Monday, July 20, 2020

Virtual Baseball: Join the Cole Train! Gerrit Steams Through Cards, Gets Yanks Rolling In Second Half.

Gerrit Cole got the Yankees back on track in virtual baseball today, ending a second-half mini-slump as he pitched seven innings of two-hit, shutout baseball against the St. Louis Cardinals.

With the Yanks already holding a big lead, Manager Ma Boone gave King Cole the rest of the afternoon off.  Adam Ottavino and Chad Green had no trouble bringing home a 9-0 win.

Feeding the Cole Train's engine, in an inexcusably tortured metaphor, were the big wood of Miguel Andujar, Mike Ford, and The Gleyber, all of whom homered.  Aaron Judge went 4-4 with a pair of two-baggers, and was still elated by how the good doctors at Columbia-Presbyterian managed to detect and remove a nine-inch nail from his foot.  Judge promised that if he were ever forced to confront the doctors in a coliseum during some sort of gladiatorial games, he would not kill them.

The Yanks, now 67-31, head home having lost a game to the TB Rays, who they now trail by 3.

"They're persistent little buggers," conceded Boone.  "But we'll get them in the end."




5 comments:

JM said...

Hoss, what will happen to the virtual season when the real season starts? Will it disappear into a parallel universe?

13bit said...

I am greatly preferring the virtual season. I prefer it to the FAKE "real" season. I prefer it to the news of unidentified stormtroopers being sent in to police American cities. I prefer it to news of the pandemic burning its way across the country, I prefer it to the cancel culture follies being played out in the arts, academia and other public arenas. I prefer it to the morons sitting on their wooden restaurant parking spot barges all over the west village. I prefer it to the memories of the swimming in my local city pool that float back to my consciousness while I wish I could swim. I prefer it to most things now. In virtual baseball, the virtual IIHIIF contingent is due to "go to the game," I believe this Thursday. I hope that the virtual Yankees come through with a win, but I am used to being disappointed - in real, as well as virtual, life...

13bit said...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/20/nyregion/yankees-bronx-economy.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

HoraceClarke66 said...

Thanks, guys. I feel the same way, Bitty.

It looks as though the signals from Virtual World 1 are indeed holding strong. So...on we'll go!

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