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[size=24:20de513b48][b:20de513b48]JOLTIN' JOE[/b:20de513b48][/size:20de513b48]
[size=18:20de513b48]Carter Laughs, Royals Cry[/size:20de513b48]

<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/joe_carter_2_150x190.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="190" style="margin-right: 10px;" /> Indians outfielder Joe Carter smoked two homer runs in helping the [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=338]Tribe paste the Royals 8-3[/url] on Thursday night. The Indians win helped them improve to 12-15 and only 8 games away from the Tigers. After being told that, Carter immediately stopped laughing.

Other interesting tidbits from Thursday's games:

[b:20de513b48]Did somebody say jinx yesterday?[/b:20de513b48] Our pal and friend Mark Eichhorn was charged with 2 earned runs last night, thanks to fellow bullpen pitcher Tom Henke who some feel may have given up the gopher ball just to pad his save stats.

[b:20de513b48]Tigers lose! [/b:20de513b48] Thank god for [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=341]small victories[/url]. Enough of magic numbers already. Geesh.

[b:20de513b48]Braves win![/b:20de513b48] and a [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=337]no doubter[/url] at that.

[i:20de513b48]photo: SN Archives[/i:20de513b48]

Let this serve as my official jinx on every team but the Jays.

--Texas Gal

You can't create a save situation for yourself. It was a save situation already when Henke came in, with 2 on and the tying run on deck. Who writes these recaps anyway? ;)

A team that is 13-11 should worry more about winning games and chasing the Mets, than editing commentary. :wink: