Sandoval Crossing

Sandoval Crossing
Art by @proximart0
Basic Information
Team	Hellmouth Sunbeams
Status	Active
Batting
Pitching
Defense
Running
Modifications	Friend of CrowsIn Birds weather, pitchers with Friend of Crows will encourage the Birds to attack hitters. The crows will attack a hitter, resulting in an automatic out.  SuperyummyThis Player seriously loves peanuts. Superyummy players Overperform when playing in Peanut weather or in a ballpark with a Peanut Mister, and Underperform otherwise.
Dates Active	Jul 20, 2020–present
External Links	Blaseball-Reference Player Changes Player Page
Personal Information
Item	None
Armor	None
Evolution	Base
Peanut Allergy	Not Allergic
Pregame Ritual	Journaling
Coffee Style	Cream & Sugar
Blood Type	Basic
Fate	19
Soulscream	AUEAEAUEAEAIAAAIIAAAIIHOAEAHOAEAHAIAHHAIAHHAOHAOEOHAOEOEAIEAEAIEAEXXAAHXXAAHX
Biographical Details
Pronouns	Any
Nickname(s)	Crossing Guard
Species	Ostensibly Human
Other Background Information
Player Twitter	@rallypitcher

Sandoval Crossing is a pitcher for the Hellmouth Sunbeams. Crossing has been with the Hellmouth Sunbeams since Season 1. They are known for having the highest strikeout count across the League in Season 3.

Official League Records

Crossing gained league-wide notoriety during Season 3 for performing a total of 172 strikeouts, the highest of any pitcher in the League that season.

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 7 election, the Hellmouth Sunbeams received the Stickum blessing, which boosted Crossing's defense from  to .

During Season 8, on Day 55, Crossing siphoned some of Boston Flowers batter Nic Winkler's pitching ability in a game with Blooddrain weather, bringing it from  to .

During the Season 9 election the Hellmouth 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 10 election the Sunbeams received the Nut Button blessing, giving Crossing the Superyummy modification.

During Season 11, on Day 26, Crossing threw only the 3rd 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.

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

Career

Crossing is known for 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. This technique, while unorthodox and skirting the edges of blaseball legality, is suspected to be responsible for Crossing's Season 3 strikeout record.

Crossing says he owes this technique to a "sport" called "tennis", a (presumably) splort-like ritual he is said to have played when he still resided on the Material Plane.

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. He emerged mostly unscathed at the Dawn of Blaseball, and has been playing ever since. Citing zero experience with blaseball, he adapted skills he had learned from playing "tennis" to surprising effect on the blaseball mound.

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."

During Season 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:

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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Trivia

• Notably, Crossing once hatched a smaller version of themselves from an egg during a game.
• Crossing and 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.
• Crossing is reportedly known best among fellow players not for their pitching ability, but for their explosive post-game tantrums. 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.
• They are reportedly legally required to sing "Enter Sandman" whenever asked.
• Despite not having a phone or a computer, Crossing has a Twitter @rallypitcher. She allegedly tweets by writing notes, wrapping them around pebbles, and using her 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. They are keeping it safe in the mean time, until such a time as Winkler can repatriate it.
• Crossing makes a mean chili con carne, among other delectable meal options.
• Crossing is roommates with fellow Sunbeams player Sutton Bishop. Despite the associated tribulations of having a chaotic gooseform housemate, Crossing credits this arrangement with their newfound affinity for birdkind on the blaseball mound.

Fan Works

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  by Discord user Ephesos

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  Sandoval Crossing Hellmouth demon gaggle by @hummingmoth

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  Art by @proximart0

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  Sandoval by @mermeag

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  Crossing, friend of crows. (By Discord user manatiger)

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  Mini-Blaseballer by @HetreaSky

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  Crossing's travel look for the Extended Siesta, by @larkiiiine

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  Sandoval Crossing, Friend of Crows and Superyummy. By Ash.

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  Sunbeams fashion crimes by @larkiiiine

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  Sandy "doing a pog" by @glassgoblin

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  Sandy suggesting you have a peanut to calm down by Ash

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  by @glassgoblin

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  Crossing with Lars Taylor & Nerd Pacheco at the Vlalentines Day Ren Faire, by @_iznj

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  Sandoval Crossing kneeling in despair at the fact that she has not eaten a peanut at this point in the season yet, by Ash