Highheat's Orioles (MLB "The Show" '08) Final Attempt!!!!

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News From Around The League
April 10th, 2008




- Called Up (SP) Brian Bogusevic From (AA) Corpus Christi To (AAA) Round Rock.




- Called Up (SP) Daniel Cortes From (AA) NW Arkansas To (AAA) Omaha.




- Called Up (RP) Tyler Johnson From (AAA) Memphis To (MLB) St. Louis.

- Called Up (RP) Jesse Todd From (AA) Springfield To (AAA) Memphis.

[highheatkingsb]

April 11th, 2008
Game 11 of 162
Attendance: 29,795
Wind: 0 mph (dome)

(3-7) @ (6-4)

Starting Pitching Matchup

PITCHING MATCH-UP

Jeremy Guthrie Scott Kazmir 0-1 W-L 1-1 12.46 ERA 12.46

"Birds" feast on Rays pitching, Scott continues to be heart of Baltimore!!!!!

St. Petersburg - The Rays jumped out to a 1st inning 2-0 lead off the bat of Carlos Pena who doubled to the left center field gap. That would be the last lead the Rays would see tonight. After Millar scored in the 4th on a passed ball and a Markakis single in the 6th to tie the game at 2-2, Luke Scott once again proved to be the heart and soul of this Orioles squad by exploding with a pair of 3-run home runs coming in the 6th and 7th innings, his 4th long ball in the last 3 games and extending his RBI total to a league leading 17 for the young season. The Rays tried desperately to get back in the game, as they got a home run from Carl Crawford in the 7th to cut the O's lead to four, but the "Birds" would add a Melvin Mora RBI double and a Ramon Hernandez RBI single later in the 8th to secure any doubt that they would be the victors tonight. Through all of the offensive success that the O's had tonight, Jeremy Guthrie finally got win number one on the year and the O's improve to 4-7 as they take game one at the dome here in St. Petersburg.

Line Score

Baltimore @ Tampa Bay (April 11th, 2008)

TEAMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Baltimore Orioles 0 0 0 1 0 4 4 2 0 11 15 0 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 6 11 0 WP - J. Guthrie (1-1), LP - S. Kazmir (1-2)

Extra Base Hits & RBI Summary



2B - Mora (3), R. Hernandez 2 (3), Cintron (1)
3B - None
HR - Mora (2), Scott 2 (5)
RBI - Mora 2 (8), Markakis (8), R. Hernandez (5), Scott 6 (17)
SB - None

2B - Pena (3)
3B - Upton (1), Longoria (1), Gross (1)
HR - Crawford (4)
RBI - Crawford 2 (9), Pena 2 (10), Gomes (6)
SB - None

Pitching Summary



J. Guthrie (W, 1-1) 6.1 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 5 K's
J. Walker 1.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 K, 1 WP
D. Sarfate 1.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 2 K's

S. Kazmir (L, 1-2) 5.1 IP, 8 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 2 BB, 3 K's
T. Miller 0.2 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 0 K
J. Howell 1.1 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
A. Reyes 0.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
J. Hammel 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

Scoring Summary



Bottom 1st

Pena doubled to left center, Zobrist and Crawford scored (2-0)

Top 4th

Millar scored on a passed ball (2-1)

Top 6th

Markakis singled to center, R. Hernandez scored (2-2)
Scott homered to left, Markakis and Huff scored (5-2)

Top 7th

Mora homered to right (6-2)
Scott homered to right, Millar and Huff scored (9-2)

Bottom 7th

Gross scored on a wild pitch (9-3)
Crawford homered to left center, Bartlett scored (9-5)

Top 8th

Mora doubled to left center, Cintron scored (10-5)
R. Hernandez singled to left, Mora scored (11-5)

Bottom 8th

Gomes grounded out to shortstop, Longoria scored (11-6)


Player of the Game


For the second time this season, Luke Scott
delivered a pair of homeruns in back
to back innings. Luke went 2 for 5 on the
night and had 6 RBI's to extend his league
leading total to 17 through 11 games. This
helped the O's to take the first game of the
series over the Rays tonight at the dome
in St. Petersburg.

Standings

American League East
Team		W	L	GB	STRK
	Toronto	8	2	-	W 4
	New York AL	7	4	1.5	W 4
	Tampa Bay	6	5	2.5	L 1
	Boston	6	5	2.5	L 1
	Baltimore	4	7	4.5	W 1

International League (AAA)

(5-3) @ (5-3)

Norfolk Tides	1	7	0
Indianapolis Indians	5	10	1

Record (5-4)

Eastern League (AA)

(6-2) @ (6-2)

Bowie Baysox	8	14	2
Akron Aeros	10	11	2

Record (6-3)

[superjames1992]

WOW!!! Scott is really coming out from mediocrity and staring so far! 17 RBIs in only 11 games is amazing!!!

[highheatkingsb]

Quote: Originally Posted by superjames1992

WOW!!! Scott is really coming out from mediocrity and staring so far! 17 RBIs in only 11 games is amazing!!!

Tell me about it, the man is just playing insane. The clutch hitting he's provided has been awesome. Hope he keeps it up!!!

[RAZRr1275]

Quote: Originally Posted by highheatkingsb

Tell me about it, the man is just playing insane. The clutch hitting he's provided has been awesome. Hope he keeps it up!!!

I hope he does too. Mabye he'll get your whole team going.

[highheatkingsb]

Quote: Originally Posted by RAZRr1275

I hope he does too. Mabye he'll get your whole team going.

I hope so too man. I'm really getting into this season. My team has some potential to make it exciting if the pitching comes around and holds up it's end. I'll be posting stats for the players at the 20,40,60,81,100,120,140,162 mark, and they are starting to look good. Luke Scot for MVP!!!!!!!!

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News From Around The League
April 11th, 2008


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April 12th, 2008
Game 12 of 162
Attendance: 28,671
Wind: 0 mph (dome)

(4-7) @ (6-5)

Starting Pitching Matchup

PITCHING MATCH-UP

Daniel Cabrera James Shields 1-0 W-L 0-1 4.97 ERA 4.07

Rays even series with strong pitching and defense!!!!!

St. Petersburg - The Rays seen something tonight that they aren't too familiar with. Good pitching and good defense. James Shields got his first victory of the season by going a strong 6.0 innings allowing only 2 runs againt the O's. If it weren't for the strong play by 3rd baseman Evan Longoria, Shields would probably not have recorded the victory tonight. Longoria snagged down two hard line drives that would've plated runs to end the 4th and 6th innings and capped it off in the 9th robbing Kevin Millar of a sure double down the line to lead off the inning. The O's had their chances as they loaded the bases in the 7th with nobody out only to manage one run and got the tying run to 3rd in the 9th before Troy Percival recorded his 3rd save of the season by striking out Luis Hernandez to end the game. On a side note, O's starter Alex Cintron extended his hitting streak to 10 games in the loss. The "Birds" will try to capture the series tomorrow as they send Brian Burres to the hill.

Line Score

Baltimore @ Tampa Bay (April 12th, 2008)

TEAMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E Baltimore Orioles 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 8 1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 X 3 9 0 WP - J. Shields (1-1), LP - D. Cabrera (1-1), S - T. Percival (3)

Extra Base Hits & RBI Summary



2B - Markakis (1), Huff (3), R. Hernandez (4)
3B - None
HR - None
RBI - Markakis (9), L. Hernandez (1)
SB - None

2B - Gomes (5), Gross (1)
3B - None
HR - Gomes (3)
RBI - Pena (11), Gomes (7), Gross (3)
SB - Upton (3)

Pitching Summary



D. Cabrera (L, 1-1) 4.2 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 1 K, 2 WP
M. Albers 3.0 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
J. Walker 0.1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

J. Shields (W, 1-1) 6.0 IP, 7 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 1 BB, 4 K's
T. Miller (H, 3) 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
J. Howell (H, 1) 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 K
T. Percival (S, 3) 1.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 K

Scoring Summary



Bottom 1st

Pena flied out to center, Iwamura scored (1-0)

Top 3rd

Markakis doubled to left center, Cintron scored (1-1)

Bottom 4th

Gross doubled to right center, Gomes scored (2-1)

Bottom 6th

Gomes homered to left (3-1)

Top 7th

L. Hernandez flied out to right, Millar scored (3-2)

Player of the Game

Jonny Gomes went 3 for 4 tonight and delivered the game winning homerun in the bottom of the 6th as the Rays evened the series against the O's with a 3-2 victory.

Standings

American League East
Team		W	L	GB	STRK
	Toronto	9	2	-	W 5
	Tampa Bay	7	5	2.5	W 1
	New York AL	7	5	2.5	L 1
	Boston	7	5	2.5	W 1
	Baltimore	4	8	5.5	L 1

International League (AAA)

(5-4) @ (6-3)

Norfolk Tides	3	8	0
Indianapolis Indians	4	11	1

Record (5-5)

Eastern League (AA)

(6-3) @ (7-2)

Bowie Baysox	3	6	0
Akron Aeros	0	4	0

Record (7-3)

[RAZRr1275]

I started an orioles franchise of my own and they can really hit. Everyone except Adam Jones and Luis Hernandez is good for me. I only played one game so far though and won 5-3. Guthrie went 7. Ramon Hernandez hit a homerune. I'm doing play 1 sim 2 because of time constraints. They are a fun team to play with.

[highheatkingsb]

Quote: Originally Posted by RAZRr1275

I started an orioles franchise of my own and they can really hit. Everyone except Adam Jones and Luis Hernandez is good for me. I only played one game so far though and won 5-3. Guthrie went 7. Ramon Hernandez hit a homerune. I'm doing play 1 sim 2 because of time constraints. They are a fun team to play with.

Yeah, they are fun to play with. It can be frustrating at times also, like my last game. I had my chances to win, but couldn't produce when I needed to.