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MLB 13 The Show: RTTS Starting Pitcher Career (Year 3/GM 9

Posted on December 8, 2013 at 09:23 PM.

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HAPPEL CAN'T DODGE NO-DECISION, LA STEALS WIN

Wednesday, May 20, 2015
BRONX, New York (OS) - Despite a brilliant performance by Yankees starter Brian Happel, the Dodgers come from behind with an eighth inning explosion to earn a split in the Interleague series with a 5-3 victory.

It's been the same story all season long for Happel, who has continued to come out and dominate in many starts but does not get much offensive support and ends up losing or taking a no-decision because of a bullpen blowup. On this night, the young righthander hurled 6 and 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing just two hits while collecting 10 strikeouts.

"That's just one of those things where you don't have any control over it, so you can't worry about it," said Happel. "I am just trying to stay focused on what I'm doing and make sure I keep my team in the game and give them a chance to win."

The 20-year-old flamethrower actually got some early support and a lead to work with. It came off the bat of Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano in the bottom of the first inning. Reid Brignanc had already singled to left with one out when Cano blasted his 13th dinger of the season out to the short porch in right field to give the Bronx Bombers a 2-0 advantage.

Happel made that lead hold while dodging a couple of Los Angeles scoring chances. In the fourth inning, he struck out Alex Gordon, but Gordon still reached first base on what was ruled a wild pitch from a Happel fastball. Matt Kemp followed with a ringing single to left, putting runners at first and second with just one out. But, Adrian Gonzalez went down swinging for a big second out, and then Happel got Andre Ethier to fly out to left and escape unscathed.

Happel gets David Wright looking, one of 10 strikeouts on the night.

In the fifth inning, an error and a single with two outs had the Dodgers threatening once again. But, once again, Happel came through by forcing a groundout to end the inning.

"You have to give him a lot of credit," said New York Manager Joe Girardi. "Brian really steps it up when he gets in trouble. He's got ice water in his veins, and that's really impressive for a pitcher who is so young like he is. It's unfortunate we couldn't hold it for him."

The second year starting pitcher finally got knocked out in the seventh inning after issuing back-to-back walks with two outs that included a few close pitches not going Happel's way.

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS: Happel shows that he can field his position, jumping off the mound to grab a grounder and throw the runner out at first.

"That was certainly frustrating. I at least wanted to finish out the inning, and I really felt like I had the corner on a couple of those pitches. But, the umpire disagreed, and he's the one that matters when it comes down to it."

Shawn Kelley came in and got the final out to keep the lead in tact. But, after struggling all game long to get any offense going, L.A. exploded in the eighth with 5 runs. Three of them came off the bat of Andre Ethier to give the Dodgers the lead for good.

2015 Brian Happel Career Interleague Stats - Pitching
DIVISION	G	IP	W-L	PCT	R	ER	ERA	QS	BB	BB/9	K	K/9	AVG	H/9	WHIP
N.L. West	4	24.1	1-2	.333	7	5	1.85	3	3	1.11	29	10.73	.235	8.51	1.07

The comeback capped off another frustrating Interleague outing for Happel. Despite posting an ERA under 2.00 and striking out 29 batters in 24 and 1/3 innings, the 20-year-old still only has a 1-2 record. All of those numbers come against the National League West.

Next Start \| May 26, 2015
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Jon Lester \| Boston (3-3 4.39 60 K 24 BB, Away)		Brian Happel \| NY Yankees (4-3 2.34 73 K 9 BB, Home)

As for Happel, his next start will come on the hill at Yankee Stadium against New York's hated rivals, the Boston Red Sox. The start could be a key one in the young season, as the Yanks trail the Sox by 3 games in the A.L. East right now. It also promises to be a huge pitching matchup, with Boston likely countering with veteran Jon Lester.

Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Yankees
May 20, 2015	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Los Angeles (26-14)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	5	7	0
New York (22-19)	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	9	1
W: Shawn Tolleson (4-2) L: Boone Logan (2-1) S: Jim Johnson (10)

Scoring Summary
SCORING DETAILS			LAD	NYY
NYY	1	Cano HOMERED (13) to right, Brignac scored	0	2
LAD	8	Kemp SINGLED to left, Rodriguez scored	1	2
LAD	8	Ethier HOMERED (5) to right, Gordon and Gonzalez scored	4	2
LAD	8	Ellis BASES LOADED WALK, Ramirez scored	5	2
NYY	8	Granderson HOMERED (5) to right	5	3

Los Angeles Dodgers
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Rodriguez 2B	5	1	1	0	0	1	.239
Gordon LF	4	1	0	0	1	1	.296
Kemp CF	5	0	2	1	0	2	.288
Gonzalez 1B	5	1	0	0	0	2	.291
Ethier RF	5	1	1	3	0	1	.304
Ramirez SS	4	1	1	0	0	1	.353
Wright 3B	3	0	1	0	1	1	.273
Coyle DH	2	0	0	0	2	1	.214
Ellis C	3	0	1	1	1	0	.212
TOTALS	36	5	7	5	5	10
BATTING HR: A. Ethier (5) RBI: M. Kemp (24), A. Ethier 3 (28), A. Ellis (11)
BASERUNNING SB: H. Ramirez (5)

Los Angeles Dodgers
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
Z. Britton	5.2	6	2	2	3	3	3.74
S. Tolleson (W, 4-2)	1.1	0	0	0	0	3	2.61
K. Jansen	0.0	1	1	1	0	0	2.60
A. Liberatore (H, 2)	1.0	1	0	0	1	1	4.15
J. Johnson (SV, 10)	1.0	1	0	0	0	1	4.22
TOTALS	9.0	9	3	3	4	8

New York Yankees
HITTERS	AB	R	H	BI	BB	SO	AVG
Williams CF	3	0	0	0	2	2	.285
Brignac SS	5	1	1	0	0	1	.243
Cano 2B	4	1	3	2	1	0	.282
Granderson DH	4	1	1	1	0	1	.226
Beltre 3B	4	0	1	0	0	0	.246
Austin RF	4	0	2	0	0	2	.183
Howard 1B	3	0	1	0	0	0	.261
Cervelli PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	.325
LaRoche 1B	0	0	0	0	0	0	.330
Buck C	3	0	0	0	1	0	.164
Peguero LF	3	0	0	0	0	1	.207
Rodriguez PH-LF	1	0	0	0	0	1	.233
TOTALS	35	3	9	3	4	8
BATTING 2B: R. Howard (4), T. Austin (7) HR: R. Cano (13), C. Granderson (5) RBI: R. Cano 2 (34), C. Granderson (23) HBP: C. Granderson
FIELDING E: A. Beltre (2)

New York Yankees
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA
B. Happel	6.2	2	0	0	2	10	2.34
S. Kelley (H, 3)	0.1	2	2	2	1	0	6.12
B. Logan (L, 2-1)	0.1	2	3	3	0	0	2.33
P. Neshek	0.0	1	0	0	2	0	6.86
R. Montero	1.2	0	0	0	0	0	0.89
TOTALS	9.0	7	5	5	5	10
PITCHING WP: B. Happel (2)

Comments

# 1 philliesfan136 @ Dec 30

hey, Haps. remember you from dynastymanager!

I'm curious how you made that "Next Matchup" table. Thanks.

# 2 Hapshoops32 @ Jan 1

Hey Philliesfan! Basically, I used the matchup preview template under Basketball - And then turned off Projected Starters, Injury Report and Game Notes. In the Overall W-L boxes, I put the starting pitcher names and team. In the Road W-L/Home W-L boxes, I put some of the stats - W-L, ERA, BB and K. Then, i created the table and had to fiddle around with the actual code a little bit - I had selected the two teams (or you can keep them as Atlanta Hawks), so I replaced the picture with the pictures of the 2 starters - I also had to change the height/width for the 2 pics (i don't think it shows up in the actual code, you have to add it). I also changed the title to say "Next Start" instead of Matchup Preview or whatever it usually says. Basically, used the template and fiddled with it to make what I wanted. Hope that makes sense...