Washington vs Cleveland 1962

 My next APBA series consisted of two American League teams squaring off using the basic game. After the old Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961 This 1962 Washington Senators team was an expansion team that later became the Texas Rangers. They finished last with a record of 60 - 101. The Cleveland Indians finished with a record of 80 - 82.

  

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GAME 1: Location, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Municipal Stadium

On the mound for the visiting Senators is Don Rudolph a C pitcher. Toeing the rubber for the home team Indians is Jim "Mudcat" Grant a D pitcher. Needless to say this is not a pitchers duel.

Cleveland puts up a single run in the second on a solo shot by Gene Green. Each team scores one in the third. In the fourth the Indians put up three on another solo shot by Green and a two run blast by Gerald Kindall. This dropped Rudolph to a D pitcher. 

With the score 5 to 1 Cleveland, the Senators put up a 5 spot in the top of the 5th culminating with a three run shot off the bat of Jim King. Unfortunately for the Senators that would be the last of their scoring as Bill Dailey (D), Jim Perry (D), and Frank Funk (B) would shut them down for the final 4 innings. 

Cleveland went on to score single runs in the 5th, 6th, and 7th to come away with a 8 to 6 victory. Dailey got the win and Funk got the save. For the Senators their relievers of Marty Kutyna (D) and Steve Hamilton (C) were unable to keep the Indians from scoring. Kutyna took the loss.

GAME 2: Location, Washington DC, DC Stadium

This game saw Sudden Sam McDowell (D) on the hump for the visiting Indians and Claude Osteen (C) hurling for the hometown Senators.

The hometown team struck first with a 2 run single in the 3rd off the bat of Chuck Hinton. In the top of the 5th Cleveland tied the game with a two run homerun from Woody Held. 

After Osteen was lifted for a pinch hitter in the 6th the Indians got to reliever Pete Burnside (D) with one unearned run and a steal of home from Al Luplow. They surprised the Senators when John Romano took off for second on the double steal and Luplow made it home safely.

The Senators came back with two of their own in the bottom of the 7th on a two run homer from Harry Bright. But in the top of the 8th Cleveland tallied one run and the Frank Funk (B) closed it out for a two inning save and his second of the series.

GAME 3: Location, Washington DC, DC Stadium

The final game was all Cleveland with a 10 to 2 bashing of the hometown Senators. Starter Dick Donovan (B) for Cleveland pitched a complete game for his first win of the season. Starter Tom Cheney (C) only made it through 3 innings and gave up 6 runs. Relievers Ed Hobaugh (D), Steve Hamilton (C), and Jim Hannan (B) pitched the remaining 6 innings with Hobaugh not giving up any runs.

The offense for Cleveland was lead by homeruns from Jim Mahoney a solo homerun in the first, Willie Tasby a 3 run shot in the second and Chuck Essegian a two run blast in the 3rd.

That's it for this summary Cleveland took all three from Washington. My next series and recap will be the 1957 Giants versus the 1957 Cubs. Mays vs Banks. Look for my writeup on that series.

APBA

 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.