FINAL! J-Rod Gets His Pitch w/ 2 outs, tying run 90 feet away ...

Game 4	1	2	3		4	5	6		7	8	9		R	H	E
LA Dodgers	0	4	1		1	1	1		0	1	0		9	12	2
Seattle	1	3	0		0	0	0		0	4	0		8	10	4

We teased it below, but the final card flip of the 2024 Statis-Pro season was the black 52 random number in the photo at the bottom - meaning a strikeout by J-Rod as Seattle could not come up with their third walk off homer of the playoffs (first two to beat the Yankees) and lost 9-8 to give the dominant LA Dodgers a 4-game sweep.

Here is the final box score of the 9-8 slugfest with 6 errors in Game 4, which followed the 2-1 Dodgers win in Game 3 without a single error and few baserunners. Having already used their one legit long-reliever for the series, the Mariners needed a long start from Bryan Woo, who was a hero in the ALCS, but he lasted only two innings to lave trailing 4-1. However, the Walker Buehler let the Mariners tie it 4-4 in the bottom of the 2nd.

However, the Dodgers were much better set up for a bull pen game, with no reliever used lower than an average PB 4-7 (controls action on the pitcher card to avoid chances of extra base hits on 50% of rolls or cards from 2-10) while the Mariners were left with mainly the lowest PB 2-4 pitchers on the hill (controls action only 17% of the time). 

That was the big difference as the Dodgers hit 4 homers (2 by Freeman, and 1 by Tommy Edman and James Outman, who had a much better projected card than Kiki Hernandez and thus started this game). Randy Arozarena had the only homer for Seattle, while Josh Rojas added the clutch 3-run double to almost bring them back.

 

Dodgers Line-up	Pos	HR	OBR/SP	OPS	AB	R	H	BI
Shohei Ohtani	DH	23-32	A/B	0.915	5	0	2	2
Mookie Betts	SS	25-32	B/B	0.890	5	0	0	0
Freddie Freeman	1b	32-36	B/B	0.892	4	3	2	2
Will Smith	C	24-28	D/D	0.810	5	0	2	0
Max Muncy	3b	16-24	E/D	0.784	5	1	1	1
Tommy Edman	LF	33-35	A/AA	0.723	5	1	1	2
Gavin Lux	2b	28-31	A/C	0.731	4	1	1	0
Teoscar Hernández	RF	25-33	D/C	0.783	3	1	0	0
James Outman	pr-1b	22-26	A/B	0.758	4	2	3	1
LA Batting					40	9	12	8
Dodgers Pitchers	PB	K	Walk	ERA	IP	H	r/er	w-k
Walker Buehler	2'-8	25'-42	43'-46	3.94, Max IP 7	2	5	4,4	4,4
Michael Kopech (fr CHW)	4'-7	23'-37	38'-51	5.03, Max IP 6	2	1	0,0	2,1
Brusdar Graterol	2'-7	23'-35	36'-38	3.68, Max IP 2	2	0	0,0	0,1
Alex Vesia	4'-7	21'-47	48'-56	3.82, Max IP 2	1	1	0,0	0,1
Ryan Brasier	4'-7	25'-42	43'-47	4.12, Max IP 2	0.7	3	4,4	1,1
Gavin Stone	4'-7	25'-43	44'-51	4.25, Max IP 3	1.3	0	0,0	0,1
LA Pitching					9	10	8,8	7,9
Mariners Line-up	Pos	HR	OBR/SP	OPS	AB	R	H	BI
Julio Rodríguez	CF	28-35	A/AAA	0.841	4	2	1	0
Randy Arozarena (fr TBR)	LF	27-32	B/B	0.800	5	2	1	2
Cal Raleigh	C	22-28	E/D	0.761	4	2	2	0
Mitch Garver	DH	22-27	E/D	0.757	3	0	0	1
J.P. Crawford	SS	28-31	E/C	0.736	5	0	3	4
Luke Raley	1B	23-27	B/B	0.729	3	0	0	0
Dylan Moore	2b	22-25	A/A	0.696	4	0	0	0
Josh Rojas	2b	26-28	B/A	0.659	5	0	1	0
Victor Robles (fr wsn)	RF	27-31	A/A	0.691	4	1	2	0
Dominic Canzone	PH	27-33	C/D	0.735	1	0	0	0
Seattle Hitting					38	7	10	7
Mariners Pitchers	PB	K	Walk	ERA	IP	H	r/er	w-k
Bryan Woo	2'-7	27'-45	46'-51	4.07, Max IP 4	2	5	4,4	0,4
Emerson Hancock	2'-6	26'-35	36'-42	4.57, Max IP 3	1	2	2,2	1,1
Gregory Santos	4'-7	24'-44	45'-48	3.46, Max IP 2	1	1	1,1	0,1
Matt Brash	2'-7	33'-62	63'-73	3.29, Max IP 2	1	1	0,0	2,1
JT Chargois	2'-4	25'-37	38'-46	4.37, Max IP 2	1	1	1,1	0,0
Tayler Saucedo	2'-4	24'-38	41'-47	4.01, Max IP 2	1	0	0,0	0,1
Eduard Bazardo	2'-4	25'-38	41'-44	4.06, Max IP 2	1	2	1,1	0,1
Trent Thornton	2'-4	25'-37	38'-44	4.23, Max IP 2	1	0	0,0	0,2
Seattle Pitching					9	12	9,9	3,11

We teased it first

Here was our update on the last couple of innings posted earlier. 

Having stunned the NY Yankees with two walk off homers in the AL playoffs, the Mariners rallied from down 9-5 in Game 4 of the Statis-Pro World Series.

Both starters lasted only two innings, and closers were long gone to get out of earlier jams, when JP Crawford hit a clutch 3-run double in the bottom of the 8th to pull the Seattle Mariners back within 9-8 against the LA Dodgers.

In the 9th Josh Rojas reached on an error by Dodgers pitcher Gavin Stone, the second error on the Dodgers in addition to an incredible four errors by Seattle after an error free game 3 game won 2-1 by the Dodgers.

Rojas stole second base, and went to third on a pinch hit grounder by Dominic Canzone to leave him 90 feet away with the game tying run with two outs in the bottom of the 9th.

Stone, an average PB 4-7, left the pitch up on a PB 9 meaning a 28-38 on Julio Rodriguez great card would likely leave the park for another walk off homer and 10-9 win for Seattle. An out would end the Statis-Pro World Series with a Dodgers 4 games to 0 sweep. Anything in between with the tying run scoring would not only guarantee at least extra innings but also put J-Rod on base with his best possible A/AAA speed and a chance to cross home with a game-winning run himself.

And the result ... will be posted shortly tonight with a full-wrap and box score ...

Developing ...FINAL! And if you look closely at the big picture, a black 52 is the last RN (Random Number) to land in the strikeout range for Rodriguez in a game in which he reached four of six times.

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