2008 WEEK #25 HIGHLIGHTS
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Yonge Street's
- Scott Kazmir
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| 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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |