The Seattle Monarchs scored seven runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Shackamaxon Lenape and capture their ninth Cecil Cup.
Congrats to Mack on a well-played season!
We'll take a few days to allow Mack to bask in the glory of victory before we go on to the next season.
In the meantime, not hearing any voices of dissension, it looks like we're going to be upgrading to OOTP15. I'm still looking at some stuff before making it official, but when we do, we'll give everyone some time to upgrade.
Zev
Congratulations, Mack! I expected a closer series, but I guess my team was exhausted by the epic Maui series and never bounced back.
ReplyDeleteI remain ecstatic with my team this season, and don't feel too sad about losing to our biggest rival in an embarrassing fashion.
After all, the last time I lost the Cecil Cup series, I won four of the next five championships....
Congrats to Michael, Zev, Matt, and everyone on a good season.
ReplyDeleteI'm still trying to figure out how a pitching staff that posted the highest ERA in the last 21 years of Monarchs baseball suddenly threw the best playoff pitching performance in SDMB OOTP history, giving up only 18 runs over nine games. But hey, I'll take it. Small sample sizes can do strange things.
Actually, it was only 17 runs in 9 playoff games. That's pretty unlikely. Sometimes, the baseball gods giveth.
ReplyDeleteI also just realized that Zev's title may be a clever play of words, as this is the Monarchs' ninth title, I believe. I guess next year's cry will be "One for the other thumb!" (And yes, I realize that's pretty obnoxious.)
By my count, my starters outpitched yours, Mack, in two games (Gallardo in 1, and, to a lesser extent, Loman in game 2). Game 3 was obviously the Talamantez show (although Macaluso certainly didn't pitch poorly), and game 4 was even until my 9th inning bullpen meltdown.
ReplyDeleteSmall sample sizes, indeed.
CONGRATZ MACK
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