TRHL Owners,

Series 11 has been completed.

Still seeking owner for abandoned Damage.

Reminder - I'm simming games for Indians and Damage; will not accept backup results.

Results not submitted:
Pale Hose @ Stogies
Marauders @ Canons (**)
Sledgehammers @ Damange (***)

(*) - Backup results submitted
(**) - Notified in advance
(***) - Temporarily Commissioner controlled.

Automatic farmings due to overuse:
Snowshoe Hares - Bryan Holaday, Recker promoted.

Transactions:
Heroes sign Zach Walters,
Outlaws sign Tony Campana and Josh Fields, release Jose Valverde and Travis Ishikawa.
Snowshoe Hares sign Keith Butler, Kirk Niewenhuis, and Neil Wagner, release Bryan Holaday.


Injuries (> 3 days):
5/6 TCI Francoeur 5
5/7 OJW Howard 7
5/8 MPH Beckham,G 47 (Egad!)
5/8 ESH Porcello 11

MP Issues: None observed.

Series 12 league file has been posted and the League File link on the website has been updated. Here's the link:
[www.trhl.org]

MPs ready for Series 12: Damage, Outlaws

Visiting team MP deadline is Saturday, April 19th, 11 AM EDT. Series results are due Sunday, April 20th, 11 PM EDT.

Had to update the MP after all.

Damage come into Alston for 3, looking to reverse their early season doldrums.

Beckett takes mound for Thunder Bay vs Alston's Jaime Garcia. Garcia goes the distance but gives up 5 runs on just 6 hits as both Kemp and Tulo take him deep. Beckett scrapes through 5

Damage come into Alston for 3, looking to reverse their early season doldrums.

Beckett takes mound for Thunder Bay vs Alston's Jaime Garcia. Garcia goes the distance but gives up 5 runs on just 6 hits as both Kemp and Tulo take him deep. Beckett scrapes through the sixth scatters 6 hits and giving up just two runs and Damage bullpen controls the last 3 frames for the 5-2 Damage win.

Jiminez for TB vs Kazmir for Alston. Jiminez strong through seven giving up two runs on Eric Chavez's HR while a Mayberry HR and Kemp double stake him to 4 runs. Lead holds til ninth, when Lake doubles in a pair to tie and Hunter singles in gamer. Alston 5-4

Rubber game features Grienke vs Alston ace Scherzer. Grienk yeilds 3 RHR to Chavez in first and 2 run job to Florimon (?) in second and heads for the showers. Tulo homers in 2 and 4th for Thunder Bay but damage is done as Shererzer ptiches through 8th and Alston wins 8-3.

O Flaherty out for 18 days.

Halifax took the first two 6-5 and 12-5 before dropping the getaway game 3-0 to Havana. Ivan Nova pitched a gem of a three-hit shutout for the Stogies in that one.

Starters should be Delgado, Morton, and Holland. Please let the computer manager choose the lineups.

Mismatch pitching matchup in game one pitting Jose Fernandez against Aaron Harang in game one. It followed the script, Fernandez had a no-hitter into the seventh and Adam Jones hit three home runs (11) as the Hares rolled 9-0.

In game two the Hares left the bases loaded in the first and third innings but still managed four runs. They played out the string from there for a 4-1 victory.

Game three was a good one. Freddy Garcia against A.J. Burnett. Garcia did what Garcia does giving up only two hits, both of them homeruns to Mike Napoli as the Firedogs jumped to a 3-0 lead. (As an aside Garcia has given up nine hits this year, six of them homerun). Trout tied the game in the fifth with a three run HR. Firedogs jumped back into the lead in the top of the eighth with an unearned run. But it's that kind of year for the Hares as David Wright hit a pinch-hit three run HR in the bottom of the inning to the opposite field to win the game 6-4.

Hares sweep.

Oxford takes 2 of 3 from Hamilton. Hamilton's MP is good for the next series.

Eric

Based on real-life WAR, I thought I had a relatively certain playoff team. Instead ... on pace to lose 104 games. I must be missing something key to DMB.

I ran a bunch of sims throughout the auction. Based on that I thought there were five teams battling for four playoff spots, of which yours was one.

How the Chinook have performed this season has been a big surprise to me.

His schedule has been exceptionally brutal. 2/3 of his games have been against the other four teams who are likely to be contending for those playoff spots. I expect to see his team stage a furious comeback over the next month.

Pat last year I was dead and buried, 10 under .500 with just a couple months to go, and I rallied and made the playoffs and then the WS. Don't pack it in; you've had unlucky variance but there is plenty of space to go on a run. Good luck. I know the frustrations of early-season underperformance.

Pirates take 2.

Higglytown sweeps; MP is ready.