Late shows
The Traverse City Beach Bums and River City Rascals resume the Frontier League's championship series with Game 3 tonight in O'Fallon, Mo. Traverse City has a 2-0 lead and is on the verge of the franchise's elusive first championship.
The Beach Bums won Game 2 Wednesday night when they overcame a four-run deficit and won 6-5. Traverse City scored in each of the last five innings and pushed across the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth.
Late-game magic has been standard procedure for Traverse City, which has been one of the best teams in the league at scoring in the late innings. The Beach Bums tied for the league lead in scoring the game-winning run in its final inning of batting, whether it be the bottom of the 8th, top or bottom of the 9th or extra innings (and earlier in seven-inning doubleheader games).
The following is the number of times each team produced the game-winning run in its final inning of batting in the 2015 season:
15 -- Southern Illinois
15 -- Traverse City
14 -- Gateway
11 -- Greys
11 -- Normal
11 -- Washington
10 -- Evansville
10 -- River City
9 -- Joliet
8 -- Rockford
7 -- Lake Erie
6 -- Scahumburg
5 -- Windy City
4 -- Florence
The Beach Bums won Game 2 Wednesday night when they overcame a four-run deficit and won 6-5. Traverse City scored in each of the last five innings and pushed across the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth.
Late-game magic has been standard procedure for Traverse City, which has been one of the best teams in the league at scoring in the late innings. The Beach Bums tied for the league lead in scoring the game-winning run in its final inning of batting, whether it be the bottom of the 8th, top or bottom of the 9th or extra innings (and earlier in seven-inning doubleheader games).
The following is the number of times each team produced the game-winning run in its final inning of batting in the 2015 season:
15 -- Southern Illinois
15 -- Traverse City
14 -- Gateway
11 -- Greys
11 -- Normal
11 -- Washington
10 -- Evansville
10 -- River City
9 -- Joliet
8 -- Rockford
7 -- Lake Erie
6 -- Scahumburg
5 -- Windy City
4 -- Florence
posted by Chris Dugan at
1:51 PM
5 Comments:
Speaking of "Late shows", the Beach Bums won the Frontier League Championship.
This team started up in 2006 and already had much more success than the Wild Things.
If I remember correctly, since the Wild Things start-up in 2002, there has been only one playoff game ever played at Falconi Field, now named Consol Energy Park. One single home playoff game after fifteen years! Wow! This franchise is notable only by it's lack of achievement. The only time the Wild Things did make it close to a championship, they lost in more ways than one. First they lost on the field and, second, they lost by displaying their lack of class in the locker room after the game. They, more or less, tried to make Chris Dugan the scapegoat. The "front office" only reluctantly apologized to him after being pressured by the fans to do so. This lack of class was an embarrassment to the city of Washington AND the Wild Things fans.
So, what do you ask, has this got to do with the present Wild Things management?
Well, instead of busting their butts to but a winning team on the field, they continue to show a lack of leadership and baseball acumen. The team was loaded with players that, at various times, threw equipment in anger, constantly took called third strikes and screamed at the umpire for allegedly making the wrong call, and were in general a bunch of whiners. They had so many players ejected this year that the manager had to sit out a suspension near the end of the year. Buzzoto was the leader, by example, of this bunch of malcontents. He did more bitching at the umpires than probably any other manager in the history of the Wild Things. In most cases, he was dead wrong.
Anyway, just another miserable season for the Wild Things. The man (Stu Williams) that came riding in on the proverbial White Horse has proven to be nothing more tan a bag of hot air - always talking, never showing us he has any idea of how to run a baseball franchise. Well, as I have seen suggested on this blog, and I'm beginning to believe it, 2016 will be the last year for this team that started out with so much promise in 2002. It has been destroyed by the forces that saw it only as a means to hopefully make a buck from it. As for those of us that did care, and still do, we turned out, or so it seems, to just be fodder for the grist! Yes, I'm very disappointed but, I'm not surprised by the lack of results Stu Williams has produced. It seems he is deliberately trying to make as case for moving the team someplace else. Wherever that place may be, the fans there would be well advised to take a close look at what has happened here before welcoming them to their city. If the past is prolog, and it almost always is, they just might turn out to be as disillusioned as the fans here in Washington.
Ima Fraid
To set the record straight, there have been 15 playoff games played at Consol Energy Park, though only one since 2008.
Thanks for the correction. I was way off the mark on that one. My bad.
Ima Fraid
One of many things you're way off the mark on
It's okay to disagree with me - I can't force you to be right!
BTW: I just love your name..
Ima Fraid
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