Juggs travel to punks . Game 1 Gonzales for Juggs , Beuhler for punks . Top of second two outs Muncy blasts a homer but Beuhler +22 turns it back no score . Top of 3rd Anderson two outs hits a bomb but buehler turns that back also no score . Bottom of 5th two outs Alfaro to 3rd on Harper single, Harper then attempts a steal E32, loses one from Molina makes him a 31 , but Juggs roll a 66 CS inning over . Still no score . Top of 8th buehler now upgrades to 19 Wong gets a lead off double with one out Wong steals 3rd , but peralta and Molina k no score . Bottom of 8th littel is in his 3rd inning of relief for Juggs , Alfaro lead off single, littel pulled , kahnle in hits Harper , pollock ks one out , first and second, Giles in to face Kendrick, Kendrick hits into a 3-6-6-3 DP . Still no score . Top of 9th Juggs top 3 batters go down to Buehler. Bottom of 9th Giles faces lead off Castellanos he rolls a 0 but Giles makes it a 7 single, trea turner in to PR , Correa up boom two run blast punks win 2-0 . Game 2 : minor for Juggs , Grienke for punks .top of first Anderson lead off single with two outs Cruz 2 run blast , Soler single Donaldson two run dinger Juggs up 4-0 . But no lead is ever safe in APBA . Bottom of second one out correa single freeman two run homer just like that punks back in the game Juggs up 4-2 . Top 3rd Springer lead off homer but Grienke +24 turns it back left stranded at second. Bottom of 3rd Castellanos lead off homer Juggs still up 4-3 . Top of 5th Springer again homer but turned back again by Grienke and to make things worse Anderson was caught stealing on the hit run by Springer on first pitch 14 result. Juggs up 4-3 . Bottom of 7th Dickerson error to lead off Correa one out walks pollock minor done 6.1 innings . Brebbia in faces Rosario, smack homer but +33 turns it into a double Brandon most likely wishes he hadn’t held pollock at 3rd which would have been go ahead run better than 50/50 for him to score , second and third one out Alfora up , Juggs change pitchers Kahnle in with his 152k rating . 8 now good for hitters . Punks PH Poser who has a much better contact card rolls a hit number but it’s a 9 Kahnle now a 19 makes it a strikeout, Alfaro had an 8 there . Harper pop out inning over game tied 4-4 . Top 9 th Yates brought in to face lead off slugger Soler gets him into a 1-3 po. One out , Donaldson double Edman PR steals third , Wong k , two outs , Punks manager walks Votto . Another bite me in the ass decision. Votto steals second to make the hitting board better for Juggs , Santana will PH for Molina , 8 are good now 0 changed to a single but Santana rolls a 66=1 Yates +53 doesn’t stop it 3 run blast Juggs up 7-4 . Bottom of 9 th two outs pollock on second with a double, Cordero pulled , Giles in gets Rosario for a save Juggs win 7-4 Cordero gets the win . Game 3 : Ryu for Juggs , Paddack for punks. Top of 3rd Muncy lead off homer , paddack is -15 for power . Molina one out walk Anderson single, Soler two out 3 run blast Juggs up 4-0. Bottom of 3rd pollock lead off walk Senzel homer +26 power stops it ( but his +46 control doesn’t stop walks ) runners 2nd and 3rd no outs,Ryu ks Alfaro , acuna and Kendrick Juggs still up 4-0 . Bottom of 5th with two outs Senzel single, Alfaro single , Acuna homer but Ryu stops another one two out two rbi double instead. Juggs up 4-2 . Bottom of 6th Devers lead off double. Intentionally walk +11 vs lefty Castellanos, Correa hits into a DP dever to third , Freeman flyout ends inning Juggs still lead 4-2 . Top 8th Soler lead off walk against Yates with two outs Donaldson single against new pitcher Neris, Wong walk fills bases with 2 outs Votto grounds out . Juggs up still 4-2 . Bottom of 8th Ryu still pitching Acuna lead off k , Kendrick walk Devers Fc two outs Castellanos walk (Ryu 3rd of game 4 with the IBB) . Relief called brebbia in face PH Bell .walk, bases full two outs freeman up . Cordero in relief gets freeman. Juggs still up and will win 4-2 Giles comes in bottom of 9th with one out to earn his 10th save of the season. Juggs record now 17-13 . Playing Bob Sunday morning. Juggs still have not faced a left handed starter . Every run Juggs got in this series was via a homerun. Juggs hit 9 homers but only kept 5 . Punks hit 6 only kept 3 . Game one Juggs 0/3/0 punks 2/7/0: game 2 )Juggs 7/10/1 punks 4/5/0. : game 3 ,Juggs 4/6/0. Punks 2/6/1.
Juggs Sweep Stars
Juggs end 7 game losing streak , travel to stars as home team . Game one Gonzales for Juggs Davies for stars .gonzales goes 7 ip for the win 6-5 . Juggs open bottom of first with a lead off homer by Anderson, Springer then walks , Soler with one out hits a dinger . Juggs up 3-0. Juggs get another run bottom of second, Juggs up 4-0 . Bottom of 4th Juggs load bases no outs but Molina hits into a 27 double play 5-2-2-3 , no runs . Top 6th lourdes Gurriel hits lead off solo shot . Juggs up 4-1 . Bottom of 7th Juggs get 2 more , would have been 3 but chapman turns back Soler homer , Juggs up 6-1 . Top of 8th stars make a comeback. Yaz lead off double on Gonzales. Gonzales pulled , brebbia in gets first batter , but walks marte, littel in now for Juggs , Sogard single second column rbi , locastro single rbi , Garver single rbi , Ramos hits into a double play inning over , Juggs up 6-4. Top 9 th littel faces Suarez, homer, turned back to double, Giles comes in to close game out for Juggs , but PH Pederson hits homer , but wait +26 Giles turns it into an rbi double Juggs lead cut to 6-5 , pr Taylor on 2nd no outs . Seager PH calls sack bunt rolls a 66 =1 ends up single runner to 3rd , no outs , calls sac again for PH Y Gurriel rolls a 65 Juggs fielding one gets Taylor at home one out . Gurriel then lines out and marte pops out game over Juggs win 6-5 . Game 2 minor for Juggs . Bedrosian for stars . Juggs again bottom of first gets a two rbi double from Donaldson after bedrosian +23 turns back his homer . Juggs up 2-0 . Bottom of 5th this time Soler loses his homer for a two out two rbi double, Juggs up 4-0 . Top of 8th stars come alive , Ramos lead off single , Garver k, Suarez single Pederson rbi single, runners on corners , Giles come in now for minor. Giles Wild pitch Suarez scores but Pederson out trying for 3rd second out Juggs up 4-2 bases empty , L Gurriel homer but Giles +26 turns it back ramirez k . Top 9th Giles gets batters 7,8,9 for his second save of series minor goes 7.1 for the win 4-2 . Game 3 Ryu for Juggs .Lynn for stars . Both pitchers get complete games but Ryu will get the win with 8 runs of support. Stars get 3 a two run bomb by Suarez and a run in the top of 9th , Garver homer knocked back to double one out later Pederson will hit another knocked back homer for an rbi double. Donaldson lost another homer in the series when lynn stopped his potential 3 run homer and made it a two rbi double Juggs scored 3 in bottom of first. Scored another 5 bottom of 8th Soler two run homer . Juggs win 8-3 . Record now 13-11. 8 homers turned back this series 4 by each team .
Juggs Sour
Juggs are sour against lemonheads . Juggs hosted the heads yesterday and only won one game of the series . But rolled enough hit numbers to have a shot at winning more unfortunately they were all 8s and not a single 8 was a hit in the series. . Game 1 : Rich Hill made his Debut going 6 ip 9 hits 5 ER 2 bb 7K 2 HR for the loss. Giolito pitched a complete game giving up only 1 hit 1 er 2 bb 10k one homer to Springer . Albies had a two run shot in the top of 4th for heads with 2 outs . Martinez had a two run shot also an inning earlier and in the second inning with 2 outs realmuto single then Blackmon rbi double. Juggs lose 5-1 . Juggs 1/1/0. Heads 5/10/0. Game 2 : heads top of first albies lead off double off Juggs starter Ryu, luplow single, Alberto rbi ground out , Martinez k, walker walk , Gallo walk , ( Ryu is a +46 for walks ) story a two out single scores 2 runs , heads up 3-0. Bottom of first Springer in 2 hole double, Soler batting clean up rbi double with 2 outs , Juggs down 3-1 . Top of second Blackmon lead off homer heads up 4-1 . Bottom of 3rd Juggs get their 3rd hit off stroman a lead off homer by Molina, Juggs down 4-2 . Top of 5th heads have runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out , but gallo and story both k. Top of 6th heads have runners on 1st and 2nd two outs , Ryu is pulled can’t face Alberto +8 , kahnle in , freese ph k. Bottom of 6th Springer lead off double, Canha ground out gets him to 3rd , Soler deep fly to RF sacs Springer in Juggs down 4-3 . Bottom of 9th Juggs are still down 4-3 , marshal is reliever for heads , Soler lead off ground out , Dickerson ground out , 2 outs , Donaldson double Wong pr, Edman PH for Muncy rolls a 66=1 homer game over , but no marshal +26 turns it back game tied at 4 , Peralta walk runners on 1st and 2nd, marshal pulled , May in , 3rd reliever for heads and all have negative control, may Walk’s Molina bases loaded 2 outs for Juggs lead off hitter Anderson. Anderson rolls a 45 = 14 ???? For a second both managers think may walked in Juggs winning run , but Anderson has a 39 at 45 . So we go to the rare play board and Anderson ends up with an rbi single Juggs win 5-4 . Littel will get the win for Juggs . Marshal gets the loss. Juggs 5/9/0 . Heads 4/9/0 . Game 3 : zac gallen for heads 19 2x -23/+25 . Paxton 16 2x +12/+11 for Juggs . Heads start their 3rd righty and Juggs as usual start all lefties. ( Juggs have yet to see a left handed starter thrown against them ) . Top of first, albies single luplow single, luplow steals second on a hit and run call , Martinez rbi ground out with runners on 2nd and 3rd, two outs , walker rbi single. Heads lead 2-0 . Top of 3rd heads have bases loaded one out , walker hits into a line drive doubleplay. Bottom of 3rd one out Juggs have runners on the corners Canha up his 8 s are good in this situation , Gallen is a 16 against him , every hit on Canha card is good 9 hits and all 5 walks plus a 42 . He rolls a 24 =k can’t even make contact. ~>€%##}|< . Top of 4th heads strand story at 3rd he had a lead off double. Bottom of 4th Dickerson lead off gets on by story error, Donaldson walk , Muncy walk , bases full no outs , Peralta sac fly to center , Molina walk bases loaded again one out , Anderson rolls a 65 but gallen doesn’t lose control second out , Springer flyout to right . All that and Juggs only get one unearned run Juggs down 2-1 . Top of 6th with two outs story double then Dan Santana homers heads lead 4-1 . Bottom of 6th with one out , Muncy walk , Peralta walk , Molina hits into a DP . Ugh . Bottom of 7th with two outs Canha draws a walk ( the 7th walk Gallen gives up in the game but Juggs still can’t get another run ) top of 9th Cordero starting his second inning of relief, Santana gets on by Anderson error realmuto single Blackmon two rbi double, heads up 6-1 , Romo comes in to face top of heads order and gets 3 outs . Bottom of 9th Juggs need 5 runs to tie, Gallen is still in and goes up 5 because he didn’t give up an earned run in 8 innings. But he is down 5 points from number of batters , grade is back to original 19 , Peralta will lead off and get on by story’s second error of the game , Carlos Santana will ph for Molina , Smack homer , but no +25 Gallen makes it a double. Juggs have to hold up Peralta at 3rd . Runners on 2nd and 3rd no outs ( instead of a 6-3 score ) Anderson single drives in Peralta for another unearned run heads still up 6-2 no outs . Springer up , Gallen is pulled (Gallen 8 ip 5 hits 2 runs 0 earned runs , 7 BB ,7K , 0 HR ) Sadler in a 20 righty. Runners on corners no outs , Springer hits a flyball to right field dan Santana strong arm 35 but only a 1 fielder , but bob rolls fielding one 49 advancement number instead of 59 in fielding 3 were pinch runner Ahmed would score automatically. But advance number is still good bob must roll a 6 to get Ahmed and of course he does Double play , Canha grounds out for final out of game . Juggs lose 6-2 . Gallen gets the win and Sadler a save . Juggs record now 10-5 only mike and Joel left to play . Juggs 2/5/2 heads 6/10/2 .
The Plague Tame Juggs
So many firsts for the Juggs in this away series vs the plague . Firstly it’s the first series we didn’t win . Second it’s the first series in which we had a game were we scored less than 4 runs . Juggs had every opportunity to sweep this series but just couldn’t continue our clutch hitting from game one . Juggs outdid the plague in most categories for the series and we still lost 2 games . Runs , Juggs 13 plague 14 . Hits : Juggs 26 , plague 22. Homers 3 each and we each turned one back . Extra base hits juggs 15, plague 10 . Walks : Juggs 8 , plague 7. Errors Juggs 1, plague 4. Runners left in scoring position which really hurt us . Juggs 15 , plague 7 . The plague also had two hit batters , Juggs had none . Game 1 ;means for the Juggs goes a solid 7 innings giving up 4 runs but will not get a win . Littel will will secure that win in the 8 th . Giles will come in the bottom of 9th no outs and a runner on 3rd , kiermeir hit a lead off triple off of littel, Giles gets stallings ground out runner holds , Nimmo k , buxtons 8 is good with runner on 3rd rbi single game now 7-5 , but Giles gets lemahieu to ground out for final out . Juggs win 7-5 Giles earns his 6th save in 7 appearances. Offensively in the game Prague took the lead with a lead off homer by lemahieu in bottom of 1st . Plague score 2 more bottom of 2nd goldschmidt lead off walk , kiemeir HBP, stallings walk , nimmo rbi single, buxton k , lemahieu sac fly rbi , Cain pop out , Juggs get one back top 3rd Peralta solo shot . Juggs down 3-1 . Top 4th Juggs tie it but Peralta is thrown out at home trying to take the lead on Molina single from second base . Plague roll a 65 one of many they will get in this series. 3-3 . Bottom 5th lemahieu will score after his lead off double. Plague up 4-3 . Top of 8th Edman gets a single with 2 outs from DH spot , he then steals second , Dickerson rbi double game tied at 4 . Top 9th Vazquez trying to close out for plague , even though he gave up the rbi double to Dickerson in 8th . Wong pop out , Peralta single off a 12 because Vazquez is a 30 grade , Molina second column double, Ahmed pr, Anderson fc moves Ahmed to 3rd but peralta is out at home plague played close . Springer walks fills bases. two outs , Santana will ph for Canha. 22=0 second column 6 becomes a 3 rbi double Juggs lead 7-4 . Plague score one in 9th . Juggs win 7-5 . Juggs 7/11/0 plague 5/7/0 beiber was the starter for plague went 7.2 ip. Game 2 : Gonzales for Juggs , maeda for plague a pair of opposite throwing 13 grades . Top 1st Anderson lead off walk Springer walk Canha DP , ugh. Juggs finally score top 4th take 1-0 lead . Plague answer back with a 3 hit one walk inning score 2 . Plague up 2-1 . Top 5th Juggs leave runners on 2nd and 3rd one out . Bottom 5th Alverez ph solo shot plague up 3-1 . Top 6th Juggs again leave runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out . Plague will win 3-1 . Juggs leave 6 men in scoring position. Juggs 1/4/1 plague 3/7/3 maeda win Green save . Game 3: minor for Juggs Luis Castillo for plague grade 16 s . Top of first Anderson lead off double Canha 5 is a homer but Castillo makes it an rbi double, Springer k , Soler single, but Dickerson and Donaldson both k only one run . Juggs up 1-0 . Top of 3rd Springer solo shot Juggs up 2-0 . Bottom of 3rd lemahieu two run dinger ties it 2-2 . Bottom of 4th bregman lead off single, Lindor single, goldschmidt rbi single buxton k , kiermeir rbi single, stallings sac fly rbi nimmo k plague score 3 up 5-2 , top 5th Juggs Canha hits a two run homer after losing his 8 at 22 his previous at bat in 3rd . Juggs down 5-4 . Top 8th Edman ph lead off double, stallings PB moves him to 3rd , Ahmed ph sac fly rbi scores him , Donaldson k , villar single attempts steal of second D31 caught for second time in game 3rd out . Game tied 5-5 . Top of 10th Edman gets on with a one out error by pitcher F runner to second, fatigue starts to set in for Juggs manager , I make a boneheaded mistake an attempt a steal of 3rd with Edmans last steal attempt, in my head I was only subtracting stallings +5 arm making Edman an E30 he is an (E35) , I forgot about the additional-5 for attempting 3rd making him a 25 I don’t attempt it . Well either way Ed rolls a 65 caught stealing second out Murphy will PH against lefty Vazquez and ground out . Bottom of 10th littel will face his 8th batter of the game and his 15th overall in 3 games , stallings ground out , nimmo double, Giles in now to face lemahieu, walk , Kepler walk , bases full one out , bregman gets a 9 Giles makes it a 27 3b Donaldson a 5 , fielding one DP , fielding 2 runner out at home , but no we roll a 65 for fielding 3 runner on 3rd scores game over . Juggs lose 6-5 . Juggs record now 9-3 . Juggs 5/11/0 plague 6/8/1 . Edman steal attempts are done for the season went 7-1 for 8 attempts.
Juggs-Punks
Juggs have offensive series with punks . Game 1 Beuhler vs Paxton. Paxton goes 7 for the win even though he gave up 4 homers and 5 runs , Beuhler gave up 3 homers and 7 runs . Juggs strike first bottom of first Anderson lead off double , Soler 2 out homer , Juggs 2-0 . Top of 2nd Freeman one out solo shot and Correa right behind him does the same 2-2 , bottom of 3rd , Soler connects again for a two out 3 run homer . Beuhler downgraded 5 points . Juggs up 5-2 . Bottom of 4th Donaldson lead off double, Peralta one out homer turned back into an rbi double, Juggs up 6-2 . Top 5th Alfonso one out 2 run homer , Juggs lead 6-4 . Bottom 5th Dickerson two out homer Juggs stay up 7-4 . Top 8th Harper lead off Homer . Paxton pulled after that and Juggs throw 4 relievers in last two innings to win 7-5 . Punks 5/7/1 Juggs 7 /9/ 0. 6 of the 7 hits for punks extra bases . 8 of 9 hits for Juggs extra bases . Juggs record 4-0 . Game 2 . I must say before write up for this game , that it was the greatest ABPA game I have played to date , the thrills and spills in this game went way above normal. Grienke 15 2y righty vs Means 16 2 lefty . Bottom of first Anderson lead of double, Springer rbi single, Dickerson hits a two out homer , but Grienke +24 turns it into a two out rbi double ( this will be very important for Dickerson later in game ), Juggs up 2-0. Top of 2nd Castellanos lead off double will score with one out on a two base error by Dickerson. Juggs lead 2-1 . Bottom of 2nd Molina will get a two out homer Juggs up 3-1 . Bottom of 3rd Springer lead off double gets to 3rd on Canha ground out , then scores on Soler ground out rbi to second , Dickerson up boom blasts a solo shot to make up for error , Juggs up 5-1 Grienke downgraded 5 points . Punks already mentally giving up on this game , so Juggs get a bit relaxed and stop being aggressive, bottom of 4th Juggs runners on 1st and second no outs , leave runners at 1st and 2nd . Bottom of 5th Canha gets on to lead the inning by a Kingery error at second base . Dickerson gets his 3rd hit of the game with one out an rbi triple , Donaldson then ks, Muncy walk but peralta k for 3rd out , two runners left on base again but Juggs still lead 6-1 . Top 7 means strikes out Kingery, Senzel single Alfonso one out two run homer, means pulled , littel in Harper flyout center 2 outs , Acuna double, littel out Cordero a 19 righty in , segura rbi double , Kendrick rbi single , Castellanos HBP , Cordero out , Ramirez lefty 14 in to face -9 Devers rolls a 55 =7 single rbi , runners on 1st and 3rd ramirez then throws a WP scores Castellanos and Devers to second, kahnle comes in to face kingery who is up for second time this inning and he flies out to center inning finally over . Punks score 6 runs and take the lead 7-6 . Bottom of 7th Murphy will PH for Votto who was a defensive replacement for Canha in top of 7th . Smith lefty relief was in to face votto , Muncy walk , Edman will PR and steal second . No outs , Soler moves Edman to 3rd on ground out , Dickerson his an rbi single to tie the game and be the first juggernaut to Hit For The Cycle. !!!! Villar will PR but gets caught stealing Donaldson who I originally was going to hit and run with rolls a 34=31 . Game tied . Top of 9th kahnle still in Acuna lead of k , then Santana makes an error at first base , Giles in but with no rest has appeared in 5 straight games Kendrick pop out left , bell PH for Castellanos gets a two base error by 9 secondbaseman Wong of RP board scores Correa for go ahead run but bell is caught in rundown for 3rd out . Punks lead 8-7 . Bottom 9th . Yates is in faced one batter previous inning, Ahmed lead off walk , Springer pop out , Edman 10 is a single Ahmed to 3rd , Edman steals second, Soler rolls a 44=0 second column rolls a 12 =8 single two rbis Juggs win 9-8 . Punks 8/10/1 Juggs 9/11/3 Juggs now 5-0 . Juggs lose game 3 8-4 punks hit 3 homers for half there runs paddack gets the win Gonzales the loss . Juggs record 5-1