Don’t mind me…
First a programming note: due to Sims being reduced from 10 games (in the olden days) to 7 it seems there’s not enough action in just one, so the Walkoff Watch will be published 2 Sims per edition. There was some wild action in the beginning of May and Sims 6 & 7. Most of it bad for the teams/players which makes us here at The Watch very happy!! Not that we would wish ill upon anyone. Hehe…
The Walkoff Watch Terminology
balkoff When a pitcher balks in the winning run.
derpoff When a pitcher walks in the winning run, hits a batter with the bases full, or the winning run scores due to a wild pitch or error.
200-proof walkoff When the home team scores in the bottom of a previous inning to extend the game and then scores with a walkoff in a subsequent inning.
pimpoff When the home team scores a walkoff following the visiting team tying the game to cause extra innings (or more extra innings) or scoring what would have been the winning run if the home team hadn’t responded.
Table of Contents
Sim Team and Player Highlights
Sim Outcomes
The Nitty Gritty: Records of Elation and Despair
The Nitty Gritty: Heroes
The Nitty Gritty: Goats
The Nitty Gritty: Derps
April Team and Player Highlights
There were some wild happenings in Sims 5 & 6:
- Madison? Ouch. It’s not so much that the Wolves surrendered walkoffs on two consecutive nights to the same team. That’s pretty
commonplace. But it was off the same pitcher (Wesley Turner), by the same hitter (Scott Torres), and in the same manner vs Louisville on the
15th and 16th
- Over in Atlantic City on the 13th Charm City scored 3 runs in the top of the 14th inning of a tie game…then promptly surrendered 4 in the
bottom of the frame to take the L. This was also the first walkoff decision for Charm City, so welcome to the party, Jimmies!
- On the 15th Rockville entered the bottom of the 9th with a 4-run lead over the Crawdads, and allowed 5 runs. The Pikemen mixed in an error,
wild pitch, and 2 walks…which we would actually kind of expect in a 5-run inning.
- On the 19th, the other side of the coin sees Sacramento and Nashville knotted at 1-1 going into the 15th and the Popes giving up 5 runs in the
top of the frame to take the 6-1 loss.
- Hold up…Madison has a 4-11 record in 1-run games while Bikini sports a 3-10 line?! And Nashville is 12-5 in such games. Wow!
- Rockville (2-4) saw 3 walkoff affairs in this edition and were on the losing end of all 3. Congrats, Pikemen! The others exposed to 3 decisions were Louisville (4-1), who won 2 of the 3, and Twin City (2-2) who went 2-1.
- Montreal (5-1) and Des Moines (2-2) both split a pair of walkoffs while Madison (0-4) and Yellow Springs (0-3) each dropped 2. Mexico City (3-2), New Orleans (3-2), Rocky Mountain (3-1), Atlantic City (1-2), and San Antonio (1-3) went 1-1.
- Louisville’s Scott Torres crashes the Atlas party with the 2 walkoffs mentioned above while New Orleans’ Zenobius Kazantziakis had his 2nd victory party to make it a 3-way tie for the hardware.
- Oh, and Madison’s Wesley Turner? The two walkoffs mentioned above were his 3rd and 4th seeing him put some distance ahead of 2nd place in the Goat chase. Rockville’s David Wade and Twin Cities’ Patrick Rosales each gave up their first 2 losses and Boise’s Knox Sked surrendered his 2nd on the year to join the pack behind Turner. Rosales allowed each of his 2 via a bases-loaded walk.
2058 – April Outcomes
Date: Hero (TM) v Goat (TM); INN(deficit: 0=tied, -1, -2, etc.); details of scoring play; final(special note if applicable)
May 03: Candranibha Saswata (CHI) v Patrick Rosales (TC); 13th(0); WALK scores Ayyad Faisal; 5-4(d)
May 03: Elvan Masûkî (DM) v Dave O'Reilly (YS9); 9th(0); SINGLE scores Jeremy Webb; 6-5
May 04: Bob bin Amin (BRK) v David Wade (ROC); 9th(0); DOUBLE scores Carlos Dávila; 9-8(p)
May 05: Eduardo Morán (MON) v Nick Clarke (ATC); 9th(0); SINGLE scores Calvin Johnson; 2-1
May 07: Michael Little (CLG) v Joe Shaw (RMO); 11th(0); DOUBLE scores Bill Irvine; 7-6
May 10: Robert Chenoweth (RMO) v Richard Lawrence (MEX); 10th(0); SINGLE scores Malik bin Mazin; 3-2
May 10: Reggie Leeper (EDM) v Knox Sked (BOI); 12th(0); SINGLE scores Kieran Rinn; 3-2(cc)
May 10: Tony Frost (VAN) v Arnold Cantrell (SFB); 9th(0); SOLO HR scores Tony Frost; 2-1
May 11: Ettan Cherukuri (MEX) v Azhar Abu al Khayr (SA); 10th(0); SAC FLY scores Juan Anaya; 5-4(cc)
May 11: Wilson Alomar (DM) v Cade Miller (LOU); 11th(0); DOUBLE scores Sonny Bigalow; 7-6(cc)
May 12: Eduardo González (MON) v Frank Benítez (NO); 9th(1); 2-RUN HR scores Eduardo González, Calvin Johnson; 4-3(p)
May 12: Iwo Apfelski (OMA) v Patrick Rosales (TC); 9th(1); WALK scores Luis Mendoza; 4-3(d)
May 13: Javier Manuel (ATC) v John Dawson (CCJ); 14th(3); SOLO HR scores Javier Manuel; 10-9(p)
May 15: Zenobius Kazantziakis (NO) v Earl Cox (ROC); 9th(4); SINGLE scores Jared Boll, Juan Donéstevez; 6-5
May 15: Scott Tores (LOU) v Wesley Turner (MAD); 9th(0); SINGLE scores Amphibian Johnson; 2-1(p)
May 16: Scott Tores (LOU) v Wesley Turner (MAD); 10th(0); SINGLE scores Seghada Suji; 3-2
May 17: Robinson Rodríguez (TC) v Tyson Morris (YS9); 9th(0); WALK scores Aaron Haney; 3-2(d)
May 17: Rhys Atticus (LB) v Renato Lacerdo (POR); 11th(0); SOLO HR scores Rhys Atticus; 7-6(cc)
May 18: Patrick Strolz (SA) v David Wade (ROC); 10th(0); SOLO HR scores Patrick Strolz; 4-3
(b) – balkoff
(d) – derpoff
(cc) – 200-proof walkoff
(p) – pimpoff
2058 Nitty Gritty
The Nitty Gritty: Team Standings
TEAM – # of walkoffs (W-L in walkoff games),# of 1-run games (W-L in 1-run games)
Chicago Black Sox -3 (3-0, 1.000), 15 (9-6, .600)
Jacksonville Hurricanes -1 (1-0, 1.000), 10 (5-5, .500)
Omaha Cyclones -2 (2-0, 1.000), 11 (6-5, .545)
Sacramento Mad Popes -2 (2-0, 1.000), 10 (8-2, .800)
Vancouver Mounties -2 (2-0, 1.000), 14 (7-7, .500)
Montreal Blazers -6 (5-1, .833), 13 (8-5, .615)
Long Beach Surfers -5 (4-1, .800), 12 (8-4, .667)
Louisville Sluggers -5 (4-1, .800), 12 (7-5, .583)
Las Vegas Hustlers -4 (3-1, .750), 15 (9-6, .600)
Rocky Mountain Oysters -4 (3-1, .750), 8 (5-3, .625)
Mexico City Aztecs -5 (3-2, .600), 13 (7-6, .538)
New Orleans Crawdads -5 (3-2, .600), 14 (6-8, .429)
Valencia Stars -5 (3-2, .600), 11 (7-4, .636)
Calgary Pioneers -7 (4-3, .571), 13 (6-7, .462)
Boise Spuds -8 (4-4, .500), 12 (6-6, .500)
Des Moines Kernels -4 (2-2, .500), 19 (10-9, .526)
Twin Cities River Monsters -4 (2-2, .500), 17 (7-10, .412)
Edmonton Jackrabbits -5 (2-3, .400), 10 (4-6, .400)
Atlantic City Gamblers -3 (1-2, .333), 12 (7-5, .583)
Brooklyn Robins -3 (1-2, .333), 9 (4-5, .444)
Hawaii Tropics -3 (1-2, .333), 11 (5-6, .455)
Nashville Bluebirds -3 (1-2, .333), 17 (12-5, .706)
Rockville Pikemen -6 (2-4, .333), 11 (4-7, .364)
San Antonio Outlaws -4 (1-3, .250), 6 (2-4, .333)
Bikini Krill -1 (0-1, .000), 13 (3-10, .231)
Charlotte Flyers -2 (0-2, .000), 10 (6-4, .600)
Charm City Jimmies -1 (0-1, .000), 9 (3-6, .333)
Madison Wolves -4 (0-4, .000), 15 (4-11, .267)
Phoenix Talons -2 (0-2, .000), 6 (4-2, .667)
Portland Lumberjacks -4 (0-4, .000), 12 (3-9, .250)
San Fernando Bears -2 (0-2, .000), 10 (4-6, .400)
Yellow Springs Nine -3 (0-3, .000), 15 (7-8, .467)
The Nitty Gritty: Heroes
Silver Atlas 2058 Standings:
1. Fernando Castillo (LB) - 2
(tie) Scott Tores (LOU) - 2
(tie) Zenobius Kazantziakis (NO) - 2^
2. 53 with (1)
ATC Javier Manuel^
BIK
BOI Bastião Fardos
Héctor Holloway
Sebastian Fradesso
Xinpeng Zhào
BRK Bob bin Amin^
CLG Bill Irvine
Larry Stinson
Michael Little^
Sam Butler
CLT
CCJ
CHI Candranibha Saswata^
Donald Nixon
Jeremy Starks
DM Elvan Masûkî^
Wilson Alomar^
EDM António Román
Reggie Leeper^
HAW Qintin Trewartha
JAX Natsume Kondo
LV Claudio Morgan
Helmut Grün
Tom Rudge
LB Fernando Castillo (2)
Bill Morley
Rhys Atticus^
LOU Scott Tores (2)^^
Mal Fountain
Seghada Suji
MAD
MEX Charles Barling
Ettan Cherukuri^
Zhi-fu Huang
MON Aniruddha Meenakshisundaram
António López
Eduardo González^
Eduardo Morán^
John Oliver
NSH Alfonso Gonzáles
NO Zenobius Kazantziakis (2)^
Jason Newton
OMA Du Wu
Iwo Apfelski^
PHX
POR
ROC John McMuttray
Varnik Tuncay
RMO Dylan Malloch
Malik bin Mazin
Robert Chenoweth^
SAC John Kinsella
Senzo Sato
SA Patrick Strolz^
SFB
TC Joshua Koka
Robinson Rodríguez^
VAL Carlos Souza
Koray Kapkin
Tim Bartlett
VAN Ramón Moreno
Tony Frost^
YS9
Silver Goat 2058 Standings:
1. Wesley Turner (MAD) - 4^^
2. Knox Sked (BOI) - 2^
(tie) Will Mitchell (CLG) - 2
(tie) Kent Grange (POR) - 2
(tie) David Wade (ROC) - 2^^
(tie) Patrick Rosales (TC) - 2^^
(tie) Tyson Morris (YS9) - 2^
3. 43 with (1)
ATC James Robinson
Nick Clarke^
BIK Shea Valance
BOI Knox Sked (2)^
Anthony Annear
Quintin Birss
BRK Leo Hill
Stephen Clulow, Jr
CLG Will Mitchell (2)
Nalany Ahotaein
CLT Tony Giles
Pete Benoit
CCJ John Dawson^
CHI
DM Garth Dobbs
Jeff Doane
EDM Dylan Malloch
José López
Max Birstall
HAW Utkan Göçek
Phil Thompson
JAX
LV Gilberto Cordero
LB Scott Everard
LOU Cade Miller^
MAD Wesley Turner (4)^^
MEX Malik bin Adnan
Richard Lawrence^
MON Tom Miller
NSH Jackson Woodbury
Iván Molina
NO Toby Bundy
Frank Benítez^
OMA
PHX Huang Cheng
Josh Dougherty
POR Kent Grange (2)
Scott Bugbie
Renato Lacerdo^
ROC David Wade (2)^^
Christian Walker
Earl Cox^
RMO Joe Shaw^
SAC
SA Edmond Thomas
Usama Awad
Azhar Abu al Khayr^
SFB Mitchell Radnall
Arnold Cantrell^
TC Patrick Rosales (2)^^
VAL Luke Seddon
Lindsay Barber
VAN
YS9 Tyson Morris (2)^
Dave O'Reilly^
The Nitty Gritty: Derps
2058 Derp Count:
1. bb,bb - Patrick Rosales (TC) - 2^^
2. wp - Dylan Malloch (EDM) - 1^
(tie) wp - Iván Molina (NSH) - 1
(tie) wp - Huang Cheng (PHX) - 1
(tie) wp - Tyson Morris - 1^