Game 5 Recap: I once knew a man with a wooden leg named Smith. Ducks 9, Eagles 2

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A. SMITH: 7IP, 8H, 3BB, 9 K, 2ER
K. GIBSON: 2 for 3, 2B, 3 rbi, fundamentally dominant play at 1B

Adam Smith (2-0) scattered 8 hits and 3 walks around 9 strike outs as he allowed 2 runs over seven innings to record a complete game victory, and lead the South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (5-0) to victory over the Peaceful Easy Feelings (2-2).

The Heartache Tonight’s jumped out to an early 2-0 lead thanks to a walk a triple and a single in the top of the second.

A key double play was turned by third-baseman, MVP candidate, Jesse Smith, and McWatson with no out and runners on first and second.
The Desperadoes could not capitalize on their early momentum.

Screamin’ Eagles coach, Craig T. Nelson was thrilled with the early lead.

The 2-0 deficit was the first time the Ducks trailed this season.
South Oakland responded.
Novak walked, and Kirk Gibson stepped to the plate,

Gibson doubled to right, Novak scored.

The Ducks would add another run in the third when Gwin and J.Smith both walked, and Darren Daulton, playing in his second game as a Duck, singled home Gwin.

the former Phillie had a huge game.
2 for 3, 2B, 2 RBI

The score remained tied 2-2 until the bottom of the fourth, when the You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes’ pitcher, and NORML supporter, Slater’s high wore off, and he gave up five runs before Craig T. Nelson gave him the hook in favor of Bobby Hoying.

The rally very well may have started with Spags and Kolaja walking, then Gwin singling them both in two to take a 7-5 lead over the Confederacy in RBI. Jesse Smith then hit the fence in center, and slid in for a triple just like an MVP would. Daulton doubled in Smith, and Gibson singled him home. Novak added a double of his own, and scored on a Watson single.

Holmes and Watson form an elite double play combo.

The Witchay Women brought in a reliver and the Ducks scored two more runs, both charged to Slater.

Slater was lit up.

Adam Smith finished strong striking out two batters in the top of the seventh.

If I used the scorebook for these recaps, I’d know more.
Feel free to correct me in the comments.
Haters, chime in please, don’t just call me names on the main website write-in ballot.
I’ve been called worse by better.

I’m off to sleep in the right center gap at Spring Hill tonight so I’ll be ready to get my five hour pre-game routine in tomorrow.

The Ducks have the best record in the league.

  • Five and
  • Best start in team history by a million miles, figures everyone makes the playoffs this year.
  • Jones manages to get everyone at least an at-bat every game, and still win.
  • Trap game against the Gray Bats tomorrow night, before a six day lay-off prior to a double header against the Owlz.
  • Adam Smith leads the team in K’s, our team ERA is under 3.
  • Get your notebooks ready.
  • Kirk loves hitting at Pie Traynor
  • Jesse Smith’s OPS is 1.380
  • Former team MVP, A.Smith is having his best year since 2007 and leads the team in K’s.
  • The Rebels are 0-3.
  • The Owlz open the season against the Hotel California’s on Wednsday. How good are they?
  • 5-0.
  • Mantis and Dr. Jones tomorrow.
  • To be 6-0 heading into the Owlz double header is huge, they are going to pose a formidable challenge.
  • Haters, so many haters.
  • We’d have hit 4 hrs today on a NORML field.
  • Legalize it.
  • The Gray Bats have been hard at work making excuses for their poor start, lets give them something more to complain about tomorrow.
  • I’d like to welcome rolandthompsongunner and kirk gibson to the blogging staff, and for reminding me of the weird ass youtube roots of this blog.
  • O00h.

Quack.

Game Day [5], Ducks at Eagles.

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The first place South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (4-0) look to remain unbeaten, as they take on the upstart Hotel Californias, (2-1) in an important divisional game
at 12 pm at Pie Traynor Field.
The Ducks beat the Black Sox 5-3 the Black Sox beat the Eagles, 8-0, clearly an 8 to -2 victory is in order.

The Eagles Greatest Hits vol.1 isn’t one of the best selling albums of all-time for nothing.

Don Henley should not be taken lightly.

The Ducks have a chance to go 5-0, The Eagles are in second place at 2-1
the the Black Sox are a suprising 1-2

the Owlz (0-0) are still busy talking about how great they are and how their play is going to do the talking not some gay blog.
the Gray Bats (0-3) need Sorosky, and their other starting pitcher, neither will be there Monday.
The Confederacy (0-2 ) still haven’t knocked in more runs (5) than Chris Wojton or Ben Gwin.
If Wojton or Casale scores more than once today, they will eclipse the five runs the Confederacy has scored through two weeks of the season.
Feathers and Tremmel deserve better.


The Pittsburgh Marathon takes place today, adjust travel plans accordingly.

Joe Walsh goes solo
Bad News for the Eagles.


Who was coaching the bases yesterday?

Quack.

Game Day [4] Ducks vs. Hurricanes.

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Ducks at Hurricanes
Saturday, 5:30 pm Warrendale Park.

Who does Miami think they are leaving the Big East.

I’m kind of hoping for a rain-out,–gotta work.
Dr. Jones or Capatin America will be on the hill tonight.


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New Jersey Police Officers:
Bad News for the Hurricanes.

Quack.

(Eagerly awaiting the recap from Rolandthompsongunner, and Kirk Gibson)

-BG

4-0, do it.

NHL Playoff Relevance

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The South Oakland Ducks play the mighty and revamped Hurricanes this Saturday in what is the Pittsburgh NABA’s representative of the NHL underdogs.

Bare with me, if you will. The Anaheim Ducks (formerly The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) stormed into President’s Trophy winning San Jose as the 8 seed and took the series away in six games. The Carolina Hurricanes (I hate this team. You take the Hartford Whalers and give them to Raleigh? WTF!?), pulled off a Cinderella upset of the 3-seeded New Jersey Devils with a mighty push in the last few minutes of Game 7.

Any resemblance to the respective starts of the teams in NABA play? (I’ll give the Hurricanes credits when it comes to song references, they get “Rock you like a Hurricane”, “Like a Hurricane” and Dylan’s “Hurricane”)

As an aside, rumor has it that the Philadelphia Flyers are considering a name-change to the Flyerz as an attempt to ride Rob Cool’s hot streak.

Thursday

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Monongahela Update.
The Black Sox (1-2) won their first game, dominating the Eagles (2-1) 8-0 behind 19 K, 3 hit monster of a game by pitcher J.T. Slavicek (sp.)

On a slightly-related note, Kenny recently released his personal assistant.

Until Kenny Powers tells me otherwise I’m going to assume Ron Florian is injured, he only played 2 innings last game.
The Black Sox are a better team with Florian in the lineup, he hits doubles and runs fast.
The Ducks are in first place in the Monongahela Division.

There’s a crap-ass Allegehey Division game tonight.
The Matadors (0-0) start their season against the Oilers (0-1).
These guys are playing out the rest of the season for the right to lose to the Bulldogs in the playoffs.
It’s certainly not too early to make such an assumption.

The Bulldogs were the Ducks blog’s pick to upset the perennial Campbell’s Conference power Warriors.

After securing the first 3-0 start in team history, the Ducks are enjoying some down time before a hectic stretch in which South Oakland plays three games in three days.
The Ducks play the Hurricane-Carters Saturday at 5pm, the Eagles on Sunday at 12pm, before returning to the Pond to play the rival Gray Bats Monday night.
Our pitching depth will be tested.
This is clearly the best Ducks team of the wood bat era, no stretch of the imagination; we had a couple terrible teams.
If we were 0-3 I wouldn’t be panicking, so we shouldn’t get too worked up over a 3-0 start.
There are still 21 to play.
It’s always nice to beat the Black Sox.
I will say, it will be fun to see what we look like with Darren Daulton catching and Life on Mars in Center, and all of our infielders there at the same time.
It’s good to be 3-0 while still getting out the kinks.
TC and Adam Smith have been clutch. Whenever you can win without your ace pitching it’s a big deal.
Will we see the much anticipated debut of Mantis this weekend?


Link to Captain America’s Origin

Is it lame that the Owlz get to wait to start the season because their players are still being genetically engineered in some secret lab in West Virginia?
Sure, it is. There is a lot that is lame about that team (about everything but the talent-level), but the Ducks have a half dozen key players who are still playing college ball as well, and we’ve managed.
The 50-man roster is key.
90% sure the Owlz lured a potential Ducks recruit to the Dark Side.
That reeks of fear to me.

Quack.

So high he fell.

Pitt Club Baseball is in the NCBA Regionals after beating PSU last weekend, I think.
To be fair, the Penn State squad was probably suffering from withdrawl after that epic drug bust at State College the other day.
I always find the wording of these drug bust articles amusing in an antiquated 1950’s kind of a way. The trib from Tuesday was hilarious.
Just Say “No”, to trafficing 400lbs. of pot across state lines.
That type of thing would never happen at Pitt.

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New hats are finished, and in my posession.

I will give a free hat to the first Duck to agree to write one blog post per week.

Go Ducks.

Game 3 Recap: The "Northern Agression". Ducks 9, Rebels 5

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We fight for those whose poetry has not yet been written.

In a Ulysses S. Grant-esque move, Dr. Jones started Captain America in left field, and gave The Invisible Hand the nod on the mound.

(knows what he’s doing.)

Adam Smith responded with 4 scoreless innings, to help propel the South Oakland Ducks to a 9-5 victory over the Confederacy(0-2), securing the Ducks first 3-0 start in team history, and ensuring the sate of the Union.


MVP candidate Jesse Smith led the way offensively, going 2-3 with a double and and RBI.
The Ducks led 2-0 going into the bottom of the fourth when, Les is more ripped a double to left center that was misplayed by CF, Jefferson Davis.

(Mars would have had it)

Mars followed with a walk, then after two failed bunt attempts, Ben Gwin doubled to right giving the Ducks a 4-0 lead. J. Smith selflessly moved Gwin over to third, and Novak, Kirk Gibosn, Watson, Wojoton, Depo, and Cheese, all reached base safely in some manner.
That inning got a little out of hand.

When the dust settled South Oakland led 9-0, after 4 innings.

Both teams left runners in scoring position in the game’s early going, Feathers and Smith both pitched out of trouble.

Ray Finkle’s single in the third inning was the first hit of the year for Monroeville.

(laces out, Dan)

The Rebels can cry and talk shit all they want, but through two weeks of the season, Wojoton, and Gwin each have as many RBI (5) as their team has runs scored.

That almost wasn’t the case, in the top of the second with South Oakland nursing a 1-0 lead, Former MVP John Tremmel hit a ball to the wall with the bases loaded, but CF, Mars made a tough running catch to keep the game close.
Mars proceeded to drive in the Ducks second run with a sac fly, and
would later throw out a Rebel at second who foolishly tried to take second on a hit to right center in the seventh inning.

Captain took the mound in garbage time, the Rebels battled back, but their supply lines were cut, and they were drastically outnumbered.

The Ducks closed the door in the bottom of the seventh.

The Rebels really wanted this one.
What a shame.
That’s what you get for naming your team after the greatest atrocity in American history.

Abe Lincoln would not name his amateur baseball team the “Rebels”

  • Thank you to the fans who showed up to support both teams.
  • Les Gies will be a factor this season, solid game at 3rd, clutch hit to start the 7 run rally.
  • Everyone contributed to another solid team win.
  • Lots of HBP.
  • Depo had a fantastic infield hit.
  • Coby has not recorded a hit since he cut his hair.
  • The season debut of Novak and Mars was welcomed.
  • We were 3-9 at one point last year, this is better.
  • We still haven’t had all our players show up at the same time, good luck with that, skip.
  • Who better to get the W for South Oakland’s first 3-0 win that A. Smith (1-0) who has suffered through some tough times, and has embraced a reduced, but key role on a better team.
  • Adam Smith has seven K’s in five innings pitched to lead the team.
  • Since losing to the Rebels last season we’ve gone 10-2-1 in regular season games.

More later, maybe.

Quack, Quack, Quack.

Quacksburgh, Ducksylvania: Game Day [3] Ducks vs. Rebels

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Home Opener tonight 9pm at Spring View Field.
(The map quest directions aren’t great, try to get to the Pitt field and follow someone if you are unsure how to get there.)
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Another important, early-season divisional game.

The 2007 Champions are looking to rebound after a sub-par 2008 campaign.

The Confederacy is still looking for their first hit of the season.
South Oakland looks to go 3-0 for the first time in team history.
The Rebels have some talented players, but are outnumbered by the Union 2-1.
There’s some bad blood here. and here.
The Ducks have never beaten this team, except by forfeit.
Time to change that.

Who better to put on the hill vs. the Rebels than Captain America.

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Batting Practice: 6pm-730pm at the Pitt IM field.

Abe Lincoln. Bad News for the Rebels.

Quack