2011 Ducks Baseball

Playoffs Start Sunday July 24th

2011 Ducks Baseball, pittsburgh NABA

Ducks, be ready to play at one of the following locations and times:

We open the playoffs with the Oilers then, should we beat them, we’ll get the winner of the Hurricanes Sharks game.

NH    Sun    7/24/11    3:00 PM    5:30 PM
NP    Sun    7/24/11    12:00 PM    2:30 PM
NP    Sun    7/24/11    3:00 PM    5:30 PM
WH    Sun    7/24/11    10:00 AM    12:30 PM
WH    Sun    7/24/11    1:00 PM    3:30 PM


the bracket above is unofficial and probably hard to read.

No team has repeated as Pittsburgh NABA champs and no team has won a third title. We can do both this summer.

Quack

The Steroid Era Claims It’s First Duck … UPDATE: Game wed is at 6pm at Herschel Field vs. Elliot

2011 Ducks Baseball

On September 8, 1998 at 8:18 p.m. CDT, McGwire hit a pitch by the Cubs’ Steve Trachsel over the left field wall for his record-breaking 62nd home run…

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 Fago started writing this, no clue where the McGwire reference goes at the time i posted this.

6pm weekday start times blow.

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Ducks Take Two Over the Weekend. Clinch 3rd Seed in Playoffs

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James Fago pitched a complete game, allowing 0 earned runs for the win over the Black Sox on Saturday night, and on Sunday, Mike Fletcher allowed 3 runs over four strong innings of work against The Express, as the Ducks swept the season series’ against both Brookline and Carrick.

It got a little hectic at the end of the Express game, but we kept our composure.

Good thing we raked, collectively. Lots of doubles.

We play the Fightin’s Monday night at 9pm, and finish with Elliot on Wednesday, 6pm at Herschal

No word on the sharks game being rescheduled. If I don’t hear from their coach its a forfeit win for us.

There could be some scenario that allows the Bulldogs to fall to second in their division, while holding a better overall record than us, but that would mean a team with a worse overall winning percentage than the Bulldogs would win the Allegheny, get the two seed, and then the Bulldogs would beat us out for the 3rd seed because of a better overall won-loss. So technically we haven’t clinched, but I have faith in those guys to beat the Oilers.

The flaw in the current playoff system is that the division standings are based only on division record, and the rest of the playoff seeding is determined by conference record.

I think it should just be overall won-loss for everything.

Give the division winners the #1 &#2 seeds based on overall record and rank teams from there. I think it’s the way it is now to compensate for the A teams or something, but eventually there won’t be any inter-conference games.

The Militia split a double header with Elliot today.

I’m ready for the playoffs to start.

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Ducks 11, Black Sox 0

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Batting in the ninth spot in the order, Rob Cool went 2 for 3 with 2HR and 7RBI, including a walk off grand slam, in one of the most impressive single game offensive performance in the wood bat era for South Oakland.

James Teyssier pitched a 2-hit shutout as the South Oakland Ducks of the North Side played an error-free game and beat the Brookline Black Sox 11-0 at Springview last night.

Baumgartel, Berdine, Fago and Gwin also drove in runs for the Ducks.

This marks the first time South Oakland has won the season series with the Black Sox, the first time the Ducks have ten-runned the Sox, and the first time South Oakland has shutout Brookline in consecutive games, both by Teyssier.

The Ducks wrap up the season series against the Black Sox again, Saturday July 16th at Moore Park.

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Over the weekend, the Ducks defeated the Devils 3-0 at Pie Traynor.

Brendan Scioscia was 3 for 3 and James Fago drove in the winning run with a 2-run triple.

The Devils have the pitching to play in AA, and probably shouldn’t be playing down.

the Ducks have posted three straight shutouts and have allowed 2 runs in the last five games.

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Ducks Lose

2011 Ducks Baseball

Elliot 2, Ducks 0

Ducks starter James Tessyier allowed one earned run through six, but South Oakland couldn’t score.

I’m pretty sure Elliot’s magic number is 1 to clinch the division.

If the Ducks can’t over take Elliot in the last 2 weeks of  the season, locking up the three seed and keeping ahead of the Black Sox going into the playoffs is important

The Ducks won the title as the five seed last season.

shit.

Ducks Win

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Mark Guthrie was one out away from a no hitter, before allowing 2 singles in the top of the fifth as the Ducks (12-3) beat the Senators 10-0.

South Oakland plays Elliot (14-1) Saturday, 6pm at Herschel Park

Depending on the outcome of last night’s Black Sox Elliot game (a rare contest in which neither team name ends in ‘s’) a share of first place could be on the line for the Ducks.

If the Sox won we will be one behind Elliot in the loss column going into saturday.

Ducks Ride Express, Win 15-4 in Five Innings

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How did Carrick play Elliot tough?

James Fago started and pitched 2 innings, Mike Cinefra got the win in relief pitching 2 strong innings before Mike Fletcher finished the game off in the fifth.

South Oakland of the North Side (11-3, 5-2 ) hit its first two homeruns of the year: a solo shot by deadline addition Jared and a three-run bomb by Rob Baumgartel.

16 different Ducks recorded plate appearances. South Oakland sent nine batters to the plate in the first and ten in the second it got out of hand quick.

Defilippo went 2 for 4, 2b, 3b 6rbi

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Gameday [14] Ducks vs. Express

2011 Ducks Baseball, Gameday

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (10-3, 4-2)

vs

Carrick Express (5-12, 0-8)

9pm

Springview Field

#17’s coming down from the rafters tonight

We have ten games left. Realistically, to win the division we have to win the rest of our games and have Elliot lose at least once. It’s possible they’ll drop one in their last nine or so. They have Brookline twice and two against the Militia and I think either of those teams could steal one from Elliot if they get good pitching and defense.

 I think Kenny Powers and Brookline win tomorrow.

 We have to win out. One game at a time starting tonight with another division opponent in the confusingly-named Express.

I have no idea what this picture is

Let’s quack tonight. Bounce Back City.

Abe Lincoln ends losing streaks before they start

Bad News for the Express

Ducks Lose 6-3 in Extra Innings

2011 Ducks Baseball

Jim Teyssier allowed 1 Er over 7 2/3 innings, but lost to Elliot pitcher, J.J. Barnes who earned the complete game victory.

The game was tied 1-1 after seven. The Ducks scored when a ball bounced over Elliot’s short stop. Elliot scored after a runner reached on an error, a sac bunt, and some guy singled with 2 outs to drive him in.

The Ducks had ten or so hits, but left guys on base. Baumgartel hit one off the wall in right in the fifth, and had an interesting line of 1-1, 2b, 2sac, bb.

So we went to extras and it didn’t go so well for South Oakland.

Elliot scored five runs in the top of the eighth: Wes White hit a solo home run with one out, and then four unearned runs happened.

The Ducks bounced back with 2 runs in the bottom of the eighth, but left the tying run on deck.

We’ll see ’em again.

With the loss, South Oakland falls to 10-3 and 4-2 in the Division. Elliot is still undefeated at 14-0 and 6-0 in the division. Now we have to root for the Black Sox to beat Elliot on Thursday.

We will take it out against the Express Wednsday.

Quack.

Ducks Win 10th Straight

2011 Ducks Baseball, Ducks win

The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (10-2) defeated the Hebrew Oilers (2-10) 11-1 Saturday afternoon at Pie Traynor Field. Ducks pitcher and resident super hero, Mark Guthrie allowed 1 run through four innings on just 2 hits; he also hit a sweet RBI double. Fago struck out the side in the fifth.

The Ducks hit four triples on the day; two by Nick Berdine,  and one apiece by Tim Lipp and Anthony Defiippo. There might have been one more in there. The team slugging percentage skyrocketed and we hope to see our stats up soon on the league page.

Rick Whalen drove in a run with a sac fly in the 3rd, and 10 different Ducks had hits on the day.

South Oakland catcher, Jesse Smith threw out a runner trying to steal third in the first inning and had an RBI single.

Mike Duffy made several catches in centerfield, was hit by a pitch and singled twice for the Ducks.

The Ducks play undefeated, first place Elliot 9pm, Monday night at Springview Field.

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