Re: Going Undergroud - a London Underground blog
Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 5:25 am
May 18th, 2020
Another 4-2 week for London keeping them top of the Pan-Atlantic by three from Arlington who have powered past Connecticut & Gloucester. We're currently 9-7 in May and 25-12 overall as we enter the second half of the month.
The surprising thing about the losses this week is that it was Nii & Nakamura that were tagged with the losses. Nii took the loss against Florida as he gave up six first-innings runs and indeed was yanked after just two innings. Nakamura's loss came in an offence-free game against Manchester. He went eight innings giving up a run in the fourth and the seventh innings but Londons only reply came in the bottom of the ninth. Robbie Holmes picked up his second win of the season, striking out 10 again. He has now recorded double figure strikeouts in five of his seven PEBA starts. Closer Gary Stanley also picked up his second win as London finished off the Manchester series with a 2-1 win in the 10th, our only extra-innings game of the week.
Robby picked up his 2nd PEBA win with a six-hit complete game effort, striking out 10 more
It was a quiet week for the offence with London only reaching double-figure hits in one of the six games. Only Robert Jacobs, Javier Sepúlveda & Dennis Carter managed to hit a homer, a lack of which has been a common fault over the years with the exception of the Wen/Ramsey bomb fest last year. Lorenzo Valenzuela, just back off the DL, only managed two hits but both turned into triples with his speed and three walks helped him to score three times. Christian O'Rorke had been struggling a bit recently as his fill-in stint for Scott Morris draws to a close but he hit .308 last week, the best average of any Underground batter last week. Scott Morris meanwhile has been activated from the DL and will spend the next week or two in Dover knocking out the cobwebs.
Nii got tagged with seven runs for the week, the most by far of any London pitcher while Nakamura & Estrada gave up two. Everyone else gave up a maximum of one which helped paper over the lack of pop out of the bats. Robby Holmes was most pleased with his one start, a complete game win with just one run given up and another ten K haul.