Game 5:
After two days off, and with a lot less pressure, 🇯🇲 Everton Stack got on form against the 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN: 1 hit, 1 walk, 1 run, 5 strikeouts.
🇨🇺 Salmerón's first dinger of the year, a 120-meter 7th-inning grilled cheese, put the game out of question.
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First, of course, the 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN and their absolutely lethal pitching rotation—🇵🇷 Fernando Mota, 🇵🇷 Pedro Cárdenas, and 🇵🇷 Raúl Jaramillo—knocked out the 🕊️ #PalomasCID, who usually count on making the third round purely because shortstop 🇵🇷 / 🇻🇦 Fr. Aníbal Reyes insisted on their divine favor.
In this Boletín de Turno:
- the 🧭 #NavegadoresNAG face their Eastern rivals 🐟 #PicudosCEI and 🦜 #CotorrasRGE, as well as the 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN and 🔨 #MartillerosVGA;
- 🇦🇺 Wally "The Human Ripcord" Balk breaks an important record;
- we find the most incompetent fielder in the LNP.
Read on:
The 1879 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN avenged themselves on the ⚙️ #IngenierosRIN with a sweep in the Campeonato Nacional de Puerto Rico.
Since then, it's happened five times:
1883: ⚙️ over 🌰 #CorsosYAU
1885: ⚙️ over ☕ #CafeterosMAR
1887: 👑 #ReyesJUA over ☕
1894: ⚙️ over #CanariosHAT
1903: 🧀 #QuesiterosISA over 🧭
Once again, all we'll tell you is that, in his third Opening Day start for the 🧭 #NavegadoresNAG, Ted Balloon pitched a quality start.
Mostly because that's the only bit that didn't make us hyperventilate.
Check out our first 1904 game against the 🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN:
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04/09/1904:
🇯🇲 RHP Everton Stack, #2 LNP prospect, was the most highly-anticipated rookie for the 1904 🧭 #NavegadoresNAG.
Well, he delivered. He shut out the #ChupacabrasCAN 🐐 on two hits, striking out 9 and walking 1, on only 98 pitches.
Box score:
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As we enter the 7th inning:
🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN 1
🧭 #NavegadoresNAG 0
The answer is that Naguabo blinked first, despite Ted pitching well overall: no hit batsmen, no wild pitches, no balks, even no walks!
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As we enter the 4th inning:
🐐 #ChupacabrasCAN 0
🧭 #NavegadoresNAG 0
Ted has so far managed to hold the Crípticos scoreless despite four base hits; Naguabo is struggling to even make contact.
Who will blink first?
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Compass-and-rose slide for tonight's broadcast, which pits Naguabo against the Chupacabras de Coamo. Naguabo lineup behind American righty Ted Balloon: lefty shortstop Benigno Valdez, lefty American first baseman Rob Feaster, Mexican right fielder Frank del Castillo, Australian third baseman Wally Balk, lefty French second baseman Jacques Ceinture, left fielder Vidal Santiago, American lefty designated hitter Etaoin Shrdlu, lefty English centerfielder Graham Underwood, Argentine catcher Spike Stonehand. Canóvanas lineup behind Puerto Rican lefty Fernando Mota: lefty first baseman Ildefonso Bibián, Cuban centerfielder Eugenio Villarreal, left fielder Juan Carlos Díaz, lefty Australian right fielder Lance Matheson, second baseman Francisco Ortiz, designated hitter Fernando Martínez, shortstop Álvaro Alberganza, third baseman Eduardo Ramales, catcher Jesús Ávila.
TONIGHT:
We've been on hiatus while we cooked up the 1904 season, but it's finally time.
The new roster of the #NavegadoresNAG 🧭 open their season a few days late, at home, against the #ChupacabrasCAN 🐐 behind developing ace Fernando Mota. Will he shove?
start @ 7:05 PM ET:
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12/31:
#ChupacabrasCAN 🐐 send:
🇯🇲 LF William Jepson (21, 39 OVR / 55 POT)
🏴 LHP Jay Sims (33, 56 OVR)
#CapitanesMAY 🎖️ send:
🇵🇷 1B Fernando Martínez (39, 57 OVR)
Dear God, Canóvanas, how desperate for runs are you to rent a 39-year-old?
Jepson is an elite base-stealing threat with contact potential.
Luis García #8 (1888-97):
Originally hired by the #ChupacabrasCAN 🐐 and later traded to the #FielesLAR 💺, "La Cacerola" was a decent enough defensive catcher, but he may be best remembered as the first Liga Nacional Puertorriqueña player to gain a following due mostly to his callipygian physique.
