Thursday, September 15, 2011

Ogden Raptors vs Great Falls Voyagers: Game 2

2011 Playoffs, Championship Series Game 2
vs
1 - 7
Series Loss 0-2

I hated this game. It wasn't even close. There was some hope in the first inning and early on. The Raptors got one run in the first, but really after that it was just sad, they couldn't really do anything. A close game in which the Raptors lost would have been crappy too, but i would have so much rather that have happened.
I guess i'm the one who said this year's playoffs were going like last years. It didn't stop in the Divisional round. It was the same all the way through to the end. Crazy how similar the two years are. It has been a few hours since the game got over so i'm starting to feel ok with it, it was a real successful season really. I'm just bummed because Allston and I were going to go up to Great Falls tomorrow to be there for a final Game 3. That would have been fun and an awesome game to go to. Now we'll just wait for the next time the Raptors are in the finals. Darn Voyagers.

So since i mentioned it i wanted to do a quick comparison of this year and last year's playoffs. Ok then.

...................2010..................................2011...............
Game 1....Win 2-1.........................Win 3-2.
Both low scoring close games won by just one run.
Game 2.... Loss 10-17....................Loss 2-5
The score was not all that close, but both were blowouts really.
Game 3.... Win 12-9......................Win 12-9
Exact same score. Orem went up multiple runs in the top of the first both years and Raptors came back to win it.
Game 1 .... Loss 2-3 .....................Loss 7-9
Both quite close games.
Game 2 .... Loss 3-14.....................Loss 1-7
Again, not close games. Crappy bad losses.

So you see every single game of the postseason went very very similar. The exact same games were lost and won. The only difference was the home field advantage in the Championship series.

This sorta turned into a season recap as well as the game recap, but thats fine. The season is now over for the Raptors. Until next year, which is a freakin long time away. My streak of attending only losing playoff games will continue for a while longer.

Here's the darn Voyagers after winning the darn championship of the darn Pioneer League.

At least the Raptors beat the Owlz.











This is do or die for the Raptors. Win, and force a final game 3 Friday night.

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