(19:32:37) Commish: Welcome to the 2026 PEBA All-Star Game!
(19:33:07) Commish: Conditions for baseball are just about perfect tonight in PRTC Stadium here in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We have clear skies and a 13 mph wind blowing out to right.
(19:33:34) Commish: Let's look at tonight's starting line-ups. First, for the Sovereign League:
(19:33:50) Commish: Batting First, Representing the Kalamazoo Badgers, Center Fielder Rubén Jiménez.
(19:34:05) Commish: Batting Second, Representing the Aurora Borealis, Designated Hitter Pedro Ferringo.
(19:34:22) Commish: Batting Third, Representing the Okinawa Shia, First Baseman Alex Bothwell.
(19:34:34) Commish: Batting Fourth, Representing the Reno Zephyrs, Right Fielder Rowan Stuart.
(19:34:46) Commish: Batting Fifth, Representing the Shin Seiki Evas, Shortstop Christian Webb.
(19:35:02) Commish: Batting Sixth, Representing the Toyama Wind Dancers, Catcher Lorenzo Amador.
(19:35:20) Commish: Batting Seventh, Representing the Toyama Wind Dancers, Second Baseman José Escobido.
(19:35:36) Commish: Batting Eighth, Representing the Crystal Lake Sandgnats, Left Fielder Raúl Uribe.
(19:35:49) Commish: Batting Ninth, Representing the Palm Springs Codgers, Third Baseman Felipe Días.
(19:36:04) Wind_Dancers: And the one person in the chat goes wild!
(19:36:06) Commish: And starting on the mound for the SL, Representing the Aurora Borealis, Michel Provost.
(19:36:18) Commish: Next, the Imperial League:
(19:36:26) Commish: Batting First, Representing the West Virginia Alleghenies, Third Baseman Alejandro Luján.
(19:36:52) Commish: Batting Second, Representing the Florida Featherheads, Designated Hitter Robert Johnson.
(19:37:00) Commish: Batting Third, Representing the Florida Featherheads, Left Fielder Danny Burton.
(19:37:08) Commish: Batting Fourth, Representing the Arlington Bureaucrats, Right Fielder Pat Barry.
(19:37:17) Commish: Batting Fifth, Representing the San Antonio Calzones, Center Fielder Raúl Ortega.
(19:37:26) Commish: Batting Sixth, Representing the Florida Featherheads, First Baseman Wilson Muñóz.
(19:37:39) Commish: Batting Seventh, Representing the San Antonio Calzones, Second Baseman Roberto Díaz.
(19:37:48) Commish: Batting Eighth, Representing the London Underground, Catcher Samuel Kettley.
(19:37:56) Commish: Batting Ninth, Representing the Arlington Bureaucrats, Shortstop Pablo Garza.
(19:38:07) Commish: And starting on the mound for the SL, Representing the Arlington Bureaucrats, Motoyuki Hatsutori.
(19:42:24) Commish: After the singing of several national anthems, we are ready to play ball!
Jiménez, the lead-off man, digs in.
He takes a 2-1 pitch and drives it deep to center left for a double!
(19:44:26) Commish: Ferringo is up next. He belts a daisy cutter between second and first for a single. Jiminez advances to third.
(19:45:58) Commish: Next up is slugger Alex Bothwell. A sac foul brings Jimenez home.
(19:47:06) Commish: Rowan Stuart comes up with a man on second. He grounds out to first. Ferringo takes third.
(19:48:12) Commish: Webb hits a slow roller to first, and Munoz steps on the bag, ending the top of the first.
(19:48:25) Commish: SL 1 - IL 0.
(19:48:35) Commish: Bottom of the First.
(19:49:31) Commish: Lujan flies out to third.
(19:49:46) Admin: Thoroughbreds logs into the Chat.
(19:50:04) Thoroughbreds: 8o
(19:50:14) Commish: Robert Johnson goes down swinging.
(19:50:22) Wind_Dancers: And a second fan shows up to the game!
(19:51:07) Commish: Burton grounds out, 6-3. And that ends the inning.
(19:51:32) Commish: Moving on to the top of the second.
(19:51:35) Commish: SL 1 - IL 0
(19:52:08) Commish: Amador grounds out to second.
(19:53:10) Commish: West Virginia's Gunner MacGrudder in to pitch.
(19:53:42) Commish: He gets Escobido looking for out number 2.
(19:54:14) Commish: Uribe grounds out to second.
(19:54:25) Commish: On to the bottom of the second.
(19:54:28) Commish: SL 1 - IL 0
(19:55:07) Commish: Shin Seiki's Victor Latham in to pitch.
(19:55:19) Thoroughbreds: >:-D boooooooo >:-D
(19:55:32) Commish: Pat Barry at the plate.
(19:55:48) Commish: F-8.
(19:56:01) Admin: Dinosaurs logs into the Chat.
(19:56:06) Commish: Ortega's up next.
(19:56:26) Thoroughbreds: B)
(19:57:00) Commish: No! Center fielder could not get to it! Barry is aboard.
(19:57:10) Commish: Now Ortega.
(19:57:45) Thoroughbreds: woooooooooooooooooo!!!
(19:57:47) Commish: Grounder to short. No play at second, and Ortega is thrown out at first.
(19:58:15) Commish: Man on second for Munoz.
(19:58:57) Commish: Latham delivers a four pitch walk. he wanted no part of Munoz.
(19:59:14) Commish: Men on first and second. One out.
(19:59:31) Commish: Diaz comes up.
(20:00:23) Commish: Liner to first. Bothwell dives and makes the catch, tagging the bag for an unassisted double play.
(20:00:35) Commish: Bothwell not known for his glove work, but came through there.
(20:01:10) Commish: On to the third.
SL 1 - IL 0
(20:01:18) Thoroughbreds: uggggggggggg
(20:01:34) Commish: Florida's Jose Diaz takes the mound.
(20:01:59) Commish: Codger, Dias at the plate.
(20:02:45) Commish: He yanks one down the right field line! 365 ft.
(20:02:54) Wind_Dancers: woooo!
(20:02:56) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:03:25) Commish: Jimenez gets his 2nd at-bat.
(20:03:56) Commish: A comebacker that the pitcher casually deals with.
(20:04:20) Commish: One down.
(20:04:46) Commish: Ferringo goes down swinging.
(20:04:50) Commish: Two away.
(20:05:27) Commish: Bothwell steps up, and hits a grounder through to right field.
(20:06:12) Commish: Stuart's grounder goes up the same hole. Runners on the corners.
(20:06:35) Commish: Eva's Webb steps up.
(20:07:02) Commish: A dying quail in shallow right.
(20:07:13) Commish: Caught!
and the inning is over
(20:07:25) Thoroughbreds: sure 2 SLers and only 1 ILer
(20:07:28) Commish: or half inning is anyway
(20:07:38) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:08:09) Commish: Fargo's Ernesto Molina is in to pitch.
(20:08:39) Commish: London's Kettley at the plate.
(20:08:56) Commish: A three pitch K for Molina.
(20:08:59) Wind_Dancers: Good to see London representing
(20:09:32) Dinosaurs: Molina dealing is a nice sign for the Fargo faithful and the SL
(20:09:33) Commish: Garza is up.
(20:09:52) Commish: Walks him.
(20:09:57) Commish: Runner on first.
(20:10:36) Commish: Lead-off man Lujan is up.
(20:11:02) Commish: And that will be a 6-4-3 double play!
(20:11:32) Commish: SL infield is flashing the leather tonight.
(20:11:58) Commish: On to the 4th
(20:12:05) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:12:40) Commish: Havana's Kenny Ashley takes the mound.
(20:12:58) Commish: Amador at the plate.
(20:13:29) Commish: Struck him out!
(20:13:52) Commish: Up next Escobido.
(20:14:36) Commish: Check swing, and he went around. Two strike outs for Ashley, who is dealing.
(20:15:05) Wind_Dancers: Escobido with 2 k's already
(20:15:33) Commish: Uribe up, and a chopper up the middle. Fielded by Ashley and over to first to retire the side.
(20:16:02) Commish: A quiet half-inning for the SL.
SL 2 - IL 0
(20:16:50) Commish: Crystal Lake's Jim MacCowan takes the mound.
(20:17:04) Commish: At the plate is Robert Johnson.
(20:17:30) Commish: Struck him out!
(20:17:52) Commish: Danny Burton is up.
(20:18:22) Commish: Dribbler back to the mound, easily handled for out number two.
(20:18:42) Commish: Pat Barry is up.
(20:19:28) Commish: Dribbler up the line, and Barry beats the throw from Bothwell!
(20:19:48) Commish: Ortega is up.
(20:20:51) Commish: Liner to second is caught by Escobido!
(20:20:59) Commish: Inning over.
(20:21:01) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:21:16) Commish: On to the fifth.
(20:22:14) Commish: Now pitching, local favorite To-wai Zhou.
(20:22:42) Commish: Dias at the plate.
(20:22:45) Commish: 4-3
(20:23:32) Commish: Pinch hitting, is Badger RF Jose Guillen.
(20:24:07) Commish: Walks him.
(20:24:24) Commish: Ferringo is up.
(20:24:57) Commish: Hard hit to Munoz, over to second for one, and no throw to first.
(20:25:10) Commish: Ferringo reaches on a fielder's choice.
(20:25:39) Commish: Bothwell is up.
(20:26:07) Commish: Ferringo steals second!
(20:26:39) Commish: And Bothwell goes down swinging.
(20:27:04) Commish: Bottom of the fifth.
(20:27:12) Admin: Thoroughbreds rolls 1d6 and gets 6.
(20:27:25) Commish: Duluth's Julian Thomas is on the mound.
(20:27:48) Commish: Munoz at the plate.
(20:28:23) Commish: Strikes him out with a 4-3 fastball.
(20:28:44) Commish: Diaz is up.
(20:28:48) Commish: 4-3
(20:29:27) Commish: Kettley up, and down after a chopper to short.
(20:29:41) Commish: On to the sixth.
(20:29:43) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:30:34) Commish: Pitching for the IL, Calzone Yasutoki Ine.
(20:30:52) Commish: Stuart at the plate.
(20:31:02) Commish: K
(20:31:20) Commish: Webb is up.
(20:31:37) Commish: K
(20:32:05) Commish: Amador attempts to buck the trend.
(20:32:30) Commish: And cannot, Ine gets him looking.
(20:32:46) Commish: That's three Ks for Ine.
(20:33:22) Commish: Bottom of the sixth, another Badger, David Lopez takes the mound.
(20:33:51) Commish: Garza steps in.
(20:34:03) Admin: Warriors logs into the Chat.
(20:34:13) Commish: Struck him out!
(20:34:33) Commish: Back to the top of the order with Lujan.
(20:35:07) Commish: Grounder up the middle for a base hit.
(20:35:31) Commish: Man on first for Robert Johnson.
(20:35:56) Commish: Struck him out!
(20:36:18) Commish: Burton will try to get a two-out rally going.
(20:36:53) Commish: Grounds to short, force at second will end the inning.
(20:37:35) Commish: On to the seventh.
(20:37:37) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:38:14) Commish: West Virginia's Chris York now pitching for the IL.
(20:38:34) Commish: Sporting a gaudy 1.42 ERA so far on the year.
(20:38:54) Commish: Escobido at-bat.
(20:39:38) Commish: And Escobido strikes out for the third time tonight.
(20:39:54) Commish: Uribe steps up.
(20:40:19) Commish: And struck him out!
(20:40:41) Commish: Dias comes up.
(20:41:21) Commish: Chopper to the mound, gloved, and over to first to retire the side.
(20:41:49) Commish: Seventh inning stretch.
(20:42:50) Thoroughbreds: :favorite:
(20:43:06) Commish: Codger Jim Ratzlaff will pitch for the SL.
(20:43:48) Commish: Florida's Alfredo Hinojosa pinch hitting.
(20:44:16) Commish: K
(20:45:06) Commish: New Orleans center fielder Okitsugu Shimizu comes into the game.
(20:46:22) Commish: Codger Reynaldo Molina comes in to face him.
(20:47:02) Commish: 6-3
(20:47:18) Commish: And two out.
(20:48:03) Commish: Another Trendsetter, James Heard enters the game.
(20:48:43) Commish: Count is full.
(20:48:47) Commish: Molina delivers.
(20:48:55) Commish: Struck him out!
(20:49:19) Commish: On to the eighth we go.
(20:49:47) Commish: Thoroughbred Alfredo Aranda takes the mound for the IL.
(20:50:05) Thoroughbreds: B)
(20:50:07) Commish: Guillen steps in.
(20:50:30) Commish: F-8
(20:51:05) Commish: Ferringo is up.
(20:51:35) Commish: Four-pitch walk.
(20:52:17) Commish: One man on for Red Hook.
(20:52:51) Commish: Bothwell bounces one to the second baseman.
(20:53:01) Commish: They get the lead runner, but Bothwell is on.
(20:53:40) Commish: Stuart is now up.
(20:54:06) Commish: And a strikeout will retire the side!
(20:54:20) Commish: Il has six outs left.
(20:54:24) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(20:55:26) Commish: John Gray takes the mound.
And that's not a typo. He's sporting a 0.43 ERA.
(20:56:01) Commish: Kentucky's Marcos Sanchez takes the mound.
(20:58:00) Commish: Or comes to the plate, rather.
(20:58:11) Commish: Sanchez does not charge the mound.
(20:58:53) Commish: 22 HRs for Sanchez on the season.
The IL could use one now.
(21:00:31) Commish: Strikes him out!
(21:00:53) Commish: Kettley is up.
(21:01:13) Commish: Grounder to third.
(21:01:19) Commish: Over to first for the out.
(21:01:27) Commish: Two down.
(21:02:17) Commish: West Virginia's Tony Velazquez enters the game.
(21:03:03) Commish: Strikes him out on three pitches!
(21:03:06) Commish: Side retired.
(21:03:26) Commish: We enter the final frame.
(21:03:52) Commish: SL 2 - IL 0
(21:04:33) Commish: Havana's Ricardo Perez toeing the rubber for the IL.
(21:04:39) Commish: Webb leads off.
(21:05:47) Commish: Liner to third. Sanchez snags it for out number one.
(21:06:24) Commish: Crystal Lake's Tony Parker in to pitch.
(21:06:36) Commish: Pinch hit.
(21:06:46) Commish: He wasn't traded mid-game.
(21:07:31) Commish: Grounder to short, and over to first for the out.
(21:07:40) Commish: Two out.
(21:08:23) Commish: Escobido's up. Had a hard night so far.
(21:09:03) Commish: And it gets no better for him. He strikes out and the side is retired.
(21:09:36) Wind_Dancers: Ahh the good ole golden sombrero
(21:09:44) Wind_Dancers: Repping Toyama well
(21:10:23) Thoroughbreds:
(21:10:30) Thoroughbreds: >:-D>:-D>:-D
(21:11:14) Commish: Shin Seiki's Shunsen Ueda will try and pick up the save for the SL.
(21:12:13) Commish: Top of the order for the IL.
(21:12:17) Commish: Lujan steps in.
(21:12:55) Commish: Hard hit ball up the middle, and gets past a diving Escobido.
(21:13:25) Commish: Hudson stands in.
(21:13:27) Commish: One on.
(21:13:51) Commish: Struck him out!
(21:13:58) Commish: One down.
(21:14:23) Commish: Burton is up.
(21:14:55) Commish: Soft liner to shallow right.
(21:15:04) Commish: And that one will drop in for a base hit!
(21:15:58) Commish: The winning run is at the plate. Hinojosa steps up.
(21:16:13) Commish: Men on first and second.
(21:16:59) Commish: And another soft liner sneaks into the outfield and down for a base hit.
(21:17:14) Commish: One out and the bases are drunk.
(21:17:46) Commish: A frustrating night for Ueda.
(21:18:17) Commish: Shimizu comes to the plate.
(21:19:16) Commish: And he draws a walk!
(21:19:26) Commish: One run will score!
(21:19:58) Wind_Dancers: Would be two straight season of a comeback walk-off win in the ASG
(21:20:02) Commish: And that will end Ueda's night.
(21:20:49) Commish: Bakersfield's Neil Maes will try and salvage the win.
(21:21:36) Commish: Trendsetter's first baseman James Heard comes to the plate.
(21:22:24) Commish: Fly ball to right. Stuart get under it for the second out.
(21:22:47) Commish: Runners stay.
(21:23:36) Commish: IL is down to its last out.
(21:23:40) Thoroughbreds: what .... ur kidding
(21:24:00) Commish: It's up to Kentucky's Sanchez now.
(21:24:42) Commish: Grounder up the first base line...
(21:24:55) Commish: Bothwell moves over...
(21:25:18) Commish: The ball gets by Bothwell!
(21:25:26) Warriors: omg!!!
(21:25:31) Commish: Burton will score!
(21:25:51) Commish: The game is tied!
(21:26:32) Commish: Bases still loaded but Hinojosa is the only runner that matters.
(21:27:49) Commish: London's Kettley comes to the plate.
(21:28:26) Commish: Fly ball into left.
(21:28:48) Commish: Uribe diving...
(21:28:55) Commish: Caught!
(21:29:17) Commish: Free baseball for the fans in old San Juan tonight.
(21:29:56) Commish: SL 2 - IL 2
(21:30:54) Commish: The IL bullpen is now empty, as London's Gideon Byrd takes the mound.
(21:31:13) Commish: Uribe at bat.
(21:31:42) Commish: Grounder to first, and Heard takes it himself. One down.
(21:31:58) Commish: Dias steps in.
(21:32:46) Commish: And he got a hold of that one.
(21:32:54) Commish: Deep right, and out!
(21:33:13) Commish: The SL regains the lead!
(21:33:26) Wind_Dancers: BOOOM!!
(21:33:34) Commish: Guillen comes up.
(21:33:50) Commish: 4-3
(21:33:53) Commish: Two out.
(21:34:13) Commish: Now Ferringo comes to the plate.
(21:34:33) Commish: Line drive into shallow left.
(21:34:48) Commish: Burton is after it, but can't get to it. Base hit.
(21:35:12) Commish: One on for Bothwell.
(21:35:49) Commish: Ferringo steals another base.
(21:36:23) Commish: Daisy cutter back up the middle, and into center field.
(21:37:09) Commish: Ferringo rounds third and is heading home..
(21:37:37) Commish: Headfirst slide...
(21:37:40) Commish: and safe!
(21:37:44) Commish: 4-2
(21:38:25) Commish: Stuart up.
(21:38:46) Commish: Got him looking!
(21:38:55) Commish: On to the bottom of the tenth.
(21:39:12) Commish: SL 4 - IL 2
(21:40:24) Commish: Reno's Jhong-shun Kong will try to close this one out.
(21:40:39) Commish: Shimizu is up.
(21:41:14) Commish: Grounder to second. Over to first for the out.
(21:41:28) Commish: Lujan is up.
(21:41:41) Commish: 2 for 4 tonight.
(21:41:41) Admin: Wind_Dancers has been logged out (Timeout).
(21:42:02) Commish: Grounder to short.
(21:42:11) Commish: Deep in the hole is Webb.
(21:42:16) Commish: Throw is not in time!
(21:42:32) Admin: Wind_Dancers logs into the Chat.
(21:42:46) Commish: IL has a man aboard and the tying run at the plate in Jack Hudson.
(21:43:06) Commish: One out.
(21:43:25) Commish: Two hopper to short.
(21:43:32) Commish: Webb gloves it...
(21:43:55) Commish: Flips it to Escobido for one.
(21:44:06) Commish: And the throw to first...
(21:44:20) Commish: Got him!
(21:44:34) Commish: This one is in the books.
(21:44:53) Commish: The Sovereign League wins it 4 to 2.
(21:44:58) Warriors: great game
(21:45:07) Wind_Dancers: Wooo!
(21:46:27) Commish: Palm Springs's third baseman Felipe Días will be your ASG MVP.
(21:47:58) Commish: His two solo shots in the 3rd and 10th being the difference for the SL tonight.
(21:48:14) Admin: Wind_Dancers has been logged out (Timeout).
(21:48:36) Commish: Goodnight, everybody.