Re: Official MLB The Show 16 Fantasy Draft Franchise Progress Thread
I finished my first series earlier today and we opened up at home against the divisional rival LA Dodgers. It seems that all the teams in my division drafted strong, I did notice that it seems some teams focused more on pitching early and others more on position players.
We absolutely dominated in the first two games. There was two great pitching matchups. Kershaw vs deGrom and Martinez vs Cole. Kershaw took a no hitter into the 7th after a batter had reached in the 6th on an error to break up the perfect game. He ended up giving up 3 hits without walking a batter and finishing the complete game shutout for the opening day victory 6-0. Gallo, Story and Schoop homered. Game two was more great pitching and Long ball action from the Padres. Martinez went 8 strong, surrendering 2 runs, while striking out 11 and not walking a batter to pick up the easy 9-2 victory. Rookie Nomar(NOMAHHHHH) Mazara hit his first career HR, but Chris Davis stole the show. After hitting a single in his first AB, he went yard in his next 3 ABs. This is the first time that I have had a player hit 3 HR in a game since I bumped the difficulty up to HOF. This is why I chose the most powerful LH hitter with my third pick in the draft after choosing the most powerful RH hitter with my second pick in the draft(Stanton). Hopefully these two will be battling for the HR title by years end.
Game 3 the bats went quiet. It was a pitchers duel between Lackey and Odirizzi. Scoreless into the 8th and they pick up the first run of the game on a squeeze play. 1-0 Bottom 9th and I get runners on the corners with 1 out and Stanton comes up. All I keep saying in my head is don't swing at a low pitch, don't swing at a low pitch. What do I do? Swing at a ball down out of the zone and hit a tailor-made double play ball to SS. The get the force at second and then launch the ball into the stands. Run scores and we go into the 10th tied 1-1. After Andrew Miller pitched a scoreless top half of the 10th, they brought in LH reliever Tyler Lyons to pitch the bottom half. First pitch, to the first batter LH Joey Gallo and he hung a slider right over the plate and Gallo crushed it right down the line just inside the foul pole for a walk off HR to complete the sweep.
So we completed the sweep and dominated out scoring them 17-3 in the process. With my strong pitching staff and our ability to hit the long ball this team is going to be a lot of fun to play with. It's gonna be the games where we don't go yard that will be interesting with the lack of explosive speed to help play small ball and manufacture runs.
I finished my first series earlier today and we opened up at home against the divisional rival LA Dodgers. It seems that all the teams in my division drafted strong, I did notice that it seems some teams focused more on pitching early and others more on position players.
We absolutely dominated in the first two games. There was two great pitching matchups. Kershaw vs deGrom and Martinez vs Cole. Kershaw took a no hitter into the 7th after a batter had reached in the 6th on an error to break up the perfect game. He ended up giving up 3 hits without walking a batter and finishing the complete game shutout for the opening day victory 6-0. Gallo, Story and Schoop homered. Game two was more great pitching and Long ball action from the Padres. Martinez went 8 strong, surrendering 2 runs, while striking out 11 and not walking a batter to pick up the easy 9-2 victory. Rookie Nomar(NOMAHHHHH) Mazara hit his first career HR, but Chris Davis stole the show. After hitting a single in his first AB, he went yard in his next 3 ABs. This is the first time that I have had a player hit 3 HR in a game since I bumped the difficulty up to HOF. This is why I chose the most powerful LH hitter with my third pick in the draft after choosing the most powerful RH hitter with my second pick in the draft(Stanton). Hopefully these two will be battling for the HR title by years end.
Game 3 the bats went quiet. It was a pitchers duel between Lackey and Odirizzi. Scoreless into the 8th and they pick up the first run of the game on a squeeze play. 1-0 Bottom 9th and I get runners on the corners with 1 out and Stanton comes up. All I keep saying in my head is don't swing at a low pitch, don't swing at a low pitch. What do I do? Swing at a ball down out of the zone and hit a tailor-made double play ball to SS. The get the force at second and then launch the ball into the stands. Run scores and we go into the 10th tied 1-1. After Andrew Miller pitched a scoreless top half of the 10th, they brought in LH reliever Tyler Lyons to pitch the bottom half. First pitch, to the first batter LH Joey Gallo and he hung a slider right over the plate and Gallo crushed it right down the line just inside the foul pole for a walk off HR to complete the sweep.
So we completed the sweep and dominated out scoring them 17-3 in the process. With my strong pitching staff and our ability to hit the long ball this team is going to be a lot of fun to play with. It's gonna be the games where we don't go yard that will be interesting with the lack of explosive speed to help play small ball and manufacture runs.
Comment