2008 WEEK #25 HIGHLIGHTS

Severn's - Jeff Kent
A.L. Player of the Week Award

NAME TEAM AVG SLG G AB H 2B 3B HR R RBI K W IW SB CS HBP
KENT,Jeff SEV  AL .389 .889 5 18 7 1 1 2 4 10 1 1 0 0 0 1
 

Yonge Street's - Scott Kazmir
A.L. Pitcher of the Week Award

NAME CLUB G W L S ERA IP R ER H K BB IBB WP BK HB HR
KAZMIR,Scott YSS  AL 1 1 0 0 0.00 9 4 0 3 13 2 0 0 0 0 1
 

Long Beach's - Melky Cabrera
N.L. Player of the Week Award

NAME TEAM AVG SLG G AB H 2B 3B HR R RBI K W IW SB CS HBP
CABRERA,Melky LBD  NL .400 .633 6 30 12 2 1 1 6 8 2 0 0 0 0 0
 

Tempe's - Kelvim Escobar
N.L. Player of the Week Award

NAME CLUB G W L S ERA IP R ER H K BB IBB WP BK HB HR
ESCOBAR,Kelvim TEM  NL 2 2 0 0 0.60 15 1 1 7 10 5 1 0 0 1 0
 
Buffalo @ Detroit - Buffalo pounds Detroit 5 games to 1
 
Severn @ Elyria - Severn sweeps Elyria. Surprised?
 
Hollywood @ Pittsburgh - The Hollywood Werewolves come to town and the Lumber Company only has a pair of silver bullets as they drop 4 of 6.
 
Fremont @ Yonge Street - Fremont visits Yonge Street

Gm 1) Billingsley and Cliff Lee (Grade 3 Cliff Lee...not 2008 AL CY YOUNG winner Cliff Lee) both struggled, but Chad pitched a bit better. DeJesus homered and drove in 4 for the Cannons. Quintero was the only Cannon starter NOT to have a hit.
FRE 8
YSS 4

Gm 2) The Stalkers pounded 7 doubles and Travis Hafner homered twice behind Halladay.
YSS 11
FRE 3


Gm 3) Kazmir went the distance and K'd 13. His 4 runs were unearned. Ruben Gotay gave YSS the win with a walk-off HR.
YSS 5
FRE 4

Gm 4) Phillips and Nady both homered in support of Oswalt. Roy improved to 17-9.
FRE 6
YSS 3

Gm 5) Paul Byrd came up big for the home team. He went 7+ innings and outdueled Buehrle.
YSS 5
FRE 2

Gm 6) The Greg Maddux show. He went 7+ scoreless and Santiago Casilla finished up the shutout.
YSS 5
FRE 0

YSS takes 4 of 6 and will head to SEV next week. FRE returns home to host CCC.
 
Tijuana @ Virginia - No News out of Virginia.
 
Chicago @ Coconut Creek - In a truly back and forth series....the Crushers pull off a mild upset by managing a split with mighty Chicago.
 
Northridge @ Kentucky - Kentucky takes 5 of 6 from the Quakes.
 
Midland @ New River - Midland takes 4 out of 6 games from New River.
 
Long Beach @ Ann Arbor - The Dirtbags lose the opener but then win 5 straight. Juan Pierre runs virtually unchecked as he steals 8 bases for LA (he was caught once).
 
Iron City @ Tempe -Tempe's staff may have pitched the best series in franchise history. Iron City only scored 3 runs during the entire series.

Bannister 2-0, 14.1 Inn, 10 H, 1 R, 6 SO,
Escobar 2-0, 1 CG, 15.0 Inn, 7 H, 1 R, 10 SO
Meche 1-0, 1 CG 9 Inn, 2 H, 1 R, 4 SO
Wang 1-0, 1 CG, 9 Inn, 3 H, 0 R, 3 SO
Bullpen 6.2 Inn 0 R

Bannister beat out Escobar for the pitcher of the week recommendation because he went 4-4 during his second start.
 
Topeka @ Sacramento - Sacramento takes 4 of 6 from Topeka in a series highlighted by a 1-hit shutout in Game 6 by Washburn.
 
West Coast @ Camarillo - Fresh off their sweep of Los Angeles, Camarillo drops 4 of 6 to West Coast. Series highlights:

* Kyle Lohse (11-7, 3.15) tossed his second consecutive shut-out and fifth of the year. He now has 19 straight scoreless innings and is 2 shutouts away from the most ever in MWBL history.

* Newly acquired Sammy Sosa went 5 for 20 with 2 home runs in his series opener for Camarillo. He is now at 438 career home runs.

* Khalil Greene now has 84 extra base hits on the season, including 35 home runs.]

* Bobby Howry has now blown 11 save chances on the year. He now stands 3-8 with a 4.24 era with 30 saves.