Charleston Shoe Thieves/Beta/Season 2

👟 Charleston Shoe Thieves
Season 2
Dates	July 27, 2020 - August 2, 2020
← Previous	Season 1
Next →	Season 3
Results
Overall Record	50-49
Divine Favor	6
Division	2nd in Good Chaotic
League	4th in Good League
ILB Placement	8th overall
Roster Changes
None
Blessings
Yes Plz!   Hitting +10%

In Season β2 the Charleston Shoe Thieves narrowly secured the Good League's fourth and final playoff spot in Game 98 of Season β2, edging out the Yellowstone Magic to proceed to the playoffs with a final record of 50-49, the least wins of any playoff team that season. For their first postseason, the Thieves made it to the Internet Series finals before losing the championship to the Philly Pies.

They won their first blessing during the Elections with Yes Plz! improving their hitting by 10%.

Starting Roster

Lineup	Rotation
Morrow Doyle Ren Hunter Velasquez Alstott Antonio Wallace Stu Trololol Sebastian Townsend Workman Gloom Esme Ramsey Blankenship Fischer	Forrest Bookbaby Matteo Prestige Beasley Gloom Cornelius Games Snyder Briggs
Shadows Bench Bullpen William Boone Oliver Hess Bennett Takahashi Simba Davis Winnie Loser Carter Oconnor Rhys Rivera Rodriguez Sunshine Herring Winfield Donia Johnson Jorge Owens
Shadows were not visible on the website until Season β12.

Season

Roster Changes

Despite Eclipse being the only weather, the Shoe Thieves experienced no changes in Season 2.

Notable Games

• On Day 26, Stu Trololol stole home in the bottom of the 14th to Shame the Hawai'i Fridays.
  • On Day 71, Stu stole home once again in the bottom of the 8th inning to secure a 6-5 win for the Shoe Thieves against the New York Millennials.
• On Day 102, Matteo Prestige shut out the Dallas Steaks 7-0, initiating the reverse sweep.
• On Day 107, Matteo Prestige shut out the Boston Flowers.
  • These two games being the only postseason games played by Matteo Prestige, they have a career postseason ERA of 0.
• On Day 108, The Shoe Thieves took a game from the Philly Pies, giving them their first ever playoffs loss.

Postseason

The Charleston Shoe Thieves made the Postseason as the 4th seed in the Good League.

Round 1 vs. Dallas Steaks

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 100		Snyder Briggs	👟	1 - 4	🥩	Gabriel Griffith
Day 101		Forrest Bookbaby	👟	1 - 5	🥩	Leach Herman
Day 102		Matteo Prestige	👟	7 - 0	🥩	Orville Manco
Day 103		Beasley Gloom	👟	11 - 5	🥩	Conner Haley
Day 104		Cornelius Games	👟	5 - 3	🥩	Ronan Jaylee

The Shoe Thieves took the series 3 - 2 and advanced to the Semi-Finals.

Semi-Finals vs. Boston Flowers

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 105		Chambers Simmons	🌹	3 - 8	👟	Snyder Briggs
Day 106		Dunn Keyes	🌹	4 - 5	👟	Forrest Bookbaby
Day 107		Zeboriah Wilson	🌹	0 - 10	👟	Matteo Prestige

The Shoe Thieves took the series 3 - 0 and advanced to the Finals.

Finals vs. Philly Pies

Day	Weather	Away Pitcher		Score	Home Pitcher
Day 108		Nicholas Mora	🥧	4 - 9	👟	Beasley Gloom
Day 109		Bright Zimmerman	🥧	12 - 2	👟	Cornelius Games
Day 110		Ruslan Greatness	🥧	10 - 4	👟	Snyder Briggs
Day 111		Betsy Trombone	🥧	6 - 2	👟	Forrest Bookbaby

The Philly Pies took the series 3 - 1. The Shoe Thieves were eliminated.

Election Outcomes

The Shoe Thieves won their first ever Blessing in Season 2:

• Yes Plz! blessed the Charleston Shoe Thieves
  
  • Their hitting was improved 10%.
  • The Shoe Thieves won with 17% of the vote. The Baltimore Crabs had 22% of the vote.

Season Overview

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The Underdog

Following a season in which they entered the playoffs with the worst win/loss record of any playoff team, and defeating the league leaders the Dallas Steaks 3-2 and their division rivals the Boston Flowers 3-0, the Shoe Thieves faced the Philly Pies, who were the Season β1 champions, undefeated in the postseason, and so far undefeated in the Season 2 playoffs as well. Despite being the betting odds underdogs, the Shoe Thieves beat the Pies 9-4, breaking their playoff victory streak. Beasley Gloom, the starting pitcher in game one, earned the nickname "underdog" both for his role in such a significant upset victory and his status as the team's only canine player.

Cobbler Coffee

During Game 2 of the Season β2 Finals against the Philly Pies, starting pitcher Cornelius Games swapped his place on the mound with remarkably convincing doppelganger (later revealed to be a local tram operator Games encountered on the way to the stadium). The dubiously legal substitute performed notably worse than Games' average, allowing 12 runs and potentially contributing to the Shoe Thieves loss. However, the distraction allowed Games to successfully break into the Pies' locker room and steal a pair of sneakers from star batter Jessica Telephone's locker.

Over the course of the following off-season, Games was able to convince all of the Shoe Thieves' batters to drink Yes Plz! Coffee from the sneakers, hoping ingesting trace amounts of the legendary hitter's sweat would substantially increase their batting prowess in preparation for Season β3.