Monday, May 18, 2015

Dodgers and Rockies Battle to Time Limit Draw; Dodgers Retain Baseball World Heavyweight Title


Let me show you punks how it's done!

The Dodgers survived a roller coaster of a sixth defense of their Baseball World Heavyweight Title belt against the Rockies, earning a split of a four-game series. This one was not the slightest bit pretty for the champs. To begin with, the Dodgers thought they had another shortened victory in the bag after the Rockies arch nemesis, Rain, intervened yet again on Thursday night. The interference backfired, however, when the Dodgers were forced to finish the fall, and were shocked by CarGo in the ninth. The champs bounced back with Clayton Kershaw's 100th career win on Friday, but were then quickly embarrassed, losing the third fall in front of a collection former Baseball World Heavyweight Champions and legends. In the final fall, they were forced to take the easy way out, scoring a little offense early, then playing keep away with the belt until time expired. It was cheap, but effective.*

While Kershaw was good and Mike Bolsinger was stellar, no clear hero emerged from the series. And so, we decided to indulge in a little McMahon-level nepotism and put the belt on Steve Garvey. Congrats, Pops!

Let's take a look at the title history to date, as the Dodgers approach a full month as champs...


Current Champion: Los Angeles Dodgers

2015 BASEBALL WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE HISTORY
CHAMPION WON FROM REIGN LENGTH SUCCESSFUL DEFENSES
1) San Francisco Giants
Kansas City Royals
(2014 World Series)
6 days
1
(vs. AZ)
2) San Diego Padres
San Francisco Giants
(4/12/15)
13 days
2
(vs. CHC, COL)
3) Los Angeles Dodgers
San Diego Padres
(4/25/15)
25 days
(through 5/19)
6
(vs. SFG, AZ, MIL, COL, MIA, COL)

After an off-day to lick their wounds, the Dodgers travel to San Francisco for a second defense against their hated rivals. The Giants handed the Dodgers' their last series loss, guaranteeing three days of stress-induced ulcers for your friends here at the heavily-biased BWHT championship committee.

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*This recap of the weekend's events brought to you by someone who saw a grand total of about five minutes of Dodger baseball this weekend.

8 comments:

Fred's Brim said...

I seriously thought the asterisk was going to reference Neeebs' mom. What is wrong with me?

Hideo Nomo said...

Missed opportunity. Dusty will never forgive me.

QuadSevens said...

I had to go back and re-read the asterisk. Nice call on that one FB!

Fred's Brim said...

Dusty never forgives, but he sometimes forgets when he's been drinkin

Dusty Baker said...

Unforgivable!

Fred's Brim said...

Unforgivable was the theme to my senior prom. Or was that Unforgettable? ehh Unforgivable would be more appropriate so I'll stick with that

Hideo Nomo said...

Unmentionable

Dusty Baker said...

"Unbelievable" - Security Benefit Granddad