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Comments – Jeff Sajdak (Reporting on Series #8 with
Long Island) – All four games are 1-run affairs. Grand
Rapids wins 3 of the 4, as Doc Sajdak blasts grand slams in consecutive
games. Bob Wood - Prior
to Doc's feat, the entire LEAGUE had a total of TWO grand slams this season. Bob Braun - I
am quite certain Doc's feat will never be duplicated. Well done, Doc! Marty Fiehl - Grand
Rapids is currently on the train for its next series in South
Starrucca……Pitching coaches here have already held their meetings and
conclude with the following strategy: Should Doc “Four Bagger Vance” Sajdak
come to the plate with the bases loaded during our series………..we
are going to respect his power and walk him; using the theory ‘its better to give up one run rather than have him punish
us for four.’ OR Maybe we just give him a shot at
adding to what will be an Origins Record of “Most Grand Slams in Season”. The Ainspan PR Department is
putting together a quick Promotion in honor of Doc’s
accomplishments: All Medical Personnel attending the game
will receive a ‘baseball bat tongue depressor’.
(Ainspan Promotional Budget is
almost non-existent after the VP of Advertising, Enron Hubbard, skimmed off
the top to buy a new car)
Looking forward to the Grand
Rapid’s arrival and all the hoopla surrounding Doc Sajdak’s achievement!
(That’s Doc on the left!
He’s held up fairly well over the last 112 years!) Bob Braun - Doc bears a striking resemblance to Stick
Fiehl! Marty Fiehl -
Only 90 minutes to go before the two teams meet to determine the
winner of the Seitz Division, breaking the tie on the Race to Round 1 of the
Origin Playoffs! It’ll be HOF Chief Bender on the mound for Buffalo, looking for the scalps of Mountaineers!
He will be opposed by yet another HOF, Big Train Walter Johnson!
Clear your schedule tonite, it might be 18 innings before one of the teams can score! (and there’s no Ghostie Runner on secondbase at the start of xtra innings!) With Pre-game stretching out of the way for the Mules, Ty Cobb is honing his spikes in anticipation of some close calls on the basepaths…….
While Fred Merkle On the Turin side of the field…
Eddie Plank is working on a new exercise he’s developing that will later be named after him after he works a few of the bugs out of the process. And Padre Pio can be seen working on a Team Prayer….
...though I’m not sure how he’s going to come up with something that rhymes with “Put one in No No Katon’s Ear!” Should be a good one tonight at 8 am Eastern! Tickets are going fast! (I’m saving a seat next to me, just in case my ‘baseball date’ shows up!)
JR Richardson - It was truly a
game for the ages as Turin and Buffalo decided the Seitz Division at the
Mules' home stadium tonight. Both Walter Johnson and Chief Bender threw
complete games, which sounds impressive even before I tell you that the game
went SIXTEEN innings. ...not only that, but neither team scored until that final
inning. Thirty-two half innings of baseball, and 1 skinny little run. These
two teams, who had the same record after 154 games, held the exact same score
for 15 innings, a pair of goose eggs that seemed to be stuck there forever. Turin put a runner on 2nd in the first when
LaPorte doubled. No dice. Turin put a runner on 2nd in the third when
Walter doubled. No dice. Buffalo put a runner on 2nd in the fifth when
Merkle singled and stole second. But no. Turin had 1st and 3rd with NO
OUT in the eighth, but Bender fanned two guys before getting out of it. Turin got Wagner to 2nd in the ninth but
stranded him. Buffalo finally got Cobb on base in the bottom of the ninth and
got him to second in front of a walk to Magee, but Johnson got the next two
to force extras. Turin got pinch-runner Ed McDonald to 2nd in the
tenth, but Bender got Luderus to end that inning. Buffalo got a leadoff double from Magee in the bottom of the
fifteenth, but Luderus threw him out at 3rd on
an Austin bunt, and the threat ended there. Finally, it was a leadoff double by Luderus
in the 16th followed by an intentional walk, a bunt, and
another intentional walk. Solly Hofman hit a grounder to third, and Austin
could only step on the bag for the out while Luderus
scored. That was it. The only run. After Johnson got the first two out in the bottom of the 16th,
Bender was finally lifted for pinch-hitter Art Wilson - who doubled, keeping
the game alive. ...for TY COBB. Right. Cobb was shown the path to first base on a walk, bringing up Dolly Stark, filling in for
injured Amby McConnell. After Johnson made it extra-interesting by throwing a
wild pitch, Stark hit a long fly ball to center field ...and Red Murray ran
it down, ending the game. Walter Johnson will be back a week from next Tuesday after
facing a tidy 56 batters, while Chief Bender is currently having his arm
surgically reattached to his body after facing 63 batters. (I believe that
involved leeches in 1911.) Bob Wood - Long
Island's Bill Sweeney won the Gold Glove at 2nd base with 17 of 20 possible points,
leading the league in fielding pct as well.
Bradenton's Heinie Zimmerman was the unanimous choice for the
Gold Glove at 3rd base, leading the league in both fielding pct and range for
a perfect 20 point total.
Shortstop Joe Tinker won a Gold Glove with Pittsburgh, finishing
2nd in both range and fielding for an 18 point total.
Sam Crawford led the league in fielding pct and totaled 18
points in Left Field to win the Gold Glove for Grand Rapids. It's worth
noting that DOC LYON led the league in RANGE!
Duplicating the effort of his MLB Tiger teammates, Ty Cobb
led the league in fielding pct to win a Gold Glove, this one for Buffalo, with
a 15-point total.
Our final award went to catcher Jimmy Archer, of Bradenton,
who was runner-up in both OSBA and fielding pct (George Gibson led in pct,
Billy Sullivan in OSBA) for an 18 point total and
the Gold Glove
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