ASB2004 - Texas Rangers Franchise (9-1 @ Seattle)

[JT_55]

Another complete game shutout by Sheets.

Sheets - 9.0 IP, 4 IP, 0 ER, 7 K

Was that a typo and meant hits instead? Cause I thought you got a no-no from Sheets.

Now just 39 more games to go...

[KIG1]

Another complete game shutout by Sheets.

Sheets - 9.0 IP, 4 IP, 0 ER, 7 K

Was that a typo and meant hits instead? Cause I thought you got a no-no from Sheets.

Now just 39 more games to go...

Yeah, I meant hits.

[KIG1]

(3-5) Oakland Athletics at (7-0) Texas Rangers


The Ballpark In Arlington

- 2
- 7

Winning Pitcher: Ted Lilly (2-0)
Losing Pitcher: Justin Miller (0-1)

Player of the Game: Ted Lilly - 8 IP, 1 ER, 8 K

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Athletics Lineup:

1. Angel Berroa, SS
2. Ron Gant, CF
3. Carlos Delgado, 1B
4. Ellis Burks, DH
5. Jorge Posada, C
6. Fernando Tatis, 3B
7. Matt Stairs, RF
8. Jason Lane, LF
9. Brandon Phillips, 2B

Rangers Lineup:

1. Ichiro Suzuki, CF
2. Jimmy Rollins, SS
3. Albert Pujols, 1B
4. Vladimir Guerrero, RF
5. Aramis Ramirez, 3B
6. Paul Lo Duca, C
7. Corey Patterson, LF
8. Placido Polanco, 2B
9. Coco Crisp, DH

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Stats:

Oakland
2B: Tatis (3), Phillips 2 (4)

Texas
2B: Suzuki (2), Rollins (2), Pujols (7), Guerrero 2 (4), Lo Duca (2), Patterson (3), Polanco (3)
3B: Crisp (1)
RBI: Suzuki (1), Rollins (7), Guerrero 3 (6), Lo Duca (2), Polanco (4)
E: Rollins (1), Ramirez (2), Patterson (2)


Oakland
Miller - 5.0 IP, 11 H, 7 ER, 0 K
Sosa - 2.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 K
Johnson - 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 K

Texas
Lilly - 8.0 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 8 K
Cormier - 0.2 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 K
Banks - 0.2 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 0 K

[JT_55]

You certainly pitch great. Your combined team ERA is 1.25, good enough to win more than 90% of your games. And if not for Beckett in the first game it might be even lower.

Calculating...0.54 ERA not including Beckett's first outing. Impressive.

[KIG1]

You certainly pitch great. Your combined team ERA is 1.25, good enough to win more than 90% of your games. And if not for Beckett in the first game it might be even lower.

Calculating...0.54 ERA not including Beckett's first outing. Impressive.

Thanks, this game is pretty easy in the beginning of the season.

[JT_55]

Wait a minute...the game gets harder as the season progresses? That's pretty cool, as I never played a game that does that. Then again, I have yet to play a sports game that isn't made by EA Sports.

[KIG1]

Yeah, the game gets harder as the year goes on. Your players start wearing down, and get hurt sometimes.

[JT_55]

Yeah, I know about injuries. In my game, I lost my leadoff hitter and my 3, 4, 5 guys were gone for a stretch, and its not even the All-Star break yet. But do't the CPU teams worn out and injured too?

[KIG1]

Yeah, I know about injuries. In my game, I lost my leadoff hitter and my 3, 4, 5 guys were gone for a stretch, and its not even the All-Star break yet. But do't the CPU teams worn out and injured too?

Ouch, that's not good.

But, yeah the other teams lose some players during the year dur to injury.

[KIG1]

The new format for players profiles is now up. Here is the first two completed ones.

Jimmy Rollins - Player Profile
Ichiro Suzuki - Player Profile

[JT_55]

Great stuff, man. How do make your own forum?

What did you do to get the career averages? I thought it was supposed to the mean of the three averagees, but I might be wrong. All that math...making my head spin.

[KIG1]

Great stuff, man. How do make your own forum?

What did you do to get the career averages? I thought it was supposed to the mean of the three averagees, but I might be wrong. All that math...making my head spin.

Thanks again. I just searched for freeforums to get the forums.

The career averages are actually in the player cards on All-Star Baseball, so that's where I got them from.

[KIG1]

Well the profiles don't work any more so I guess scrap that idea. I don't need them anyways.

I will be posting an update later tonight..

[JT_55]

Why did freeforums delete it? Or did you delete it yourself?

Oh well, it was a nice idea, but it takes a lot of time anyway. And I think you do want to finish at least one season by the next decade. 405 days is what you're on pace for.

[KIG1]

Why did freeforums delete it? Or did you delete it yourself?

Oh well, it was a nice idea, but it takes a lot of time anyway. And I think you do want to finish at least one season by the next decade. 405 days is what you're on pace for.

I guess it just deleted it.

It did take some time, so I decided to stop doing it.

[KIG1]

(3-6) Oakland Athletics at (8-0) Texas Rangers


The Ballpark in Arlington

- 5
- 6

Winning Pitcher: Willie Banks (2-0)
Losing Pitcher: John Riedling (1-1)

Player of the Game: Ichiro Suzuki - 2-5, 1 R, 3 RBI

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Athletics Lineup:

1. Angel Berroa, SS
2. Ron Gant, CF
3. Carlos Delgado, 1B
4. Ellis Burks, DH
5. Jorge Posada, C
6. Todd Hollandsworth, LF
7. Brandon Phillips, 2B
8. Enrique Wilson, 3B
9. Jason Lane, DH

Rangers Lineup:

1. Ichiro Suzuki, CF
2. Mark McLemore, SS
3. Vladimir Guerrero, RF
4. Albert Pujols, 1B
5. Corey Patterson, LF
6. Marcus Giles, 3B
7. Ramon Martinez, 2B
8. Wiki Gonzalez, C
9. Coco Crisp, DH

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Stats:

Oakland
2B: Stairs (2)
HR: Delgado (1), Burks (3), Posada (2)
RBI: Delgado 2 (4), Burks (5), Posada (5), Lane (1)
SB: Hollandsworth (1)

Texas
2B: Suzuki (3), Guerrero (5), Lo Duca (3)
RBI: Suzuki 3 (4), McLemore (2), Guerrero (7), Crisp (1)
E: Guerrero (2), Peavy (1)


Oakland
Nomo - 6.0 IP, 10 H, 4 ER, 4 K
Hawkins - 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 1 K
White - 1.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 1 K
Riedling - 0.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 K

Texas
Peavy - 5.0 IP, 7 H, 4 ER, 4 K
Stanton - 3.0 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 2 K
Banks - 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 ER, 2 K

[JT_55]

Ooh...just squeaked by the A's. Ouch, all three homers by their 3, 4, 5 guys. Guess Peavy really isn't as effective as he is right now. But in MVP 2003, his rating was not too bad...of course, in MVP they use a bar instead of numbers or letter grades, I'd get him at C+ at the very least; he was about the same as Aramis.

[KIG1]

Ooh...just squeaked by the A's. Ouch, all three homers by their 3, 4, 5 guys. Guess Peavy really isn't as effective as he is right now. But in MVP 2003, his rating was not too bad...of course, in MVP they use a bar instead of numbers or letter grades, I'd get him at C+ at the very least; he was about the same as Aramis.

Yeah Peavy did not pitch well at all for me. His ERA jumped up pretty much.

[KIG1]

(9-0) Texas Rangers at (5-5) Seattle Mariners


Safeco Field

- 4
- 8

Winning Pitcher: Ryan Drese (2-1)
Losing Pitcher: Pedro Astacio (1-1)

Player of the Game: Jim Edmonds - 1-3, HR, 4 RBI

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Rangers Lineup:

1. Ichiro Suzuki, CF
2. Jimmy Rollins, SS
3. Albert Pujols, 1B
4. Vladimir Guerrero, RF
5. Aramis Ramirez, 3B
6. Paul Lo Duca, C
7. Mark McLemore, DH
8. Corey Patterson, LF
9. Placido Polanco, 2B

Mariners Lineup:

1. Alex Gonzalez, SS
2. Randal Simon, DH
3. Jason Giambi, 1B
4. Jim Edmonds, CF
5. Josh Phelps, C
6. Karim Garcia, RF
7. Joe Crede, 3B
8. Ray Lankford, LF
9, Joe Thurston, 2B

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Stats:

Texas
2B: Rollins (4)
HR: Rollins (3), Lo Duca (1)
RBI: Rollins 2 (9), Ramirez (5), Lo Duca (3)
SB: Guerrero (1)

Seattle
2B: Thurston (4)
HR: Edmonds (3), Lankford (2)
RBI: Gonzalez (1), Simon (5), Edmonds 4 (7), Lankford 2 (5)


Texas
Astacio - 5.0 IP, 7 H, 3 ER, 3 K
Banks - 1.1 IP, 4 H, 4 ER, 0 K
Cormier - 1.2 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 0 K

Seattle
Drese - 7.0 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 6 K
Groom - 2.0 IP, 2 H, 2 ER, 2 K

[JT_55]

*gasp*

Oh no! You lost! There goes my 47 game win streak prediction...

At least Rollins and Lo Duca got homers.