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2023 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 9-5
The Patriots flew Air Yordan to a comfortable 9-5 win at Chavez Ravine. Yordan Alvarez homered, doubled and singled his way to the MVP award, and Christian Walker added a 3-run shot that put the Patriots in the lead for good.
Alvarez started off the scoring in the bottom of the second with a solo bomb. Matt Olson tied it in the top of the 3rd with a homer of his own, and then Manny Machado, who went 4-for-4, put Liberty up 3-1 with a two-run blast in the 4th. After a Carlos Correa sac fly made it 3-2 Liberty, Francisco Lindor hit a clutch 2-out single to drive in two runs to put Liberty ahead 5-2. The Patriots stormed right back in the next half-inning, getting an RBI single from Alvarez and taking a lead they would never relinquish on the Walker dinger, which was followed by another 3-run homer by Bobby Witt, Jr.
Garrett Cole was good for two solid innings for the Patriots, but Justin Verlander, Tyler Anderson and Christian Javier gave up the five Liberty runs leaving Cole out of the decision. Javier happened to be the pitcher of record when the go-ahead runs scored, giving him the win. Martin Perez gave up both Patriot 3-run home runs in his inning of work to take the loss.
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2022 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 11-1
Kyle Schwarber homered, doubled, and took home the MVP award as the Liberty defeated the Patriots for the second consecutive year.
Matt Olson's RBI double started the Liberty scoring in the first. Olson added a sac fly in the 3rd after a Salvador Perez RBI single to make it 3-0, and then Schwarber's solo dinger in the 4th increased the lead to 4-0. Jonathan India's three-run shot broke the game open and capped off a 5-run Liberty 7th. Jose Ramirez completed the scoring with a 2-run drive in the 8th. The Patriots' only tally was on an RBI groundout by Javy Baez to break up the shutout in the 9th.
Liberty starter Jacob deGrom was dominant in three scoreless innings, walking two and striking out five while allowing no hits, and he was awarded the win for his efforts. Patriots starter Robbie Ray took the loss.
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2021 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 5-2
Fernando Tatis, Jr. made his All-Star Game debut an MVP-winning one by clobbering two homers to lead Liberty to a 5-2 win over Patriot.
This game was never actually played in real life, but there is no COVID among the ones and zeroes of Strat.
Tatis, Jr. led off the top of the 2nd with his first homer, a majestic blast into the left-centerfield seats off starter Kevin Gausman. Rowdy Tellez then knocked in Ronald Acuna after he had doubled to make it 2-0 Liberty. After a Luke Voit single with one out in the 5th, Tatis, Jr. launched his second dinger, this time off Shane Bieber, into the home bullpen in left to make it 4-0. Bieber walked the bases loaded and was relieved by Aaron Nola who yielded a sac fly to Chris Taylor to complete Liberty's scoring. Brandon Lowe knocked in Juan Soto in the 7th to get the Patriots on the board, and Jose Abreu led off the 9th with a solo homer off Daniel Bard to make it 5-2. The Patriots tried to start a 2-out rally with a single by Freddie Freeman and a walk by AJ Pollock, but Brad Hand got Cesar Hernandez on strikes to complete the save.
Liberty starter Trevor Bauer worked three scoreless innings to get the win and Gausman took the loss.
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2020 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 8-5
Mike Trout continued his All-Star Game heroics with 2 homers, Anthony Rendon homered and doubled twice, and Christian Yelich hit a game-breaking Grand Slam and added a defensive gem to power the Patriot Conference over the Liberty Conference 8-5.
Trout's first homer, a 2-out 2-run blast in the top of the 1st, scored Michael Conforto, who had doubled. Nolan Arenado of Liberty doubled home Francisco Lindor, who had also doubled to make it 2-1 after one.
Arenado and DJ LeMahieu went back-to-back in the 3rd to propel Liberty into the lead. Rendon answered in the top of the 4th to tie the game with a solo shot. It all came apart for Liberty in the 5th off losing pitcher Zac Gallen, who walked Willson Contreras, Jorge Soler, and Jose Altuve to load the bases for Yelich, who cleared them with an enormous drive over the right-field fence to put the Patriots up 7-3. Trout followed with his second homer to make it 8-3. Carlos Santana tried to start a Liberty comeback with a 2-run shot off Aaron Nola in the 6th, but that was the end of the scoring. The Patriot bullpen slammed the door with 6 strikeouts and a great fly-out double play to get Yoan Moncada rounding second on a diving catch by Yelich.
Trout, Rendon, and Yelich shared the MVP award with each making huge contributions. John Flaherty was the pitcher of record during the 5-run 5th and got the win.
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2019 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 6-3
Mike Trout hit a 3-run homer and doubled as the Patriot Conference beat the Liberty Conference 6-3.
Trout's 2-out blast in the bottom of the 3rd plated DiDi Gregorius, who had singled, and Joey Votto, who had walked. It proved to be the winning margin, and Trout was named MVP of the contest.
Alex Bregman kicked off the scoring for the Patriots with a solo homer in the 2nd. Manny Machado hit a solo dinger for Liberty in the top of the 4th, but Votto's 2-run single in the bottom of the 4th increased the Patriot lead to 6-1. Paul Goldschmidt added a 2-run shot in the 6th to make it 6-3, but that was all Liberty could muster. Corey Kluber, losing pitcher in the last two All-Star Games, pitched a scoreless 3rd to get the win, and Liberty starter Max Scherzer took the loss.
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2018 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 11-2
Giancarlo Stanton hit a mammoth Grand Slam at Marlins Stadium to earn himself the MVP award as Liberty won for the 3rd straight time over the Patriots.
It wasn't much of a contest. After Stanton's slam, Nolan Arenado, Cody Bellinger, Francisco Lindor, and Jose Abreu all went deep to extend the lead to 11-0. Steven Souza finally answered in the 9th for the Patriots, but it was far too little and far too late.
Max Scherzer got the win after 2/3 scoreless innings in relief of starter Zack Godley. Corey Kluber, who yielded the Stanton granny, took the loss for the second straight year.
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2017 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 4-1
At Petco Park, Dan Straily pitched two solid innings with three strikeouts for the win, and game MVP Brandon Crawford sealed the victory with a two-run shot in the 8th to lead the Liberty Conference to their second straight defeat of the Patriot Conference in the All-Star Game.
Liberty scored early with a RBI sacrifice fly by Anthony Rizzo in the first and a JT Realmuto double-play grounder in the 2nd. The Patriots answered with an RBI double by Joey Votto in the 3rd, but that was all they could muster. Crawford's homer plated Nelson Cruz to finish off the scoring.
Wade Davis, A.J. Ramos, and Andrew Miller got the final outs. Cory Kluber took the loss.
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2016 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 5-4
Game MVP Nolan Arenado blasted a 2-run homer in the bottom of the 8th to cap a 3-run comeback and lead the Liberty to a 5-4 win over the Patriots.
The Patriots took lead in the 4th on an Ian Kinsler RBI single. Liberty tied it in the bottom of the inning with a Yoenis Cespedes homer. The Patriots scored three runs in the 5th on Chris Davis' three-run shot. J.D. Martinez added a solo home run in the 7th for Liberty to make it 4-2.
Asdrubal Cabrera led off the bottom of the 8th with his own solo homer to cut the lead to 4-3. After a groundout, Carlos Carrasco came in and hit Cespedes before Cole Hamels entered and yielded the eventual game-winner to Arenado. Jon Lester, Erasmo Ramirez and Aroldis Chapman retired the Patriots in order in the 9th.
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2015 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 1-0
One run was all the Patriot Conference All-Stars needed, and it was all they got, in a 1-0 shutout of the Liberty Conference All-Stars at Target Field.
MVP Tim Hudson had one of many stellar pitching performances on the night for the Patriots. Hudson struck out sluggers Jose Abreu, Giancarlo Stanton, and Buster Posey in the 6th on a mere ten pitches.
The game's only run was driven in by Mike Trout in the 4th inning on a single to right that plated the speedy Jose Altuve, who had doubled.
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2014 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 3-1
The Liberty Conference pitchers lost an unprecedented All-Star Game no hitter with two outs in the 9th, but escaped a bases-load jam to win 3-1 at Citi Field.
Game MVP Matt Holliday delivered what would prove to be the winning two-run homer in the bottom of the 7th. Liberty took a 1-0 lead in the 3rd on Jed Lowrie's RBI single.
Greg Holland was sent in to close out the no-no, but after striking out Ian Desmond, he managed to walk pinch-hitter Ben Zobrist, get a force play for the second out, and then walk Ryan Zimmerman and Chris Davis. Justin Upton then broke up the gem with a single to left, scoring Zobrist. Kanley Jansen was called in to relieve the struggling Holland, and he struck out Adrian Gonzalez to seal the victory.
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2013 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 2-1
In what seemed like would be an endless battle of unhittable relievers, the Patriot Conference prevailed over the Liberty Conference by a score of 2-1 in 15 innings.
Craig Kimbrel, the game MVP, dealt six scoreless innings, striking out eight. Fernando Rodney matched him for four and two-thirds of those innings, but the Patriots finally broke through in the 15th on a Derek Jeter walk, a wild pitch, and a walk-off double by Ian Kinsler.
The game went to extra innings tied 1-1. The Patriots scored in the 2nd inning when Matt Holliday plated Albert Pujols on a groundout after Andre Ethier had doubled Pujols to third. The Liberty countered in the 8th on a Jose Reyes RBI single.
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2012 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: LIBERTY OVER PATRIOT 14-3
The Liberty Conference mauled the Patriot Conference 14-3 at Chase Field behind the 4-RBI performance of MVP Josh Willingham. Willingham hit a three-run homer in the 2nd inning, and added an RBI double in the 5th. The game was never in doubt after the Liberty squad put up 3, 2, 2, and 4 runs in successive innings from the 2nd through 5th off a variety of Patriot hurlers. Tim Lincecum gave up the first five runs and took the loss. Liberty starter Matt Cain pitched well enough in his three innings to get the win in the modified All-Star scoring system. The main bright spots for the Patriot Conference were Jose Bautista, who homered, and Dustin Pedroia, who went 2-for-4 with a double, triple, and RBI.
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2011 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 10-1
The Patriot Conference blew out the Liberty Conference 10-1 behind MVP Chris Young's homer and five RBI at Angel Stadium.
The Liberty Conference got out in front 1-0 in the second on an RBI double by Ryan Braun, but that was all the offense the Patriot pitching staff would allow.
The Patriots took a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the second on Chase Utley's RBI single and Young's three run blast, which plated Utley and Adrian Gonzalez.
Gonzalez homered in the 3rd, and then the game was broken open in the 7th when the Patriots scored five runs off Jon Lester on six hits, an error and a hit-by-pitch.
Carlos Zambrano, Billy Wagner, and Mariano Rivera recorded the final three outs for the Patriot Conference. Starter Tim Lincecum took the win after leaving with a 5-1
lead after three innings.
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2010 USSP ALL-STAR GAME: PATRIOT OVER LIBERTY 4-3
In a result eerily similar to the real 2009 All-Star Game, the Patriot Conference prevailed over the Liberty Conference 4-3 at Busch Stadium.
Game MVP Joe Mauer delivered the game-winning RBI single off J.P. Howell with two outs in the top of the ninth after Howell had wild-pitched Albert Pujols to third.
It was Mauer's third hit of the night.
The Liberty Conference took the early lead in the second on an RBI single by Dan Uggla. The Patriots responded with a sac fly by Mike Cameron scoring Matt Holliday
in the third. The Liberty built a 3-1 lead in the 5th on a bases-loaded RBI fielders choice by Ryan Howard and an RBI single by Jason Bay.
In the sixth, Adam Dunn scored for the Patriots on a crucial throwing error by Michael Cuddyer on Justin Upton's grounder. Cuddyer, trying to force Dunn at second,
threw the ball into the left field corner, scoring Dunn, and allowing Upton to advance all the way to third. Michael Young then drove in Upton with a single for the tying run.
Francisco Rodriguez got the win, and Jonathan Broxton went the final two-thirds in the bottom of the ninth for the save. David Aardsma took the loss.
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LIBERTY DEFEATS PATRIOT 6-2 IN 12 INN.
The Liberty Conference broke through in the top of the 12th inning with four runs
to defeat the Patriot Conference 6-2 at Yankee Stadium in the 2009 USSP All-Star
Game. Liberty took a 1-0 lead in the fifth on a Jose Reyes RBI single, but
the Patriots answered back in the bottom of the inning with a Josh Hamilton two-run
homer. Justin Morneau tied it for Liberty in the 7th with a solo shot, and
the teams traded zeroes after that until the 12th. Mariano Rivera entered
the game in the 10th for the Liberty Conference and Joakim Soria came in during
the 11th for the Patriot Conference. The two closers each extricated their
teams from perilous man-on-third-and-none-out situations. Soria, however,
was no match for the Liberty squad in the 12th as Kevin Youkilis blasted a two-RBI
double to break the deadlock and Adrian Beltre and Pat Burrell each drove in a run
for insurance.
The MVP of the game was Rivera, who pitched 2-2/3 scoreless innings (including a
perfect bottom of the 12th) with only one walk allowed and four strikeouts to get
the win.
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Platoon Post, Vol XV, No. 1
GUNSLINGERS TURN TO COLLEGE STARS IN 2008
DRAFT
San Antonio - The San Antonio Gunslingers
drafted three highly regarded college players in the 2008 Draft, prompting observers
to wonder if owner Tim Lowell wanted to re-live his days at Clarkson University
in the '80s. "Yeah, right, 8 am engineering classes in 20-below weather, I'd love
to re-live that," said Lowell. "But maybe if I was 6'5" and 200 lbs. like Brian
Matusz, I wouldn't have spent most Friday nights holed up in my apartment watching
'Mr. Belvedere'. That Bob Uecker, what a card!" Besides University of San Diego
pitcher Matusz, Lowell also tabbed Missouri hurler Aaron Crow and South Carolina
first baseman Justin Smoak. "(Gunslinger manager Bill) Lee suggested picking Smoak,"
remarked Lowell. "That guy's got a one-track mind." Other notables in the 'Slingers
2008 class include first-round pick Kosuke Fukudome, a Japanese import, and 40-year-old
reliever Doug Brocail. "I hope Fukudome has a better interpreter than Ichiro," Lowell
said. "Ichiro's guy sounds like he learned English by watching too many 'Kung Fu'
re-runs. As for Brocail, he and I can reminisce about when Madonna was still young
and only medium-skanky."
LOWRY WALKS THE PLANET IN SPRING GAME
Phoenix - San Antonio Gunslinger lefty
Noah Lowry made what most baseball people think had to be Spring Training history
by walking nine batters in one official inning of work in a recent Cactus League
game. Lowry's line read 1 IP, 0 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 9 BB, 0 SO, 0 HR. Bruce Bochy told
reporters, "He said he had trouble gripping the ball. He couldn't feel it." After
the game, Lowry did have a death-like grip on the obvious, saying, "I'm upset my
spring has started the way it has." When told of that quote, Gunslinger manager
Bill Lee replied, "Yeah, him and me both. That was Rick Ankiel-like out there today.
Too bad Lowry can't hit worth a damn or I might stick him out in the outfield to
see if lightning could strike twice."
The Patriot All-Stars emerged victorious from an unprecedented
offensive frenzy, winning 13-11 behind the five RBI of Raul Ibanez, the game MVP.
Roy Halladay, who worked a clean 2/3 of an inning, took the win, while losing pitcher
Jeff Francis was pounded for five runs while retiring only one batter. Francisco
Rodriguez recorded the final out to pick up the save.
The Liberty All-Stars took an early lead on Alfonso Soriano's leadoff homer, but
immediately fell behind when Albert Pujols and Troy Glaus homered in the second
for the Patriots. Carlos Beltran hit a three-run round-tripper in the 3rd
to give the Libertys another lead, which they extended to 6-3 in the 4th on doubles
by Garrett Atkins, Brian McCann and Soriano. The Patriots stormed back to
tie in the 6th when Ibanez drove in the first three of his five RBI on a bases-clearing
triple. Liberty seemed to put the game away in the bottom of the frame with
a four-run rally, highlighted by Carlos Lee's two-run double. It turned out
to be woefully short, though, as the Patriot All-Stars hung up a 7-spot in the 7th,
with Miguel Cabrera's two-run single giving the Patriots the lead which they would
not relinquish, and Ibanez adding a two-run homer for insurance. The Liberty
All-Stars tacked on a run in the bottom of the 7th on a Jose Reyes triple and an
A.J. Pierzynski RBI single for the final score of the game.
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