Ortiz Morse

Ortiz Morse
Morse as of Season 6, by smorzando
Basic Information
Team	Canada Moist Talkers
Status	Active
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
Personal Information
Item	None
Armor	None
Evolution	Base
Pregame Ritual	Molting
Coffee Style	Latte
Blood Type	Psychic
Fate	90
Soulscream	AEEHAAEEHAAXIAOAXIAOAXEAAOIEAAOIEIXAHAIXAHAIIEAIUIEAIUIHOIIIHOIIIH
Biographical Details
Pronouns	He/Him

Ortiz Morse is a pitcher for the Canada Moist Talkers and has been with the team since Season 1.

Official League Records

Debut

Morse joined the league in Season 1, playing for the Canada Moist Talkers. Morse seems to have no notable records or changes across several seasons.

Season 6

During a Blooddrain game against the Kansas City Breath Mints on Season 6, Day 14, Morse had baserunning stats siphoned by Breath Mints player Dickerson Morse, bringing Ortiz Morse's baserunning stat down to in total.

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The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

History

Early Life

Born in Montreal, UQC in 1978 to Helena Poireau, a schoolteacher, and Calwell Morse, a banker who was later the Finance Minister for Québec Prime-minister Tranche Jacobi's government in exile (Upper-Laurentian Québec), Morse grew up in a third floor walk up in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal with his parents, two sisters, and a cat. Morse’s father first taught him to throw in Mont-Royal parc where “even from the age of 9 [he] recognized [his] boy was built for Blaseball, not banking.”

The Crimson Trunk Affair which toppled Jacobi’s government also tore up the Morse Family. Calwell Morse’s left into exile with the rest of the Jacobi cabinet. Ortiz was 14 years old when his father left, but the teenager remained in Montreal with his mother for several more years. He attended Ste. Monsieur-Cadeaux High School until Grade 11, but was withdrawn from school after his father’s death in the second Toast Bombings. His mother then relocated the family to Halifax, NS, fearing a Second Quebec Civil War.

Morse pursued a finance degree at Dalhousie University on a Blaseball scholarship, but despite his obvious pitching talent, chose to bat instead so as not to compete with the school’s star pitcher Paul Cartography. In Morse’s third year, Cartography tore his Rotator Cuff, and a botched surgery resulted in the loss of his entire arm. Morse was made pitcher and led the team to two consecutive Canadian University League championships.

Blaseball Strategy

As a player, Ortiz Morse is, if not the most, at least one of the most innovative pitcher the sport of Blaseball has ever seen. After graduating with a degree in finance Dalhousie University, he began to approach the splort of blaseball with the goal to make it more efficient.

Pitchers traditionally attempt to get batters to miss pitches, resulting in a so-called "strike", but the primary goal of a baseball defense is not to throw strikes, it is to get three outs to end the inning for the offensive team. The amount of work to get three individual outs struck Morse as woefully inefficient. If there is no runner on base, the most outs a defensive team can get in any given plate appearance is 1. Morse thus derived that it would be much more effective to walk a player or two onto the base, maximizing the potential outs the defense can get in a single play. Additionally this has the added benefit of the simple fact that players can not score automatic runs, through home-run when the blall is being thrown out of the strike zone. This brand-new strategy in blaseball has been dubbed "The Walking Strategy" but is commonly referred to by fans as "The Plan".

It works as a two-pronged attack, as it not only maximizes the number of outs but it also serves to confuse opposing players while lulling them into a false sense of security. Morse’s personal dream is to be the first pitcher in Blaseball history to perform the forbidden Quadruple Play.

Personal Life

Morse is married to Chanderz Candyman, heir to the Candyman newspaper fortune. They met at a Halifax dog bar and bonded over their shared love of karaoke. Their lengthy courtship was subject to close attention in Canadian and Australian tabloids. Their wedding was held at the Dalhousie Botanical Gardens and Butterfly Sanctuary and was a private ceremony attended by a small group of family and friends. They currently (2020) live in Halifax with their two dogs.

In a 2017 interview with the Halifax Gazette, Morse said of his husband, "he's the only person I've ever met who likes my eyes and doesn't care how well I can throw a Blaseball."

Moist Mouth

In his spare time, Ortiz fronts the Smash Mouth cover band Moist Mouth but in lieu of singing, Morse plays the telegraph key. Moist Mouth plays the night before every home game in Halifax local bar The Quivering Scallop. Other members of the band are session musicians hired by Chanderz Candyman who for the sake of their other ventures, remain anonymous and play wearing Moist Talker uniforms, donning masks of fan favorite Moist Talkers. They currently upload their fan favorite covers to their SoundCloud

The Seattle Garages make a point to show up to every show when they are playing in Halifax to boo and heckle Morse.

Appearance

Morse is often described off the field as "scruffy" and "extremely Canadian" in appearance, with mention often being made of his peg leg, the result of an unspecified banking injury that occurred during a "Take Your Child to Work" event shortly before his father's departure. However, on the pitch his appearance shifts dramatically. The freckles on his face, which upon closer inspection are actually morse code (the reading differs from an SOS to an all clear message depending on the Moist Talkers' standing between games), shift to encompass his entire body. His material form then breaks down, and he becomes morse code personified, simply an array of dots and dashes in a blaseball uniform upon the pitcher's mound. Notably, he never actually speaks regardless of form, instead communicating via morse transmission beeps.

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