Monday, July 13, 2009

Moving on to the Final Stretch

Look who’s coming to town on Tuesday! The Bucs will be making their first appearance in the Yard this season. They’ll be here for 2 nights and 2 games. Time to get get dressed and ready for a couple of battles.

After our encounters with the Bulls we remain in second place, one and a half games back behind the Hounds who picked up the half game taking the Oilers 3 of 4 over the weekend. The third place Pirates beat the Oilers on Tuesday and they are two games behind us. So here’s our chance to put some more distance between us on Tuesday and on Wednesday. We’ll need the wins also to keep pace with the Dogs if we’re to have a chance to overtake them. We have 12 games left in the regular season and the Dogs have 11. There’s enough time and play left to get the job done, but we have to be in our top form for now on. The Pirates are the best base running team in the league, but we are second. Let’s be on our toes and play error free baseball and get the bats going. We have the best starting pitching in the league with a 6 game winner and two 5 game winners. Our Team ERA is 2.58, just behind the Dogs at 2.35 and much better than every other team. So let’s get ready for some hard playing over the next 2 weeks and secure a solid position for the playoffs. The pennant is still well within reach!

12 comments:

  1. Best pitching in the league?

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  2. Based on wins/losses, the Railroaders' "Starting" pitchers are the best at this point in the season.

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  3. iF WE CAN KEEP FINDING OUR BATS NO ONE WILL TOUCH US!!!!!

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  4. Congrats to our Roaders! Hey, I wuz sittin by some Tradewater fans, and they were IRATE that the Pirates were pitching liek there number 4 or 5 tonight, I gueess to save the aces for later? Wats up wit dat? I thought they were wanting to try to make up some ground, but why do it that way. Anyway, they didnt'.

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  5. Their Ace, Williams, is picking on Wednesday.

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  6. Well I take back all the bad things I said about the Bulls. Bless their little cowhides, they beat the Dogs. We didn't beat Dogs, but they are having the troubles now. We've gain ground, don't stop now Railroaders. Keep up the pressure, the Bucs aren't through yet.

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  7. The Roaders look like a new bunch out there.. late year additions have really helped this yrs club out

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  8. Great Team Efford last night! The Pirates are a good team and our guys got their game on,Kept it Fired up and Rollin. The Bats were doing their thing and that defense hung tight,couple of errors but we overcame.Pitching was solid and kept us out of trouble, Keep it up guys tonight is another night and we will see how hot their ace pitcher is.
    Roll ON!

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  9. If these Roaders can keep it real,stay in focus,all things are looking very good for a number 1 finish.

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  10. Pirates probably come in here 2nite fired up. I heard it would be their good lefty, but that's not Williams. We just need to hit. They don't hit much at all, that's why they are bout even this year. They only have two guys that can hit it out usually. One of them is 28.

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  11. Fired up????? Nobody fires it up like us roaders, now lets Fire it Up and and sweep this 2 game series, we have what it takes,and yes we do need to hit the gaps.

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  12. GO PIRATES!!!!!!!!!!

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