Dear Reader, I left you hanging with my preview post about my World Series matchup on Sim Dynasty earlier in the week. Alas, it was not yet Brooklyn’s time to rise to the top.
We were matched up against the three-time defending champion Cleveland Badgers, who won 124 games in the regular season to our 106. While we had to battle through a five-team race to get into the playoffs, the Badgers cruised and clinched in August.
In Game 1, Cleveland sent ace Gary Weaver to the mound and he didn’t disappoint. The Badgers cruised to a 6-3 opening victory.
Game 2 was scoreless through 7 innings, giving hope we might pull off the road split if we could just squeeze across a run somehow. Cleveland struck first with a run in the 8th and sent closer Kid Edmondson to the mound to seal it. The Bats rallied to tie, however, and sent it to extra innings.
In the top of the 10th, we stranded runners on 2nd and 3rd, our best chance to pull off the win. In the bottom of the 11th, the Badgers got a walkoff homer from Pete Ripple to win 3-1.
That sent the series to Brooklyn’s E-Bats Field for Game 3, where Ripple immediately did damage with a first-inning, three-run homer in a 5-run inning. The Bats rallied with a pair of homers in the 2nd and got 4 runs back. But no one scored again until Cleveland tacked on one in the 8th and held on to win, 6-4.
Disheartened, Brooklyn couldn’t summon any attempt to come back in the series. The Badgers put us out of our misery with a 6-0 win in Game 4 and a sweep.
That gave the Badgers four straight titles, and now they’ll try to become the first team to win five in a row. We will try to get back to the Series and thwart that effort if we can.
