Ducks 19, Bulldogs 6.
South Oakland hit well.
The game was closer than the score indicated, the Bulldogs (14-4) only trailed 5-3 going into the bottom of the third before South Oakland (14-5) scored the next 14 runs of the game.
The win brings the Ducks all-time record to 80-80-2
Full recap to follow on Bulldogs’ Blog.
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Game 19:
Aside from RBI (9 for 28+ Dogs, to 4 for Ducks) I have better numbers for the Ducks than the over 28 Bulldogs in six more plate appearances. I don’t know what that means, you’d think with the tougher pitching, etc..So it goes.
Don’t forget to change your signs for the game tonight, BJ.
…and bring me my duck, you sons of bitches.
The Bulldogs lost to the Militia Saturday, I can’t imagine they put out the same lineup that beat the HURRICANES! the week before.
I’ve got inside info on the Bulldogs new fight song.
kind of depressing, but you can’t argue with a winner.
A South Oakland victory will put our franchise at 80-80-2 all time.
It would also be our ninth straight on-field W, as the Titans win was a forfeit.
the Ducks’ #9 is retired worn by Rob Swanger who, in three seasons, never played on a winning Ducks team.
Let’s get back to .500, and keep rolling into the battle of Monroeville this weekend.
A win also gets us recap rights on the Bulldogs site. Their blog actually gets read, so that’s huge.
Bad News for the Bulldogs
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6:15pm
Etna Field
The Ducks beat the Matadors 4-3 in extra innings, when Ken Cool drove in the winning run in the bottom of the 8th.
the last time we were supposed to play the ‘Dors, God tried to wipe Etna off the face of the earth with repeated dispersion of lightning bolts and torrential rain, leading to a cancellation and subsequent rescheduling for today.
All of the sudden we have a shit load of games in the next two weeks.
Let’s make it eight straight W’s.
Bad News for the Matadors
South Oakland will play a makeup game vs. the Matadors Friday at 6:15 at the Inverted Field in beautiful Etna.
The Matadors have been inconsistent this season.
We’re trying to get a game scheduled for Monday, July 5th
Recap of Bulldogs Fightin’s game from last week.
The Hurricanes only losses have come in the division, bummer for them.
The Bulldogs can clinch the Campbell Conference with a win over the Canes, or a win over the Warriors and another Canes division loss.
The Comment section has been mud. Here are the power rankings as of July 1st.
Notthing to controversial there actually, but whatever. The Warriors are struggling which surprises me. Now way should the OIlers be playing down. The Ducks blog likes the Maulers to come out of A. The Bulldogs have the inside track to hold off the defending champs out west.
South Oakland still has four division games remaining against the Militia (2) Sox, and Eagles. One Ducks win over the militia, and one over the Black Sox will clinch the division. The score from last nights Sox Eagles game has not been posted.
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Ducks 2, Black Sox 0
South Oakland (11-5, 4-1) sits in first place in the Wales Conference.
The Ducks seventh straight win prevented Brookline (9-5, 4-2) from effectively clinching the division, setting up a show down for the division for the division title with the Black Sox: time and place tbd.
James Tessyier (4-0) pitched a complete game shutout.
Tim Lipp and Jesse Smith had rbi for South Oakland.
Ken Cool, once again, dominated.
Recap forthcoming.
boobs.
Game three between the Ducks and Black Sox remains unscheduled.
Quack.
I’ve estimated the Ducks all-time record at 74-80-2
Among other things, we’re chasing .500.
This article looks interesting.
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The Ducks have been bi-polar this season: losing streaks of 3 and 2 preclude two 4-game win streaks.
Manic Depression.
There have been two waves of new player arrivals this summer. The first to start the season and the second after the Warriors game. In both instances it took some time for the flock to come together, for that oft-spoke-of, intangible, all-important “Chemistry” to manifest, to become something palpable and real we could wrap our wings around.
We’re beating on teams now, two consecutive ten-run rule victories over division opponents.
Last night the hitting was contagious, the defense was steady and Mark [Captain “Last thoughts on Woody” America] Guthrie turned in another solid outing to raise his record to 2-2, and lower his era to 1.37.
TC Jones recorded an RBI single in the 4th and is batting 1.000 against Adam Smith for his career, while striking him out once in the first Ducks/Eagles’ game this season.
The grudge match, which probably means more to me than either of those two, makes for solid blog post material.
Essentially, Smith left the Ducks because he disagreed with TC’s managerial style.
Smith has not defeated the Ducks since leaving the team, the Eagles are 4-7, while the Ducks are 8-5 and in first place.
The Ducks have outscored the Eagles 24-5 over two games.
TC Jones has the 3rd highest winning percentage over two years of any Pittsburgh NABA manager.: 14-12-2, and then 16-8 for a 30-20-2 record.
The coach with the highest winning percentage over two consecutive seasons is also a Duck.
No idea who #2 is, and I’m not going to look it up.
My all-time record as coach is not good, but it’s improving.
The Ducks play the Titans on Sunday at 5:30 at Ohio River Blvd. Field, the Knights at 9pm next Monday night, then, after a week off, Ducks vs. B-Sox at the Pond.
Bring on Kenny Powers and the Fightin’ Florians.
6/28 9pm at Spring View.
That’s the game we have to have.
Without further hyperbole, the recap:
Guthrie allowed the only Eagles hit of the game with two outs in the first. Then, after an error, he K’d Adam Smith to end the inning.
South Oakland sent ten batters to the plate in the first:
Five walks surrounded DeFilippo’s rbi single, Nick Homa followed Chris Wojton’s rbi base-on-balls with a two run single.
5-0 Ducks after 1.
Guthrie puts the Eagles down in order in the second, and the Ducks sent nine batters to the plate in the second.
Mike Duffy is batting .437; he led the inning off with a single, stole second and scored on DeFilippo’s second hit of the game.
Nick Berdine followed Flip’s single with an RBI triple to right, and scored on Lipp’s single to center.
Adam Smith entered the game as a relief pitcher at some point.
8-0 Ducks after 2.
Guthrie faced three batters in the 3rd.
Gwin finally got a hit, singling to lead off the bottom of the 3rd, the first of two on the night for the arthritic catcher.
Duffy followed with a single, Rob Cool did not get a hit, then Casale hit one up the middle which was thrown away by Smith, loading the bases for Defilippo who drove in another run with his third hit on the game.
Then TC “Boyle” Jones stepped to the plate with Casale on third and Drop City’ed a 1-2 pitch into left for the Ducks’ 11th run.
11-0 Ducks after 3.
The Eagles were Baconated in the top of the 4th.
The Ducks added 3 more runs in the bottom half: “Slick” Rick Whalen and Murphy walked to open the inning, Gwin singled to right, and Whalen scored on a throwing error, that I probably credited as an RBI for myself because I have no respect for the sanctity of pgh naba baseball.
Duffy singled in Murphy.
Guthrie walked to load the bases. Flip drove in Gwin with a fielder’s choice.
Flip.
3 for 4, 3 rbi, 2R.
14-0 Ducks after 4.
Tessyier pitched the 5th: three up three down.
Desperado.
Game, Ducks.
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