I’m chronicling the exploits of Tyler “51-13” Colvin as he makes it through the 2012 season on my IAL Twin City Thunderchickens.
Last night, I did my stats for the month of May. It was a short month, having only one nine-game series against our cross-town rivals the Rising Bamm! Beanos. Unfortunately for us, we could only claim victory in two of those games.
Tyler Colvin went 3 for 20 for the series. Interesting only because that’s what he hit in real life last year.
We had high hopes for Mr. Colvin. He began the Beano series so hot. He hit his third homer of the year in Game 1 and in Game 2 he rapped out two doubles. We thought our 2011 second round pick had turned a corner.
As it turned out, Beano pitching got to Colvin like it did to the rest of the Thunderchicken hitting (we scored 26 runs in the 9 game series). Tyler went oh for 11 for the rest of the series.
2012 Season Totals
| Player | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | HBP | AVG | SLG | OBP |
| Colvin, T. | 23 | 70 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .357 | .194 |
Twin City Thunderchickens’ hitting coach Brian Downing is hopeful that Colvin will make a turn around. “We’re working with Tyler on his swing as well as his mental approach to the game,” said Downing. “We’ll get him back above the Mendoza Line soon enough”.
Colvin nodded in agreement. “You bet, Coach.”
‘Soon’ may not be soon enough. Almost 40 games into the season, and the Thunderchickens haven’t even reached double digits in wins yet (9-30).
Vernon Wells (MY 51-13 guy): After going 17-for-63 in 30 games in April (.270!!), Vernon Wells went 1-for-22 in May, dropping his average to .212. His hit was a 2-run homer in Game One.
Molly Putts went 6-3 vs the Upper Deckers, improving the season record to 19-20. My first series win against Marc in 3 years.
My Marauders have 33 complete games in 39 starts. This will continue since my pitching staff is 9 starters and 23 games of Brad Lidge. John McGraw would be proud.
One Other Thing: “Back in the drinking days,” I could get SIX games on one side of a sheet of graph paper.
DonS.
yes but could you read them when you were sober? ;)