I have started to resurrect my blogs and I use this one for exclusive sports talk. More often than not I plan to write about my favorite table top game, APBA (pronounced App-Baa) Baseball. I've been playing this game since 1973. The current year I am playing is 2017. Many people talk about the projects they are working on and many people play a full actual season of their favorite team. I prefer to play all my seasons and what I do is alternate between American and National League and I also alternate between the Master game and the basic game. I always do three game series. I just got done playing a three game series between the 2017 Indians and the 2017 Astros.
Game 1: Kluber vs Peacock
Cleveland jumped all over Peacock by scoring three in the 2nd, two in the 3rd, and two in the 4th. They had homeruns by Michael Brantley and Francisco Lindor. They also scored three in the 6th off of Hoyt. Ramirez was 3 for 5 with two doubles in the Cleveland win 10 to 4. On the Houston side, the had homeruns by Beltran, Reddick and McCann but they also ended up losing Reddick for 9 games.
Game MVP: Ramirez
Game 2: Keuchel vs Clevinger
This game was all Houston. They scored 8 runs off Clevinger over 4 1/3 innings. Keuchel held Cleveland to only 5 hits four of them doubles and they didn't score until the bottom of the ninth. For Houston, Altuve lead off the 1st with a homerun, Bregman was 2 for 3 with a double, homerun, 4 RBIs and two walks, and Marisnick filling in for the injured Reddick went 3 for 3 had a double, 3 RBIs and stole a base.
Game MVP: Bregman
Game 3: Carrasco vs Verlander
This game was a bit more competitive than the first two. Houston jumped on Carrasco in the bottom of the first with three runs and another leadoff homerun by Altuve, I think he heard the trash can. Cleveland came back with one in 2nd on a Santana solo shot and then added two in the third on back to back doubles by Ramirez and Encarnacion. In the 5th Marisnick broke the tie with a solo shot of his own. Astros scored an insurance run in the 8th and Giles closed it out in the top of the 9th with his first save.
Game MVP: Gurriel
Next series match up 2017 Phillies vs 2017 Giants playing the Basic game. I'll give a recap next time.
