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| − | '''Sandoval Crossing''' | + | }} |
| + | '''Sandoval Crossing''' was a pitcher for the [[Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams]], and was with the team from {{BetaSeason|1}} until [[Fall Ball]]. | ||
==Official League Records== | ==Official League Records== | ||
| − | Crossing gained league-wide notoriety during | + | Crossing joined the [[ILB]] as a pitcher for the [[Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams|Moab Sunbeams]] with {{BetaSeason|1| the Return of Blaseball}}. |
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| + | Crossing gained league-wide notoriety during {{BetaSeason|3}} for performing a total of 172 strikeouts, the highest of any pitcher in the League that season.<ref>[https://blaseball-reference.com/players/sandoval-crossing Sandoval Crossing Stats - blaseball-reference.com]</ref> | ||
On Season 4, Day 16, Crossing held [[Canada Moist Talkers|Moist Talkers]] 5-star pitcher [[PolkaDot Patterson]] in a 4-run-a-side deadlock for 17 innings, until "Patterson blinked first" and [[Randall Marijuana]] scored a solo home run in the eighteenth. | On Season 4, Day 16, Crossing held [[Canada Moist Talkers|Moist Talkers]] 5-star pitcher [[PolkaDot Patterson]] in a 4-run-a-side deadlock for 17 innings, until "Patterson blinked first" and [[Randall Marijuana]] scored a solo home run in the eighteenth. | ||
| − | During the | + | During the {{BetaSeason|6#Election Results|@ elections}} the Sunbeams received the {{BetaSeason|6#Blessings|'''Move the Mounds Closer'''}} blessing and benefited from the {{BetaSeason|6#Blessings|'''Sharing Signs'''}} blessing the [[Boston Flowers]] received, which increased Crossing's batting and pitching abilities each from {{Star Rating|2}} to {{Star Rating|2.5}}. |
| − | During | + | During the {{BetaSeason|7#Election Results|@ election}}, the Hellmouth Sunbeams received the {{BetaSeason|7#Blessings 2|'''Stickum'''}} blessing, which boosted Crossing's defense from {{Star Rating|3}} to {{Star Rating|3.5}}. |
| − | + | On {{BetaSeason|8}}, Day 55, Crossing siphoned some of [[Boston Flowers]] lineup player [[Nic Winkler]]'s pitching ability in a game with [[Blooddrain]] weather, increasing their own ability to {{Star Rating|3}}. | |
| − | During the | + | During the {{BetaSeason|9#Election Results|@ elections}} the Sunbeams received the {{BetaSeason|9#Blessings|'''Mutually Arising'''}} blessing, which increased Crossing's baserunning from {{Star Rating|2.0}} to {{Star Rating|2.5}}. Crossing also gained the {{ModLink|Friend of Crows}} modification due to the passing of the {{BetaSeason|9#Decrees|'''Forecast: Birds'''}} decree. |
| − | During [[ | + | During the {{BetaSeason|10#Election Results|@ elections}} the Sunbeams benefited from the {{BetaSeason|10#Blessings|'''Sharing Signs'''}} blessing the [[Unlimited Tacos]] received, which decreased Crossing's pitching, bringing it back to {{Star Rating|3}}. The Sunbeams also received the {{BetaSeason|10#Blessings 2|'''Nut Button'''}} blessing, giving Crossing the {{ModLink|Superyummy}} modification. |
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| + | During {{BetaSeason|11}}, on Day 26, Crossing threw only the 4th perfect game in recorded blaseball history. They recorded 7 strikeouts against the [[Tokyo Lift]] in a 2-0 [[Sun 2|double win]]. | ||
During the [[Coffee Cup]], Crossing played for [[Cream & Sugar United]] as a pitcher. | During the [[Coffee Cup]], Crossing played for [[Cream & Sugar United]] as a pitcher. | ||
| + | During the {{BetaSeason|13#Election Results|@ elections}} the Sunbeams benefited from all four {{BetaSeason|13#Blessings 2|'''"Bubble"'''}} blessings, which increased Crossing's pitching and defense by 4%. | ||
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| + | On {{BetaSeason|22}}, Day 91, Crossing retreated to the Sunbeams' [[Shadows]] in exchange for [[Jayden Wright]] via [[Lower Moab Scenic Overlook Field]]'s {{ModLink|Fax Machine}}. | ||
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| + | Over the course of {{BetaSeason|23}}, Crossing entered and exited the Sunbeams' [[Shadows]] three times as a result of [[Lower Moab Scenic Overlook Field]] {{ModLink|Fax Machine}} events, ending the Season on the pitching rotation. | ||
{{Community Lore}} | {{Community Lore}} | ||
| − | == | + | ==History== |
| − | Crossing | + | ===Origins and Early Life=== |
| + | In interviews with the pitcher himself, Crossing alleges he fell through a time hole in the year 200X, during his afternoon crossing guard job outside Moab's Grand County Middle School. Crossing claims she emerged "mostly unscathed" at the Dawn of Blaseball, and has been playing ever since. This contradicts verified claims of their near-lifelong residence in the city of Hellmouth alongside their husbands and former teammates, [[Velasquez Meadows]] and [[Rhys Trombone]]. | ||
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| + | At some point before the {{BetaSeason|1|Return of Blaseball}}, it can be assumed<sup>by who?</sup> Crossing struck a deal with the [[Sol|Sun]], acting as an envoy and mortal{{Cite}} hand for the notoriously aloof cosmic entity. | ||
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| + | ===The Return of Blaseball=== | ||
| + | Crossing quickly became established as an entertaining, if inconsistent, headline act to the Sunbeams' pitching rotation in the team's early years. His unique pitching style - where he gently tosses the ball in a [[Sol|Sun]]ward direction before violently accelerating it through impact with his crossing-guard sign - is, according to Crossing, owed to a "sport" called "tennis", a (presumably) splort-like ritual he is said to have played when he still resided on the Material Plane. | ||
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| + | While Crossing's technique is unorthodox and skirting the edges of blaseball legality, is suspected to be responsible for her enviable pitching performance, which placed her in the League's Top 10 Pitching rankings for over half of the Discipline Era. | ||
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| + | ====The Opening of the Forbidden Book==== | ||
| + | At the end of the first season of blaseball, the [[Forbidden Book]] was opened by popular [[Decree]], [[incineration|incinerating]] [[Jaylen Hotdogfingers]] and summoning a Hellmouth on the outskirts of the Sunbeams' hometown. The entity expanded rapidly across eastern Utah, consuming the city of {{Fog|Moab}} and extensive tracts of the [[Moab Desert|{{Fog|Moab}} Desert]] before its progress was halted by unknown means. | ||
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| + | Crossing is sparse on details about what role they played, if any, during this event, but the physical "tells" of their connection to their solar patron became far more pronounced following the Hellmouth's appearance. To this day, Crossing will still, when pressed, share memories of the people and places of "old {{Fog|Moab}}", though no historical record of such a place exists. Crossing has insisted "it was a real place, it was home, and their memories lie with me now, until my work's done". | ||
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| + | ===Early Discipline Era=== | ||
| + | Season 2 was believed to be a stressful time in the Crossing-Meadows-Trombone household, according to fragmented interviews with the late [[Rhys Trombone]] on his abyssal radio station. When not playing blaseball and coming to terms with the new reality that was incinerations in [[Solar Eclipse|solar eclipses]], Crossing was said to be spending "every waking hour" chronicling the lives and memories of Moab's former residents, in a series of journals which comprised over a hundred volumes by the end of the season. Such was Crossing's dedication to the task, that he would be seen scrawling in the dugout until minutes before he took his place on the pitching mound each inning. | ||
| − | Crossing | + | Crossing undertook this recordkeeping alongside their husband, Velasquez Meadows, who would foray into the Hellmouth's depths to locate souls trapped in the entity's jaws and assist in their departure. |
| − | + | {{Quote|It really was a brutal season for those two... they'd play and train for blaseball all day, and spend all night putting lost and stranded souls to rest. All I could do was support them from the sidelines, keep a house for them to stagger home to and pester them until they'd properly eat and rest. We didn't even give ourselves time to think about the worst case scenario, if one of us... well, ended up [[Hall of Flame|here]]. We agreed to save our farewells for the post-season, leave nothing unsaid and quietly hope we'd be doing it again in a year's time, in a town which looked a little less like a disaster zone.|Rhys Trombone|Abyssal Radio}} | |
| − | + | Rhys Trombone was incinerated on Day 2 of Season 3. Velasquez Meadows was incinerated on Day 23, in the same game as the incineration of [[Breckenridge Jazz Hands]] pitcher [[Ogden Mendoza]]. | |
| − | + | Additionally, Crossing broke the League record for most strikeouts this season. | |
| − | + | ===Discipline Era, Continued=== | |
| − | + | Crossing persisted as de facto captain of the Sunbeams through the remainder of the Discipline Era, as the team's primary strategist (with support from [[Nerd Pacheco]]) and most senior member of the team. He quickly gained renown for his consistently powerful performance throughout the Era, featuring in the Top Ten pitchers rankings for strike percentage, total strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings, strikeout-to-walk ratio, walk percentage, and walks per nine innings in Seasons 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11. | |
| + | Despite Meadows' psychopomp-granted ability to manifest outside the Hall of Flame under moonlight, contact between between the Sun-touched Crossing and his husbands was sporadic - though Meadows had an easier time appearing to batters training in the dead of night, and was able to pass messages in this fashion. | ||
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| + | On Season 5, Day 91, while Crossing was pitching, [[Emmett Internet]] was incinerated by a rogue umpire. This summoned the entity known as [[Sutton Bishop]] to the Immaterial Plane. Crossing adopted the "goose", and the two became roommates until Bishop's incineration in Season 13. Crossing credited this arrangement with eventually gaining a newfound [[Friend of Crows|affinity for birdskind]]. He claims this was thanks to, rather than in spite of, the associated tribulations of having a chaotic gooseform housemate. It was around this time that [[Hahn Fox]] also joined the Sunbeams roster, and Crosssing struck up a mutual respect with her as she stepped into a role of firstly co-strategist, and eventually taking charge of batting strategy and practice. | ||
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| + | On Season 8, Day 75, Crossing became the second ever pitcher in the ILB to hit 1,000 career strikeouts, after [[Canada Moist Talkers|Moist Talkers]] pitcher [[PolkaDot Patterson]]. In an AMA, Crossing described his feelings on the accomplishment as "pretty damn good, considering I don't know how to throw the ball."<ref>Sandoval Crossing [@rallypitcher] (24 Sep 2020). "Pretty damn good, [[Dunlap Figueroa|Dunlap]]. Pretty damn good, considering I don't know how to throw the ball." [https://twitter.com/rallypitcher/status/1309211466801860610 (Tweet)] - via Twitter.</ref> | ||
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| + | During {{BetaSeason|9}}, Crossing allowed zero walks in games they pitched until Day 71, when [[Unlimited Tacos]] player [[Basilio Mason]] drew a walk in the 6th inning. While this left them with an enviable walk percentage for the season (matched only by [[Philly Pies]] pitcher [[Elvis Figueroa]]), they conceded an above-average number of hits and home runs. Crossing explained the unusual trend as the result of a pre-season strategy meeting: | ||
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| + | {{Quote|It was Hahn's idea, actually, when we were talking about the elections on the way up to the [[Shadow Moabbey]] for the traditional pre-season smoothies. She was excited about this new Base blood the team had gotten, and joked how we could try to make walking the bases our "thing". The five of us in the rotation agreed, thought we'd make a contest out of it to see who could allow the fewest walks. At this point, I'm willing to serve a few dingers just to keep the streak going.|Sandoval Crossing|interviewed by the [[Hellmouth Inquirer]]}} | ||
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| + | ====The Death of Sol==== | ||
| + | ''(Main article: [[Sol#Sol's Collapse|Sol's Collapse]])'' | ||
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| + | During the {{BetaSeason|10}} Postseason, while the Hellmouth Sunbeams were [[Party Time|Partying]] on the [[Moon]], Coach Sol experienced critical fuel levels and collapsed into a Black Hole. This violently disrupted Crossing's connection to the Sun, but by the beginning of Season 11 they claimed they'd "fixed it". Whether this entailed a new deal being struck with [[Sun 2]], a modified arrangement with the [[Black Hole]] formerly known as Sol, or some other pact is currently unknown. | ||
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| + | ===The Expansion Era=== | ||
| + | The {{BetaSeason|12|Return of Blaseball}} saw a marked decline in Crossing's former pitching discipline, generally understood to be a consequence of Crossing [[Superyummy|missing peanuts]]. This performance drop was not exclusive to Crossing, however - the Sunbeams in general took a far more leisurely approach to "winning" or "playing blaseball well", perhaps due to the [[Shelled|Shelling]] and trade of [[Nerd Pacheco]], who is allegedly "95% of the team's impulse control". | ||
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| + | Crossing has since clarified that while he does not miss "that [[Shelled One|arrogant nut]] that thought it was ok to scream demands and kidnap our friends", he does miss "the simplicity of a clear, common foe". | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
*Notably, Crossing once hatched a smaller version of themselves from an egg during a game. | *Notably, Crossing once hatched a smaller version of themselves from an egg during a game. | ||
| − | + | *Crossing is reportedly known among fellow players not for their pitching ability, but for their eccentric post-game rituals. Once, fed up after a losing game, they removed their cleats, placed them on top of a stadium garbage bin, and lit the entire thing on fire. | |
| − | *Crossing is reportedly known | + | *She is reportedly legally required to sing "Enter Sandman" whenever asked. |
| − | * | + | *Despite not having a phone or a computer, Crossing has a Twitter {{Twitter|name=rallypitcher}}. They allegedly tweet by writing notes, wrapping them around pebbles, and using their sign to pitch them into Twitter's Hellmouth HQ, which is right next to Crossing's apartment. |
| − | *Despite not having a phone or a computer, Crossing has a Twitter {{Twitter|name=rallypitcher}}. | + | *Crossing accidentally siphoned some of Flowers batter [[Nic Winkler]]'s blood in a Season 8 game, and frankly wasn't sure what to do with it. He is keeping it safe in the mean time, until such a time as Winkler can repatriate it. |
| − | *Crossing accidentally siphoned some of Flowers batter Nic Winkler's blood in a Season 8 game, and frankly wasn't sure what to do with it. | ||
*Crossing makes a mean chili con carne,<ref>Sandoval Crossing [@rallypitcher] (22 Aug 2020). "After finally finding my way to the right instance of LA, I have arrived for the #blaseballpotluck, with a big old container of my family's chili con carne ready to be distributed! can't wait to see what the rest of you brought" [https://twitter.com/rallypitcher/status/1297235139009880071 (Tweet)] - via Twitter.</ref> among other delectable meal options. | *Crossing makes a mean chili con carne,<ref>Sandoval Crossing [@rallypitcher] (22 Aug 2020). "After finally finding my way to the right instance of LA, I have arrived for the #blaseballpotluck, with a big old container of my family's chili con carne ready to be distributed! can't wait to see what the rest of you brought" [https://twitter.com/rallypitcher/status/1297235139009880071 (Tweet)] - via Twitter.</ref> among other delectable meal options. | ||
| − | *Crossing | + | *Crossing and then-[[Canada Moist Talkers]] batter [[Fish Summer]] jointly hold the record for "longest (and only) rally in a blaseball game", when Crossing forgot what splort he was playing and smacked Summer's flyball out of the air in the batter's direction. Summer responded in kind, resulting in a 29-minute, 643-shot rally and the general vexation of all observing. |
| − | == | + | ==Fan Works== |
| − | <gallery widths=" | + | <span style="font-size: 120%;">'''Fanfiction'''</span><br/> |
| + | <small>''For more fanfiction see the [https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Sandoval%20Crossing/works 'Sandoval Crossing' tag] on AO3''</small> | ||
| + | *[https://archiveofourown.org/works/29118822 Sandoval's Guide to Blaseball Cities] by [https://twitter.com/livicottle Livi] | ||
| + | *[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27989478 Guarded Crossings] by [https://twitter.com/livicottle Livi] - A history of the Hellmouth Sunbeams through the eyes of Sandoval Crossing. | ||
| + | *[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28472163/chapters/74151378 the ghosts of sandoval crossing] by dasyuridae | ||
| + | *[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27343339 The Pitcher and the Goose] by [https://twitter.com/enbyy__ Cee] - Sandoval Crossing searches for a missing [[Sutton Bishop]]. | ||
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| + | <span style="font-size: 120%;">'''Videos'''</span><br/> | ||
| + | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6efu16JUlBM sun - moon - earth] by [https://twitter.com/sapphriarocks Olive] | ||
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| + | <span style="font-size: 120%;">'''Games'''</span><br/> | ||
| + | *[https://dasyuridae.itch.io/the-edge-of-everything The Edge of Everything] by dasyuridae | ||
| + | <gallery widths="230" mode="nolines" heights="170"> | ||
File:Sandoval-crossing.png|by Discord user Ephesos | File:Sandoval-crossing.png|by Discord user Ephesos | ||
| − | File:Sandoval.jpg|Sandoval Crossing Hellmouth demon gaggle by {{Twitter|name=hummingmoth}} | + | File:Sandoval.jpg|Sandoval Crossing Hellmouth demon gaggle<br />by {{Twitter|name=hummingmoth}} |
File:ProxSandoval.png|Art by {{Twitter|name=proximart0}} | File:ProxSandoval.png|Art by {{Twitter|name=proximart0}} | ||
File:Eg84avvVoAEfQBB.jpeg|Sandoval by {{Twitter|name=mermeag}} | File:Eg84avvVoAEfQBB.jpeg|Sandoval by {{Twitter|name=mermeag}} | ||
File:Sandoval by manatiger.png|Crossing, friend of crows. (By Discord user manatiger) | File:Sandoval by manatiger.png|Crossing, friend of crows. (By Discord user manatiger) | ||
| − | File:162SandovalCrossing.png|Mini-Blaseballer by [http://miniblaseball.surge.sh/ @HetreaSky] | + | File:162SandovalCrossing.png|Mini-Blaseballer<br />by [http://miniblaseball.surge.sh/ '''@HetreaSky'''] |
| − | File:Rallypitcher by larkine.png|Crossing's travel look for the Extended Siesta | + | File:Rallypitcher by larkine.png|Crossing's travel look for the Extended Siesta<br />by [https://twitter.com/_larkine/status/1323021661768220674 '''larkine'''] |
| − | File:Superyummy by ash.jpg|Sandoval Crossing, Friend of Crows and Superyummy | + | File:Superyummy by ash.jpg|Sandoval Crossing, Friend of Crows and Superyummy<br />by '''[https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1322808853357072384 Ash]''' |
| − | File:Sandy fashion crime.png|Sunbeams fashion crimes by | + | File:Sandy fashion crime.png|alt=A digital drawing of Sandoval Crossing in a floral shirt, khaki shorts, and sandals over socks, sipping on a brightly coloured smoothie.|Sunbeams fashion crimes<br />by [https://twitter.com/_larkine/status/1328116317510127616 '''larkine'''] |
File:Sandy Poggers.jpg|Sandy "doing a pog" by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}} | File:Sandy Poggers.jpg|Sandy "doing a pog" by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}} | ||
| − | File:Why dont you have a PEANUT.jpg|Sandy suggesting you have a peanut to calm down by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1344060307929493505 | + | File:+ a birb.png|Tlopps card<br />by '''[https://twitter.com/Krasi_Savov Coblin]''' |
| + | File:Why dont you have a PEANUT.jpg|Sandy suggesting you have a peanut to calm down<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1344060307929493505 '''Ash'''] | ||
File:Go go grandpa!.jpg|by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}} | File:Go go grandpa!.jpg|by {{Twitter|name=glassgoblin}} | ||
| − | File:At da ren faire.jpg|Crossing with [[Lars Taylor]] & [[Nerd Pacheco]] at the Vlalentines Day Ren Faire | + | File:At da ren faire.jpg|Crossing with [[Lars Taylor]] & [[Nerd Pacheco]] at the Vlalentines Day Ren Faire<br />by [https://twitter.com/_iznj/status/1361064220104790017 '''@_iznj'''] |
| − | File:Why no nut.jpg| | + | File:Why no nut.jpg|alt=A meme of Sandoval Crossing, in despair at the fact that she has not eaten a peanut at this point in the season yet. In the background, Miguel James is standing next to a shelled Nerd Pacheco who has a sign taped to them that reads "Nerd: Do not eat."|Crossing kneeling in despair at the fact that she has not yet eaten a peanut at this point in the season<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1367318039235035137 '''Ash'''] |
| + | File:Home 4 the holidays.jpg|alt=A drawing of Sandoval Crossing of the Hellmouth Sunbeams and Esme Ramsey of the Charleston Shoe Thieves. Sandy is a person with tan skin, fluffy white hair and beard, one brown eye, and one eye with sunlight in it. Sandy is dressed in a crossing guard vest. Esme is a person with medium brown skin, dark brown afro-textured hair, and dark brown eyes. Esme is wearing a blue hoodie with shoelace drawstrings and three silver earrings in her left ear. Esme is leaning on Sandy who has their arm around her. They are sitting on a yellow couch looking at a picture book of Esme when she was little. Around them is are items representing past and present teammates: a radio and blue and white lamp, a bookshelf with a pink book series, a silver sign that says "Romayne's Romayne", a shield made to look like a stop sign, a picture of Randall Marijuana, a red demon boy with green hair, and Emmett Internet, a person with a computer screen head with a blue screen and digital face, in their blue Hall Stars uniforms, and a picture of the Season 11 Hellmouth Sunbeams championship roster with a plaque above that labels it.|Crossing & [[Esme Ramsey]]<br />by [https://twitter.com/_iznj/status/1355964378944839684 '''@_iznj'''] | ||
| + | File:Old mf'ers.jpg|alt=A digital drawing of Sandy Crossing, Nagomi Nava, and Eugenia Bickle. The trio is leaning on a flat surface, Sandy with xyr arms crossed in front of xem, Gomi with her elbows on the surface, holding her head up with her hands, and Bickle facing the opposite direction as the other two, glancing over their shoulder and leaning backwards on their elbows. Sandy has their long wavy hair pulled back in a low pony-tail and is wearing a bluish-purple dress shirt. Nagomi is wearing a long sleeved blue shirt and is sporting a new close-cropped haircut. Bickle is depicted as an orc and is wearing a pear-colored green shirt paired with a sunhat.|Crossing with [[Nagomi Nava]] and [[Eugenia Bickle]]<br />by [https://twitter.com/sapphriarocks/status/1478110445844140035 '''Olive'''] | ||
| + | File:The pico has combusted.png|alt=Digital drawing of Sunbeams players Sandy Crossing, Miguel James, and Borg Ruiz having a carne asada.|''“the pico has combusted...”''<br />by [https://twitter.com/revivificating/status/1522066387627294723 '''Ash'''] | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:45, 23 February 2023
Sandoval Crossing was a pitcher for the Moab Hellmouth Sunbeams, and was with the team from Season β1 until Fall Ball.
Official League Records
Crossing joined the ILB as a pitcher for the Moab Sunbeams with the Return of Blaseball.
Crossing gained league-wide notoriety during Season β3 for performing a total of 172 strikeouts, the highest of any pitcher in the League that season.[1]
On Season 4, Day 16, Crossing held Moist Talkers 5-star pitcher PolkaDot Patterson in a 4-run-a-side deadlock for 17 innings, until "Patterson blinked first" and Randall Marijuana scored a solo home run in the eighteenth.
During the Season β6 elections the Sunbeams received the Move the Mounds Closer blessing and benefited from the Sharing Signs blessing the Boston Flowers received, which increased Crossing's batting and pitching abilities each from to .
During the Season β7 election, the Hellmouth Sunbeams received the Stickum blessing, which boosted Crossing's defense from to .
On Season β8, Day 55, Crossing siphoned some of Boston Flowers lineup player Nic Winkler's pitching ability in a game with Blooddrain weather, increasing their own ability to .
During the Season β9 elections the Sunbeams received the Mutually Arising blessing, which increased Crossing's baserunning from to . Crossing also gained the Friend of Crows modification due to the passing of the Forecast: Birds decree.
During the Season β10 elections the Sunbeams benefited from the Sharing Signs blessing the Unlimited Tacos received, which decreased Crossing's pitching, bringing it back to . The Sunbeams also received the Nut Button blessing, giving Crossing the Superyummy modification.
During Season β11, on Day 26, Crossing threw only the 4th perfect game in recorded blaseball history. They recorded 7 strikeouts against the Tokyo Lift in a 2-0 double win.
During the Coffee Cup, Crossing played for Cream & Sugar United as a pitcher.
During the Season β13 elections the Sunbeams benefited from all four "Bubble" blessings, which increased Crossing's pitching and defense by 4%.
On Season β22, Day 91, Crossing retreated to the Sunbeams' Shadows in exchange for Jayden Wright via Lower Moab Scenic Overlook Field's Fax Machine.
Over the course of Season β23, Crossing entered and exited the Sunbeams' Shadows three times as a result of Lower Moab Scenic Overlook Field Fax Machine events, ending the Season on the pitching rotation.
COMMUNITY REPORTSThe remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.
History
Origins and Early Life
In interviews with the pitcher himself, Crossing alleges he fell through a time hole in the year 200X, during his afternoon crossing guard job outside Moab's Grand County Middle School. Crossing claims she emerged "mostly unscathed" at the Dawn of Blaseball, and has been playing ever since. This contradicts verified claims of their near-lifelong residence in the city of Hellmouth alongside their husbands and former teammates, Velasquez Meadows and Rhys Trombone.
At some point before the Return of Blaseball, it can be assumedby who? Crossing struck a deal with the Sun, acting as an envoy and mortal[citation needed] hand for the notoriously aloof cosmic entity.
The Return of Blaseball
Crossing quickly became established as an entertaining, if inconsistent, headline act to the Sunbeams' pitching rotation in the team's early years. His unique pitching style - where he gently tosses the ball in a Sunward direction before violently accelerating it through impact with his crossing-guard sign - is, according to Crossing, owed to a "sport" called "tennis", a (presumably) splort-like ritual he is said to have played when he still resided on the Material Plane.
While Crossing's technique is unorthodox and skirting the edges of blaseball legality, is suspected to be responsible for her enviable pitching performance, which placed her in the League's Top 10 Pitching rankings for over half of the Discipline Era.
The Opening of the Forbidden Book
At the end of the first season of blaseball, the Forbidden Book was opened by popular Decree, incinerating Jaylen Hotdogfingers and summoning a Hellmouth on the outskirts of the Sunbeams' hometown. The entity expanded rapidly across eastern Utah, consuming the city of Moab and extensive tracts of the Moab Desert before its progress was halted by unknown means.
Crossing is sparse on details about what role they played, if any, during this event, but the physical "tells" of their connection to their solar patron became far more pronounced following the Hellmouth's appearance. To this day, Crossing will still, when pressed, share memories of the people and places of "old Moab", though no historical record of such a place exists. Crossing has insisted "it was a real place, it was home, and their memories lie with me now, until my work's done".
Early Discipline Era
Season 2 was believed to be a stressful time in the Crossing-Meadows-Trombone household, according to fragmented interviews with the late Rhys Trombone on his abyssal radio station. When not playing blaseball and coming to terms with the new reality that was incinerations in solar eclipses, Crossing was said to be spending "every waking hour" chronicling the lives and memories of Moab's former residents, in a series of journals which comprised over a hundred volumes by the end of the season. Such was Crossing's dedication to the task, that he would be seen scrawling in the dugout until minutes before he took his place on the pitching mound each inning.
Crossing undertook this recordkeeping alongside their husband, Velasquez Meadows, who would foray into the Hellmouth's depths to locate souls trapped in the entity's jaws and assist in their departure.
It really was a brutal season for those two... they'd play and train for blaseball all day, and spend all night putting lost and stranded souls to rest. All I could do was support them from the sidelines, keep a house for them to stagger home to and pester them until they'd properly eat and rest. We didn't even give ourselves time to think about the worst case scenario, if one of us... well, ended up here. We agreed to save our farewells for the post-season, leave nothing unsaid and quietly hope we'd be doing it again in a year's time, in a town which looked a little less like a disaster zone.
Rhys Trombone, Abyssal Radio
Rhys Trombone was incinerated on Day 2 of Season 3. Velasquez Meadows was incinerated on Day 23, in the same game as the incineration of Breckenridge Jazz Hands pitcher Ogden Mendoza.
Additionally, Crossing broke the League record for most strikeouts this season.
Discipline Era, Continued
Crossing persisted as de facto captain of the Sunbeams through the remainder of the Discipline Era, as the team's primary strategist (with support from Nerd Pacheco) and most senior member of the team. He quickly gained renown for his consistently powerful performance throughout the Era, featuring in the Top Ten pitchers rankings for strike percentage, total strikeouts, strikeouts per nine innings, strikeout-to-walk ratio, walk percentage, and walks per nine innings in Seasons 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, and 11.
Despite Meadows' psychopomp-granted ability to manifest outside the Hall of Flame under moonlight, contact between between the Sun-touched Crossing and his husbands was sporadic - though Meadows had an easier time appearing to batters training in the dead of night, and was able to pass messages in this fashion.
On Season 5, Day 91, while Crossing was pitching, Emmett Internet was incinerated by a rogue umpire. This summoned the entity known as Sutton Bishop to the Immaterial Plane. Crossing adopted the "goose", and the two became roommates until Bishop's incineration in Season 13. Crossing credited this arrangement with eventually gaining a newfound affinity for birdskind. He claims this was thanks to, rather than in spite of, the associated tribulations of having a chaotic gooseform housemate. It was around this time that Hahn Fox also joined the Sunbeams roster, and Crosssing struck up a mutual respect with her as she stepped into a role of firstly co-strategist, and eventually taking charge of batting strategy and practice.
On Season 8, Day 75, Crossing became the second ever pitcher in the ILB to hit 1,000 career strikeouts, after Moist Talkers pitcher PolkaDot Patterson. In an AMA, Crossing described his feelings on the accomplishment as "pretty damn good, considering I don't know how to throw the ball."[2]
During Season β9, Crossing allowed zero walks in games they pitched until Day 71, when Unlimited Tacos player Basilio Mason drew a walk in the 6th inning. While this left them with an enviable walk percentage for the season (matched only by Philly Pies pitcher Elvis Figueroa), they conceded an above-average number of hits and home runs. Crossing explained the unusual trend as the result of a pre-season strategy meeting:
It was Hahn's idea, actually, when we were talking about the elections on the way up to the Shadow Moabbey for the traditional pre-season smoothies. She was excited about this new Base blood the team had gotten, and joked how we could try to make walking the bases our "thing". The five of us in the rotation agreed, thought we'd make a contest out of it to see who could allow the fewest walks. At this point, I'm willing to serve a few dingers just to keep the streak going.
Sandoval Crossing, interviewed by the Hellmouth Inquirer
The Death of Sol
(Main article: Sol's Collapse)
During the Season β10 Postseason, while the Hellmouth Sunbeams were Partying on the Moon, Coach Sol experienced critical fuel levels and collapsed into a Black Hole. This violently disrupted Crossing's connection to the Sun, but by the beginning of Season 11 they claimed they'd "fixed it". Whether this entailed a new deal being struck with Sun 2, a modified arrangement with the Black Hole formerly known as Sol, or some other pact is currently unknown.
The Expansion Era
The Return of Blaseball saw a marked decline in Crossing's former pitching discipline, generally understood to be a consequence of Crossing missing peanuts. This performance drop was not exclusive to Crossing, however - the Sunbeams in general took a far more leisurely approach to "winning" or "playing blaseball well", perhaps due to the Shelling and trade of Nerd Pacheco, who is allegedly "95% of the team's impulse control".
Crossing has since clarified that while he does not miss "that arrogant nut that thought it was ok to scream demands and kidnap our friends", he does miss "the simplicity of a clear, common foe".
Trivia
- Notably, Crossing once hatched a smaller version of themselves from an egg during a game.
- Crossing is reportedly known among fellow players not for their pitching ability, but for their eccentric post-game rituals. Once, fed up after a losing game, they removed their cleats, placed them on top of a stadium garbage bin, and lit the entire thing on fire.
- She is reportedly legally required to sing "Enter Sandman" whenever asked.
- Despite not having a phone or a computer, Crossing has a Twitter @rallypitcher. They allegedly tweet by writing notes, wrapping them around pebbles, and using their sign to pitch them into Twitter's Hellmouth HQ, which is right next to Crossing's apartment.
- Crossing accidentally siphoned some of Flowers batter Nic Winkler's blood in a Season 8 game, and frankly wasn't sure what to do with it. He is keeping it safe in the mean time, until such a time as Winkler can repatriate it.
- Crossing makes a mean chili con carne,[3] among other delectable meal options.
- Crossing and then-Canada Moist Talkers batter Fish Summer jointly hold the record for "longest (and only) rally in a blaseball game", when Crossing forgot what splort he was playing and smacked Summer's flyball out of the air in the batter's direction. Summer responded in kind, resulting in a 29-minute, 643-shot rally and the general vexation of all observing.
Fan Works
Fanfiction
For more fanfiction see the 'Sandoval Crossing' tag on AO3
- Sandoval's Guide to Blaseball Cities by Livi
- Guarded Crossings by Livi - A history of the Hellmouth Sunbeams through the eyes of Sandoval Crossing.
- the ghosts of sandoval crossing by dasyuridae
- The Pitcher and the Goose by Cee - Sandoval Crossing searches for a missing Sutton Bishop.
Videos
Games
- The Edge of Everything by dasyuridae
by Discord user Ephesos
Sandoval Crossing Hellmouth demon gaggle
by @hummingmoth
Art by @proximart0
Sandoval by @mermeag
Crossing, friend of crows. (By Discord user manatiger)
Mini-Blaseballer
by @HetreaSky
Crossing's travel look for the Extended Siesta
by larkine
Sandoval Crossing, Friend of Crows and Superyummy
by Ash
Sunbeams fashion crimes
by larkine
Sandy "doing a pog" by @glassgoblin
Tlopps card
by Coblin
Sandy suggesting you have a peanut to calm down
by Ash
by @glassgoblin
Crossing with Lars Taylor & Nerd Pacheco at the Vlalentines Day Ren Faire
by @_iznj
Crossing kneeling in despair at the fact that she has not yet eaten a peanut at this point in the season
by Ash
Crossing & Esme Ramsey
by @_iznj
Crossing with Nagomi Nava and Eugenia Bickle
by Olive
“the pico has combusted...”
by Ash
References
- ↑ Sandoval Crossing Stats - blaseball-reference.com
- ↑ Sandoval Crossing [@rallypitcher] (24 Sep 2020). "Pretty damn good, Dunlap. Pretty damn good, considering I don't know how to throw the ball." (Tweet) - via Twitter.
- ↑ Sandoval Crossing [@rallypitcher] (22 Aug 2020). "After finally finding my way to the right instance of LA, I have arrived for the #blaseballpotluck, with a big old container of my family's chili con carne ready to be distributed! can't wait to see what the rest of you brought" (Tweet) - via Twitter.
