"Shelled"?

The other team also had a John Tudor. He gave up 8 runs in 6 innings, although only 3 were earned.

I've always found it a bit perverse that POG can be awarded for a bad pitching performance. I've also seen it go to a fielder who made multiple errors. I don't think I've ever seen it go to a batter who went 0-5 with 5 strikeouts, but who knows, it might have happened!

My current per theory is that Hosey swapped bodies with 1927 Willis Hudlin in the NWP-RE progressive.

Hudlin in 1927 hit .250/.258/.354, with 7XBH (1 HR) and 6 RBI in 103 PA.

Here is his SIM line after 83 games:
.519/.509/1.000, 6 2B, 1 3B, 6 HR, 23 RBI... in 59 PA

Yesterday's (June 19, 2025) real life Baltimore Orioles starting lineup looked kinda funny to me:

Jackson Holliday (2B)
Adley Rutschman (C)
Gunnar Henderson (SS)
Jordan Westburg (DH)
Ryan O'Hearn (1B)
Ramón Laureano (RF)
Colton Cowser (LF)
Ramón Urías (3B)
Cedric Mullins (CF)
Charlie Morton (P)

Every name belongs in an old-timey cowboy movie:

Jackson Holliday: Idealistic rookie preacher struggling to bring the gospel to a rowdy frontier town.
Adley Rutschman: Fat and corrupt town mayor; wife dead; daughter fetching but rebellious.
Gunnar Henderson: Outlaw with quick draw; broad-shouldered and handsome; sweet on mayor's daughter.
Jordan Westburg: Sheriff with a heart of gold; weary of town's endless chaos and violence.
Ryan O’Hearn: Gruff and paranoid cattleman with itchy trigger finger defending his herd from rustlers.
Ramón Laureano: Wealthy ranchero hiding secrets; waxed mustache stylish and elaborate.
Colton Cowser: High-strung deputy eager to bring down Gunnar, his rival for mayor's daughter.
Ramón Urías: Laureno's henchman; nickname Lil Ramón; throws a knife with the best of them.
Cedric Mullins: Bushy sideburned town librarian; drinking problem; mangles Shakespeare quotes.
Charlie Morton: Cranky old sawbones always griping, but if you need a bullet pulled out of you, he's your man.

I looked at b-r.com and here are some other great cowboy-movie Orioles who appeared in games this season:

Coby Mayo
Chayce McDermott
Maverick Handley

Believe It or Don't!

That's hilarious crazystengel...love it.

I think to continue the theme with the other 3 players:
Maverick Handley: Inveterate gambler; owns a particularly wild bronco that no one else is able to ride.
Chayce McDermott: Looks like Nuf Ced McGreevey, to whom he may be distantly related; the town saloon keeper
Coby Mayo: Originally from back east; wealthy, but has a mysterious past no one can quite pin down; may or may not be having affairs with multiple married women in town

Nice! And I'd never heard of "Nuf Ced" before. I looked him, and it seems he was quite the character.

I’ve got two active teams right now. In the pm2 cycle, 1974 Buzz Capra threw a no-hitter for one of them. The other got no-hit by 1932 Lon Warneke.

At least Capra earned Player of the Game. Warneke, despite going the distance and getting the win with no hits, 3 walks, and 11 strikeouts, was snubbed in favor of a batter who went 1-for-4 but walked it off with a solo shot in the bottom of the 9th.

Believe It or Don't!

Not quite Johnny Vander Meer, but...

Lon Warneke recently pitched a no-hitter (see the post immediately above this one). Two starts later...he pitched another one. Two no-nos in 3 starts.

Warneke has one of the all-time great baseball nicknames, of the kind that you never see anymore: The Arkansas Hummingbird. Here were his stats through the first 4 starts of the season:
4 GS, 0-4, 26.2 IP, 30 H, 12 BB, 26 R (all earned), 8.78 ERA

In his next 4 starts of the season:
4 GS, 4-0, 35 IP, 11 H (!), 6 BB, 2 R (both earned), 0.51 ERA, and the aforementioned 2 no-hitters!

Believe it, or don't!

Posted by contrarian23 on 6/20/2025 9:12:00 PM (view original):
That's hilarious crazystengel...love it.

I think to continue the theme with the other 3 players:
Maverick Handley: Inveterate gambler; owns a particularly wild bronco that no one else is able to ride.
Chayce McDermott: Looks like Nuf Ced McGreevey, to whom he may be distantly related; the town saloon keeper
Coby Mayo: Originally from back east; wealthy, but has a mysterious past no one can quite pin down; may or may not be having affairs with multiple married women in town

My first boss was named McGreevey, and he used to call himself Nuf Ced to not so subtly imply that his orders were to be followed without question. Love the Orioles/cowboys theme, crazy, but I'm pretty sure that Jackson Holliday was Doc Holliday's son in the unreleased sequel to Tombstone. And he was married to -- wait for it -- Mildred "Mid" Earp, who really did play baseball for the women's professional baseball league team the Grand Rapids Chicks, one of several teams loosely profiled in the movie A League of Their Own. Believe it or don't.

Update on the above league through 120 games:
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East	W-L	PCT	GB	MagN	L10	STRK	Home	Away	Owner
Griffey Jr "the Kid"	58-62	0.483	-	-	5-5	L2	30-28	28-34	jrig21
Sheffield and the Fish	56-64	0.467	2	-	4-6	W2	26-36	30-28	dhomard
The Mick's 58 Yankees	56-64	0.467	2	-	6-4	L2	28-30	28-34	jfranco77
You Otta Bet on the '33 Giants!	54-66	0.450	4	-	2-8	W2	31-31	23-35	Jtpsops
Central	W-L	PCT	GB	MagN	L10	STRK	Home	Away	Owner
Splendid Splinter in 49	64-56	0.533	-	-	5-5	L2	33-25	31-31	stroh23
2004 The A-Rod Slap	63-57	0.525	1	-	6-4	W3	30-28	33-29	tywebb3
Tom Emanski's Favorite Player	63-57	0.525	1	-	4-6	L4	36-26	27-31	SAKABAKBRG
The Rally Birds	63-57	0.525	1	-	5-5	W2	33-29	30-28	cstrohmier
West	W-L	PCT	GB	MagN	L10	STRK	Home	Away	Owner
Babe's '22 Bombers	67-53	0.558	-	-	7-3	W6	37-21	30-32	DarthDurron
Becoming Big Papi	66-54	0.550	1	-	5-5	L1	39-23	27-31	akira_hokuto
94 Palmeiro's Giant Period	60-60	0.500	7	-	5-5	L3	23-39	37-21	ff09
1983 Schmidt Phillies	53-67	0.442	14	-	6-4	W1	29-29	24-38	Ribbentrop