Saturday the Cleveland Guardians will play a deciding 5th game against the Detroit Tigers to advance in the playoffs. In our Statis-Pro Baseball "what if" season they will also play a deciding playoff game - in this case against the Baltimore Orioles.
However, the Statis-Pro version let it slip away.
The Guardians exploded early in Game 1 for a 5-1 lead after two innings, and won 7-4 in the opener.
They appeared en route to a sweep when they jumped on Zach Eflin with the most improbable of home runs. Eflin is a PB 2-9, meaning he only leaves the play on the batter's card one in six times, which he did to the light hitting Tyler Freeman. Once on the card Freeman only has one home run number of the 64 - a 33 in the 11-88 range, and combined that means Freeman would hit a home run against Eflin one of every 384 times. However, this is what happened in the 2nd inning of Game 2 for a 3-run homer to take a 3-1 lead.
The Guardians stretched the lead to 5-1 with another unlikely hero in Gabriel Arias, who came in only because Brayan Rocchio was injured by a line-drive in the 1st game. Arias was actually fortunate in Game 1 because he is a better fielder, and in the 8th inning he turned a double play on a grounder with an E5 - which would have been an error for Rocchio but was a double play for the E3 Arias.
However, the Orioles Gunnar Henderson hit a 3-run homer to key a 5-run 5th inning to make it 6-5 Baltimore en route to a 9-5 win that tied the series to set up Game 3.
Box score for the two games starts with the shocker, Cleveland's best player Jose Ramirez, who hits homers on a 31-35, went 0 for 8.
To recap our alternate world "what if" Statis-Pro season, unlike the real world both New York teams fell just short. The Yankees never trailed against the Mariners, except for the very end of Games 1 and 3 when Seattle hit walk off homers (the last by J-Rod) to advance.
Like in real life the Mets played Great Lakes teams, but unlike the real world where they beat the Brewers before going onto beat the Phillies, the Statis-Pro version fell in the final game to the Twins.
The last opening 3-game series will be the St. Louis Cardinals at the Houston Astros.
Cleveland Guardians | OPS | Pos | HR | AB | R | H | RBI | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
José Ramírez | 0.858 | 3b | 31-35 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | SB |
Andrés Giménez | 0.76 | 2b | 31-34 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | |
Josh Naylor | 0.812 | 1b | 32-36 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
Kyle Manzardo | 0.767 | DH | 25-28 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | HR |
Lane Thomas (fr wsn) | 0.751 | RF | 27-32 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | HR |
Bo Naylor | 0.739 | C | 23-26 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2B |
Steven Kwan | 0.736 | LF | 32-33 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Brayan Rocchio | 0.686 | ss | 31-32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Gabriel Arias | 0.686 | ss | 25-28 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2B |
Tyler Freeman | 0.704 | cf | 33-33 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2B,HR |
George Valera | 0.689 | DH | 23-25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
68 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 0.294 | ||||
Pitchers Game 1 | ERA | PB | K | IP | H | R | ER | W & K |
Shane Bieber | 3.73 | 2'-8 | 26'-43 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 & 6 W |
Gavin Williams | 4.18 | 4'-7 | 23'-41 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 & 0 H |
Emmanuel Clase | 3.01 | 2'-9 | 24'-42 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 & 0 Sv |
Pitchers Game 2 | ERA | PB | K | IP | H | R | ER | W & K |
Triston McKenzie | 3.98 | 2'-8 | 24'-42 | 4.7 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 & 3 |
Tanner Bibee | 4.02 | 2'-7 | 25'-41 | 1.3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 & 2 W |
Logan Allen | 4.12 | 2'-7 | 24'-37 | 0.3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 & 0 |
Gavin Williams | 4.18 | 4'-7 | 23'-41 | 1.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 & 0 |
Series Totals and ERA | 17 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 6.88 | |||
Baltimore Orioles | OPS | Pos | HR | AB | R | H | RBI | Notes |
Cedric Mullins | 0.741 | CF | 31-33 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 SB, 3W |
Gunnar Henderson | 0.818 | ss | 27-33 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | HR |
Eloy Jiménez (fr CWS) | 0.812 | DH | 28-34 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2B |
Adley Rutschman | 0.815 | C | 31-34 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
Anthony Santander | 0.788 | RF | 27-33 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | HR |
Ryan Mountcastle | 0.773 | 1B | 28-34 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
Ramón Urías | 0.709 | 3b | 31-33 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2B, 3B, HR |
Jordan Westburg | 0.743 | 2b | 28-33 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Heston Kjerstad | 0.734 | LF | 31-34 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
68 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 0.250 | ||||
Pitchers Game 1 | ERA | PB | K | IP | H | R | ER | W & K |
Corbin Burnes | 3.62 | 2'-8 | 23'-43 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 & 3 L |
Trevor Rogers | 4.07 | 2'-7 | 26'-43 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 & 2 |
John Means | 4.35 | 4'-7 | 27'-36 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 & 0 |
Yennier Cano | 3.66 | 4'-7 | 25'-41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 & 0 |
Pitchers Game 2 | ERA | PB | K | IP | H | R | ER | W & K |
Zach Eflin (fr TBR) | 3.51 | 2'-9 | 26'-43 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 & 2 |
Kyle Bradish | 3.82 | 2'-7 | 26'-43 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 & 3 |
Craig Kimbrel | 4.08 | 4'-7 | 21'-45 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 & 0 |
Seranthony Domínguez (fr PHI) | 4.06 | 4'-7 | 23'-43 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 & 0 |
Series Totals and ERA | 18 | 17 | 12 | 9 | 4.50 |
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