AROUND THE DIAMOND IN THE ABL

WEEK 5

4/13/10

BIG STORY: Last Play Week the big story was the red hot play of the B-Bay Corsairs. This play week it’s the other smoking hot team in the American Division the Long Beach Island Starfish. The Starfish went into the Yard and swept past the C-Bay Channel Cats winning a thriller in game one in the 9th on an Aaron Hill two run jack off closer Mike Adams. In the nightcap Jarrod Washburn was dominating allowing only three hits as the Starfish staked claimed as the 2nd team out of the American Division that deserves some attention. The Starfish added big bats in Jason Bay and Josh Willingham in a trade this past week and look like a team that will rival Titusville for the most homers in 2010. Everyone is asking will the warm up outside continue as the final play week is due up with the big 4 game Spring Slam on deck?

2010 ABL STANDINGS

NATIONAL W L GB PCT RS RA AWAY HOME DIV VS AD

Titusville 7 3 -- .700 56 55 3-1 4-2 5-3 2-0

Las Vegas 6 4 1 .600 55 48 3-3 3-1 4-4 2-0

Orlando 7 5 1 .583 71 55 5-3 2-2 5-3 2-2

Chesapeake Bay 6 6 2 .500 67 60 2-2 4-4 5-3 1-3

Tallahassee 5 7 3 .417 63 82 3-5 2-2 2-4 3-1

Chicago 4 6 3 .400 55 60 2-2 2-4 3-5 1-1

AMERICAN W L GB PCT RS RA AWAY HOME DIV VS ND

Barnegat Bay 8 2 -- .800 59 38 3-1 5-1 7-1 1-1

Long Beach 9 3 -- .750 63 48 4-0 5-3 7-1 2-2

Atlanta 4 8 5 .333 50 50 3-3 1-5 2-6 2-2

Manahawkin 3 7 5 .300 40 46 2-4 1-3 2-4 1-3

Syracuse 1 9 7 .100 26 63 0-6 1-3 0-6 1-3

X-PLAYOFF SPOT Y-DIVISION

Z- TIED FOR PLAYOFF SPOT, ONE GAME SHOWDOWNS

DEADLINES:

Play Week begins April 16th

Recap due April 26th 8 p.m. est.

Score sheets due April 27th 8 p.m. est.

SCORES

LBI 2 CB 1

LBI 6 CB 1

LV 8 SYR 0

LV 4 SYR 3 12 Inn.

ATL 4 ORL 2

ORL 2 ATL 1 13 Inn.

TA 7 MAN 5

TA 5 MAN 0

2010 ABL TEAMS AND MANAGERS:

National Division Chesapeake Bay Channel Cats(21st Season) Scott “Commish” Allen

Tallahassee Terriers(20th

Season) Don “Legend” Allen Jr.

Las Vegas Vipers(18th

Season) Shawn “Fitzdog” Fitzpatrick (Defending Champions)

Chicago Gangstas(18th

Season) Anthony “Antman” Marrongelli

Orlando Sharks(11th

Season) Greg “Buck” Dietzen Titusville Perfectos(3rd Season) Lennart “Lenny” Saaf American Division Atlanta Inmates(11th Season) Kevin “Inmate” Kunkle

Long Beach Island Starfish(8th Season) Skibby Bomysoad Syracuse Hazard(6th Season) Jason “Coop” Cupelo Barnegat Bay Corsairs(3rd Season) Amanda Macrander Manahawkin Pelicans(2nd Season) Steve “Stevo” Bomysoad

ABL 2010 IP’S Orlando 15 Titusville 15 Syracuse 15 Long Beach Island 15 Barnegat Bay 15 Chesapeake Bay 15 Las Vegas 15 Manahawkin 15 Atlanta 15 Tallahassee 14 Chicago 14

ROLLING DICE?? (Q and A with Game Play Notes) (PLEASE TAKE NOTE)

1. Crazy Play (#51-85) that reads: Batter hit by pitch. Dugouts and bullpens empty into an all-out brawl! Pitcher and batter are both ejected from the game. Check each for injury. How many games is the pitcher suspended if he is a starter that is pitching in relief due to injury and suspensions? ANSWER: One game since he did not start the game per the Diamond Chart. Clip from Diamond Chart:

Due to the ABL’s 36 game season the suspensions are adjusted as follows: Pitchers that started the game are suspended the four additional games. All relief pitchers are only suspended for one additional game. All suspensions are served one at a time in the order they happened per the ABL Rulebook. 2. Crazy Play (#51-85) that reads: Batter hit by pitch. Dugouts and bullpens empty into an all-out brawl! Pitcher and batter are both ejected from the game. Check each for injury. The last available relief pitcher is ejected. Which pitcher should you use? ANSWER: Per the Diamond Chart, use a starting pitcher on the active roster that hasn’t pitched in that game with the most rest. Clip from Diamond Chart: If you run out of relief pitchers due to injury or suspension, use a starting pitcher on the active roster that hasn’t pitched in that game with the most rest. He will pitch fully rested with time to warm up. He must finish the game if he entered in relief unless he is injured or ejected. His stamina will be 12 (Long). Ignore the fatigued (exhausted) plus two base runners rule. If the starting pitcher had no rest (pitched in last game), then he must rest 5 games. If the starting pitcher had one day of rest, he must rest 4 games. If the starting pitcher had two days of rest, he must rest 3 games. If the starting pitcher had three or more days of rest, he must rest 2 games.

3. Crazy Play (#459-526) that reads: Weather patterns change. Reroll for weather. Ignore if in closed dome. If the temperature changes, do you re-adjust the pitcher’s stamina rating? ANSWER: No. Only reroll for “Precip” and “Wind”. Do not reroll for temperature.

ABL COMMISH CHAT:

Please send in any feedback you might have on the “new one hour” show. Another show is planned for later this week. Check out all the ASN Productions at http://ablcommishchat.blogspot.com/

SPRING SLAM 2010: Spring Slam will take place on Sunday May 2nd beginning at 9 a.m. in Afton at the home of the Las

Vegas Vipers. The Dawg will provide some treats and some wiffleball is planned afterwards weather permitting. Managers wishing to car pool can meet at the league office and ride up in groups to save on gas. Shawn is looking forwarding to hosting one of the ABL’s major events of the season. If you have to come late, coordinate the other two games with the opposing managers. It’s possible you could play two of the games before the slam or two of them after the slam. All teams should let the Commish know in advance of the Slam if they plan on attending and for how many games. Snacks and drinks will be on hand to munch on between games. Teams should contact their opponent just like any other play week to set up game play for the 4 game sets

if that can’t attend the spring slam. Site Managers are listed in the schedule for the four games and are responsible for recaps and sheets. In all cases the site manager is the team that is home for the first series. As usual both managers should initiate contact to setup the where and when. The play week will run from April 30th till May 7th. Transaction Reminder: No Transactions will be allowed between the two game sets during Spring Slam. It will be treated like any other play week or set of playoff games for transaction purposes. ABL 50/50 RAFFLE: Antman suggested it at the ABL Winter Meetings and we are going forward with the idea. The Commish will be selling ABL 50/50 Raffle tickets all season long to help support the ABL. Half of the money collected to the winner and the other half dumped back into the ABL to help keep costs down. The drawing will be held at the Winter Meetings in November and is open to anyone. Tickets are $1.00 for 1, $2.00 for 3, $5.00 for 10, and $10.00 for 20. Just purchase them from the Commish, write you name on the back and possibly win some cash in November.

BASEBALL THOUGHTS: Hot prospect news from the Daily Pitch on usatoday.com

Scouting service: Stephen Strasburg makes the grade in debut

Stephen Strasburg delivered his 100-mph fastball as expected, but the right-hander's minor league debut didn't approach the unworldly standards he set while pitching for San Diego State, as he allowed four runs -- one earned -- and four hits and struck out eight in five innings against Class AA Altoona (Pa.). So what do we make of the 21-year-old's performance?

Inside Edge, a scouting service that provides reports for many major league teams, offers the Daily Pitch a break down of Strasburg's game here and here, but first the highlights:

• He threw 82 pitches, 60 of which were fastballs, 17 curve balls, four changeups and one slider. He threw a strike 64% of the time.

• The average speed of his fastball was 98 mph with a high of 100 mph. His curve clocked in at 83 mph.

• He received a grade of C+ for working ahead in the count, getting a first-pitch strike 50% of the time.

• He got an A+ for finishing off hitters, with 92% of two-strike at-bats becoming an out.

• Put him down for a B+ for efficiency. He got the first batter of each inning out. He also reached a three-ball count in only 14% of plate appearances, compared to the major-league average of 20%, according to Inside Edge.

Strasburg gets an overall grade of B+, which Altoona Curve catcher Kris Watts seems to concur with.

"He definitely comes to the plate hot," he said. "There's no question he has a live arm, and when you see his fastball and off-speed pitches, it is easy to see he has elite stuff.''

By Peter Barzilai

FUTURE ABL MANAGERS: Reminder to all managers that if you find someone interested in baseball lets get them started in the ABL Developmental Plan playing practice games. Contact the Commish for a sample set of cards/charts and start teaching the ABL’s next Billy Martin the excitement of tabletop baseball. ABL Developmental Plan Guidelines: At a minimum new perspective managers must complete four games with a current ABL manager. The potential new manager must submit score sheets and recaps for at least four games for review by the Commish. The Commish will then decide if the new perspective manager is ready for the ABL or still needs more time learning with the developmental plan.

TRANSACTION REPORT: 3/28 TAXI TEAM: Titusville sent down Jimmy Rollins and called up Jorge Posada. 4/5 TRADE: To Syracuse: David DeJesus, Kosuke Fukudome, 2nd Round Draft Pick(2011), 4th Round Draft Pick(2011). To Long Beach Island: Josh Willingham, Jason Bay. TAXI TEAM: Long Beach Island sent down Fernando Tatis.

TRADE: To Long Beach Island: Chris Coghlan. To Barnegat Bay: Jacoby Ellsbury.

INJURY REPORT:

PLAYER TEAM GAMES ACTIVE WEEK? OFF/IR J. Broxton(Suspended) TA 5 GM-70 6 R. Oswalt ATL 15 GM-107 9 S. Baker MAN 4 GM-77 7 B. Gardner TA 10 GM-103 9 C. Pena ATL 10 GM-107 9 J. Frasor(Suspended) ATL 1 GM-64 6 H. Kuo(Suspended) ORL 1 GM-72 6

RECAPS OF ABL BASEBALL:

Long Beach Island at Chesapeake Bay

Game 1 - Cueto vs. Millwood - LBI would travel down to the bay for his first shot in an NL park this season. Starting pitching and the ball not carrying out of the park would be the story early in this one. Bottom of the first Morneau would take one high and far but Dickerson would be waiting on the warning track to catch that one. Willingham would get plunked in the 2nd and Hill would get plunked in the 4th but both would be ok, which would be key later. Bottom of the 6th Braun would get a one out single, and would advance to second as Morneau would hit a shot to Hanley but Hanley would boot the ball and give first and second one down. Tulo would hit a grounder to center to score Braun and take the score to 1-0 Cats. Millwood would be lights out for the 7 innings he pitched, allowing only two hits and one walk. Adams would come in for Cbay and mow down the 8-9-1 hitters in the 8th. Bulger would come into the game for the Starfish in the 8th and get 3-4-5 out in order. Top of the 9th Adams going for the save and would get the first two outs, Gonzalez would hit a single, bringing up Hill to face Adams, and Hill would hit a deep drive high and far and GONE to take a 2-1 lead for the Starfish. Soria would come in the game in bottom of the 9th and get the batters down in order. Final Score Starfish 2 Channel Cats 1 pitching LBI Cueto 7.0

<W> Bulger 1.0 <S> Soria 1.0 C-Bay Millwood 7.0 <L> Adams 2.0 no injuries Game 2 - Washburn vs Cook - Bottom of the first Braun would take a shot far and deep to center field but would get ROBBED by Dickerson (Ellsbury couldn't do that if he wanted to apparently) LBI would get the scoring started in this one with walking in a run in the 2nd to go up 1-0. Top of the 3rd Gonzalez would single and Hill would force a 2 base error for 2 on no out. Choo would hit a slow chopper to drive in the first run and Willingham would hit a deep fly but would not leave the park, sac fly for the Starfish up 3-0 now. Top 7th Choo would lead off with a solo shot and Hanley would hit a 2 rbi single for a 6-0 lead while Washburn is still shutting down the Cats offense. Beltran would finally hit a solo shot in the 8th for the cats trying to claw back, but Washburn would shut down the cats offense the rest of the way. Final Score Starfish 6 Channel Cats 1 pitching LBI <W> Washburn 9.0 C-Bay <L> Cook 3.1 Marmol 2.1 Tejeda 1.1 Howell 2.0 no injuries Excellent time getting the games in. See all at spring slam

Syracuse at Las Vegas Game #1- Danny Haren gets the nod for the Vipes and Edwin Jackson for the Hazard. Bottom of the 1st and the Vipers get off to a good start, going up 3-0 on a Matt Holiday bomb. Bottom of the 5th and Vegas adds to the lead with a Pujols rbi double and a 2-run single by B.McCann. 6-0LV...Vegas scores two more runs in the contest but the real story was Haren. He had a nice little line of 9IP, 5H, 0R, 1BB, 11K. Final score LV 8 SYR 0. PITCHING: SYR-L-Jackson(6) Morales(2) LV-W-Haren(9) NO INJURIES Game #2- The Vipers send out Josh Johnson to face Syracuse's Nick Blackburn. Michael Bourn gets the first ribbie of the game in the top of the 3rd, putting the Hazard up 1-0. Bottom of the same inning Vegas

gets it right back, plus one, with a F.Lopez 2-run single. 2-1LV. After 6 consecutive K's in the series, Jason Bay finally connects and puts Syracuse up again, 3-2. Sizemore ties it up for Vegas in the same inning. After 9 full we are still knotted at 3. Now it's a battle of the bullpens...Gregerson, Bell, and "Mo" Rivera combine to shut down the Viper offense for 4 innings as Aceves and Nathan do the same against the Hazard offense for 3. Fulchino in to pitch the bottom of the 12th...Lopez and Pujols single with 1 out, Holliday singles with 2 outs to win it for the Vipers. Final 4-3LV 12inn. PITCHING: SYR-Blackburn(7) Gregerson(1) Bell(1) Rivera(2) L-Fulchino(.2) LV-Johnson(9) Aceves(2) W-Nathan(1) NO INJURIES Nice playin at the BBQ...thanks to the chefs for the grub.

Manahawkin at Tallahassee

GM # 1 Two teams looking to try and turn things around after a slow start to their season's. Baker on the mound for Pelicans vs welcome back A.J. "WHO WANTS PIE" Burnett back in a Terrier uniform after the recent trade with Cuse. Pelicans come outa swinging score 1 run in the first RBI single for Votto. Then coming back and scoring 2 more runs in the 2nd inning. After a walk to Smith, Montero would double. Carroll would ground out to ss to get one across Davis would pick up the other RBI with a single. Bottom half Terriers get on the board with a Double form Barlett who would score 2 batters later when Cano would double him in 3-1. Burnett settles down after a rough 2 innings going 8 innings not allowing another run and only 1 hit. New 3rd baseman Reynolds would tie the ball game in the 3rd with a 2 run shot. In the 5th Dunn would give them the lead with a RBI single scoring Lee. After 2 quick out by Baker in the 6th He drills Gardner who charges the mound both benches clear and ESPN's Friday night fights starts a little ealy this friday afternoon in Florida. Baker and Gardner both would be ejected both managers warned another batter hit and the pitcher would be tossed with a suspension most likely the outcome. In the 7th Baker now gone from the game had Walker in to pitch Dunn would greet him with a solo blast and a 2run lead for the Terriers. In the 8th Olivo decided to join the parade and send one over the Left field wall. Lee would double in Kennedy and a 7-3 lead. Top of the 9th Burnett pulled for Wheeler. After 1 out Smith would double and score on the GCF RBI single from Montero. PH Cabrera would double and have it 2nd and 3rd 7-4. PH hitter Sweeney would give it a drive deep to Right Center Field but Gonzalez woudl track it down for the 2nd out. But Montero would tag up and score 7-5 2 outs tying run at the plate in Davis. Davis would put a jolt into one deep to Center field way back to the track Gonzalez back up against the wall and hauls it in for the final out. Final 7-5 Manahawkin Pitchers Baker 5 2/3ip Loss Hughes 1/3ip Walker- 2ip

Tallahassee Pitchers Burnett- 8ip Win Wheeler 1 ip HR Reynolds, Dunn and Olivo Terriers have 10 hits in the game 9 extra base hits 6 doubles and 3 HR Injuries Baker got the better of the fight with Gardner. As Baker would be out for 4 games but should be good to go for his next start. Meanwhile after looking more closer at Gardner Right Eye Looks like Baker got in several punches. As there seems to be Severe Eye damage and Gardner will be out for the next 10 games. GM # 2 Ex-Terrier on the mound for the Pelicans in the likes of Joe Blanton. Going for the home town Terriers would be Brian Duensing. Dunn would get things going in this one with a solo blast in the 2nd inning. Later in the same inning the Terriers would make it 2-0 as Bartlett would double and score on a Cano don't you know RBI single. Both pitchers settle down and throw zero's till the 6th. When Dunn decides to launch another one over the wall to make it 3-0. Later in the 6th Olivo who Homered in game 1 decides to go yard to put this one out of reach 5-0. Meanwhile Duensing would pitch a gem going the distance and getting the shutout Duensing stat line. 9ip 6h 0r 1bb 6k. Final 5-0 Manahawkin Pitchers Blanton 8ip Loss Tallahassee Pitchers Duensing 9ip Win HR Dunn (2) Olivo Terriers had 7 hits with 4 of them being extra basehits No Injuries Great time rolling Stevo thanks for being patient with me while a had to do everything one handed. legend

Atlanta at Orlando Game # 1 a warm partly cloudy day with no wind. Doc Halladay for the Inmates and Happ for the Sharkattak. Atlanta starts off 1-0 in the top of the 1st as a BB adn 2 base hits give them the early lead. Bottom of the 1st and Tex and A-Rod go back to back for the first time as Sharks and it is 2-1 Orlando. Halladay calms down and picthes a complete game, but there is a lot of fun in between, the newly crowned "Bad Boys" of the ABL (the Sharks) get into there second bean ball game and becnh clearing brawl as Happ hits Lee and the benches go at it. The umpire ejects Derek Lee and Happ for the fight and warns the teams that any other hbp will be a 4 game suspension fo the starters and 1 game for the Relievers(which is why Jurrjens is not pitching today, his suspension). So now without Wuertz avaialble the Sharks are in dire need of

something. Massett comes in and gives up a run in the 4th and now the Inmates have a 3-2 lead. That was enough, but Orlando's pen impresses BUck with a great outing as Hawksworth pitches 3 no hit innings striking out 3. Kuo comes in in the 9th and Brajas lands one in the upper deck on his first pitch. This would be the nail in the coffin as Halladay pitches a 7 hit coplete game, the only bigs ones were the back to back in the 1st. Atlanta wins this one 4-2. Atlanta Box Score Pitching Halladay 9ip (W) HR's Barajas SB none HBP Lee(ejected for brawl) Orlando Pitching Happ 2ip Massett 3ip (L) Hawksworth 3ip Kua 1ip HR's A-rod Teixeira SB A-Rod CS Crawford (Barajas) If game one wasn't exciting enough gmae 2 was even better. Greinke goes for Atlanta and Kuroda for the Sharks. PITCHER's DUEL!!! that is all you need to know. a classic one too. Kuroda would go 7 innings with only 3 hits and 0 bb striking out 9, Greinke would go 8 innings with 5 hits and 1 run and 1 bb and 8k's..A solo shot by Sheffield int he 2nd for Atlanta and an A-BOMB by A-ROD in the 6th. So to the 9th we will go, Granderson gets a lead off bb, then Scutaro is plunked in the shoulder by WUertz, a fastball gone bad, he is out for the rest of the game which would be a bit actually. Thankfully for Shark fans Chipper hit into a DP. THen with one and 2 outs Lee is intentionally walked by Buck. This brings up Abreu, Wuertz nails him and an up and in pitch, Abreu charges the mound and yes the benches clear again.... what??? yup two in two games, the "bad boys" Have arrived. Wuertz gets a quick jab and abreu and steps back, the teams jump in the umpire can't believe it, Wuertz and Abreu of course ejected and the warning goes out again (good thing it didn't carry over form game 1). so with the bases loaded and 2 outs, Sheffield comes up to bat, K-Rod does what he does best KKKKKK! Bottom of the ninth we go, After A-Rod tries to change his intitial (to a K) Pierre gets a 1b and Gwynn follows suit, 2 on 1 out, a bb by hannigan and then a fc by Ryan. 2 out and men on 1st and 3rd. As the pitch is about to be thrown to the Pitcher (K-Rod had only faced on batter) Gwynn breaks for home...... Barajas sees him coming and tags him OUT. No stolen base to end the game... go Buck Ball. Extras we go,,,, Barajas tries

to give the one up hit as he sends one to the wall.......back back back goes Pierre, he scales the wall and Nabs the sure Home run..... WHOLLY COW!!!!! what a play.. Sharks 1,2,3 in tenth. Bottom of the 11th, Frasor hit Teixeira and is ejected and suspended one additional game, Pierre would get the base hit, on the hit and run. 1st and 3rd. one out. Pierre breaks for second and it is unattested. sb. 2nd and 3rd infield in and an rg p then Hanigan K. Top of 12... will anyone win this game???? With Kuo the last pither available on relief, the sharks chances look dim as the game goes on. Punto get s 1b, then with 2 outs Pena comes in to ph for Granderson, he fouls the ball of his big toe, goes down for about 5 minutes, is helped off and found to later have dislocated his toe, he willmiss 10 games. Paulino steps in, he points to the fence kuo , not thinking is funny, plunks him right on waist. He is ejected and suspended for an additional game and wait, who is going to pitch for the Sharks. Jurrjens, fresh off suspension and the most rested starter is coming in. he k's Prado and we go more innings. Ryan tries to bunt for a hit he rg c and the inning goes 1, hit dp. Finally bottom of the 13th, Orlando Hudson gets on with a base hit, next up Teixeira hits the double to cf Hudson not waiting for a sign just keeps going and going, he is headed home, the throw from Cameron is right on the money but a half second late, no tag the Sharks win, the Sharks win the Sharks wwwiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnn! Both managers (and probably all you now) relived this is finally over...... what a game. Final Orlando 2 Atlanta 1 BOX SCORE Atlanta Pitching Greinke 8ip , O'Day 1ip, Breslow 2ip, Qualls 1ip (L) HR Sheffield Barajas - robbed Error Jones (3rd inning) Injuries Pena 10 games Scutaro out for game Frasor 1 game suspension ORLANDO Pitching Kuroda 7ip, Wuertz 1 2/3ip, K-Rod 1 1/3ip, Kuo 1 2/3ip and Jurrjens 1 1/3ip (W) HR A-Rod SB Pierre CS Gwynn (home in the 9th) Injuries none

Kuo 1 game suspension the Bad Boys are here, beware, we will play bean ball just for fun!!! When the Sharks are circling it's feeding time...... Kevin Great series , sorry about Pena.

ABL PITCHING STATUS: Chesapeake Bay Gallardo Rested Hammel Rest 1 game Zambrano Rested Rodriguez Rested Millwood Rest 2 games Cook Rest 3 games Bullpen: Marmol must REST in game one Howell must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Tejeda must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Tallahassee Sabathia Rested Marquis Rest 1 game Burnett Rest 2 games Duensing Rest 3 games Bullpen: Rested Broxton (Suspended till game two)

Las Vegas Haren Rest 2 games Johnson Rest 3 games Shields Rested Wolf Rest 1 game Bullpen: Aceves must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Nathan pitched in one game Chicago Santana Rested Lee Rest 1 game Weaver Rested

Bannister Rested Bullpen: Rested

Orlando Verlander Rested Kershaw Rest 1 game Happ Rest 2 games Jurrjens Rest 2 games Kuroda Rest 3 games Bullpen: Rodriguez must REST in game one Wuertz must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Kuo (Suspended till game two) Titusville Jimenez Rest 2 games Feldman Rest 3 games Garza Rested Lilly Rest 1 game Bullpen: Robertson must REST in game one Atlanta Halladay Rest 2 games Greinke Rest 3 games Bergesen Rested Oswalt Rested (Injured) (Need starter for game two) Bullpen: Rested Long Beach Island Beckett Rested Nolasco Rest 1 game Cueto Rest 2 games Washburn Rest 3 games Bullpen: Rested

Syracuse Scherzer Rested De La Rosa Rest 1 game Jackson Rest 2 games Blackburn Rest 3 games Bailey Rested Bullpen: Rivera must REST in game one Gregerson must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Fulchino must rest in game two if he pitches in game one Bell pitched in one game

Barnegat Bay Vazquez Rest 2 games Wainwright Rest 3 games Lester Rested Lackey Rest 1 game Bullpen: Rested Manahawkin Baker Rest 2 games Blanton Rest 3 games Carpenter Rested Pineiro Rest 1 game Bullpen: Rested

A LOOK AHEAD IN THE ABL:

Series delayed as T-Ville manager was watching the chase for the Green Jacket and a guy named

Tiger. SERIES 1 BARNEGAT BAY(8-2) AT TITUSVILLE(7-3) SITE: LENNY LIVE

HEAD TO HEAD: Titusville leads 5-3 NOTES: The B-Bay Corsairs travel to Florida for the premier series of the play week as the two first place clubs hook up in a cross division battle. Barnegat Bay enters with the top pitching staff in all of the ABL with timely hitting as the Perfectos are the polar opposite. Titusville’s game plan is to hit the ball hard and often. Hopefully for the Perfectos the ball will travel out of the park with men on base. But keep in mind; the Corsairs have scored more runs that T-Ville 59-56. So far in 2010, this Corsairs club has hit the ball quite well and scored the most run in the American Division. The major difference is on the mound as B-Bay as allowed 38 runs compared to T-Ville’s 55. One thing to note also is the Corsairs bullpen is untested in 2010 and the Perfectos have pitched well out of the pen lead by Doug Mathis and David Robertson. A classic match up early between to the top two teams in the ABL with the MLB start of the season on the horizon. SERIES 2 ATLANTA(4-8) AT BARNEGAT BAY(8-2) SITE: AMANDA LIVE

HEAD TO HEAD: Barnegat Bay leads 6-2

NOTES: The Inmates will travel to B-Bay after the Corsairs play the Perfectos tonight. Atlanta will need to either call up Luke Hochevar from the taxi team or sign a free agent to pitch game two for the injured Roy Oswalt. Atlanta is coming off a split with Oregon with the ‘Mates played well with a 4-2 in game one and a tough 2-1 loss in 13 innings in the nightcap. The Inmates have scored as many runs as they have given up but have lost four more games. You would usually expect a club with those numbers to have at least a .500 record. Atlanta will have to face a club that has been pitching lights out going into the series with Titusville. Atlanta might have a better idea what they are up against if the Corsairs come out of that series with the pitching in tact. If the Inmates went to get back in the Division race, the time to start winning some division games is now. SERIES 3 SYRACUSE(1-9) AT MANAHAWKIN(3-7) SITE: STEVE LIVE

HEAD TO HEAD: Syracuse leads 4-0 NOTES: The last place and ABL’s worse squad travels to face the 2nd year Pelicans. The Hazard continued their movement of players for draft picks and the future as Jason Bay and Josh Willingham landed in Long Beach Island. That only leaves the 40 old closer in Rivera left on the roster that teams might be interested in. The Pelicans are also finding out that year two is better than year one but it still might take some time to build the ball club. LBI for example had records of 10-18 and 12-16 in their first two years in the league. In fact, it wasn’t until year five the Starfish were able to finally turn things around. Moral of the story is the Pels will need to stay patient and continue to build. Ryan Sweeney, Jamey Carroll, and Miguel Montero are not house hold names that are swinging some good sticks for the Pelicans in year two. The team still does lack power but after trading Bay away the Hazard are not far behind. ‘Cuse has won the previous four meetings; it might be time for the Pelicans to put a W in the win column. SERIES 4 TITUSVILLE(7-3) AT CHICAGO(4-6) SITE: ANT LIVE

HEAD TO HEAD: Tied 4-4 NOTES: T-Ville will head to Chicago packing their “BFH” after finish up with B-Bay tonight. These clubs have played some exciting ball games since Titusville joined the league with each team winning half of their contests. Chicago is chomping at the bit to roll again after sitting out last play week with the bye. Antman is scheduled to join Commish Chat later this week to discuss the bye and how his club looks early in 2010. In early preview of those discussion indicates and under achieving ball club. Joe Mauer is off to a fast start with a .400 average but Nick Swisher and JD Drew are below the .200 mark. More importantly the top guys have been struggling on the bump as Santana and Lee both have an ERA over 5.00 runs per game with only one win between them. If the Gangstas are going to get back into the National Division race, Johan and Lee need to sack up as their manager would say and start pitching with some stones. They’ll get that chance when the high powered first place Perfectos come to down. SERIES 5 TALLAHASSEE(5-7) AT CHESAPEAKE BAY(6-6) SITE: COMMISH ROLLER

HEAD TO HEAD: Chesapeake Bay leads 44-25 NOTES: Tallahassee travels to the Yard to face the Cats in a rematch of the 2009 National Division Semi-finals won by the Terriers four games to two. The Terriers entered the 2010 season in rebuilding mode but after picking up AJ Burnett and Mark Reynolds the Terriers look like a club that can win more

than ten games in 2010. Tallahassee has already won five and is only a sweep away from reach .500. C-Bay is at .500 only one game ahead of the Terriers and has played like a .500 club all season. The hitting disappeared for the Cats in the series with LBI only scoring two runs total with seven hits. Tallahassee on the other hand scored 12 runs and smacked out 17 hits in week five action. The Terriers have also launched 18 dingers only a couple behind league leader T-Ville. Adam Dunn has been on a tear with 5 jacks with Kendry Morales with 4 shots of his own. The key for both clubs at the moment is their pitching. CC will toe the rubber in game one as the Cats trot out any number of pitchers that have all under performed in 2010 besides 2-1 lefty Wandy Rodriguez. Two historic franchises trying to get back in the race before the big four game set of spring slam arrives. SERIES 6 LAS VEGAS(6-4) AT ORLANDO(7-5) SITE: BUCK ROLLER

HEAD TO HEAD: Las Vegas leads 27-9 NOTES: The Vipers coming off a sweep past the American Division Hazard at the packed MLB Opening Day BBQ travel to face the Sharks. Las Vegas is finally over .500 with the sweep behind their two stud pitchers in Danny Haren and Josh Johnson. The key for the Vipers in this series is for Jamie Shields and Randy Wolf to start pitching better than a 9.00 and 6.75 ERA. The Sharks are looking more and more each week like a team that can contend for the division. The Sharks have a balanced hitting attack and we know they can run. The pitching has been really good of late as Kuroda and the bullpen held Atlanta to only one run over 13 innings of baseball. For whatever reason the Sharks have also showed a lot of passion on the field by getting in several bean wars early on in 2010. The latest battle with Atlanta had each team lose a relief pitcher to suspension and Jair Jurrjens just returning from a bean bull suspension was needed in the bullpen to finish out the game. Historically the Vipers have dominated the Sharks franchise winning 75 percent of the games. The Sharks need to start to reverse that trend if they want to compete for the top spot in the National Division. BYE: LONG BEACH ISLAND(9-3)

ABL TAXI TEAMS: Chesapeake Bay Zambrano Tejada Reimold Harden Reyes Tallahassee Uggla Cahill Francoeur Braden Guthrie

Las Vegas Anderson Drew Pence Slowey Webb Chicago Pettitte Kazmir Bonifacio Stewart Ojeda Orlando Dye Headley Cormier Janish Guerrero Titusville Hamels Victorino Porcello Rollins Niemann Atlanta Loney Sanches Rasmus Hochevar Cabrera Long Beach Island Bruce Billingsley Price Tatis

Maybin Syracuse Kinsler Volstad Santana Stubbs Chamberlain Barnegat Bay

Belliard Wakefield Buchholz Maine Santos Manahawkin Meche Saunders Navarro Valbuena Jones Enjoy Week 6 Commish