0 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 6 Clavis: 7

Starters:Tagio Juan vs. Jared McCullick (New Montreal States is the home team)
1 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 2
0 4 2 0 0 1 1 0 1
Final Score: Tonissia: 8 New Montreal States: 9

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Milchama back on track as offense lights up

The long weekend seemed to be good for the Warriors who, despite the complaints of fans and eventually the government, used the rest well to beat the Foylands in the final game of the series 9-5. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Well its nice to see the offense going again espiecially Hank his 3 home runs today were huge." Now again our daily rendition of how they scored.
2nd Inning: Rodriguez who actually managed to get big first baseman got cockey and gave up hits to the first two batters in the inning. Then the shortstop (another little trouble maker) drove one of them home on a single. The two batters later with two outs <insert name here> was driven in to make it 2-0 the Foylands.
3rd Inning: After a tough second inning it meant that the first baseman had to be up in the 3rd inning. This time Rodriguez could not get him out as he hit a long home run to make it 3-0 the Foylands.
5th Inning: Two hits had made it possible for Andy Cohen to lead off the inning. He led off the inning with a single. The next batter Kenny Merrick sac bunted him over to second where Buddy Meyer then singled him home. Meyer was brought home by Hank Greenbefg who launched bomb over the wall to tie the game. 3-3
7th Inning: Harry Danning and Andy Cohen led off the inning with singles to put runners on first and third. Kenny Merrick and Buddy Meyer both got unproductive outs afterward. Hank Greenberg then came up and put the Warriors in the lead with another home run to make it 6-3 Warriors.
8th Inning: The Warriors continued their scoring ways as Tris Speaker led off the inning with a triple. He was driven in on the sac fly by Barrett Hamilton. Harry Danning then singled and went to third on Andy Cohen's single. Kenny Merrick then drove in Danning on a fielder's choice that saw Cohen get retired. Buddy Meyer then got out. The Foylands responded this time as the bullpen again came in, Dvir Lalton could not get the shortstop out as he doubled home one run. 8-4 Milchama.
9th Inning: Hank Greenberg led off the inning for the Warriors with a home run his third of the day this time a solo shot. The Foylands responded as their DH hit a jack to make the final score 9-5 Milchama.

This was one of the most exciting days for baseball so far in the World Cup as not one, not two, not even three, but four games came down to the 9th inning to decide a victor. Kaze Progressa scored two runs in the 9th to beat Sarzonia 4-2. Wingarde scored two runs in the 9th which did not seem terribly important until Bipedal Apes scored two runs of their own which would have tied the game. Clavis got one run in the 9th inning which allowed them to narrowly defeat Liverpool England. And in the most exciting game of the day Tonnisia scored two runs in the 9th inning of their game to tie it only to see New Montreal States score one run in the bottom half of the ninth to win the game.

EXPOS WIN THRILLER

Zwaga picks up last run on 9th-inning suicide squeeze

An action-packed offensive thriller after a long, lazy An Archic weekend was the perfect antidote to wake up players and fans alike. The Reformed Expos' 9-8 win over Tonissia, decided in the bottom of the 9th on Zwaga's suicide squeeze bunt, was the finest game of the day, and a contender for the Expos' finest performance of the series.

"It would be either tonight's game or Pirtle's no-hitter a couple days ago," said manager Felipe Alou clone number 3. "Both games were solid efforts by our team, but I think we learned more from tonight. We won by hanging in there and keeping our cool under pressure."

Starting pitcher Jared McCullick refused to comment after getting knocked around for 8 runs on 14 hits. "Not a pleasant night for the J-Man," said centerfielder Ty Leiper. "But he'll be over it by tomorrow, I guarentee it."

Silver fades in extra frames, 4-2

Well, the Sarzonian national baseball team got part of what it wanted. Starting pitcher Charlie Palmer threw a masterpiece of a game through nine innings, limiting Kaze Progressa to two runs on only four hits. Unfortunately, the Silver could only get him two runs, so he gave way to the bullpen to start the top of the 10th inning.

That's when the trouble started for Sarzonia. Relief pitcher Kenny Spencer, called on to keep Kaze Progressa at bay, gave up four hits and two runs, with back to back doubles plating both runs, and the Silver went down in order to lose the deciding game of their three game set 4-2.

"We pitched and played defence about as well as we have all tournament for nine innings," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "The trouble was we lost it in the 10th. We didn't come up with the key base hits or very many hits."

Kaze Progressa starter Arvin Taranuzek held the Silver (5-7) to six hits, including solo homers by first baseman Hank Everly and designated hitter Skip Hale. The Silver have their bye before opening a three game set against Yafor 2.

"We wanted to get into the series against Yafor 2 with momentum," Paulsen said with a sad shake of his head. "But it's hard to get momentum when you're regularly beating yourself by swinging at the first pitch or grounding into double plays when you just need to move a guy over."

The best threat for the Silver happened in the eighth after Hale's first homer of the World Cup tied the score at 2-2. Hale's drive was just the third hit by Sarzonia, and infield singles by right fielder Mark Dwight, third baseman Kate Schmidt and a walk by Tyrell Gordon loaded the bases with one out. Paulsen sent reserve catcher Mario Salvidotti up to pinch hit for Fred Carlton (.092). Salvidotti grounded into a double play on the first pitch, drawing the ire of hitting coach Geoff Yancey.

"We told him going into that at bat to work the count," Yancey said, explaining the outburst he directed at Salvidotti. "He swung at the first thing he saw despite our instructions to take pitches and be selective at the plate."

The Silver now have three off days to think about their mistakes and count their blessings that they're not buried in the standings.

"We've got to play a hell of a lot better and fast," Schmidt said at her locker. "Otherwise, we're going to be going home a lot earlier than we want to."

ooc: My new program isn't quite ready so I'll probably only be scorinating three games as usual for a Wednesday. I'll get to the other two games Thursday morning, as usual. When I do finish writing the new scorination program, I should be able to complete games much more quickly, as the new program will scorinate nine innings at a time rather than just one.

Black Hawks finally defeat the Apes

After a notably difficult game, the national baseball team managed to earn a decisive victory against Bipedal Apes, securing the fourth series and the second place in the standings.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- All over the archipelago, avid baseball fans could finally release a sigh of relief, as the most important threat to the national team to date was defeated 8-6 after struggling through nine tense innings in the last game of the fourth series of the World Cup. It is an important step forward for the Black Hawks, who now stand alone on the second place of the Cup. Relief pitcher Dieter Schenker expresses his feelings about the team's current status.

"I'm glad we could finally surpass the Bipedal Apes without underestimating them like we did in the second game. They were tough opponents, easily the hardest so far. I believe that if we keep persevering like we have up to this point, we'll be able to beat the Milchama Warriors too."

Indeed, Milchama is starting to falter, given the fact they lost to the Foylands' team 1-5 in the second game of these series. It is quite possible they will learn from their mistakes, but let's just hope they do not.

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Patty Paterson: Four sets of serieses have been played thus far in the NS World Cup of Baseball, and there are eight more to go. So far, Milchama still holds on to the overall lead with a record of ten and two and Wingarde is in second at nine and three. This week's Andicorp Game of the Week is Milchama vs. Bipedal Apes, an exciting matchup of two of the best teams in the world.

Starters:Stan Romanson vs. Labdoober (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
1 0 0 2 1 2 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Milchama: 7 Bipedal Apes: 3

Starters:Unknown vs. Albert Sandler (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 4 Wingarde: 2

Starters:Willie Jarvis vs. Arvin Yikpa (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 3
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 10 Kaze Progressa: 1

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Offense continues torrent as Milchama beat Bipedal Apes 7-3

The offense for the Milchama Warriors looked unbeatable today as the Warriors played very well against one of the best teams in the world and beat the Bipedal Apes 7-3. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We knew coming in that this was going to be a hard series but scoring all those runs can definitely calm those nerves and we feel now that we can beat these guys or apes. This should be a good series." Now again the daily rendition of how they scored.
1st Inning: Hank Greenberg continued his hot streak, after hitting 3 home runs yesterday he hit a solo shot in his first at bat to make the score 1-0 Milchama.
4th Inning: Buddy Meyer singled to lead off the inning. He went to third on Hank Greenberg's single. He was then brought home on the double play ball by Shawn Green. Luckily Al Rosen was able to continue the inning and he singled and he was driven by yet another double by Tris Speaker to make it 3-0 to Milchama.
5th Inning: The Warriors continued their scoring rampage of sorts as Kenny Merrick tripled home Andy Cohen. Unfortunately the Steal-Basers responded as Oxto homered scoring Walljoiner to make it 4-2 Milchama.
6th Inning: In the final straw the Warriors finally knocked out the starter Labdoober as Tris Speaker got to more ribbies when he doubled home both Shawn Green and Al Rosen. The score was 6-2 Milchama
7th Inning: Unfortunately for the Steal-Basers their bullpen could not do much better as Hank Greenberg hit his second home run of the day to make it 7-2 Milchama.
9th Inning: With Romanson out after pitching 8 solid innings Pat Vernon came in to get some work and he did not do so well. He immediately gave up hits to Blenznarp and Lidlebum. Then after getting two outs the leadoff man Walljoiner put a Texas Leaguer into left field which scored Blenznarp. Vernon then got the next ape out to end the game. Final Score Milchama 7-3 Bipedal Apes.

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Thomas Francis (Linverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 1 2 0 1 -
Final Score: The Foylands: 2 Liverpool England: 5

Starters:Floyd Hampton vs. Hernando De Rizza (Tonissia is the home team)
1 2 0 0 2 1 0 1 0
2 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 1
Final Score: Clavis: 7 Tonissia: 8

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Patty Paterson: Yesterday, a group of unkown players from fmjphoenix won their first game of the World Cup. With a record of one and nine they are easily the worst team in the tournament. Last night, however, they upset number two team, Wingarde, with a masterpiece by their starting pitcher, who talked with the media after the game.

fmjphoenix starting pitcher: Noone thought we would even come close out there yesterday, but we all just left everything we had on the field and came up with a huge win. This should really help build a little momentum for us. Not alot of people at home are watching us right now, but if we win a few more games we could really make our countrymen proud. That's what's motivating us right now.

Patty Paterson: In other baseball action Milchama won a decisive seven to three victory over Bipedal Apes to imrove to eleven and three, while Yafor 2 piled on the runs in a ten to one win over Kaze Progressa. Coming up next, the second game between fmjphoenix and Wingarde.

Starters:Unknown vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 5 0 0 0 0 2 0
0 0 0 5 0 2 5 1 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 7 Wingarde: 13

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Micheal Klem (Yafor 2 is the home Team)
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 2 Yafor 2: 3

Silver go back to the drawing board

After the Sarzonian national baseball team finished the first 12 games of the inaugural World Cup of Baseball with a 5-7 mark, Manager Jim Paulsen said he would use the three days off the bye afforded his team to focus on fundamentals and spend extra time on defensive drills.

"We got to 5-7 in part because pitching and defence failed us," he said. "And we haven't gotten the timely hits in the last few games except against Fmjphoenix."

The three day bye has given Sarzonia a chance to set its starting rotation for the second half of the season, but Paulsen said he would give fifth starter Ken Sutcliffe "one more chance" to keep his starting spot and he wouldn't go to a four man rotation for the time being.

"Right now, we've got a chance to get our better starters going with John Morgan, Charlie Palmer, and Brian Edwards starting the series against Yafor 2," he said. "Brad Baxter is going to start the opener against Wingarde and we'll stick with Sut if we can get a little momentum going. But he'll probably have a short leash."

Paulsen can now afford to keep his starters on a short leash if necessary. A beleaguered bullpen has had much less work the last few games and should use the three day bye to get well-rested. Paulsen said he would have everyone available for the first game against Yafor 2.

"We were starting to get some guys some much needed rest even before the bye," he said. "But now with the bye, you've got three extra days to rest and get people ready to pitch. Hopefully, we won't wear them out in the second half like we did in the first half."

Third baseman Kate Schmidt was quick to point out that the team faced Bipedal Apes in the early stages of the tournament, saying "we ran into one of the best teams in the tournament when we weren't playing well," and saying the team finally hit its stride against Fmjphoenix. But with Fmjphoenix finally winning its first game of the World Cup two games ago, first baseman Hank Everly said it was hard to tell if the series against Fmjphoenix was just the Silver getting healthy against a bad team or the start of a renaissance.

"We'll be able to find out more about ourselves when we face Yafor 2 than we did against [Fmjphoenix]," he said.

more scores:

Starters:Wuggappo vs. Erskine Meyer (Milchama is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 1 Milchama: 0

Starters:Jonathan Beaudry vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 0
2 0 0 0 1 0 3 0 1
Final Score: Liverpool England: 6 The Foylands: 7

Starters:Warren Patterson vs. Dean Wopham (Tonissia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Clavis: 0 Tonissia: 1

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In great game Milchama lose 1-0

In one of the best games of the Baseball World Cup so far the Milchama Warriors lost to the Bipedal Apes Steal-Basers 1-0. While pitcher Erskine Meyer was on target for the Warriors giving up one run on 5 hits in a complete game. Wuggapo was just as much on his game for the Steal-Basers throwing a complete game shutout and only allowing 3 hits for the Warriors. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Its unfortunate that we had to lose a game like this because when your pitcher only gives up one run you like to help him out and win. This was probably the best game we have played in so far in the tournament and we hope for more games like this with us winning of course."
Now an inning by inning report:
1st Inning: Both sides retired in order
2nd Inning: 1-2-3 inning for both teams
3rd Inning: Cohen draws a walk for the Warriors. Bipedal Apes go down 1-2-3.
4th Inning: Blump ended a no hit bid and perfect game for Meyer with a single. Milchama again went down 1-2-3.
5th Inning: Lidlebum gets a walk but then gets picked off. Milchama again goes down in order.
6th Inning: Walljoiner got a single and then Blump bunted him over to second where he was driven on Oxto's double. Milchama pick up their first hit as Cohen again gets on base this time with a double.
7th Inning: Lidlebum singles and goes to third on Ringtingtingle's single. The inning then ends on a double play ball. Green almost goes deep for Milchama but his ball hits the top of the fence and bounces back into play for a triple.
8th Inning: Both sides are retired 1-2-3.
9th Inning: The Steal-Basers get retired in order. The Warriors then get a lead off single by Barrett Hamilton. He is then retired by a double play ball by Harry Danning. Andy Cohen is able to draw a walk but it doesn't matter as Kenny Merrick strikes out to end the game. Final Score: Bipedal Apes 1-0 Milchama

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Patty Paterson: Yesterday was, perhaps, the most exciting day of games in the World Cup with four games decided by only one run. First, Yafor 2 beat Kaze Progressa three to two in a comeback win at home. Next, Wuggappo of Bipedal Apes pitched a complete game shut out to eek out a one to nothing victory over Milchama. Later in the day, The Foylands upset Liverpool England scoring the winning run in the bottom of the nineth. Finally, Dean Wopham shut out Clavis for the second one to nothing result of the day. John Johnson has details from downtown An Archia. John...

John?...

Can you hear me? It looks like we are experiancing some communication difficulties.

John Johnson: No, I can hear you Patty. I was just messin' with you.

Patty Paterson: I see. Can you elaborate on yesterday's results?

John Johnson: Well the fans were treated to some spectacular baseball action yesterday with four out of five games decided by one run. The only exception was Wingarde's thirteen to seven win over fmjphoenix and that was probably one of the most fun games of the tournament with three separate five run innings.

Patty Paterson: Today, we have the rubber match between Milchama and Bipedal Apes, a game commentators are calling the most important of the cup so far.

Starters:Humblum vs. James Rickey (Milchama is the home team)
2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 3
2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 8 Milchama: 6

Starters:Dieter Schenker vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 2 4 -
Final Score: Wingarde: 4 fmjphoenix: 9

Starters:Samuel Cledart vs. Quaza Arivara (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
0 0 2 4 0 1 0 0 -
Final Score: Yafor 2: 4 Kaze Progressa: 7

Starters:Mike Umphree vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 4 The Foylands: 1

Starters:Damon Torres vs. Dean Hawking (Tonissia is the home team)
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
2 0 1 0 0 0 4 0 -
Final Score: Clavis: 3 Tonissia: 7

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Black Hawks take a hit

The national team has gone through a particularly hard series, losing twice against fmjphoenix. The fifth series are lost.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- Fmjphoenix's team turned out to be unexpectedly powerful, beating the Black Hawks in two out of the three games in these series. Our team lost 2-4 in the first match after nine disappointing innings. Only in the ninth inning did they score two runs, but it was already too late to turn the tide in Wingarde's favour.

The next game was won by the Black Hawks 13-7 throughout an exciting set of innings, filled with run scoring and intense action. It seemed that the defeat in the first game was just bad luck. It wasn't.

The third game of the series marked the first lost series for our national baseball team, sealing the scoreboard at 9-4 in favour of fmjphoenix. Fans all over the country were furious. How could a team which had received almost no support from their nation have beaten one of the best teams in the championship? They are still waiting for an answer.

Meanwhile, the fifth series threw Bipedal Apes and Milchama against each other. The first team in the standings would apparently swipe the floor with the Apes, but fate had something different in mind. Even though Milchama earned an overwhelming victory (7-3) against its opponent, it consequently suffered two defeats at the hands of the Apes: 0-1 in the second game and 6-8 in the third one. Coach Ronald Wildersen gives us his insight.

"Well, who would've guessed fmjphoenix would defeat us? Anyway, the past's the past, and we need to concentrate in the present and prepare for the future. Milchama and the Apes duked it out hard, resulting in a victory for the latter. That's good for us, since now the first place's more vulnerable, just waiting for the Black Hawks to take it. It's a matter of holding our ground now, trying to avoid further defeats. If we can do that, we'll be first in no time."

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Bullpen f---s up again as Milchama lose 2 out of 3 to Bipedal Apes

The bullpen for the Milchama Warriors had another rough day today as closer Larry Sherry gave up 3 runs in the 9th to blow the game and give the Bipedal Apes Steal-Basers a 8-6 victory. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "It sucks to have your team do so well and score 3 runs in the 9th inning only to see what you did was to little to late." Now the near daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: James Rickey got off to bad start giving up a single a Walljoiner and then 2 batters later giving up a homer to Oxto to make it 2-0 them. The Warriors came back though when Hank Greenberg hit a 2 run homer of his own to make 2-2 at the end of 1.
3rd Inning: Bleznarp and Lidlebum led off the inning with singles. Rickey then managed to get two outs before Walljoiner doubled to score both runs and make it 4-2 Bipedal Apes.
6th Inning: Barrett Hamilton led off the inning with a homer to make it 4-3 Bipedal Apes.
8th Inning: It took a few innings but the Steal-Basers struck back when Crestmoop homered to bring their lead to 2 5-3.
9th Inning:Our reporter accidently fell asleep after the 8th inning so all we can tell you is that Tris Speaker homered.

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Philip Foster (Milchama is the home team)
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 1 Milchama: 5

Starters:Mert Mutujaek vs. Otto Weber (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 4 Wingarde: 5

Starters:Pedro Alvar vs. John Morgan (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Final Score: Yafor 2: 4 Sarzonia: 5

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Milchama takes out anger beats Fmjphoenix 5-1

The Milchama Warriors took out their anger of losing 2 out of 3 to the Bipedal Apes by beating up on Fmjphoenix 5-1. Phil Foster had his usual great game as he threw a 3 hit complete game. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We were mad and we did not want to lose today no matter what." He went on to lavish praise of Phil Foster, "He's our stopper. He's our go to guy if we are down. This is what your ace should do just come in crush people and get wins. He is a great asset to our team." Now again with a new reporter the daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Kenny Merrick led off the game with a double and was brought home on Hank Greenberg's single.
2nd Inning: The right fielder who looks to be trouble like the Foylands first baseman homered to tie the game at 1.
4th Inning: With 1 out Shawn Green singled. He then went to third on an Al Rosen single. Finally Tris Speaker doubled them both home to make it 3-1 Milchama.
6th Inning: Hank Greenberg led off the inning with a towering home run to make it 4-1 Milchama.
7th Inning: The offensive torrent continued for the Warriors as Barrett Hamilton hit a homer of his own to make it 5-1 Warriors.
Final Score Milchama 5-1 Fmjphoenix

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Patty Paterson: Andy Anderson has just announced that there will be an All-Star Series which will start Thursday and will feature all of the best players in the tournament. The best players from fmjphoenix, Sarzonia, Wingarde, Tonissia, Clavis, and Milchama will face off against the best of Kaze Progressa, Liverpool England, New Montreal States, Yafor 2, The Foylands, and Bipedal Apes. The starting batters for each team will be announced by Anderson tomorrow, while the pitchers and backups will be announced on Wednesday. When asked how the selection process will take place, Anderson had this to say.

Andy Anderson: Right now we have online voting open to all the citizens of An Archy. The player at each position with the most votes will be the starter. So far it looks like the vote will be very close at many positions, so log onto andicorp.com/baseball/allstars now to vote for your favorite players.

Patty Paterson: The backups will be decided by a panel of baseball writers and commentators including myself and my colleague John Johnson. I plan to vote for Kate Schmidt if she doesn't get the fans' vote. What about you John?

John Johnson: Well, I think Cohen is obviously a better third baseman
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third baseperson. But he'll probably get voted in by the fans. I'll tell you who's really underrated is this guy for Clavis Lester Jordan. That kid has some serious talent.

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[OOC: An archy, did you see my note that I wanted to start the first game back from the bye with my number one starter instead of my number three man? I figured since there were three days off for the bye and he started the second game of that final series before the bye, he'd be going on his normal four days of rest.

If that's too complicated, just let me know and I'll go ahead and RP this result as is.]

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Milchamian fans stuff ballot box hope for at least one all star

After hearing the announcement on a all-star team for the Baseball World Cup all Milchama fans have been going crazy stuffing ballot boxes full of Milchama Warriors starters. One fan said, "Isn't this the wrong newspaper shouldn't the Milchama National News etc. be taking care of this." Another fan, who we didn't tell what newspaper we were said, "Yeh I absolutely love Andy Cohen he is such a clutch hitter I had to vote for him and while voting for him I had to vote for Hank Greenberg because he has been so key and then I just had to vote for Tris Speaker and Al Rosen so that they can hit next to each other in the game. Then after that i had to vote for..." Milchama fans are excited.

The newspaper was shut down after making this report.

[OOC: An archy, did you see my note that I wanted to start the first game back from the bye with my number one starter instead of my number three man? I figured since there were three days off for the bye and he started the second game of that final series before the bye, he'd be going on his normal four days of rest.

If that's too complicated, just let me know and I'll go ahead and RP this result as is.]
ooc: my bad I'll change your starting pitcher for that game.

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Patty Paterson: Earlier today Wingarde and Kaze Progressa played the most exciting game so far in the World Cup. Wingarde won in a Cup record fourteen innings, after nine grueling half innings of extra-inning shutout baseball. The very next game was also exciting as Yafor 2 scored in the top of the nineth to take the lead against Sarzonia only to lose the game in the bottom of the inning. Recently it seems there have been a great number of thrilling outcomes in the NS World Cup of Baseball and this is energizing fans even more so before. We interviewed one of the fans after today's Yafor 2 vs. Sarzonia game.

baseball fan: It's just been incredible, this last week or so in the World Cup. I mean, how many great games can you have in such a short period of time. It's amazing.

Patty Paterson: In other baseball related news, Andicorp has seen an increase in ticket sales and television ratings because of the recent high number of very competitive games. Today's announcement of the All Star Series has also fueled a spike in the demand for World Cup licensed player Jerseys. Andy Anderson talked to an An Archist News interviewer earlier.

Andy Anderson: Yes, Andicorp's profitability has increased over the past few days due to quality of many the of games. I took this as a perfect opportunity to increase the excitement level of the fans even more by announcing the All Star Series. If I keep playing my cards right, by the end of the cup I'll have a few extra billion dollars.

Patty Paterson: Stay tuned next for Liverpool England vs. Bipedal Apes.


Starters:Timothy Francis vs. Gromsbrook (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 2 Bipedal Apes: 7

Starters:Lorne Babcock vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1
Final Score: Tonissia: 4 The Foylands: 3

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Tyler Laning (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1
Final Score: Clavis: 5 New Montreal States: 3

The whole of Kaze Progressa is struggling to believe what happened against Wingarde, a match lost in the 14th inning.

'We played well against a very strong team, I still can't believe how it ended, and the next match is going to be huge. We're desperate to prove a point after losing the way we did,' said coach Darik Varakzi after the game, which ended 5-4 - Kaze Progressa leading 3-1 after four innings before Wingarde picked up a run in each of the sixth, seventh and eighth. Kaze Progressa struck back just in time at the top of the ninth, two outs being followed by two straight line-drive doubles, and the first four extra innings saw just two hits as the batsmen showed far more nerves than the pitchers. Eventually one bad pitch in the 14th was smashed over the fence and Wingarde were back to winning ways.

The second game in the series is certainly the highlight of today's action for the neutral fans, and there's plenty of them about. But will they get a third game that decides the series?

Last at bat kind to Silver, 5-4

Perhaps the law of averages is beginning to catch up to the Sarzonian national baseball team.

After several losses in the last at bat, the Silver came into the bottom of the ninth trailing 4-3 after a gritty eight inning effort by starter John Morgan and a collapse by the bullpen. But third baseman Kate Schmidt hit a two run homer with two outs on a 1-2 count and the Silver defeated Yafor 2, 5-4.

"After losing so many close ballgames, it feels great to win one, especially in the last at bat," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We were down to our last strike and Katie got a good pitch to hit and she didn't miss it."

Sarzonia (6-7) played a sharp game coming off the three day bye after Morgan started shakily in the first three innings. Morgan ended up throwing a Cup high 143 pitches, notching seven strikeouts while walking a career high eight. But Yafor 2 grounded into three double plays and only hit three balls out of the infield against Morgan.

For the Silver to have a chance to get back into contention for the knockout stages, they will have to get more efforts like last night. But for one night, the Silver can celebrate, even though beating their Woodstock Pact allies from Yafor 2 may have felt awkward.

"We love the Yaforans," Schmidt said. "But they're going to give it everything they have and we have to do the same."

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Patty Paterson: The starting batters for the All Star Series have just been announced. The pitchers and backups should be announced some time late today or early tomorrow. Here are the rosters for the first ever NS World Cup of Baseball All Star Series.


C Albert Oprhein-Wingarde

1B Hank Greenberg-Milchama

2B Hiram Josef-Viscnew-Tonissia

3B Kate Schmidt-Sarzonia

SS Ronny Lanham-Clavis

RF Kenny Marrick-Milchama

CF Ken Joe Marquettes-Tonissia

LF Corey Harrison-Clavis

DH Shawn Green-Milcama


C Zach Summers-New Montreal States

1B Crestmoop-Bipedal Apes

2B Barivana Roltaek-Kaze Progressa

3B Stopano Oroe-Kaze Progressa

SS Adolf Von Vladimir-Yafor 2

RF Rey Ibanez-Yafor 2

CF Brian Mcclinton-Liverpool England

LF Blump-Bipedal Apes

DH Marcus Weller-Liverpool England

more score:

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 5 fmjphoenix: 2

Starters:Hugo Lichtermann vs. Arvin Taranuzek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 2 2 0 0 0 1 2 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Final Score: Wingarde: 7 Kaze Progressa: 3

Starters:John Rean vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 0
0 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 -
Final Score: Yafor 2: 4 Sarzonia: 7

Starters:Biltchung vs. Gregory Turyical (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 1 1 2 0 2 2
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 8 Liverpool England: 3

Starters:Tagio Juan vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 2 0 2 1 1 1 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 1 The Foylands: 9

Starters:Lamar Bush vs. Bryce Birky (New Montreal States is the home team)
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2
0 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Clavis: 4 New Montreal States: 6

Schmidt caps great day for Silver

For a player who was almost disqualified from playing for her team, third baseman Kate Schmidt is sure making the most of her time on the Sarzonian national baseball team. Schmidt went three for four after being named the starting third baseman on the first-ever all star team for the NS World Cup of Baseball and the Silver won its second straight game after the bye, 7-4, against Yafor 2.

"It's beginning to feel like we're gaining some momentum at the right time," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We've beaten a very good team from Yafor 2 and we've had a good stretch after the sweep by Bipedal Apes."

The Silver evened its record at 7-7 following the win, in spite of a tough outing by starting pitcher Charlie Palmer. Righthander Kenny Spencer threw a career high 2 2/3 innings to get the victory in relief of Palmer. Paulsen's quick hook irritated Palmer, who had pitched 5 1/3 innings before allowing a three run homer in the top of the sixth. Paulsen said Palmer "had a bad sixth."

"He allowed three hits through 5 1/3 and none of them were that well-hit, but he just started getting everything up," Paulsen said. "At that point, I had to hope Kenny had a decent outing in him." Despite Spencer's role as an eighth inning setup man, he had to pitch in middle relief in this game to negate Yafor 2's strategy of starting six righthanded hitters against Palmer.

"That move worked out for us, didn't it," Schmidt said. "Yafor had a dilemma of whether to go to their bench to play matchups or stick with the righthanded hitting lineup."

Now the Silver look to go into the final game of this three game set with a chance to sweep Yafor 2 behind Brian Edwards. Paulsen said the bullpen except for Spencer should be ready.

"We've gotten good outings by our starters in our previous three or four games and we should still be pretty fresh from the bye, so the bullpen should be good to go," Paulsen said.

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Milchama beat Vikings again hope for sweep

The Milchama Warriors continued their winning ways beating the Fmjphoenix Vikings 5-2 today. The baseball was also heartened by the news that 3 of their players Hank Greenberg, Kenny Merrick and Shawn Green would be on the first ever World Cup All Star Team. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Its nice to see three of our players be honored by the world like this. I only hope our pitchers can also get on the team." While we are checking our sources at this time it seems that Yosefon is an early favorite to manage team #1. We can only hope so. Now on to the boring daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Kenny Merrick singled but got run out in a double play. Then Hank Greenberg continued his current hot streak with another home run. 1-0 Milchama.
4th Inning: With one out Greenberg doubled. Then fellow all star Shawn Green singled him in to make it 2-0. That was not the end of it though as Al Rosen singled right after him and Tris Speaker tripled home all of them for 3 runs and a 4-0 lead.
5th Inning: The Warriors continued their offensive rampage of sorts as Andy Cohen hit his first homer of the tournament to make it 5-0. Although that was not the end of it as the first baseman for the Vikings doubled home the right fielder to make it 5-1 Milchama leading at the end of the inning.
7th Inning: Rodriguez started to tire as he gave up singles to the first two batters. The third batter grounded into a double play but a run scored on that play too. The next batter got out. Rodriguez went 7 innings.
Final Score: Milchama 5-2 Fmjphoenix

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Patty Paterson: Yesterday, Andy Anderson announced the starting batters for the all star teams and today he will announce the starting pitchers and backups. We will go live to that announcement in just a few moments...
And here is our leader Andy Anderson.

Andy Anderson: Yesterday, I announced the starting batters for the all star teams. Today, I will announce the starting pitchers and backups.
Starting as the Ace for Team 1 will be Lester Jordan of Clavis.
Starting second for Team 1 will be Dean Hawking of Tonissia.
Starting third for team 1 will be Philip Foster of Milchama.
The backup position players will be Victor Cromsten and Walter Farber of Wingarde as well as Al Rosen of Milchama and Hank Everly of Sarzonia.
In the bullpen for team one will be Lamar Bush of Clavis and Stan Romanson of Milchama.

Starting as the Ace for Team 2 will be Gromsbrook of Bipedal Apes.
Starting second for Team 2 will be Drew Pirtle of New Montreal States.
Starting third for Team 2 will be Mike Umphree of Liverpool England.
The backup position players for Team 2 will be Oxto of Bipedal Apes, Butu Basritakia of Kaze Progressa, Anthony Walker of Yafor 2, and an unknown player from The Foylands.
In the bullpen for Team 2 will be John Rean of Yafor 2 and Tarvik Katinatu of Kaze Progressa.

Patty Paterson: It sounds like this could shape up to be a great series.

more scores:

Starters:Stan Romanson vs. Unknown (Fmhphoenix is the home team)
1 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 5 fmjphoenix: 1

Starters:Albert Sandler vs. Arvin Yikpa (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 -
Final Score: Wingarde: 4 Kaze Progressa: 5

Starters:Brian Edwards vs. Willie Jarvis (Yafor 2 is the home team)
3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Sarzonia: 5 Yafor 2: 3

Starters:Thomas Francis vs. Labdoober (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 1
2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 Bipedal Apes: 4

Starters:Unknown vs. Hernando De Rizza (Tonissia is the home team)
4 1 2 2 0 0 11 1 3
0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 1
Final Score: The Foylands: 24 Tonissia: 4

Starters:Floyd Hampton vs. Alex O'Brien (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Clavis: 2 New Montreal States: 3

Silver sweeps through Yafor 2

Six games into the inaugural World Cup of Baseball, the Sarzonian national baseball team was foundering at 1-5 following a sweep at the hands of Bipedal Apes and looking like they were going to bury themselves with shaky defence and an ineffective bullpen. Starting with a three game sweep against Fmjphoenix, the Silver have recovered, posting a 7-2 mark including a three game sweep of Yafor 2, which they finished with a 5-3 win.

"You don't think about getting a sweep going into a series against a tough team like Yafor 2," manager Jim Paulsen said. "Especially when you're fighting for playoff position, you go in playing one game at a time. It's a good thing we've been able to focus on each game as it comes."

Sarzonia's victory gave the team its first winning record in the World Cup of Baseball at 8-7. Starter Brian Edwards worked eight strong innings, giving the bullpen another night's rest except for closer Kerry Clark, who gave up a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth. But with the pitching seeming to come around, the Silver are optimistic heading into the second half of the World Cup qualifying schedule.

"We've been playing better baseball the past nine games," first baseman Hank Everly said. "We've got to keep this going."

Everly and third baseman Kate Schmidt will keep things going during an All Star competition, with Schmidt earning a spot in the starting lineup. Paulsen said he had simple instructions for the players. Don't get hurt? Look for certain pitches?

"Have fun," Paulsen said.

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With 5-1 win Milchama complete sweep of Fmjphoenix

The Milchama Warriors have learned how to forget losses. After losing their first series ever to Bipedal Apes they have stormed back to sweep Fmjphoenix scoring 5 runs in each game. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We always have to be able to win games. This was a nice series to get our confidence back up before we play stiffer competition in the future." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Kenny Merrick doubled. Went to third on Buddy Meyer's sac bunt. Then for the third time this tournament he stole home. 1-0 Milchama
4th Inning: Buddy Meyer singled to lead off the inning. Then Hank Greenberg got him to second on his single. Shawn Green got out but Al Rosen singled to drive home Meyer. Then Tris Speaker hit a deep fly ball that was caught but Greenberg tagged up from third to score. 3-0 Milchama
5th Inning: Fmjphoenix right fielder did really well in this series eventhough he never actually lived up to his bidding. This time though he did hit a home run very far to make it 3-1 Milchama leading.
8th Inning: The Warriors extended their lead as Andy Cohen had another clutch hit this time a triple with two men on and two outs putting in two runs to make it 5-1 Milchama.
Final Score Milchama 5-1 Fmjphoenix.

The Milchama baseball again celebrated as 3 more people including today's starter Stan Romanson became all stars. Phil Foster will be the starter for one of the two all star games and Stan Romanson will be a bullpen guy. Al Rosen for reasons we are still trying to figure out will be backup instead of Tris Speaker but hey we got a total of 6 all stars so they are no complaints.

People from around the Baseball World Cup also looked up in shock in suprise as the Foylands went crazy scoring 24 runs including 11 in the 7th inning. The first baseman continued his hot streak as he hit 5 home runs and got 10 RBIs in the game. The Chi Cubs have supposedly upped their offer for the player.

Black Hawks beat Kaze Progressa

The sixth series have concluded with a victory for Wingarde against Kaze Progressa. Our national team managed to win two out of three games in a fairly average series.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- These series started with a close game, in which the Black Hawks emerged victorious after scoring five runs against Kaze Progressa's four. It was followed by a much more uneven result in the second match, in which Wingarde won 7-3 against its opponent by establishing a solid advantage during the first three innings and further increasing it in the last three. Finally, the series ended with the surprising defeat of the Black Hawks in the third game, where they kept scoring single runs constantly in the first few innings. However, Kaze Progressa did the same, and eventually earned itself a victory by slamming two more runs onto the scoreboard during the seventh inning of the game.

Meanwhile, Milchama has returned to its old winning ways and advanced non-stop over fmjphoenix so easily it would seem our team doesn't have a chance against them. The players refuse to believe that and are training harder to prevent that from ever happening. Coach Ronald Wildersen gives us his opinion about the global panorama:

"It's good we defeated Kaze Progressa, but we could've done better. Every defeat we suffer is one step away from the first place. We simply can't afford that if Milchama's back on a winning streak. The guys are training harder now, pushing their limits, but I'll make sure they get plenty of rest before a match, so we don't make the same mistakes we committed in the past."

Onto another subject, the team of the Foylands has broke the tournament's record on runs scored in a single game. It utterly crushed Tonissia 24-4 in a jaw-dropping game, also breaking another record (most runs scored in a single inning) by scoring eleven runs in the seventh inning.


OOC: Can you post the standings, please, AA? I've already lost count of my own victories and defeats, and don't know about the other teams. :)

Onto another subject, the team of the Foylands has broke the tournament's record on runs scored in a single game. It utterly crushed Tonissia 24-4 in a jaw-dropping game, also breaking another record (most runs scored in a single inning) by scoring eleven runs in the seventh inning.


OOC: Can you post the standings, please, AA? I've already lost count of my own victories and defeats, and don't know about the other teams. :)

ooc: The Part about The Foylands breaking the record for runs in a game isn't true. Liverpool England scored 26 in their first game against Tonissia.

Also, I'll get to the standings in this post. (edit: BTW when I was going through the standings I found that fmjphoenix had actually won their second game of the tournament.)

As far as RPing for the All Star Games, whoever posts first can pretty much do whatever he/she want and everyone else has to follow his/her lead. It would be considerate of the first poster, however, if he/she left room for the others to be creative.


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Patty Paterson: The All Star Series, or ASS for short, is finally here.

John Johnson: hehe. You said ASS. hehe

Patty Paterson: Oh, grow up John! As I was saying, the All Star Series

John Johnson: ASS!!!! AHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!!

Patty Paterson: {Clears thought authoritatively} As I was saying, the All Star Series begins today. The manager for Team 1 will be Jack Yosefon while Team 2 will be managed by Ms. Spleendockle. Hitting Coach for team 1 is Jim Paulsen and their Pitching Coach is Ronald Wildersen. Felipe Alou clone number 3 will servre as pitching coach for Team 2 and an unknown manager from The Foylands will be the hitting coach. What do you think about these selections for coaches John.

John Johnson: Well, I really like the selection of The Foylands Manager to be the hitting coach. He really deserves it. On paper his team isn't any better than fmjphoenix.

Patty Paterson: But baseball isn't played on paper.

John Johnson: Exactly. Also, Jack Yosefon is an obvious pick to manage team one. The warriors are easily the best team in baseball.

Patty Paterson: Yosefon and Ms. Spleendockle also announced their batting orders today. Here's the batting order for Team 1



1. Ken Joe Marquettes-Tonissia

2. Ronny Lanham-Clavis

3. Hank Greenberg-Milchama

4. Shawn Green-Milcama

5. Corey Harrison-Clavis

6. Kate Schmidt-Sarzonia

7. Hiram Josef-Viscnew-Tonissia

8. Kenny Marrick-Milchama

9. Albert Oprhein-Wingarde

Patty Paterson: And here is the batting order for Team 2.



1. Brian Mcclinton-Liverpool England

2. Barivana Roltaek-Kaze Progressa

3. Marcus Weller-Liverpool England

4. Rey Ibanez-Yafor 2

5. Blump-Bipedal Apes

6. Stopano Oroe-Kaze Progressa

7. Adolf Von Vladimir-Yafor 2

8. Zach Summers-New Montreal States

9. Crestmoop-Bipedal Apes

Patty Paterson: Comming up after this commercial break we'll give you the standings at the All Star break.

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Patty Paterson: Alright, here are the standings at the All star break.



Milchama 14-4 -

Wingarde 12-6 2 Games back

Bipedal Apes 12-6 2 Games back

Yafor 2 10-8 4 Games back

Sarzonia 8-7 4.5 Games back

Liverpool England 8-7 4.5 Games back

New Montreal States 7-8 5.5 Games back

Kaze Progressa 7-8 5.5 Games back

Tonissia 6-9 6.5 Games back

The Foylands 7-11 7 Games back

Clavis 5-13 9 Games back

fmjphoenix 3-12 10.5 Games back

Patty Paterson: Who are the experts picking to win this game, John.

John Johnson: Well, the experts are consitently worse than Herbie the blind hamster so we decided to see who he picked. He chose Team 1, but there was some controversy because Ronny Lanham placed a slice of cheese on the Team 1 side.

Patty Paterson: Interesting! Let's go live to Anderson Stadium now where Andy Anderson is about to perform the ceremonial coin flip.

Andy Anderson: Lester Jordan of Team 1 call it in the air.

Lester Jordan: I call heads.

Andy Anderson: It is heads! Team 1 will be the home team.

Umpire: Play Ball!!!

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Gromsbrook (Team 1 is the home team)
0 0 0 3 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 -

P.A. Announcer: Now it's time for the seventh inning stretch. Ladies and gentlemen stand on your feet as Andy Anderson leads us in the traditional singing of "Take Me out to the Ball Game."

Andy Anderson and the fans at Anderson Field: Take me out to the ball game. Take me out to the crowd...

- 1 0
0 0 2
Final Score: Team 2: 4 Team 1: 2

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EXPOS PICK UP SERIES WIN OVER CLAVIS

Apparently Pirtle and Summers are all-stars

AN ARCHY - Zack Summers proved his worth as an all-Star with a pair of RBIs to secure a series win against Clavis, beating them 3-2. Alex O'Brian rebounded from his shaky start of the tourney to pick up a win with seven solid innings of 4-hit ball.

Manager Felipe Alou clone number 3 said: "We're almost at .500 now. The question is, anyone out there?"

Indeed, ratings have been in the tank for Expos baseball, with most of the national attention being focused on the Cup of Harmony being hosted by NMS, with every team in our group putting on a solid performance.

Summers and Drew Pirtle then went on to playing for the winning team 2 in the All-Star game, with Summers getting one hit and Pirtle throwing three scoreless innings during the game. Felipe Alou clone number 3 served as pitching coach and guessed "I did okay. Not much in the way of coaching needed."

Team 1 drops first All Star Game

With two players on Team 1, Sarzonia figured they had pretty fair representation in the inaugural All Star series as third baseman Kate Schmidt hit sixth in the lineup and first baseman Hank Everly was available as a substitute. However, Silver Manager Jim Paulsen was informed he would serve as the hitting coach for Team One, so instead of three days to work with the rest of his team, he would lace up his uniform and appear in the All Star Series.

That break didn't bother Paulsen.

"It's a tremendous honour whenever someone is asked to take part in an All Star Game, whether it's a player or a manager," he said. "I'm going to have fun these three games."

Schmidt had no hits in three trips to the plate in her first start of the All Star Series and Everly singled in two at bat, but the Silver players said they had "lots of fun" despite the combined one for four. Schmidt made the highlights with a tough backhanded stop and throw across the diamond to rob Bipedal Apes leftfielder Blump of a base hit. Everly started a 3-6-1 double play in the top of the eighth to hold Team 2 to one run and give Team 2 a chance to come back.

Everly's single started the ninth inning rally for Team One, cutting Team 2's lead to 4-2, but the team ran out of outs.

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At All Star break Milchama in 1st place
Team 1 (now the Armenians) lose first game of All Star Series

There was some good news and some bad news for the Milchama Warriors today. The good news was that at the all star the Warriors enjoyed a clear two game lead with an unbelievable 14-4 record. Some other good news was that Jack Yosefon was to manage Team 1 in the all star series. The bad news was that the Armenians (also known as Team 1) lost to the Confederates (also known as Team 2) in the first game of All Star Series. Now the daily rendition of how they scored all star style:
4th Inning: After 3 innings of perfect work from both pitchers Brain Mcclinton got a single to lead off the inning. He was followed by Barivana Roltaek who also singled to put runners on first and 3rd with nobody out. Then in a huge blow after Marcus Weller got out, Rey Ibanez of Yafor 2 hit a home run to make it 3-0 Confederates.
8th Inning: After Lester Jordan was taken out of the game and replaced by Milchamian Stan Romanson the game got worse for the Armenians. Zach Summers singled got to second on a sac bunt. Went to third on a fly ball to right field and scored on a single by Barivana Roltaek to make it 4-0 Confederates.
9th Inning: With one out and none on Hank Every, who came in for Shawn Gree in the 7th inning, singled. He then went managed to score on a Corey Harrison double to cut the lead to 3 runs. Kate Schmidt then got out but the next hitter Al Rosen singled home Harrison to make it 4-2 Confederates. Then Kenny Merrick singled but the inning ended right after that as Albert Ornphein struck out to end the game. Final Score Confederates 4-2 Armenians

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Patty Paterson: Yesterday, the Confederates defeated the Armenians by a score of four to two. Three runs in the top of the fourth inning proved to be the difference as a two run rally for the Armenians in the bottom of the ninth was not enough to bring home the victory. Today the Armenians and Confederates will square off once again in the second game of the All Star Series. In other baseball news the team names have changed for the all star teams. Explain this to us John.

John Johnson: Before yesterdays game, Andy Anderson recieved thirty million dollars from the Armenian government to rename one of the teams the Armenians. Not known to say "no" to money Anderson agreed to the deal. Later in the day Robert E. Lee accidentally fell into the time warp that Milchama has been using to acquire the greatest Jewish ballplayers of all time. In an effort to apologize for the incedent Anderson agreed renamed Team 2 after the Confederates. Lee asked to be sent back to his own time as soon as possible as well as one other favor.

Gen. Robert E. Lee: I'd really like to know why Milchama doesn't have Koufax.

John Johnson: We've all been wondering that for some time.

Patty Paterson: Wait a second! How did Confederate General Robert E. Lee know who Sandy Koufax was?

John Johnson: Another great question. You know, he hasn't left for his own time yet. We should go ask him. For know we'll go to a commercial break.

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Patty Paterson: Mr. Lee, can you answer a question before you leave?

Gen. Robert E. Lee: Sure I can young lady.

Patty Paterson: How on earth do you even know who Sandy Koufax was?

Gen Rodert E. Lee: Well, that's a simple question. I'm a huge Dodgers fan. How could I not know who he was? Can you answer a question for me?

Patty Paterson: Yeah, I guess.

Gen. Robert E. Lee: Why do all the people in this country have names like Patty Paterson and Andy Anderson?

Patty Paterson: An Archist last names are given by the father's first name. For the last several generations An Archist fathers have been naming their children after themselves. This has led to nearly everyone in the country having a name of the form <name> <nameson>.

Gen. Robert E. Lee: Interesting! The only unanswered question left is the Sandy Koufax question.

Patty Paterson: Coming up next the second game of the series between the Armenians and the Confederates.


Starters:Dean Hawking vs. Drew Pirtle (The Confederates is the home team)
0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
1 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 -
Final Score: Armenians: 3 Confederates: 7

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Armenians lose again hopes for win rest on Philip Foster

The Armenians have lost again in the first ever all star series. This time pitcher Dean Hawking could not even make it out of the fourth inning giving up 6 runs on 10 hits to hand another victory to the Confederates. Manager Jack Yosefon had this to say, "We did everything well but pitch and when you can't pitch well then no matter how well you do everything else you still can't win." Next game everybody in Milchama is hoping for a big game from Phil Foster to bring the Armenians one win and keep the Confederates from getting to much glory. Unfortunately due to elimination rounds at the Cup of Harmony there were no reporters paying attention to the all star game to actually tell us what happened. We do know though that Hank Greenberg homered and that Shawn Green went 2 for 3.

International community confused on why Milchama does not have Sandy Koufax

The international community and dead civil war generals have expressed concern and questioning on why Milchama with so many great former baseball players does not have Sandy Koufax. The reason according to Steve Klomerk is this, "He has arm problems and we did not know if we could rely on him to pitch consistently for us for the entire series. So we chose instead not to have him on the team and use younger pitchers from the MBL." Sandy Koufax could not be reached for comment.

more scores:

Starters:Mike Uphree vs. Philip Foster (The Armenians is the home team)
1 0 0 1 2 1 0 2 2
0 3 0 2 1 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Confederates: 9 Armenians: 7

Armenians drop third straight, 9-7

Kate Schmidt, Hank Everly and Manager Jim Paulsen returned to the Sarzonian national baseball team as heroes following their appearance in the All Star Series during the inaugural World Cup of Baseball. However, they were not able to lead the Armenians team to victory in any of the three games, as the Confederates took the finale 9-7.

"We just weren't able to hold the lead," Paulsen, the Armenians' hitting coach, said after the game. "We had a 7-5 lead going into the eighth inning and we just didn't make enough plays to win the ballgame."

Third baseman Schmidt went 3 for 4, hitting a two run homer in the bottom of the second inning to give the Armenians a 2-0 lead en route to a three run inning. Everly, sent in as a pinch hitter, hit a two run shot in the fourth inning to extend the team's cushion to 5-2, but despite scoring the team's final run following a sacrifice fly, Everly couldn't help the team salvage one win from the three game set.

"We're now focusing on the series against Wingarde," Paulsen said. "It was fun to take part in this series, but it's time for us to get back down to business."

The Silver (8-7) are tied for fifth place in the standings with Liverpool England, 4 1/2 games behind Milchama. For the Silver, their goal won't be to catch up to Milchama.

"We're going to take it one game at a time," Schmidt said. "You can't make up five games in one day. All you can do is just do your job and don't worry about the team you're chasing until you actually face them. That's when you can make the most hey."

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Foster bad but bullpen worse Armenians swept

Phil Foster had by far his worse start of the entire World Cup so far giving up 5 runs in 7 innings. Luckily for him the Armenians scored 7 runs to give him a 7-5 lead when he left the game after 7 innings. Then in the 8th inning fellow Milchamian Stan Romanson came in and sucked giving up a 2 run homer to tie the game. That was not the end of the Armenians woes however as Lamar Bush came in and managed to get the first two hitters out before giving up 3 straight doubles and two runs to end the series in a sweep for the Confederates. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Well we should have won today but our bullpen could not hold the lead. I blame myself I should of picked better people for our team and that killed us. I now resign my position as the Armenians manager." After being told that he was not going to have manage them Yosefon jumped up and said, "Woo Hoo!" Because this paper believes that the Armenians do not deserve a daily rendition of how they scored we will now do this:

Armenians Suck

OOC: Sorry for not posting, but I've no idea what are these All Star Series. :(

OOC: Sorry for not posting, but I've no idea what are these All Star Series. :(
ooc: {gasp} Wingarde, your Britishness is showing again. Have some decency. :D
I don't think you have all star games in England, do you?

An all star game is an exhibition (I guess you guys call it a freindly) match involving the best players in a sports league. The method for determining all star teams is fairly simple, though it takes some time to explain. All star teams are made up of the best players from two halves of a sports league. Most often, these halves are the two conferances or devisions which make up the league. These halves, however, can be decided in any manner. For example, the National Hockey League at one time devided the league between players born in Canada and the U.S. vs. players born in all other parts the world. I devided the league into players from countries with one word names (such as Milchama) against players from countries with multiple word names (such as New Montreal States).
Once the league is devided into two halves, there must be some method for determining which players in each half will actually get to play in the all star game. Most sports leagues decide this by a vote among the fans, but some leagues determine the all stars by a vote among sports writers and commentators, a vote among the head coaches/managers or by the decision of the the commisioner of the league. Some leagues let fans determine the starting players on the all star teams while writers and journalists determine the reserves. For RP purposes, the all star team starters were decided by a vote of the fans, while the reserves were decided by An Archy's baseball writers and commentators. (The managers of the team were the managers of the best teams from each half. The other coaches were selected by Andy Anderson.) In real life, I determined the starters, reserves, and coaches as I saw fit. (I generally chose players with high rankings on teams that have performed well.)
All star games are usually scheduled to be played at the midpoint of the season (or tournament in this case.) However, they can be scheduled at any point before, during, or after the season or tournament.
One difference between the All Star Series in the NS World Cup of Baseball and most all star games is that it was a series of three games rather than just one. I personally prefer having an All Star Series rather than an All Star Game because baseball is normally played in serieses rather than singular games.

Does that clear things up?
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Patty Paterson: After a three day break for the All Star Series, the NS World Cup of Baseball will continue today. The Confederates swept the three game series against the Armenians with great performances by Lester Jordan and Drew Pirtle. In other baseball news, Civil War General Robert E. Lee will be sent back to his own time later today. He commented on the outcome of the series earlies.

Gen Robert E. Lee: I was glad to see the Confederates win decisively. I expect to see the same result for the Confederate army against the Union troops, especially since I've looked at the history books to see how I should change my strategies given the original result of the war.

Patty Paterson: Historians and civil rights activists are very concerned as this event could alter the course of history and result in the enslavement of the African American population. Determinist philosophers are optimistic, however, saying that the Confederacy will not be able to escape its fate to lose the war despite Lee's knowledge of future history. We will deliver up to the minute reports as this event developes. Today, Sarzonia and Wingarde will play in the Andicorp Game of the Week.

Starters:Jonathan Beaudry vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
3 1 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 9 fmjphoenix: 2

Starters:Erskine Meyer vs. Tarvik Katinatu (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Milchama: 4 Kaze Progressa: 6

Starters:Brad Baxter vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team)
0 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 1
2 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Sarzonia: 8 Wingarde: 6

Starters: Dean Wopham vs. Wuggappo (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 2 Bipedal Apes: 3

Starters:Drew Pirtle vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 0 0 1 2 1 0 1 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2
Final Score: New Montreal States: 5 The Foylands: 4

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6 run 5th dooms Milchama to 5th loss

It was the tale of one inning for the Warriors who gave up 6 runs in one inning and blew the rest of their great played game away losing 6-4 to Kaze Progressa. Milchamians clearly felt the exhaution after the all-star series in that 5th inning and by the end Yosefon had to put 6 different players on the field from the original starting lineup. Yosefon had this to say, "Sure I did not particularly like managing the Armenians but when I came back to managing the Warriors I thought we would do better but we didn't."
Now the daily rendition of how they scored by pitcher:
Erskine Meyer: 4 innings of one hit baseball. Then: Nutir had a leadoff single and went to third on Kazimpa's single. Oroe then doubled scoring both Nutir and Kazimpa. That was the tip of the ice berg as then Korsa singled scoring Oroe to make it 3-0 KP. Crunama just missed hitting a homer which hit off Merrick's arm and was caught by Speaker. Korsa tagged up and Meyer was replaced so was Merrick.
Scott Mayer: The first batter he faced was Roltaek who singled to score Korsa to make it 4-0 Kaze Progressa. Then Jakakila hit a routine ground ball to Rosen who muffed it and threw wide to first. He was replaced and Roltaek went to third while Jakakila went to second. Mayer was then replaced.
Matt Commnick: The first batter he faced was Ohno and he struck him out. Then against the DH Butu Basritakia hit a single to score both runs and make it 6-0. He got the next guy out.
Tarvik Katinatu: Matan Williams led off with a single and was followed by Meyer who got out. Then Adam Greenberg singled to put runners on first and third. Micheal Flinter then doubled both of them and he scored on a Tris Speaker double to make it 6-3 Kangaroos.
Quaza Jarita: Replace Katinatu in the 7th inning. Cohen led off with a single and got doubled off on a Matan Williams double play ball. Buddy Meyer then hit his first home run of the tournament. To make it 6-4 Kaze Progressa.
Final Score: Milchama 4-6 Kaze Progressa.

Silver keeps streak alive, 8-6

If the Sarzonian national baseball team is going to make a move into the playoffs of the inaugural World Cup of Baseball, they're going to have to start taking series against teams ahead of them in the standings. With series against Wingarde followed by Cup leading Milchama, the time for Sarzonia to stumble has ended.

The Silver took the first step toward the stretch run by beating Wingarde in the first of a three game set despite starting pitcher Brad Baxter allowing five runs in 2 2/3 innings. Manager Jim Paulsen brought out the quick hook and sent in lefty reliever Roger Tolliver, who held Wingarde to one run in four innings of work and earned Paulsen's praise.

"I know [relief pitcher Kenny Spencer] got the win, but we wouldn't have had a chance if Tollie doesn't hold 'em down," he said. "He steadied things big time out there."

Baxter threw 79 pitches in his first start in 11 days, following the bye and the All Star Break. Paulsen set up the rotation to have John Morgan pitch the opener of the Yafor 2 series, and the All Star Break "came at a pretty tough time for us," Baxter said. However, "I didn't pitch well and that's all there is to it."

Fresh off an All Star appearance, first baseman Hank Everly came in swinging a hot bat and he delivered in the clutch for the Silver (9-7). His two run homer with two outs in the top of the eighth turned a 6-5 deficit into a 7-6 lead. Third baseman and fellow All Star Kate Schmidt gave Sarzonia an insurance run in the top of the ninth with a solo homer. The Silver cut their deficit to 3 1/2 games behind Milchama with the pace setters' 6-4 loss to Kaze Progressa.

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Patty Paterson: Milchama lost yesterday for only the fifth time in the cup. They now have a record of fourteen and five, still on top of the league. There was concern among the Milchama players, coaches, and fans as to whether the All Star Series drained the energy of the seven Milchamans (including manager Yosefon) who participated in the event. That did not seem to be the case with the exclusion of an amazing six run fifth by the Progressans. In other baseball news, the Sarzonians are on fire having won every game since their three day break. First baseman, Hank Everly commented on the team's recent success.

Hank Everly: It just feels like we're playing better right now. I mean before it was like Katie or Tyrell would hit line drive after line drive only to have it robbed on a great play by the shortstop or center fielder. Now, it's like every time we make contact we get a hit. And plus, our guys in the pen have really pulled it together.

Patty Paterson: Later in the day Confederate General Robert E. Lee was sent back to his own time period. Concerned citizens from around the nation paid close attention to their history books to see if any changes occured as a result of Lee's sudden appearance in the present. We have with us history expert Mendy Mendelson. What changes have you noticed to history as a result of this incident?

Mendy Mendelson: Surprisingly, the list of changes is rather short and insignificant. For one, Andrew Jackson and Edward Pakenham tied in the battle of New Orleans. But that doesn't really matter as it was the most insignificant battle in the history of war. Also, the incedent caused Genghis Khan to get a black eye in an imbarassing fight against a small group of squirrels.

Patty Paterson: Intriguing! Today, Liverpool England will take on fmjphoenix.

Starters:Unknown vs. Mike Umphree (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 Liverpool England: 4

Starters:Quaza Arivara vs. James Rickey (Milchama is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 9 Milchama: 3

Starters:Ken Sutcliffe vs. Dieter Schenker (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 0
2 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 1
Final Score: Sarzonia: 8 Wingarde: 9 (in 10 innings)

Starters:Dean Hawking vs. Humblum (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
0 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 6 Bipedal Apes: 5

Starters:Jared McCullick vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: New Montreal States: 1 The Foylands: 2 (in 10 innings)

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Milchama lose again see lead dwindle to one game

Another loss for the Milchama Warriors today put them only one game ahead of both Wingarde and Bipedal Apes. The Warriors gave up to many runs and it was really annoying and they were mad.

OOC: I know it sucks i'll give a good one later i just wanted to get something in

Same losing story for Silver

If the Sarzonian national baseball team needed any reminders that they still had a long road to contention in the World Cup of Baseball, they got it in the form of the middle game of their three game set against second place Wingarde. The Silver survived a two run first inning by Wingarde and responded to Wingarde's single run in the second with a three run third and looked to be cruising behind journeyman Ken Sutcliffe, but the bullpen faded down the strech yet again, falling 9-8 in 10 innings.

"Kenny battled in there," manager Jim Paulsen said. "He was game after the first two innings, but we just couldn't get key outs after the sixth." For his part, Sutcliffe logged a personal high 6 1/3 innings, allowing four runs on nine hits, but put up four scoreless innings when it looked like Wingarde would force Paulsen to go to the bullpen early.

"They had Kenny on the ropes," shortstop Chris Spontanelli said. "But he hung in there and gave us some good innings when we needed it."

Sarzonia (9-8) faces Wingarde with John Morgan taking the hill trying to get the Silver back on track after the loss snapped the team's four game winning streak that saw the team climb to within 3 1/2 games of first place Milchama. The team will face Milchama after the Wingarde series, but third baseman Kate Schmidt warned her teammates not to look past the finale against Wingarde.

"They're not tied for second place for nothing," she said. "We've got to take this one game at a time, one inning at a time."

"One pitch at a time," Paulsen chimed in.

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Timothy Francis (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 3 0 0 4 1 2 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 Liverpool England: 10

Starters:Philip Foster vs. Mert Mutujaek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Final Score: Milchama: 1 Kaze Progressa: 2

Starters:John Morgan vs. Otto Weber (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
Final Score: Sarzonia: 4 Wingarde: 5

Starters:Lorne Babcock vs. Gromsbrook (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 1 Bipedal Apes: 4

Starters:Tyler Laning vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
3 3 1 0 1 2 0 1 0
1 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 0
Final Score: New Montreal States: 11 The Foylands: 8

Nobody ever imagined three wins in a row for the Progressans against Milchama.

Two wins wasn't meant to happen. This was meant to be, at best, a rubber game. Not a game to decide if the Progressans swept the series or not.

And when Adam Greenberg hit a 462-foot home run over left-centre in the top of the ninth for the first run of the game, it definitely wasn't meant to be. Then came two outs.

But Nutir stepped up first and smashed the ball 469 feet over right-centre. Extra innings time.

Or not. Kazimpa hit a line-drive triple to a big gap in left-centre, and Oroe's double to right-centre finished it. A remarkable win - well, wins - leaves the Progressans in a stronger position than they would have expected.

ooc: I've started a discussion thread here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=448259). You can make ooc posts there, discuss the current or upcomming tournament or even engage in "friendly" matches.

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Patty Paterson: Unbelievably, the Milchama Warriors have lost three games in a row to the Progressans. Including All Star competition, Warrior manager, Jack Yosefon, has lost six consecutive games. This creates a three way tie for tournament lead between Milchama, Wingarde, and Bipedal Apes and puts Liverpool England within one and a half games of the lead. The standings after the seventh set of serieses is as follows:



Bipedal Apes: 14-7 -

Milchama: 14-7 -

Wingarde: 14-7 -

Liverpool England: 11-7 1.5 Games Back

Kaze Progressa: 10-8 2.5 Games Back

Yafor 2: 10-8 2.5 Games Back

New Montreal States: 9-9 3.5 Games Back

Sarzonia: 9-9 3.5 Games Back

Tonissia: 8-10 4.5 Games Back

The Foylands: 8-13 6 Games Back

Clavis: 5-13 7.5 Games Back

fmjphoenix: 3-15 10.5 Games Back

Patty Paterson: Today should shape up to be an amazing day of baseball action as Milchama prepares to take on Sarzonia. What do you think of this match up John?

John Johnson: The fans for both of these teams are absolutely insane. They just love their teams. This is going to shape up to be a truly great rivalry because of the passion of the fans.

Patty Paterson: In a related story, experts are predicting the possibility of violence among the fans at tonight's game.

John Johnson: That's right, Patty. With emotions running so high you can bet that a few drunk fans are going to do something stupid.

Patty Paterson: Showing his concern for this possibility, Andy Anderson has said that he will triple the police force at this game.

John Johnson: True, but there are no police in An Archy. Three times zero equals zero.

Patty Paterson: I agree. And so, tonight is the start of a great rivalry, Milchama vs. Sarzonia!!


Starters:Tagio Juan vs. Unknown (fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 3
1 3 0 0 5 2 0 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 6 fmjphoenix: 11

Starters:Gregory Turyical vs. Arvin Taranuzek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 0
0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 2
Final Score: Liverpool England: 6 Kaze Progressa: 7

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 -
Final Score: Milchama: 3 Sarzonia:4

Starters:Micheal Klem vs. Hugo Lichtermann (Wingarde is the home team)
0 4 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 7 Wingarde: 3

Starters:Biltchung vs. Bryce Birky (New Montreal States is the home team)
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 4 0
0 1 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 1
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 6 New Montreal States: 7

Starters:Warren Patterson vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
2 3 1 0 0 0 3 0 4
0 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Clavis: 13 The Foylands: 5

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ooc: I have fall break on Monday and Tuesday, so this is going to be another long weekend for me. I won't be able to scorinate any games Monday or Tuesday.

Silver lining: Sarzonia rebounds with win

After losing two straight games to Wingarde, the Sarzonian national baseball team had an added challenge of bouncing back from a deflating loss with ace John Morgan on the hill. The Silver did just that, defeating a Milchama team that was tied for first place 4-3 in a game it never trailed behind an eight inning effort from Charlie Palmer.

"We needed that for our psyche," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We knew we were playing a tough team and we wanted to show people we were just as good as the teams ahead of us in the standings."

Sarzonia (10-9) struggled to mount sustained rallies, but got single runs in the second, fourth, fifth and eighth innings on eight hits, which proved to be just enough offence to overcome the Warriors. First baseman Hank Everly got the Silver going with a solo homer to lead off the second inning, but third baseman Kate Schmidt's eighth inning sacrifice fly ultimately turned into the winning run.

However, the biggest hero for the Silver was Palmer. With a bullpen that was called upon to pitch a lot of innings in the two losses to Wingarde, he needed a strong effort to keep the pen rested and he delivered, limiting Milchama to four hits in eight innings before the team went to Alvin Dryden to close the door. However, Milchama got three hits in the inning to force Paulsen to bring righthander Kerry Clark in to get the last out with the winning run on second.

"We're going to have to continue to play platoon baseball with our 'pen," Paulsen said with a sigh. "Until one of the [closers] establishes himself as the go-to guy, we're going to keep playing matchup baseball in the ninth if we've got a lead. That's the only way we're going to be able to get this done."

For their parts, the Silver is looking to the next two games in the Milchama series as their chance to pull back into the chase for a spot in the knockout stages. They're aware they need to pitch and play defence better than they have been, but they're hoping they can put it all together in the days to come.

"We've got the potential and we haven't been blown out, even by the better teams in this World Cup," Schmidt said. "We've just got to be more consistent."

Black Hawks tied for the first place!

Now that the seventh series are officially over, Bipedal Apes, Milchama and our nation's team are tied for the first place in the standings of the Baseball World Cup.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- The Black Hawks have reached a critical position in the tournament. Being tied for the first place with the other two baseball giants, any mistake can be terrible at this point. The Hawks have maintained a good-but-could-be-better performance of two wins and one loss in each series, this time closely defeating the Sarzonian Silvers. Each win was accomplished by a mere run of advantage from the respectable opponent.

As for Bipedal Apes, they have certainly recovered from their defeat before the Black Hawks, and have earned themselves several victories that set them back on track as one of the best teams of the Cup. During the last series, their performance was roughly the same as Wingarde's, winning two out of three games against Tonissia.

Finally, nobody can truly believe the Milchama Warriors lost three games in a row against Kaze Progressa. It certainly took everybody by surprise, including the Wingardian baseball fans both in An Archy and our archipelago. The Kaze Progressans defeated them in the first game, crushed them in the second, and didn't have such an easy time on the third, but beat them in the end. The Warriors realized they had to change their strategy, but it was already too late. Center-fielder Victor Cromsten ponders about the current panorama.

"At first I wasn't surprised about Milchama's loss against the Kaze Progressans, but after the second game ended, everyone was simply astonished. You can imagine how we felt after the third. We're in a delicate position right now, tied with the best teams in the championship. We must tread carefully, so we're continuing our intense but balanced training to perform the best we can. Also, and some people haven't noticed it, Liverpool England is quite close to being tied with us. We'll have to keep our eyes peeled: if we, tied teams, blast on each other too much, we'll be just paving the road for the Liverpool English to effortlessly take the first place!"

EXPOS TRY TO PLAY SPOILER

Series with tourney leader Bipedal Apes might affect final results

AN ARCHY - Last night, the Reformed Expos picked up a close 7-6 win over the Steal-Basers of the Bipedal Apes. Catcher Zack Summers, fresh off the Confederate sweep of the Armenians in the All-Star game, drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth with a triple, his first of the tourney.

"It was dumb luck," said Summers. "It's not like I said, 'I'm gonna hit a triple' as I went up to the plate. But my roommate Neil owes me twenty bucks, he said I couldn't hit a triple to save my sorry ass. I guess I showed him." Summers has a reputation for not being the brighest bulb in the box, but he's still the best catcher in international baseball, and tonight's big hero.

In the larger tourney picture, a bit of a jam has formed near the top. Former runaways Milchama have fallen back to earth after getting swept by Kaze Progressa. Wingarde and Bipedal Apes are also at the top, with Liverpool England and Kaze Progressa not that far off the mark either.

And the Expos? Pretty much done. All they can do is hope that they don't plummet too far towards the bottom.

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Milchama feeling Chicagoan continue 4 game losing streak

The Milchama Warriors lost another game today their 4th straight and for some the 7th straight including the all star series. Manager Jack Yosefon broke down and cried during the press conference saying in between tears, "I want to win *sniffle* I haven't won in over a week. Just one win will be enough for me right now *sniffle*" The Warriors are seeming to get more and more Chicago Cubbish with losing 4 straight and almost wanting to blow it.

Baseball historian Jonathan Horowitz said, "The Chicago Cubs are the most cursed team in baseball with many collapses that would be too long for me to tell in this interview. To keep things short they have not won a world series since 1908 or been to world series since 1945. They have also had many collapses the most recent being in 2003 when Alex Gonzalez booted a routine ground ball with the Cubs only 5 outs away from the World Series." Milchama fans are now scared about a curse coming upon them and are going to superstitious mechanisms to try and stop the curse from stopping their baseball from making the final world series. As for the actual game tonight go to the Sarzonian newspapers.

ooc: I have an opportunity to post some scores today, so I will. I still probably won't be able to scorinate games on Monday or Tuesday, though.

Starters:Hernando de Rizza vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0
13 2 1 0 0 4 6 2 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 3 fmjphoenix: 28

Starters:Thomas Francis vs. Arvin Yikpa (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
2 1 1 1 1 0 2 1 2
1 1 0 0 3 1 2 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 11 Kaze Progressa: 8

Starters:Stan Romanson vs. Brian Edwards (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 1
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 4 Sarzonia: 3

Starters:Samuel Cledart vs. Albert Sandler (Wingarde is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1
0 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 5 Wingarde: 4

Starters:Labdoober vs. Alex O'Brien (New Montreal States is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 5 New Montreal States: 4

Starters:Unknown vs. Damon Torres (Clavis is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0
0 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 0
Final Score: The Foylands: 3 Clavis: 7

Silver can't keep Warrior streak going, 4-3

For a game between one team that until the start of the series was alone in first place in the NS World Cup of Baseball standings and a team that was at .500, the Sarzonia-Milchama matchup had all the makings of an intense rivalry and the two teams didn't disappoint. Nine innings couldn't decide the outcome between these teams and the Warriors finally broke a four game losing streak with a run in the top of the 12th to defeat the Silver 4-3.

Starting pitcher Brian Edwards threw six innings of one hit ball, striking out a career high 13 before tiring in the seventh, when he gave up a three run homer that suddenly put him in line to get saddled with an undeserved loss, but first baseman Hank Everly hit a game tying solo shot in the bottom of the eighth that set the stage for the dramatics.

"That was a tough way to lose a ballgame," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We've had our chances to win most of, if not all of our ballgames. The fact is that we can't close the door when we absolutely need to."

To wit, relief pitcher Kenny Spencer pitched 2 1/3 innings before giving way to a career-long 2 1/3 inning effort from lefty Jay Ballard, normally brought on in a specialist's role. However, Paulsen said he wanted to save his long relievers for the rest of the series and he stayed with Ballard despite his allowing five hits.

"He had to walk a tightrope out there," Everly said of Ballard, "but he made the pitches when he had to." Unfortunately, the same could not be said of righthander Kerry Clark, who gave up a solo homer to the Warriors in the top of the twelfth with two outs and two strikes. Clark came back to strike out the next Warriors hitter, but the damage had been done.

"That was crushing," a despondent Clark said after the game. "We had a chance to keep the game going but I failed the team."

Sarzonia went down in order in the bottom of the inning and the Warriors piled onto the field to celebrate after the hard-fought came was over. Third baseman Kate Schmidt, who made the last out in a 1 for 6 game, yelled out at the Milchama players and the two benches cleared after the game.

"They're a bunch of hotdogs out there," Schmidt was heard to yell after she was finally separated from the Milchama shortstop. She refused to address the media after the game.

"We may have to watch the game tomorrow night to see what's going to happen between these two teams," Sarzonian play by play announcer Charlie Wenihan said after the game. "I wouldn't be surprised to see a beanball war between these teams. There's certainly no love lost between them."

STEAL-BASERS MAKE EXPOS LOOK LIKE MONKEYS

Labdoober turns in 8 excellent innings on way to 5-4 win

AN ARCHY - This was Labdoober's night, with the Bipedaleen starter pitching 8 innings of two-inning ball on the way to a well-earned 5-4 win for the Steal-Basers.

Of course, that was after his bullpen almost threw it away - but who are we to judge them? Ty Leiper's two-run double in the bottom of the ninth was followed by a pair of clutch strikeouts to send the Paladins back to their hotel reminded of who is the first-place team and who is the also-ran.

Still, if tonight's game is as good as the other two, might be worth buying some tickets or watching it.

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Patty Paterson: Today's game between Sarzonia and Milchama could be one of the most intense baseball games ever seen in the nation of An Archy. The rivals will play the rubber match of their first ever series.

John Johnson: Yes, Patty, this is shaping up to be one of the fiercest games in the history of baseball in An Archy. These teams hate each other and the fans hate each other. Shawn Green talked to reporters earlier today.

Shawn Green: Yes, I absolutely dispise the Sarzonians. Not the people as a whole. No, their great people. But the baseball team, I hate 'em. Sure, I respect them and all, but, honestly, I want to kick their

Voice Over: These explatives have been censored for the protection of your children.

Shawn Green: in tonight's game.

Patty Paterson: It certainly sounds like this will be an interesting match up. In other baseball news, the Bipedaleen team has a chance to take the league lead in tonight's game against New Montreal States.


Starters:Dean Wopham vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 4 fmjphoenix:3

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Jonathan Beaudry (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 2
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 5 Liverpool England: 0

Starters:Erskine Meyer vs. Brad Baxter (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 2 1 0 2 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 8 Sarzonia: 0

Starters:Pedro Alvar vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team)
0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 2 Wingarde: 3

Starters:Drew Pirtle vs. Wuggappo (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 2
1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 2
Final Score: New Montreal States: 5 Bipedal Apes: 6

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
0 1 2 0 1 0 1 2 1
0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2
Final Score: Clavis: 8 The Foylands: 6

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Green has Silver seeing red

At the start of the series between the Sarzonian national baseball team and Milchama's, the two teams were expected to develop a fierce rivalry that would provide the World Cup of Baseball with compelling theatre and outstanding baseball and the teams didn't disappoint. Even though the Silver was blown out in a game for the first time in 21 contests, the tension between the teams left many with a game few in the world will forget.

Before the game, a 8-0 Milchama win, Warriors outfielder Shawn Green very profanely outlined his hatred of the Silver. He demonstrated that with a slow home run trot in the top of the second with a leadoff homer off Brad Baxter. Television cameras showed him spitting in the direction of Baxter after he crossed home plate.

In the top of the fourth, Green came to the plate again and Baxter hit him with a high and tight fastball that cleared both benches and led to the ejection of Baxter and both managers. Bench coach Johnny Martin then brought in lefty reliever Jay Ballard to replace Baxter, riding him for four innings before he got ejected for throwing behind Green. Third base coach Lyle Menifee ended up managing the team after Martin's ejection.

"If you're looking for me to say anything good about the game or about Milchama, you're barking up the wrong tree," Menifee said at the postgame news conference when Paulsen refused to address the media. Martin was arguing with the umpires in their office while Paulsen held a closed door meeting with the Silver (10-11).

"We will get even, mark my words," first baseman Hank Everly said. He had the only two hits for the Silver, a single in the bottom of the fourth and a double in the bottom of the seventh. "We're going to get those [expletive]."

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Milchama take out anger win last two game against Sarzonia

The Milchama Warriors have taken out a lot of anger the last two days beating Sarzonia not only 4-3 in 12 innings showing some of their old reliency but they also crushed them in the rubber game 8-0. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "The 12 inning win was just what the doctor ordered. We needed something to get us back together and to get us on track. This win provided that for us. This next game was when our anger at doing badly took old and we played angry and great. I can't wait for our next series." Now the daily rendition of how they scored for the rubber match:
2nd Inning: Shawn Green doubled and went to third on Al Rosen's sharp single. Tris Speaker then came and doubled home both of them making it 2-0 Milchama.
3rd Inning: In a rare burst of power Buddy Meyer hit a home run just over the fence to make it 3-0 Warriors.
5th Inning: Meyer led off with a single then Shawn Green drove him in with a triple that just missed going over the fence. Green then got in on a sacrifice fly from Al Rosen. 5-0 Warriors.
6th Inning: Barrett Hamilton hit 515 foot home run to deep left field to make it 6-0 Milchama.
7th Inning: Meyer doubled and Greenberg singled to score Meyer. Then Shawn Green doubled to put men on second and third and no outs. Rosen was walked and then Tris Speaker got a double play ball that got Greenberg out at home and Speaker out at first.
8th Inning: Kenny Merrick hit an inside the park home run.

Erskine Meyer pitched a complete game shutout which is the best performance by a Milchama Warriors pitcher so far in this World Cup.

ooc: Since there is an RP bonus of one overall batting or pitching point for every twenty RP posts I suppose it would be useful to know where everyone stands in terms of posts. (Remember that any bonus achieved in this tournament will not be applied to any games in this tournament but instead will be applied at the begining of the next tournament.)

fmjphoenix
0 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 20 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Kaze Progressa
8 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 12 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Sarzonia
25 RP Posts
1 Bonus Point and 15 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Yafor 2
2 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 18 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Wingarde
10 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 10 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Milchama
26 RP Posts
1 Bonus Point and 14 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Liverpool England
2 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 18 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Tonissia
1 RP Post
0 Bonus Points and 19 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

New Montreal States
12 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 8 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Clavis
2 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 18 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

The Foylands
0 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points 20 RP Posts from the next Bonus Point

Bipedal Apes
4 RP Posts
0 Bonus Points and 16 RP Posts from the next bonus point.

Remember that only ic posts count toward your total.


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Patty Paterson: In an incredible display of baseball skill, the Milchama Warriors routed the Sarzonia Silver eight to nothing while Erskine Meyer pitched a complete game shutout. In other baseball action Bipedal Apes maintained their tie atop the leader board with an exciting six to five win over New Montreal States decided in the bottom of the ninth. Today, Kaze Progressa will play Tonissia in the Andicorp Game of the Week. Here are the standings after eight serieses.



Bipedal Apes 16-8 -

Milchcama 16-8 -

Wingarde 15-9 1 Game Back

Kaze Progressa 12-9 2.5 Games Back

Liverpool England 12-9 2.5 Games Back

Yafor 2 12-9 2.5 Games Back

New Montreal States 10-11 4.5 Games Back

Sarzonia 10-11 4.5 Games Back

Tonissia 9-12 5.5 Games Back

Clavis 8-13 6.5 Games Back

The Foylands 8-16 8 Games Back

fmjphoenix 5-16 9.5 Games Back

John Johnson: Wow! It looks as if Clavis has jumped ahead of The Foylands after a great three game sweep. Not that anyone from the Foylands has been paying much attention to their baseball team.

Patty Paterson: No, it doesn't seem that they have. Stay tuned next for fmjphoenix against New Montreal States.


Starters:Unknown vs. Jared McCullick (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 New Montreal States: 3

Starters:Quaza Arivara vs. Dean Hawking (Tonissia is the home team)
2 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 2
0 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 8 Tonissia: 7

Starters:Mike Umphree vs. Ken Sutcliffe (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 0 Sarzonia: 2

Starters:James Rickey vs. John Rean (Yafor 2 is the home team)
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 2 Yafor 2: 1

Starters:Humblum vs. Lamar Bush (Clavis is the home team)
2 0 0 2 0 0 4 0 0
2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 8 Clavis: 3

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Sutcliffe steps up in shutout, 2-0

By all accounts, Ken Sutcliffe is the fifth starter for the Sarzonian national baseball team for good reason. As the oldest member of the pitching staff, he has to rely on breaking balls and offspeed pitches to get hitters out and his fastball doesn't have the same bite it used to. However, Sutcliffe was there for his team when they needed him most.

Following an embarrassing loss to Milchama, Sutcliffe was on top of his game, not allowing a hit for the first 8 1/3 innings en route to a two hit shutout of Liverpool England in the Silver's 2-0 win.

"Sut was amazing out there," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "He was in such complete control that I gave the bullpen the night off. We didn't even have anyone warming up all night. Sut was just too good out there."

"I just tried to throw strikes, mix my pitches," Sutcliffe said. "I didn't do anything fancy like throw screwballs. I just pitched my game and it worked this time."

And how. Sarzonia moved back to the .500 mark (11-11) and the night off set up the bullpen for the next two games against Liverpool England with the top two starters pitching. Paulsen said he hoped this game would turn things around for the team in the final 11 games of the qualifying season.

"If we're going to make a move, now's the time," Paulsen said. "If we can make a move with Sut pitching like he did [last night], we're going to do well."

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Pitching continues excellence as Milchama win 2-1

The Milchama Warriors pitching staff continued its excellence and the batters did just enough to scape out a 2-1 victory over the Yafor 2 East Wind. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "This is a time when we really need our pitchers to step up and they have been doing a fine job of stepping up when we needed them to. Tonight espiecially I would not have expected a no-hitter from Rickey but here it was I can't believe it." Now an inning by inning report:

1st Inning:After two outs Hank Greenberg ripped a long solo home run over the fence to make it 1-0. Milchama. Yafor 2 got put strait down as James Rickey retired the side in order.
2nd Inning: The Warriors were retired in order but the East Wind got lucky as after a lead off walk, and a hit batsmen Robert Fletcher hit a long fly ball that should have been caught but Barrett Hamilton but he dropped it and that allowed Henry Izturis to score to make it 1-1. Fletcher was the last base runner the East Wind would get all night.
3rd Inning: Andy Cohen singled and then Kenny Merrick doubled to drive Cohen in to give the Warriors a 2-1 lead. Merrick was to be the last Warrior base runner until the 7th inning. The East Wind went down 1-2-3.
4th Inning: Both sides retired in order.
5th Inning: An easy 6 straight outs were recorded from both teams.
6th Inning: 1-2-3 innings for both sides.
7th Inning: Tris Speaker got a walk with 2 outs but Hamilton got out right after him. James Rickey again shut them down on 9 pitches.
8th Inning: Cohen singled but got hit into a double play by Buddy Meyer. James Rickey actually got into a 3-2 count before striking the third batter out.
9th Inning: Both sides were retired in order.

After the game Rickey said, "I had never had a no-hitter before and I was barely aware of it until the 9th inning when I saw it on the scoreboard. Then when I got the last guy out it was wow! I actually did this. I had never had a no-hitter since high school and it is really a great experience I hope to have one in the MBL soon."

more scores:

Starters:Tyler Laning vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 1
Final Score: New Montreal States: 3 fmjphoenix: 4

Starters:Mert Mutujaek vs. Lorne Babcock (Tonissia is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 2 Tonissia: 1

Starters:John Morgan vs. Timothy Francis (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
0 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 -
Final Score: Sarzonia: 2 Liverpool England: 6

Starters:Philip Foster vs. Willie Jarvis (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 4 Yafor 2: 3 (in 15 innings)

Starters:Floyd Hampton vs. Gromsbrook (Bipedal Apes is the home team)
1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0
Final Score: Clavis: 4 Bipedal Apes: 3

OOC: the Milchama-Yafor 2 score should be Milchama: 4 Yafor 2: 3 (in 15 innings).

IC: The surging Progressan baseball team just keep on rolling. Two completely different but equally narrow wins against Tonissia - 8-7 and 2-1 - improves their record to 14-9, keeping them in touch with Milchama (18-8) who regained the outright lead last night after an extraordinary 15-inning defeat of Yafor 2. Bipedal Apes (17-9) shared that lead yesterday morning, but lost 4-3 to Clavis last night. The Progressans will be equal third with Wingarde (15-9) if they complete their second straight series sweep against Tonissia. They are the form team now, having won every game since the All-Star Series.

The team are daring to dream. 'Top three is our goal now, and winning it all is conceivable even if it is unlikely,' said pitcher Mert Mutujaek after giving away just one run, in the fifth inning. The Progressan response was immediate, with a line-drive double followed up by a home-run to make it 2-1, and the scoreboard didn't budge after that.

OOC: Hold on. Two games have passed and my team hasn't played in any? :eek:

OOC: Wingarde, check to see if your team is on a bye.

OOC: A bye? :confused:

OOC: that means that your team does not play for one series because there is an uneven amount of teams a bye. look at the schedule it shows that you have a bye

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Foster only goes 9 as Milchama win 4-3 in 15 innings

Chris Burke was on deck as the Milchama Warriors beat the Yafor 2 East Wind 4-3 in 15 innings. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "This was a great win because it has showed how our team has improved from the Kaze Progressa series and what we can do no matter what." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Foster got off to a rocky start as lead off hitter Raul Ibanez hit a home run just over the left field fence to make it 1-0 East Wind.
2nd Inning: With one out Al Rosen singled and Tris Speaker doubled him in to tie the game at one temporarily as in the bottom of the inning Foster gave up a double to Robert Fletcher and then a sacrifice and then a single to center to give Yafor 2 the lead again.
6th Inning: The Warriors finally responded as Andy Cohen's lead off single turned into a run on Buddy Meyer's one out triple. 2-2 tie.
7th Inning: With two outs and a 3-2 count Barrett Hamilton gave Milchama their first lead with a home run to dead center field 3-2 Warriors.
9th Inning: With 2 out and nobody on Foster had an 0-2 count on Matt Inzint. Inzint looked like he struck out but catcher Danning had not actually caught the ball and Inzint went to first. He then stole second and came home on Raul Ibanez's double to tie the game at 3.
15th Inning: After 5 innings of great work the Warriors finally scratched thru a run as Adam Greenberg doubled home Matan Williams to give Milchama a 4-3 lead. Closer Larry Sherry then finished the game off.

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Patty Paterson: On Friday in the NS World Cup of Baseball, Milchama defeated Yafor 2 in the longest game in cup history when Adam Greenberg doubled in the go ahead run in the top of the fifteenth. It was the first instance of "free baseball" after thirty one consecutive games decided in nine innings.

John Johnson: There had been some exciting games over the past week or so, but it had been a while since we had a game go into extra innings. The wait was well worth it, though, for a game as great as the one on Friday.

Patty Paterson: Also, Kaze Progressa beat Tonissia in a two to one pitchers' duel and Clavis shockingly upset Bipedal Apes by a score of four to three.

John Johnson: The most surprising part of all is that Clavis pulled off the victory against Bipedaleen ace Gromsbrook.

Patty Paterson: Finally, many baseball fans from Wingarde were surprised to see that their team had not played during the past to weekdays. Apparently, many of them did not realize that their team had a bye. Subsequently, some Wingarde fans expressed confusion as to what a bye is. Fortunately, the whole matter has been fairly well settled by now. Now, we take you live to downtown An Archia for more NS World Cup of Baseball action!


Starters:Unknown vs. Bryce Birky (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 6 New Montreal States: 1

Starters:Tagio Juan vs. Arvin Taranuzek (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 1 0 2 0 3 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 2 Kaze Progressa: 8

Starters:Gregory Turyical vs. Charlie Palmer (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 Sarzonia: 3

Starters:Manny Rodriguez vs. Micheal Klem (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
0 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 6 Yafor 2: 5 (in 10 innings)

Starters:Biltchung vs. Warren Patterson (Clavis is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2
0 2 0 0 1 2 1 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 5 Clavis: 6

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Milchama win again in extra innings

A win's a win. At least that is what the Milchama Warriors are telling their fans after two straight extra inning nail biters saw the Warriors sweep Yafor 2. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "After losing 4 in a row its nice to see it all come together again on this 5 game winning streak. These last two games have been espiecially key and I now know that we can beat anybody on any given day." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:

2nd Inning: After two singles by Green and Rosen. Tris Speaker drew a walk to make the bases loaded and nobody out. Then Barrett Hamilton made it only a runner on second after a bases clearing double. The East Wind responded though as Sebastian Telemaco hit the first of Yafor 2's 4 solo home runs. 3-1 Warriors.
3rd Inning: The East Wind hit another ball out of the park this time off the bat of Matt Inzint. 3-2 Milchama.
4th Inning: Henry Izturis' blast tied the game up for the East Wind and made Yosefon curse Manny Rodriguez. 3 all tie.
5th Inning: A Fletcher lead off double followed by a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly gave Yafor 2 the lead. 4-3 East Wind.
8th Inning: The Warriors finally get some offense going as Kenny Merrick and Buddy Meyer are driven on a Shawn Green single. The East Wind respond though as reliever Dvir Lalton get smashed on homer by Anthony Walker. 5 all tie.
10th Inning: The Warriors end the game as Andy Cohen scores on Kenny Merrick triple. Closer Larry Sherry ends the game as the Warriors win and sweep 6-5 over the East Wind of Yafor 2.

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Patty Paterson: For the most part, baseball news has been eclipsed by the sudden and tragic death of our leader Andy Anderson. His son, Andy Anderson, has said that the games will go on as scheduled.

Andy Anderson: It is the nature of our people to go on with life as usual in the face of great tragedy. Our fear of terrorists will not keep us away from the things we love to do.

Patty Paterson: And so, the tournament will continue despite these drastic circumstances. Here are the standings after nine serieses.



Milchama 19-8 -

Bipedal Apes 17-10 2 Games Back

Kaze Progressa 15-9 2.5 Games Back

Wingarde 15-9 2.5 Games Back

Liverpool England 14-10 3.5 Games Back

Yafor 2 12-12 5.5 Games Back

New Montreal States 11-13 6.5 Games Back

Sarzonia 11-13 6.5 Games Back

Clavis 10-14 7.5 Games Back

Tonissia 9-15 8.5 Games Back

The Foylands 8-16 9.5 Games Back

fmjphoenix 7-17 10.5 Games Back


Starters:Unknown vs. Damon Torres (Clavis is the home team)
0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
1 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 4 Clavis: 7

Starters:Alex O'Brien vs. Arvin Yikpa (Kaze Progressa is the home team)
2 3 2 1 0 0 0 3 0
2 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 0
Final Score: New Montreal States: 11 Kaze Progressa: 9

Starters:Henando De Rizza vs. Brian Edwards (Sarzonia is the home team)
1 0 0 2 1 3 0 1 2
13 0 5 2 5 1 0 9 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 10 Sarzonia: 35
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Silver strike hard, 35-10

Seemingly taking out all the frustration of a 3-6 overall record in three straight competitive series against teams ahead of it in the standings, the Sarzonian national baseball team put up a run total that would have been high for a gridball game, setting a World Cup record for runs scored and margin of victory in a 35-10 win over Tonissia.

Each hitter in Sarzonia's lineup notched at least two hits; even catcher Fred Carlton (.128 average going into last night's game) had three hits in five at bats. Manager Jim Paulsen used designated hitter Skip Hale at first base to give Hank Everly (6 for 6, two homers, seven RBI) a break and pitcher Roger Tolliver had a run scoring single and a sacrifice fly to drive in two runs.

"There are no words to describe that kind of offensive production," Manager Jim Paulsen said. "We've been on the wrong side of one blowout, but it feels good to get some offence going tonight."

Tonissia might have gotten an idea that it would be a long day against Sarzonia (12-13) from the first pitch. Second baseman Dewey Griffin, who had only two home runs in his Sarzonian major league career coming into the game, launched the first pitch from Henando De Rizza deep over the right field fence for his first homer of the World Cup. It didn't stop there, as 11 straight Silver hitters reached base.

From there, starting pitcher Brian Edwards benefitted from the run support, allowing seven runs in six innings, but still earning the win after logging 122 pitches. After Hale took over for Everly in the top of the sixth, Tyler Hunter pinch hit for Edwards and doubled to drive in a run in the bottom of the sixth. Paulsen let Tolliver hit in the bottom of the eighth and he drove in two of the team's nine runs.

"When you let a pitcher hit, especially a relief pitcher, you don't figure he'll get RBIs, let's be honest," Paulsen said in response to questions about running up the score. "What do you tell Tollie, 'don't get a hit'? I told him to take, but he put two good swings on the ball. This game was historic. Let's just leave it at that."

ooc: more scores

Starters:Thomas Francis vs. Samuel Cledart (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 0
3 0 3 0 2 0 0 2 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 4 Yafor 2: 10

Starters:Hugo Lichtermann vs. Stan Romanson (Milchama is the home team)
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Wingarde: 4 Milchama: 3 (in 14 innings)

Starters:Labdoober vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 3 The Foylands: 4

Black Hawks face Milchama!

The national team is finally set to contend with the dreaded Warriors after ten series of waiting. Surveys point out fans are excited and nervous at the same time.

AN ARCHIA, AN ARCHY.- This is it, and the Hawks are off with the right foot, beating Milchama 4-3 after fourteen exhausting innings. They established a firm foothold during the first inning, scoring two runs, and played with impressive resolution throughout the entire game. The happiness of the fans around the archipelago was unmatched when it came to an end.

The Black Hawks had been placed on a bye during the ninth series, and apparently this measure turned out to be quite advantageous for the team. The players had been waiting to face the best team of the Cup ever since the Warriors pulled out their first winning streak. Left fielder Rudolph Bach expresses his thoughts about the situation.

"At last we get to face Milchama, and it couldn't have turned out better. The rest of the guys and I were definitely rested because of the recent bye when we were called to the tenth series. Yes, it's true that we've fallen to fourth place because of it, but this is our chance to get back on track and bring the Warriors down! I assure you, we'll not let our guard down in the next two games."

Milchama plays a bunch of back ups and loses.

Albert Orphein hits 2 run homer in 1st.
Matan Williams hits homer in 4th.
Adam Greenberg single scores Horovitz in 5th.
Hank Greenberg gives Warriors lead in 8th.
Game tied on sac fly in 9th.
Wingarde win it on Bach homer in 14th.

OOC: I had a real RP here but jolt decided that I had not logged in eventhough I had so F*** them and here is a crap RP

Milchama plays a bunch of back ups and loses.

Albert Orphein hits 2 run homer in 1st.
Matan Williams hits homer in 4th.
Adam Greenberg single scores Horovitz in 5th.
Hank Greenberg gives Warriors lead in 8th.
Game tied on sac fly in 9th.
Wingarde win it on Bach homer in 14th.

OOC: I had a real RP here but jolt decided that I had not logged in eventhough I had so F*** them and here is a crap RP
ooc: Yeah, that happens to me all the time when I'm scorinating games. Here's what you should do.

1. Click the back button on your web browser. (You'll notice that your entire post is still in the word processing box.)

2. Select and copy your entire post.

3. Click "Submit Reply" again. (At this point it will send you back to the page where it says that you weren't logged in.)

4. You can log back into the forums from this page. Do so. (Now it will send you to a page that says "Invalid thread specified.")

5. Click on the Jolt Forum Jump scroll and scroll down to the Nationstates forum.

6. From here just go back to the thread you were in before and click on the Reply icon.

7. Paste your copied post in the word processing box and click on "Submit Reply."


Does that help?

ooc: I'm so sorry I haven't posted in the last few days. Jolt has been down every time I've logged in to scorinate games.

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
Final Score: Clavis: 2 fmjphoenix: 1

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Drew Pirtle (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
3 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 -
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 3 New Montreal States: 7

Starters:Brad Baxter vs. Dean Wopham (Tonissia is the home team)
2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Sarzonia: 4 Tonissia: 3

Starters:Jonathan Beaudry vs. Pedro Alvar (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 3 0 0 0 0 2 0
1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 Yafor 2: 2

Starters:Albert Sandler vs. Erskine Meyer (Milchama is the home team)
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0
3 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 -
Final Score: Wingarde: 2 Milchama: 7

Starters:Wuggappo vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
3 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
1 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 -
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 5 The Foylands: 6

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3 runs in first enough as Milchama win 7-2

3 runs in the 1st inning by the Milchamian offense was enough as the Milchama Warriors beat the Wingarde 7-2. The other big news was that for the first time in 5 games the Warriors did not have to go to extra innings to decide the winner. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "It's nice to be able to win or lose a game in 9 innings. All this extra innings was really tiring us out. This was a good game for us." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:

1st Inning: Kenny Merrick led off with a single and scored on Buddy Meyer's double. Meyer in turn scored on Hank Greenberg's single. Then after Shawn Green got out, Al Rosen crushed a double to score Hank Greenberg. 3-0 Milchama.
3rd Inning: With one out Hank Greenberg leaped on a hanging slider and crushed in 398 feet to left field to make it 4-0 Milchama.
5th Inning: Wingarde finally responded as Albert Orphein homered to deep left, right, center field. The Warriors responded to his homer though as Kenny Merrick got a bunt singled and stole second. Then Buddy Meyer bunted him over to third. With two outs Hank Greenberg continued his great game by singling him in. Then Shawn Green and Al Rosen walked. With the bases loaded and two outs Tris Speaker walked to score a run. Barrett Hamilton got out. 6-1 Milchama.
6th Inning: After a great inning like that in the 5th Harry Danning put the icing on the cake with his first homer in the 6th. 7-1 Milchama.
8th Inning: Erskine Meyer threw a great game but with 143 pitches Yosefon decided to pull him after 7. His replacement Pat Vernon did not do so well as on his 3rd pitch Leonard Masterson doubled. Albert Orphein then drove him in to make it 7-2 Milchama.
Final Score: Wingarde 2-7 Milchama.

STATES OVERRUN KP, BUT QUESTIONS LINGER

Is anyone out there still watching?

AN ARCHY - A whole World Cup season has come and gone. The Cherry Cup is winding down. The Paladins are poised to take the field for the 25th World Cup.

And yet the Reformed Expos are still slogging away at what must be breaking some records for the longest ever NS tournament, as the World Cup of Baseball keeps on going in An Archy.

The Paladins won last night, 7-2 against Kaze Progressa, but the tournament is essentially over for them, as well as for the majority of teams that remain. "Where's the drama?" asked Jason Klokkenga, an NMS fan at last night's game. "This thing is over for everyone except 3 or 4 teams. I hope that a better setup will be used for the next tournament, 'cause this one's a real snoozer."

//OOC: Seriously, we need, say, a best-of-five or best-of-three elimination setup for the next world cup//

STATES OVERRUN KP, BUT QUESTIONS LINGER

Is anyone out there still watching?

AN ARCHY - A whole World Cup season has come and gone. The Cherry Cup is winding down. The Paladins are poised to take the field for the 25th World Cup.

And yet the Reformed Expos are still slogging away at what must be breaking some records for the longest ever NS tournament, as the World Cup of Baseball keeps on going in An Archy.

The Paladins won last night, 7-2 against Kaze Progressa, but the tournament is essentially over for them, as well as for the majority of teams that remain. "Where's the drama?" asked Jason Klokkenga, an NMS fan at last night's game. "This thing is over for everyone except 3 or 4 teams. I hope that a better setup will be used for the next tournament, 'cause this one's a real snoozer."

//OOC: Seriously, we need, say, a best-of-five or best-of-three elimination setup for the next world cup//
ooc: I'll definately consider that. I want the tournament to be fairly long though. I'll probably add more teams to the elimination rounds.

Starters:Lamar Bush vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team)
0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Clavis: 4 fmjphoenix: 1

Starters:Quaza Arivara vs. Jared McCullick (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 -
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 3 New Montreal States: 4

Starters:Dean Hawking vs. Ken Sutcliffe (Sarzonia is the home team)
0 0 2 1 0 2 0 0 1
0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 6 Sarzonia: 4

Starters:Mike Umphree vs. John Rean (Yafor 2 is the home team)
0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
Final Score: Liverpool England: 2 Yafor 2: 3

Starters:James Rickey vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team)
0 1 0 2 0 0 1 2 1
0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 1
Final Score: Milchama: 7 Wingarde: 4

Starters:Humblum vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team)
1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 3 The Foylands: 2

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Another series another win Milchama take two out of 3 win 7-4

The Milchama Warriors won another series today beating Wingarde in the rubber match 7-4. The Warriors one of the 3 or 4 teams that still matter retained their lead over first place beating the competitive Blackhawks in 2 out of 3 games. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We only get one shot to play every team and to beat a team is important. Today's game was a key game and a game that we won this is what our team needs." Now the daily rendition of how Milchama scored:

2nd Inning: With two outs Tris Speaker barely kept the inning with his seeing eye single thru the hole in short. Then Barrett Hamilton on a 3-2 count blasted the ball off the wall to make it 1-0 Milchama.
4th Inning: After Rickey struggled in the 3rd giving up a run the Warriors helped him out getting a single to center by Hank Greenberg. Shawn Green came up and knocked the homer to make it 3-1 Warriors.
7th Inning: After a couple of innings of looking dead on their feet the Warriors finally scored as Al Rosen got driven on a double by Tris Speaker. 4-2 Milchama.
8th Inning: After the Blackhawks again cut the lead to one the Warriors seemed to put it away as Matan Williams doubled. Then Andy Cohen had a bunt single and Kenny Merrick hit a triple to make it 6-3 Milchama.
9th Inning: Some insurance was added when Barrett Hamilton crushed a homer over the fence. Final Score: Milchama 7-4 Wingarde

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3
0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 6 The Foylands: 3 (in 11 innings)

Starters:Mert Mutujaek vs. Floyd Hampton (Clavis is the home team)
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 4 Clavis: 5

Starters:John Morgan vs. Tyler Laning (New Montreal States is the home team)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Sarzonia: 0 New Montreal States: 5

Starters:Willie Jarvis vs. Lorne Babcock (Tonissia is the home team)
0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 5 Tonissia: 4

Starters: Dieter Schenker vs. Timothy Francis (Liverpool England is the home team)
0 0 0 5 1 0 1 0 0
1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Wingarde: 7 Liverpool England: 3

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Warriors get much needed break

The Milchama Warriors after 10 grueling series full of exciting, heartbreaking, and overall well played baseball. The Warriors after 10 series sit on top of the leaderboard 3 games ahead of all competition. This series now allows them to sit back relax and chat with the Milchama Army about what is happening at home. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "This is great. This off time will be spent. I gurantee that after this we will do very well against Liverpool England in our final series."

A look at today's games: In a matchup of two mysterious teams Fmjphoenix managed one of their few wins this tournament beating the Foylands 6-3. While the result suprises a little the first baseman for the Foylands did hit two home runs. In a bigger suprise Clavis beat Kaze Proggressa. KP scored two runs to tie the game in the top of the 9th only to see their reliever blow it giving up a run to the Falcons in the bottom of the inning. Tyler Laning pitched a shutout for NMS as they beat Sarzonia 5-0. With a 3 run 5th Yafor 2 barely knocked off Tonissia 5-4. Finally on the strength of a 5 run 4th inning Wingarde cruised over Liverpool England 7-2.

This is An Archist News, your official station for the NS World Cup of Baseball.

Patty Paterson: The Warriors and the Steal Basers are finally going to have a bye this series. As two of the best teams in the cup, they go in to this series in position to advance to the finals. The standings so far are as follows:



Milchama 21-9 -

Bipedal Apes 18-12 3 Games Back

Wingarde 17-11 3 Games Back

Kaze Progressa 15-13 5 Games Back

Liverpool England 15-13 5 Games Back

New Montreal States 15-13 5 Games Back

Yafor 2 15-13 5 Games Back

Clavis 14-14 6 Games Back

Sarzonia 13-15 7 Games Back

Tonissia 10-18 10 Games Back

The Foylands 10-18 10 Games Back

fmjphoenix 8-20 12 Games Back

Patty Paterson: Suprisingly, several teams have an outside shot at reaching the finals, including the ninth ranked Silver. John, can you explain what, exactly, has to happed for the Sarzonians to advance.

John Johnson: It's rather complicated Patty. First, they must win the rest of their games and Bipedal Apes must get swept by fmjphoenix. Then Kaze Progressa, New Montreal States, Liverpool England, and Yafor 2 must each loose at least two games, while Clavis looses at least one and Wingarde looses at least four. This far fetched scenario would likely lead to a massive tie for second place, in which case there would be an elimination tournament of three game serieses involving all the tied teams.

Patty Paterson: Very interesting! Tonight, fmjphoenix will play The Foylands in the Andicorp Game of the Week.


Starters:Unknown vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2
0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 1
Final Score: The Foylands: 6 fmjphoenix: 5

Starters:Arvin Taranuzek vs. Warren Patterson (Clavis is the home team.)
0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 1
1 0 2 0 1 0 1 2 -
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 5 Clavis: 7

Starters: Charlie Palmer vs. Bryce Birky (Sarzonia is the home team.)
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 6 0 1 0 0 -
Final Score: New Montreal States: 1 Sarzonia: 9

Starters:Otto Weber vs. Gregory Turyical (Liverpool England is the home team.)
1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 2 1 0 0 2 1
Final Score: Wingarde: 6 Liverpool England: 7

SARZONIA WHIPS ASS ON THE EXPOS

Hopefully this will not be a preview of World Cup 25

AN ARCHY - News that the NMS Paladins football squad will have to face Sarzonia in WC25 qualifiers has given this upcoming series against Sarzonia a bit of added interest that was desperately needed.

So it was rather depressing when Sarzonia annahilated the Reformed Expos 9-1 in what was called a "disappointing" effort by Expos manager Felipe Alou clone number 3.

"We got the crap beat out of us," he said. "Not cool, and not exactly condusive to finishing above .55."

After the Expos won the first game 5-0, the series is tied at one game apiece. We might actually have some fan interest in the final game, that might drag the Paladins back below .500.

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team.)
0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 3 1 0 -
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 3 The Foylands: 5

Starters:Arvin Yikpa vs. Damon Torres (Clavis is the home team)
0 4 0 0 2 1 2 1 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 2
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 10 Clavis: 6

StartersAlex O'Brien vs. Brian Edwards (Sarzonia is the home team.)
0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: New Montreal States: 2 Sarzonia: 1
ooc: Oh, crap! I forgot to do the Yafor 2 vs. Tonissia game yesterday. I'll do yesterday's and today's game now.

Starters:Micheal Klem vs. Tagio Juan (Tonissia is the home team.)
2 1 2 2 0 6 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1
Final Score: Yafor 2: 13 Tonissia: 4

Starters: Hernando De Rizza vs. Samuel Cledart (Yafor 2 is the home team.)
0 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 0
2 2 1 4 1 0 1 0 -
Final Score: Tonissia: 5 Yafor 2: 11

Starters:Thomas Francis vs. Hugo Lichtermann (Wingarde is the home team.)
0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 3 Wingarde: 4

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Gromsbrook (Bipedal Apes is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 3 Bipedal Apes: 4

Starters:Tarvik Katinatu vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team.)
0 1 0 1 0 1 2 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 5 The Foylands: 1

Starters:Lester Jordan vs. Brad Baxter (Sarzonia is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3
0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Clavis: 5 Sarzonia: 3

Starters:Pedro Alvar vs. Drew Pirtle (New Montreal States is the home team.)
0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Yafor 2: 3 New Montreal States: 1

Starters:Albert Sandler vs. Dean Wopham (Tonissia is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 -
Final Score: Wingarde: 0 Tonissia: 6

Starters:Jonathan Beaudry vs. Philip Foster (Milchama is the home team.)
0 0 2 0 1 0 1 1 1
0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Liverpool England: 6 Milchama: 1

ooc: We need a few puppet nations to sign up for the next tournament so we can have a full thirty two teams. Link (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=443092) I've already signed up with mine, Noncitizens. I encourage any of you who have puppets to do the same.

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To much rest not good as Warriors lose 6-1

The one series off seemed like a little bit too much for the Warriors who looked sluggish and out of it, losing to Liverpool England 6-1. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "That was by far our worst performance of the tournament. We looked out of the game from the beginning. I cannot believe that I am the manager of this bad team it saddens me it really does. We will do better tommorow I promise ya'll that." Now the daily rendition of how they scored until the 8th inning when our mad reporter was kicked out for swearing too much:
3rd Inning: Phil Foster who looked over rested and barely got out of the first two innings without giving up a run, finally gave up a 2 runs in the third when John Lebel showed some power hitting the ball just over the outstreched glove of Kenny Merrick to make it 2-0 Terminators. The Warriors did halve the lead as after a lead off Hamilton double. Andy Cohen brought him in with a nice single to center 2-1 LE.
5th Inning: With 2 outs and an 0-2 count on Marvin Sessions, Foster hung a slider and Sessions crushed it off the wall for a triple. The next batter Nathan Kaye then drove him in with a single. 3-1 LE.
7th Inning: With Foster out after the sixth. Dvir Lalton came in. The first pitch he threw went to the deepest part of center field just over Tris Speaker's head. The hitter Marcus Weller managed to run around the bases before the came to catcher for an inside the park home run and 4-1 lead for the Terminators.

This where the report because our reporter got kicked out of the stadium.

more scores:

Starters:Unknown vs. Biltchung (Bipedal Apes is the home team.)
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: fmjphoenix: 2 Bipedal Apes: 5

Starters:Quaza Arivara vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team.)
3 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 0
4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 9 The Foylands: 5

Starters:Ken Sutcliffe vs. Lamar Bush (Clavis is the home team.)
0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0
0 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 -
Final Score: Sarzonia: 3 Clavis: 5

Starters:Jared McCullick vs. John Rean (Yafor 2 is the home team.)
1 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 0
0 1 2 0 0 0 1 2 0
Final Score: New Montreal States: 5 Yafor 2: 6

Starters:Dean Hawking vs. Helmut Lehrer (Wingarde is the home team.)
0 1 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 4 Wingarde: 3

Starters:Mike Umphree vs. Manny Rodriguez (Milchama is the home team.)
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 2 Milchama: 3

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Rodriguez leads Milchama to victory

On the same day that Milchama got unlucky in the draw of the World Cup, they also won in baseball as Manny Rodriguez went 8 innings in a 3-2 win. In what we can only hope is a foreshadowing of things to come (we have LE in our group.) The Warriors did just enough to scrape out victory scoring 3 runs and leaving the rest too good pitching. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "Now we have all but clinched a championship series birth. But to win two out of three games against Liverpool England would still be a great accomplishment." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:

1st Inning: Kenny Merrick led off the inning with a single. He managed to beat Buddy Meyer's potential double play ball out but Meyer got out. Then Hank Greenberg walked. After a Shawn Green strike out an infield single by Rosen kept the inning alive for Tris Speaker who hit a seeing eye single thru the middle to score Merrick and put Milchama ahead 1-0.
2nd Inning: Benjamin Weller led off the inning with a double for the Terminators. Fortunately after two straight outs it looked like he was going to be stranded at second but Brian Mcclinton singled scoring Weller and tieing the game at 1.
3rd Inning: Liverpool England even took the lead temporarily as another Weller this time Marcus homered to put them up 2-1. Fortunately the Warriors struck back with a homerun of their own as with one out Buddy Meyer tied up the game. But they were not done as the next batter Hank Greenberg doubled. He was then brought home with two outs by Al Rosen to put the Warriors on top 3-2. They would not relinquish the lead.
Originally Posted by Liverpool England vs. Milchama Game 2 Line Score
Starters:Mike Umphree vs. Manny Rodriguez (Milchama is the home team.)
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 2 Milchama: 3

ooc: Wow!!! I can't believe it's the final day of the season! It seems like so much has happened since I started the first NSWCB thread. And yet, it all seems like just yesterday. It's been really amazing hosting this tournament, and really insightful as well. Basically, it's just been a great overall experience for me. I really hope that all of you feel the same way. One of the most interesting things that happened to me as I scorinated the games each day was that I began to form an attachment to some of the teams. Like Sarzonia. I really wanted him to win every time I picked up my calculator. (Obviously, the calculator felt differently. ;) ) And Milchama too, and all the other players like Wingarde, Kaze Progressa, and New Montreal States who posted RPs consistently. Reading those RPs has been a real pleasure for me. I guess that's why we give out RP bonuses. The next tournament is probably going to start immediately after this one ends. I wouldn't want it any other way.

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Patty Paterson: It's been a memorable first season for the NS World Cup of Baseball. These are the standings going into the last day of the tournament:



Milchama 22-10 -

Bipedal Apes 20-12 2 Game Back

Yafor 2 19-13 3 Games Back

Wingarde 18-14 4 Games Back

Kaze Progressa 18-14 4 Games Back

Liverpool England 17-15 5 Games Back

Clavis 17-15 5 Games Back

New Montreal States 16-16 6 Games Back

Sarzonia 14-18 8 Games Back

Tonissia 12-20 10 Games Back

The Foylands 12-20 10 Games Back

fmjphoenix 8-24 14 Games Back

Patty Paterson: As you can see Milchama has clinched one of the spots in the final series and Bipedal Apes is leading for the second place spot. Yafor 2, however, has an opportunity to take that spot for themselves. If they win and Bipedal Apes looses, then the two teams will play a three game series to decide who gets to play in the final series. In other baseball news, Andy Anderson will present the MVP trophy to one of the participating players after the end of tonights games. Many analysists are picking Milchama's Hank Greenberg as the most likely candidate for that award.

John Johnson: I absolutely agree that Greenberg should win the MVP. He's had a great season and so has his team.

Patty Paterson: Tonight will be his last chance to ensure the award for himself as Milchama plays Liverpool England.


Starters:Labdoober vs. Unknown (Fmjphoenix is the home team.)
0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0
0 0 2 0 1 0 3 0 -
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 4 fmjphoenix: 6

Starters:Mert Mutujaek vs. Unknown (The Foylands is the home team.)
0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 0
0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0
Final Score: Kaze Progressa: 5 The Foylands: 6

Starters:John Morgan vs. Floyd Hampton (Clavis is the home team.)
0 1 0 0 3 0 0 1 0
0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1
Final Score: Sarzonia: 5 Clavis: 4

Starters:Willie Jarvis vs. Tyler Laning (New Montreal States is the home team.)
0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 -
Final Score: Yafor 2: 2 New Montreal States: 3

Starters:Lorne Babcock vs. Dieter Schenker (Wingarde is the home team.)
1 1 0 2 0 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 0
Final Score: Tonissia: 5 Wingarde: 6

Starters:Timothy Francis vs. Stan Romanson (Milchama is the home team.)
2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
0 1 2 2 0 0 1 0 -
Final Score: Liverpool England: 5 Milchama: 6

Patty Paterson: This has been a wonderful tournament. The Final Standings are as follows:



Milchama 23-10 -

Bipedal Apes 20-13 3 Games Back

Yafor 2 19-14 4 Games Back

Wingarde 19-14 4 Games Back

Kaze Progressa 18-15 5 Games Back

Liverpool England 17-16 6 Games Back

Clavis 17-16 6 Games Back

New Montreal States 17-16 6 Games Back

Sarzonia 15-18 8 Games Back

The Foylands 13-20 10 Games Back

Tonissia 12-21 11 Games Back

fmjphoenix 9-24 14 Games Back

Patty Paterson: Now, Anderson will present the Most Valuable Player Award.

Andy Anderson: So many players gave such a great effort to contribute to their teams' success. Therefor, this must have been a difficult choice for the baseball writers and commentators of An archy. The player who won, however, did certainly stand out. He had a tremendous individual season while guiding his team to a remarkable overall record of twenty three and ten. The winner of the first ever most valuable player award for the NS Wolrd Cup of Baseball is...

Hank Greenberg.

Patty Paterson: A very deserving player indeed!

{Greenberg stands up and gives a wonderful acceptance speech.}

Patty Paterson: Now the end has come to a wonderful tournament. It was full of many great memories that fans will keep with them for the rest of their lives. To all the fans who are not fortunate enough to see their teams compete in the final series, good luck next year!

This has been a presentation of An archic News, the official station of the NS World Cup of Baseball.

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Milchama in final series looks to show apes the glories of evolution

The Milchama Warriors are in the final series of the World Cup of Baseball after winning another game last night against Liverpool England. Their victory tonight puts them on a good note and gives them hope to beat Bipedal Apes in the final series. Manager Jack Yosefon, after toasting several bottles of champaign, said, "Well we won the regular season part but the important part starts tommorow as we play the final series. The big game begin tommorow." Now a bare bones of the daily rendition of how they scored (our reporter was too busy celebrating to report):
1st Inning: Marcus Weller wanted to prove something badly as he blasted a ball over the fence with Mcclinton on to put the Terminators ahead 2-0.
2nd Inning: Tris Speaker halved the lead as doubled in Al Rosen. 2-1 Terminators.
3rd Inning: The Terminators extended their lead as Mcclinton got a single stole second and scored on Holston's single. Luckily the Warriors tied it up as Hank Greenberg furthered his cause for MVP hitting a two run homer to tie the game at 3.
4th Inning: Al Rosen and Tris Speaker single's were rewarded grandly as Barrett Hamilton doubled them both home to give the Warriors as 5-3 lead.
7th Inning: Weller continued his good night by hitting his second homer to make it 5-4 Warriors. Milchama did counter though as a two out Harry Danning double was ended with a run by a two out Andy Cohen single. 6-4 Milchama.
8th Inning: Marvin Sessions tripled and scored on Nathan Kaye's double. Then closer Larry Sherry and pitched two perfect innings to get the save and Milchama the win 6-5.

Game 1:

Starters:Erskine Meyer vs. Wuggappo (Bipedal Apes is the home team.)
4 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Milchama: 8 Bipedal Apes: 3

OOC: 1. Are the home games random or is it like MLB? 2. How many game series is this 5 or 7?
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Milchama wins first game of the World Series

The Milchama Warriors won their first game of the World Series today beating Bipedal Apes 8-3. A 4 run first did the trick as they knocked Wuggapo out of the game in the first inning and while the bullpen did good for the Steal-Basers, Erskine Meyer was better scattering 3 runs in 8 innings of work for the win. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "We won impressively today. That 4 run first really set everything up. It made our guys feel comfortable and we played very loose. I liked this game a lot." Now the daily rendition of how they scored:
1st Inning: Kenny Merrick took advantage of the nerves of Wuggapo drawing a walk to lead off the game. A Buddy Meyer single then advanced him to third. Hank Greenberg then doubled scoring both Meyer and Merrick. Even though Shawn Green did ground out he advanced Greenberg to third. Al Rosen then drove him in with a single. Tris Speaker then walked which led to Barrett Hamilton driving Rosen in with a single. The Steal-Basers responded though as Oxto hit a homer. 4-1 Warriors.
3rd inning: Bipedal Apes continued to pick at the lead as a Crestmoop drove in Blump with a single to make it 4-2 Warriors.
5th Inning: A lead off walk to Walljointer brought the Steal-Basers to within one as after a sac bunt by Blump and a right side grounder by Oxto, Crestmoop singled to make it 4-3 Milchama.
6th Inning: Shawn Green extended the lead as he homered to lead off the inning and make it 5-3 Milchama.
7th Inning: The relief corps started to fall apart for the Steal Basers as Andy Cohen and Kenny Merrick both got singles. Then Meyer bunted them over to second and third base. They finally scored as Hank Greenberg drove them both in with a single to make it 7-3 Milchama.
8th Inning: Al Rosen singled yet again to be driven in by Tris Speaker who doubled off the wall to make it 8-3 Milchama Warriors.

So we win game one but can we win game 2 the chances look good.

OOC: 1. Are the home games random or is it like MLB? 2. How many game series is this 5 or 7?
ooc: 1. Yes, the home team is still decided randomly. 2. This will be a 7 game series.

Game 2:

Starters:James Rickey vs. Humblum (Bipedal Apes is the home team.)
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 -
Final Score: Milchama: 1 Bipedal Apes: 2

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Late home run dooms Warriors

An 8th inning homer by Oxto doomed Milchama to their first defeat of the World Series as they lost to Bipedal Apes 2-1. James Rickey pitched 7 inning of one run baseball before he conceded the game to the bullpen. The pitcher, Pat Vernon, after getting the first two guys out hung a 1-2 slider to the Steal Basers most dangerous hitter who hit the ball over the left centerfield fence to make it 2-1 Bipedal Apes. Manger Jack Yosefon said, "This was a tough way to lose but hopefully tommorow we'll go out there determined to get a victory and everything will work out." Now on to the daily rendition of how they scored:

2nd Inning: Shawn Green singles to center. Al Rosen ground into a double play but Tris Speaker keeps the inning alive with a walk and Barrett Hamilton hits the ball hard off the wall for a RBI double to make it 1-0 Milchama.
4th Inning: The Steal Basers tie it up as Crestmoop doubles to left and then with two outs Lidlebum gets a seeing eye single throught the hole in short to score him and tie the game at 1.
8th Inning: Do we really need to go thru the painful memory again?

Game 3:

Starters:Gromsbrook vs. Philip Foster (Milchama is the home team.)
3 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 1
0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 1
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 8 Milchama: 5

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3 run first puts Warriors down

Philip Foster didn't start well. He in fact sucked the first run inning giving up hits to the first 3 batters including a 3 run home run by Oxto to put the Warriors in a hole they could never recover from. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "That was a bad loss after that first inning we played well but we need both hitting and pitching to be working the same games. Yesterday we pitched well but only scored 1 run and then today we scored 5 runs but our pitching allowed 8 runs. We need to perm these things and do both at the same time."
There will be no daily rendition of how they scored as most of our reporters were shipped out with the Milchama Military.

Game 4:

Starters:Biltchung vs. Manny Rodriguez (Milchama is the home team.)
2 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 6 Milchama: 1

ooc: I've decided that I won't be hosting the next tournament. I really need to take a break from NS to focus on my academics. Thanks to everyone so much for making this a wonderful experience for me. Whoever wants to volunteer to host the next cup can organize it however he/she sees fit. I say it should be Sarzonia, Milchama, NMS, KP, or Wingarde because each of you have consistently contributed to the NSWCB. The signups are in link #2 of my sig and the NSWCB discussion thread is in link #3. If you want to use a scorinating system based on the one I used, all the information about rating points and whatnot is in link #4. Once again, thanks alot to all of you.

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Warriors put themselves in hole lose 6-1

The Warriors played poorly and put themselves in a 3-1 hole after losing to Bipedal Apes 6-1. Manager Jack Yosefon said, "That was by far our worst performance of the tournament. We looked out of the game from the beginning. I cannot believe that I am the manager of this bad team it saddens me it really does. We will do better tommorow I promise ya'll that." Now the daily rendition of how they scored until the 8th inning when our mad reporter was kicked out for swearing too much:
3rd Inning: Phil Foster who looked over rested and barely got out of the first two innings without giving up a run, finally gave up a 2 runs in the third when John Lebel showed some power hitting the ball just over the outstreched glove of Kenny Merrick to make it 2-0 Terminators. The Warriors did halve the lead as after a lead off Hamilton double. Andy Cohen brought him in with a nice single to center 2-1 LE.
5th Inning: With 2 outs and an 0-2 count on Marvin Sessions, Foster hung a slider and Sessions crushed it off the wall for a triple. The next batter Nathan Kaye then drove him in with a single. 3-1 LE.
7th Inning: With Foster out after the sixth. Dvir Lalton came in. The first pitch he threw went to the deepest part of center field just over Tris Speaker's head. The hitter Marcus Weller managed to run around the bases before the came to catcher for an inside the park home run and 4-1 lead for the Terminators.

This where the report because our reporter got kicked out of the stadium.

OOC: You can subsitute LE for Bipedal Apes and Steal-Basers for Terminators. and yes this is a just a copy of an earlier post but so what?

Game 5:

Starters:Labdoober vs. Stan Romanson (Milchama is the home team.)
3 5 1 0 0 4 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Final Score: Bipedal Apes: 13 Milchama: 0

OOC: Wouldn't that mean that Bipedal Apes win the World Cup 4 games to 1?

OOC: Wouldn't that mean that Bipedal Apes win the World Cup 4 games to 1?
yep