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Workman wraps up career 2019 season

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As Major League Baseball shifts to the playoffs, Bowie residents will not see a familiar face.
While the Texas Rangers did not make the playoffs for the third straight season, we are refering to the defending World Series Champion Boston Red Sox who employ Bowie alumnus Brandon Workman.
The Red Sox were just above .500 with a 84-78 record and 12 games back from the wildcard. While a lot of people point to injuries and not the most reliable pitching bullpen for Boston coming up short this season, no one is pointing fingers at Workman.
Despite being apart of said infamous bullpen, the career middle relieving pitcher put up a career year from start to finish. Workman had career best totals in wins (10), ERA (1.88), strikeouts (104), hits allowed (29) while picking up 16 saves when he moved to the crucial closer role for the last two months of the season.
Some of these numbers are among the best numbers for relief pitchers in franchise history.
Workman graduated from Bowie in 2007 and went on to play at the University of Texas in Austin before getting drafted by the Red Sox in the second round of the 2010 draft. His first year in the majors as a middle relief pitcher saw him help Boston capture its third World Series title of the century.
Workman famously has come back from Tommy John surgery that had him miss all of the 2015 and 2016 seasons. He showed enough towards the end in 2017 for the Red Sox to believe in him getting back to his winning ways, but he was called up and sent down from the minor leagues five times during the 2018 season on the way to another World Series title.
Still, he stayed healthy and the 30-year-old was solid enough when he played for Boston to sign him to a one year contract worth $1.15 million before this season.
There were concerns early in spring training when Workman’s fastball velocity, historically around the low to mid 90s, dipped into the 80s. While he was able to work his velocity back up into the low 90s range, Workman did make a change to his approach this season as he started throwing his curveball more often instead of trying to set up as his strikeout pitch.
The results speak for themselves. In a season with that saw the league record for homeruns get broken again, Workman, who made another career high 73 appearances this season, allowed only one.
His opponents batting average of .123 is the lowest of any pitcher with a minimum of 60 innings pitched in more than a century. His opponents slugging percentage .166 is the lowest since 1961.
The only downside to Workman’s season besides his team’s lack of success is his walk total. His 45 walks are a career high despite pitching almost 16 fewer innings than he did in 2014 when he walked 36.
Workman just turned 31 in August. Looking like he is all the way back from a serious injury, the usually solid middle reliever went above and beyond as the most trusted arm in a bullpen that desperately needed more.
By the end, the team had no one else to turn to for the role of closer despite never working at the highly pressured position before.
Whether Workman will be able to live up to what he did this season will remain to be seen, but with his contract up, he is in position for a big payday.

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Jackrabbits blow out City View

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The Bowie Jackrabbits beat down City View on the road on Monday by run-rule to pick up a district win.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0 after five innings due to run-rule as they dominated against the Mustangs.
Bowie was coming off a close loss at Holliday in a game it nearly came back to win, so took out its frustration on a struggling City View team.
The Jackrabbits got going early as Troy Kesey hit a solo home run with two outs to get a rally going for the team. Two batters later Edmond De Leon hit a two-run home run.
Rayder Mann hit a ground ball to third base that resulted in an error that drove in a run. Cy Egenbacher then hit an RBI single to put Bowie up 5-0 before the Mustangs had even hit.
After a scoreless second inning, the Jackrabbits got back going in the third. Boston Farris and Seth Mann both hit a two RBI doubles.
Kesey and Hayden Rodriguez followed with RBI singles to make it 11-0 for Bowie.
The Jackrabbits kept the pressure in the fourth inning. Farris hit a three-run home run and Kesey later drove in another run with a double to make it 15-0 for Bowie.
The game continued into the fifth inning and City View needed to score at least six runs to keep the game going. The Mustangs broke up Kesey’s no-hitter on the mound with three straight singles to load the bases up with no outs.
Kesey finished strong, striking out the next two batters before inducing a fly ball to center field for the final out.
The Jackrabbits won 15-0.

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Baseball Roundup

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Nocona
The Nocona Indians got some revenge by beating Perrin-Whitt on Thursday at home.
The Indians won 5-3 to hopefully make up for losing the previous game in the final inning against the Pirates.
Nocona had lost two days earlier to Perrin-Whitt 3-2 after leading for the entire game until the final inning.
The second game it was the Pirates that led for the majority of the game, leading 2-1 after the first inning. The Indians tied the score 2-2 after the third inning, but Perrin-Whitt got the lead back in the fourth inning with one run to make it 4-3.
Nocona took control in the sixth inning when Wesley Murpehy drove in two runs with a double. Brody Langford followed him with an RBI single to double the Indians score and put them up 6-4.
This time around, Nocona’s defense held on in the final inning, allowing only one base runner before closing the game with little trouble.

Missing scores
Scores from Saint Jo and Bellevue are not updated due to games being delayed due to weather late last week.

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Bowie softball season comes to an end

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The Bowie Lady Rabbits came up just short of winning their final game at City View on Friday.
The Lady Mustangs held off a furious Lady Rabbits rally in the seventh inning to scrape out a win 11-10.
Bowie was entering the game knowing it was the last game of the season no matter what so it came out loose and ready.
The Lady Rabbits took control early. Chloe Kinney scored due to an error trying to pick her off. Sage Gossett hit a single that drove in one run and an error on the throw allowed another run to score.
Several batters later, Beau Combs and Victoria Cox both hit RBI singles to make it 5-0 for Bowie.
The Lady Mustangs scored two runs to make cut the lead to 5-2 after the first inning.
Bowie scored one run in the second inning when Serenity Klump was able to score from third base due to an error by the catcher. City View equaled that run in the same inning with an RBI double.
After the teams exchanged scoreless innings in the third and fourth, things picked up in the fifth inning.
Kaylie Kinney hit an RBI double with two outs to extend Bowie’s lead to 7-3.
The Lady Mustangs answered with a huge inning to get back in the game. Three singles and two errors allowed City View to score four runs and tie the score up at 7-7.
After the Lady Rabbits offense could not get anything going in the sixth inning, the Lady Mustangs picked up where they left off.
Five straight singles, one walk and a passed ball allowed City View to score four more runs to take the lead 11-7 heading into the final inning.
With Bowie down to its last three outs of the season, the team buckled up to get something going.
Cox hit a one out double. Chloe Kinney followed with a single that drove her in. After a strikeout and Kinney advancing to second base after a passed ball, Klump drove her in with a double.
After a walk, Gossett came through and hit a single that drove in one more run to cut City View’s lead to one run.
With the tying run in scoring position, Bowie was in good condition but was also down to its last out.
Unfortunately, the next batter struck out looking to end the game and the Lady Rabbits season.
City View won 11-10.

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