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Tonights Game @ Macintosh Stadium:: American League |
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Fogelberg Falcons |
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Joplin Crawdads |
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Fogelberg – Two teams searching for an identity will meet tonight at Macintosh Stadium as the Joplin Crawdads come calling on the Fogelberg Falcons in three seemingly meaningless games to complete the regular season of the Holiday Baseball Classic.
The 4-5 Falcons, after posting a promising start to the season are reeling after a three game sweep at the hands of the first place Boggstown Boilers.
Looking desperately for some kind of consistent offense, Falcons manager Don Zimmer has pointed the finger at Jimmy Foxx to lead the way. “We have built the entire offense around Jimmy and quite frankly he has not delivered the way we think he can. We’ve asked what will make him more comfortable and have made a few changes,” Zimmer said from his office at The Mac. “He wanted to hit cleanup so we’re gonna give him a try there.”
The 1-8 Crawdads have struggled since winning their first game of the season and have dropped 8 straight decisions. Finding some consistent offense will be on their agenda as well. The Dads’ have scored more than 10 runs only one time during the loosing streak and have scored 5 or less two times. New manager Darrell Porter will look to Rogers Hornsby and Alan Trammell to pick up the pace offensively and for Charlie Liebrandt to continue his steady pitching.
This will be the beginning of a long series of games between these two teams as they will meet again in the first round of the American League playoffs.
