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Voice-over pro. Former broadcaster. Current president of Harrisburg Senators Fan Club. My passion is "baseball" - the strategic nine-player game (without a DH) where each player must run, hit and field.
2019 First Period

Juggs vs. The Plague

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Juggs travel Plague for 3 game series. Game 1 Chacin vs Rodriguez, Juggs are down 6-0 going into top of 7th . Nimmo lead off single in first and scores off moustakas sac fly . 1-0 plague. Bottom 4th , chacin hits bregman first batter of inning, two batters later kermier one out 2 run homer , goldschmidt  K’s two outs , McCann walks wendle rbi double, Hamilton flys out to center to end inning 4-0 plague. Juggs finally score top of 7th lead off solo shot by Gennett. 5-1 plague. Top off 8th Juggs have awesome 2 out rally . Muncy single Winker single , Rodriguez pulled and lefty Vasquez comes in to face Hicks . Villar will PR for Winker on first stay in DH spot . With 2 outs runners on first and second, Juggs PH for Hicks with CJ Cron (+5/-4)who is 0-12 coming into this at bat . Cron 9 -single scores Muncy from second. Runners 1st and 3rd now Gennett up Boom 3 run blast off Vasquez +36, ball game tied 5-5 Iglesias ph for Dejong and Ks. Bottom 8th plague come right back and get a PH homer from Lindor hitting for moustakas (he had two sac fly rbi to right field earlier in game ) Buchter is mad he left one hang over plate for his first batter after replacing Chacin. He then gets the next three batters . Plague 6-5 . Top of 9th Vazquez still in to face Molina who flys to right. Then the speedy Smith forces a bad throw by Lindor and gets on first E-6 , plague PH for Peralta-10 vs lefty, with Judge . Plague answer with stammen and stammen Ks judge. 2outs runner on first . Votto walks , Muncy (5) homer turned to double +46 smith and Votto score, villar singles then steals second . Muncy on 3rd villar on second two outs Gennett up going for 3rd homer of game new pitcher comes in Hunter grade 9 +33/+22 and gets the strikeout. Juggs now ahead 9-6 . Buchter starts the 9th wendle flyout, Hamilton K, Nimmo walks , buchter out Hirano in to face Kepler and Ks him for a save Buchter gets the win .

 

Game 2 carasco vs Severino Carasco gets a CG win 5-1 . Votto went 3/4 2runs scored and rbi 2b Plus a walk, Muncy 2/5 run scored 4 RBI double (2nd Homer for him turned back in series ) and a homerun. Villar PR for his 7th SBjuggs had 10 hits to plagues 4 . Game 3 plague pull out a win in bottom of 10th with one out Cain gets a single then steals second and third , lemahieu up Hirano brought in since Oh couldn’t close the deal . Hirano gets a huge K against contact king Lemahieu 2 outs can play deep now but Lindor rolls a 15=10 and Hirano misses it by one column singles plague win 6-5 .wood had started the game for Juggs but was pulled after 4 innings and 5 ER. Maeda went 6 for plague but stammen closed out the tenth for the win . Dejong had a two run homer by Dejong in 4th and Hicks solo shot in 6th . Top of 8th Villar PR for Muncy after he walked and stole second with one out Winker then ground out to second getting Villar to 3rd . Two outs Villar Steals home to tie score 5-5 . Villar now 9 for 9 in SB . Lemahieu 3/5 two doubles two RBI wendle 2/4 with rbi triple for plague . Juggs Record now 7-5

2018 Post-Season

2018 Juggs Run

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Just some ending stats and notes from championship series. Total runs scored : Lemons 25 , Juggs 26. Total hits : Lemons 56, Juggs 47. Total Home runs hit and turned back : Lemons actual homers 8 turned back 6. Juggs actual homers 8 turned back 9. Total SB and CS: Lemons SB 2 CS 1 ( all Blackmon), Juggs SB 1 CS 2. Hit batsman: Lemons 1 ( Jose Martinez) Juggs 1 (Donaldson) . Total walks: Lemons 15, Juggs 23. Total errors: Lemons 5, Juggs 1.  In game 5 we had a RP result, Schoop on second after hitting a HR turned back to a double, one out Molina PH for Barnhart, RP results in Molina getting a single but Schoop is called out for coming into contact with ground ball. Juggs still managed to win that game 6-5 in ten innings. That was the only extra innings game of the series. I sent out all my score sheets from series on email if you would like to look at them. Juggs one weakness this year was lack of speed and quality base stealers, which left us vulnerable to hitting into double plays and not scoring from second. Also could not manufacture a run when needed. It was home run or bust. I must say Bob made some very good pitching moves at key times in the series. Congratulations again, Bob. 

Manager Tim

2018 Post-Season

2018 Championship Series – Determined

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Juggs take game 5 at Lemons for a 3-2 series lead . Lemons jump to 2-0 lead on Duvall two run shot bottom of 2nd. Juggs tie in 4th . But lemons Duvall again 2 run homer bottom of 5th . 4-2 lemons . Juggs get one back 7th but lemons also get one in bottom 7th. 5-3 lemons . Juggs score one run in 8th 9th and 10th to win game . Juggs hit 5 homers all five turned back to doubles . Juggs win game 6-5 in ten.

Juggs get crushed in game 6 . Home field meant nothing as Stroman pitched a 2 hit shutout. Gonzalez avoided all kinds of trouble for first five then gives up two run shot to gallo (3for3 single double HR and a walk ) 2-0 lemons top of 6th . They score 5 more in 7th . Win 7-0.

Manager Tim

Game 7

Heads score 3 top 2nd on Duvall 2ebi 3B and Realmuto RBI 1b. Juggs score 3 in 5th on Springer RBI 2B, Molina PH RBI 1B and DeJong PH Sac Fly. Juggs get a solo HR from Votto in 7th vs +42 Gearrin. Teammates bail him out in the 8th with a Blackmon 10 single vs a 19, he steals 2nd on a botched Murphy H&R, Murphy rolls a HR that gets turned back, Kinsler pinch runs, JD rolls a homer that gets turned back but gives Heads the lead. Gearrin gets thru the 8th and Green slams the door in the 9th for the Lemonheads 2nd OOTL title!!

It was an Instant Classic series. 

Duvall 6-24, 2b, 3b, 4runs, 10rbi, and 2 2hr games. 

Bob Boyd
OOTL 2018 Champions

2018 Post-Season

2018 Championship Series – Deadlocked

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Lemons and Juggs tied at 2 games a piece. Lemons win game 1 2-0 at Juggs . Juggs win game 2 5-3 at home . Game 3 at Lemons Juggs win 9-0 . Game 4 at Lemons Juggs lose 3-2 , that game tied 2-2 top of 5th Juggs load bases no outs . Judge rolls a 24 result only one on card , Lemons were playing close , but roll fielding 3 so only one out at home plate . Donaldson up next gets a 27 3b play result, DP . Unbelievable. Juggs mentally broke after that . Bottom of 5th 2 outs . Neshek in +43 vs homers gives up homer to Jose Martinez. Lemons take 3-2 lead and hold it for win . Juggs did have a two out PH double by Dejong, Hicks up next , but Juggs debate PH K Seager he has a 0 at 22 Hicks only an 8 . But Hicks has a better chance to get on base so I talk myself out of it . Yep I roll a 22 which would have been a 0 but taken to 7 by pitcher . But Dejong would have most likely scored to tie it . 😑. Juggs travel to Lemons next Sunday to finish up series.

Manager Tim

2018 Post-Season

#3 Seed Analysis

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Sometimes it’s good therapy to get things down on paper. From top to bottom this may have been the best Bastards team I’ve fielded.

While I made two trades, one for the future and another for the present and future, the pieces were there to contend for another title. But as a fan, an athlete and game player this current Bastards run seems to fall right in line with it all…get one title.
Rams in 1999 – should have one at least one more
Phillies in 2008 – had a chance to win 2 or even 3 more
Over 40 baseball – 5 years, 1 title, 3 championship game losses to the Phillies and the one title was the year the a Phillies weren’t in the league…go figure
My current softball team – 1 title but the last 2 seasons failure in the championship round
Bastards 2014 – title, but last year I ran into a great team coupled with a rolling BDUB and this year I just simply didn’t get things done v the Juggs.

But hey 1 is better than none. I’m the only team to go to the playoffs in each of the last 6 years. I have work to do at the draft but I hope to make it 7 in a row next year. Yes, you will all hear me bitch about the travesty that is Mike Trout’s card compared to the multitude of stiffs that will be drafted but it is what it is.

Good luck to Tim and Bob in the World Series…my money is on a lot of HR’s being hit to produce runs.

And lastly – the 2nd and 3rd board with less than 2 outs and play result of 23-12 can absolutely positively eat shit. The last 4 times I’ve played it’s happened 5 times…I lined into 4 of those 5 DP’s.

Ok I’m better now. Take care everyone.

Manager Steve