Week 4 Recaps

Not so many close games this week with 4 contests finishing 9-3 and another 6-5-1...bet you can guess which one will be the Mike Shaw Super Mo Replay Matchup of the Week.  Allright, lets get it over with.  Like a Band-Aid that has been stuck on for 3 days, I just need to rip off right away rather than pussyfoot around the issue.


Merry Tyler's Moor Traveling All Stars (20-26-2) 9
Mark Baker Hitless Bastards (23-24-1)                  3

Let's get this out there, Tyler's team won this matchup.  He won 5 of the 6 hitting categories and 4 of the 6 pitching ones.  If it hadn't been for Danny Salazar's Sunday Funday dominant start, Tyler would have won 5 pitching categories and tied the last one, so this could have been even more one sided.  But dont let that cloud what the stats say.  The MTMTAS won, but only because they werent as bad as the Hitless Bastards.  Allen Craig hit 172/172/207 and Starling Marte hit 120/185/120 for MTMTAS.  Not to be outdone, Carlos Santana hit .050/208/100 to bring his season line to 121/301/195 and I have officially run out of bad jokes about Carlos Santana duets.  Mercifully, Tyler is sitting him down this week.  The Hitless Bastards through out their own Non Alkaline Trio of David Wright (154/207/192), Jose Reyes (160/222/320) and supposed wunderkind George Springer, who started his big league career off with an awesome .080/233/120.  At least it was better than Santana?

The real strength of this win was the pitching of MTMTAS.  Julio Teheran (13K, 0.60 ERA, 0.73 WHIP, 2 QS) and Corey Kluber (1W, 11K, 0.00 ERA, 0.44 WHIP, 1 QS) led the way for the staff that finished with a collective 6W, 60K, 2.50 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 5QS and 4 S+H.


Dusty's Nustys (26-19-3)              9
The Zach"k" Attach"k" (19-27-2) 3

I feel for you Zach.  On one hand, the Attach"k" had Ryan Braun go off for 389/455/444 with 1R, 4RBI and even a SB.  On the other, Brad Miller seems to have forgotten how to play baseball (071/071/143--YIKES!) and Carlos Gonzalez (087/087/087) seems to think he is Carlos Santana (I need to get all the Santana jokes I can.  You know, for morale because my team sucked it hard this week).  And for CarStop, it seems to be more than an early season slump as he has admitted his knee isnt quite right.  For the Nustys, Joey Bats went nuts (391/481/606 4R 4RBI), but this will be the week that we remember for Miguel Cabrera remembering that he remembered to be Miguel Cabrera.  He didnt walk at all, but the bat came around (346/346/538) and he even hit a ball that ended with him on 3b.  He only got a 2b because the official scorer ruled an error on a throw, but he ran all the way to third base without stopping.  I witnessed this on the tele.  If Miggy is running all the way to third, his injuries are not bothering him anymore and he can commence with the destruction of the American League pitchers.

Anabel Sanchez (Attack) was solid before he turned into an ass hDLe casualty, but Manny Machado should be activated this week and Kershaw isnt far behind him.  In a week or two the Attack will finally have the lineup Zach envisioned during the draft.


Bob's AutoTrackers (31-15-2)  9
Backyard Superstars (25-20-3) 3

Its a bit surprising to see one of the top teams in the league by all metrics (W/L and power rankings) take such a beat down, but this could have been even worse.  Had Bob's Cubophile nature not blinded him to the monster on the South Side, Jose Abreu (9 for 25, 8R, 14RBI) would have been in the lineup over Anthony Rizzo (120/241/240 4R, 2RBI) and this would have ended 11-1.  Jose Abreu has 10 HRs and 31 RBI, both most in baseball, and both MLB rookie records.  Now, the 27 year old isnt most rookies as he was a very polished hitter in Cuba before defecting, but I dont think even the most optimistic fan would have imagined this.  It will break Bob's heart, but Rizzo might be riding the pine pony for a while.  For the BySs, the Aramis Ramierz gravy train finally hit a wall (045/080/182) and the pitchign staff struggled as Yu Darvish had a rough start and the bullpen got small sample sized into a much higher ERA and WHIP than theyve previously had.  Bob's staff overcame a Sean Dolittle implosion (27.00 ERA, 4.20 WHIP) and Sean Dolittle's Beard's implosion thanks in large part to Adam Wainwright (2W, 10K, 0.00ERA, 0.60 WHIP, 2QS) continuing to piss excellence.

Springfield Isotopes (22-24-2)  6
You Can Call Me Al (22-23-3) 5
Tie                                              1

Ha!  You thought this would be the Mike Shaw Super Mo Replay of the Week, didnt you?  Fools.  While this was the tightest game, and only close game, it falls just short of the super secret ratings system used to determine the Shaw. As we've seen in the past weeks, Jerad:the Galleria of Ratio Stats was strong in the ratio stats but weak in the counting stats.  All 5 of Jimmy's wins were in the counting stats, and the tie was in runs.  The OBP matchup here was so close, it had to go out 4 decimal places with Jerad winning .33742 to .33728.  Robinson Cano finally put together a solid week (409/458/500) for the Topes, and the Mighty Giancarlo Stanton finally cooled off (167/231/375).  The clock is now ticking on Jerad: The Galleria of Getting Booted from the League for Inactivity as Wilson Ramos is still in the lineup for this week and there is still a SP open slot with an SP on the bench.