Week 4 MSSSMRMoW



The Fastenal Cubicle Battle  is week 4's Mike Shaw Subaru
Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week

Sometimes the closest matchup isnt the most anticipated or the most exciting.  Sometimes a good, old fashioned beat down against one of your friends and co-workers can be better than a narrow win against someone you dont know (actually...it always is better).

This week, Tom and John matched up for the second time already this year.  John's Mothafuckin PIMPs knocked off Tom's Uncle Lesters 8-3-1 in week 1.  This time around featured a whoopin in the other direction.  In addition to being a rivalry game, this game featured some single category scores that were higher than Tim Raines during games in the 80s.  Let's take a look in this week's breakdown.


Runs - Les Moles - 32!
Every single player on Les Moles scored at least twice this week, with Evan Longoria and former MVPs Joe Mauer and Andrew McCutchen each scored 5 times.  For those of you scoring at home, that is 5 more times than the seventy something Donald Sterling has scored with his twenty something minority model girlfriend.

RBI- Les Moles - 29
Coco Crisp was the low man in the runs category, but he knocked in 6 runs to tie for the team lead with Adrian Gonzalez.  Three other players drove in 4 runs.

Strikeouts - MWP Masters - 80
Masahiro Kamakaze Tanaka has been every bit as good as advertised.  This week he struck out 18 over a pair of starts to lead MWP and passed the eye test big time in his matchup with Mike Trout and the Angels on Sunday Night Baseball with pitches that were running every which way and others that were falling straight off the table.  Johnny Cueto was not far behind, adding 15 Ks (and a 0.53 ERA and a 0.71 WHIP) over a pair of starts.  Jose Fernandez only got 1 start this week, but he fanned 14 Barves and not all of them were Uptons.  The bullpen added 19 Ks and that is with Brian Wilson and his face beaver not striking out a single one.

The winner of this Astros fan favorite contest was Aaron West
a pitcher who had yet to play higher than Hi A ball when the
poll was run.  Astros Baseball, Catch the Fever!!!

Strikeouts - Les Moles - 91
Yup, 80 strikeouts for the week didnt win the category for John.  For comparison, the next highest for the week was Jonas Brother Tyler's 62 and the lowest was Jonas Brother Zach's 38.  Tom had 5 pitchers go over 10 Ks, David Price (19), Jon MoLester (14), Dallas Kuechel (14), Tanner Roark (13), and Zach Greinke (11).  When Dallas Kuechel strikes out as many batters as Jose Fernandez in a week, you know its your week.

Saves + Holds - MWP - 10
This is the one category that John dominated, finishing with a 10 -1 margin.  KRod won the category himself with 4 S+H, and Joakim Soria added 3 with Kenley Jansen adding a pair.

I would be remiss if I didnt mention the reigning NL MVP McCutchen.  Cutch has had a slow start to the year, but really came on this week, finishing  417/533/833 with 5 R and 4 RBI against pretty good pitching staffs in Cincinnati and St. Louis.

For now, Tom leads the season series between him and John 12-11-1.  I'm not sure when they play again and I'm too lazy to check, but I hope Tom holds it over him like some parents hold the fact that they birthed and raised their kids over the kids heads.  Milk it Tom...Milk it.