FOOL-X 1973 Regular Season

[Alan T]

Portland plays 3 games vs Cleveland
Spring plays 3 games @ Ann Arbor

The schedule favors Portland, but being 3 games down with 3 to go, they still have to hope for a miracle here.

[Alan T]

Bardino Blitzes Ann Arbor
Friday, September 21st, 1973: Carlos Bardino of the Portland Grocers not only shut out Ann Arbor 5-0, he made it look effortless. Bardino stopped them on 4 hits to help the Grocers cruise past the Wolverines. His performance included 3 strikeouts and 1 walk.

For the season Bardino has logged 14 wins and 10 losses and struck out 130 batters in 212 innings while compiling a 4.29 ERA.

[Alan T]

9/23:

Portland 5, Cleveland 2
Spring 8, Ann Arbor 5 (10 innings)

Ironically enough, Spring and Ann Arbor were tied 3-3 after 9 innings. Spring scores 5 runs in the 10th and Ann Arbor scores 2 runs in the 10th. Regardless, with the win, the Spring Lions clinch the final 1973 playoff spot.

Ann Arbor and Spring still have two more games to play to determine who will have home field advantage before they play another best of 7 series vs each other.

If the right situation occurs, the two teams could technically end up playing a total of 11 games in a row vs each other between the end of the regular season and first round of the playoffs!

Ann Arbor 93-67 (M# 1 for homefield)
Spring 91-69 (2 GB)

[Alan T]

9/24:

Spring 7, Ann Arbor 0

Morales destroys the Wolverines to force the regular season title to the final game of the season.

Ann Arbor 93-68 (M# 1 for homefield)
Spring 92-69 (1 GB)

[Alan T]

Morales Stops Ann Arbor Cold
Monday, September 24th, 1973: Mauro Morales was sneaky fast, on the mark and hard to hit today. He blanked the Ann Arbor Wolverines 7-0 on 5 hits and had no walks and 9 strikeouts.

"You know what he's going to throw. You know what to expect. And you still can't hit it," the Ann Arbor skipper told reporters after the shutout loss to the Spring Lions.

"He just had a real deceiving fastball today and he was throwing it for strikes."

So far in 41 appearances this season, Morales has recorded 22 wins and sustained 12 losses. He has pitched 305 innings, yielded 289 hits, fanned 253 and has a 3.13 ERA.

[Alan T]

9/25:

Ann Arbor 7, Spring 4

Spring's come back was not meant to be as they get halted on the final day. Ann Arbor backs into the playoffs with homefield after having lost 4 of their last 10 games!

[Alan T]

Final 1973 Standings:

Continental League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 London Bishops 95 67 .586 - 95-67 0 54-27 41-40 9-6 32-30 Clinched L1 7-3 Washington Freedom 90 72 .556 5.0 86-76 4 50-31 40-41 10-9 28-23 W1 6-4 Mexico City Aztecs 87 75 .537 8.0 92-70 -5 47-34 40-41 7-8 20-24 W1 5-5 Boston Resettlers 75 87 .463 20.0 71-91 4 42-39 33-48 7-14 27-20 W2 2-8 Indianapolis Clowns 70 92 .432 25.0 72-90 -2 34-47 36-45 8-5 25-23 L2 7-3 Balzac Ticklers 69 93 .426 26.0 73-89 -4 38-43 31-50 5-4 17-29 L1 3-7

Republic League Standings

Team W L PCT GB Pyt.Rec Diff Home Away XInn 1Run M# Streak Last10 Ann Arbor Wolverines 94 68 .580 - 93-69 1 49-32 45-36 6-5 22-17 Clinched W1 4-6 Spring Lions 92 70 .568 2.0 94-68 -2 49-32 43-38 7-9 19-27 L1 7-3 Portland Grocers 90 72 .556 4.0 91-71 -1 45-36 45-36 8-8 28-24 W5 7-3 Virginia Beach Surf 81 81 .500 13.0 79-83 2 39-42 42-39 5-6 22-23 L1 6-4 Cleveland Naps 66 96 .407 28.0 75-87 -9 46-35 20-61 9-8 20-26 L6 2-8 New York Legends 63 99 .389 31.0 56-106 7 32-49 31-50 7-6 25-19 W1 4-6

[Alan T]

Final 1973 League Leaders:

League Leaders AVG J. Sosa - WAS .341 2 I. Pérez NY .340 3 J. Reyes BAL .323 4 J. Pegán ANN .322 5 C. Neal BAL .318	League Leaders HR J. Pegán - ANN 59 2 C. Estrada ANN 43 2 G. Wiegel MEX 43 4 R. Cook ANN 41 4 P. Rosebotham POR 41	League Leaders RBI J. Pegán - ANN 163 2 R. Flores BAL 162 3 R. Cook ANN 149 4 T. Tizzard ANN 138 5 G. Wiegel MEX 134
League Leaders W Y. Bujold - LON 25 2 M. Morales SPG 22 3 Ú. Moiteiro SPG 21 3 J. Ríos ANN 21 5 J. Rodríguez LON 19	League Leaders ERA Y. Bujold - LON 1.82 2 H. Arai MEX 2.53 3 M. Morales SPG 3.13 4 J. Ríos ANN 3.21 5 E. Meléndez BOS 3.31	League Leaders K J. Ríos - ANN 325 2 Y. Bujold LON 284 3 I. Ordóñez NY 258 4 M. Morales SPG 253 5 T. White LON 210

[spleen1015]

ROFL.

I am disappointed that my team didn't lose enough.

GO GO WASHINGTON!

[Alan T]

The new file is up!

Playoffs run tomorrow morning.

Washington vs London
Spring vs Ann Arbor

FIGHT!

[bz]

Another lousy season for NY .

Thank goodness we can't be fired or I would probably be out by now.

[spleen1015]

Is anyone else having trouble getting the file today?

[hyde4us11]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Is anyone else having trouble getting the file today?

I did the first time i tried. The second try it did complete but a tad on the slow side.

[spleen1015]

Mine keeps getting to 88% then dies with an error.

[Tasan]

Wow I'll take it after the horrible start we got off to. It looks like it took a while for the bats to catch up with the pitching, then the bullpen decided to take the season off after I traded a piece of it (1 run games were horrible for us).

[Montreal_GM]

Son of a beetch. Thought for sure I was going to crack through this year

[TheMeat]

Well, the Ticklers and the Clowns are officially the "laughing stock" of the CL

My team is in shambles.

[Alan T]

Originally Posted by TheMeat

Well, the Ticklers and the Clowns are officially the "laughing stock" of the CL

My team is in shambles.

[CleBrownsfan]

Wow - I just saw my home/away records

Home: 46-35
Away: 20-61

[Tasan]

Originally Posted by CleBrownsfan

Wow - I just saw my home/away records

Home: 46-35
Away: 20-61

You need to schedule more home games I think.