PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #14

Hollywood has all but clinched the division and is now just in cruise mode.

Kinsler goes Yard twice and Kershaw goes to 17-0 for Hollywood.

Storen pitches 3 innings of relief to get the win as Morrison drives in 3 runs in the Hollywood 6-2 victory

Miggy’s 3-run shot & Castro’s 2-run shot pave the way to Weaver and his 10th victory.

Morrison hammers a 3-run shot and Gordon a 2-run shot for the Hollywood 7-3 win. Hollywood’s win streak is 22 in a row!

Buchanan runs to 7-1 and wins thanks to a pair of Jayson Werth RBI’s Hollywood win streak to 23.

The slipper comes off of Kershaw’s foot as Ryan Ludwick and Coco Crisp hammer 3-solo shots off Kershaw and beat hollywood 3-1 ending Kershaw’s perfect season and Hollywood’s winning streak

Hollywood takes the series 5-1 and now heads on a very long road trip. Southbend also proves that Kershaw is in fact human.

After taking 2 of 6 last week in Dallas the Cougars head into the Windy City for a6 game series with the Mobsters

Adam Wainwright (12-4 2.30) goes 6 innings, but the Mobsters bats are hot, especially Steve Pearce who is 2 for 4 with 2 Home Runs & 4 RBI”s. Colby Rasmus has a 3 run blast for the Cougars.
Final Score: Chicago 9 – Dallas 5

Josh Beckett (5-4 4.23) gives up a first inning 3-Run Home Run to Jose Abreau, but settles in after that for 5 innings allowing nothing further for the Cougars. Scott Van Slyke & Delmon Young both have 2 RBI’s each for the Mobsters. Jenrry Mejia throws the last 3 innings for Chicago picking up his 1st save on the season.Final Score: Chicago 7 – Dallas 4

Carlos Martinez (3-0 5.23) goes 6 innings and Aroldis Chapman picks up save #27 in 1/3 of an inning, though not looking good. Jose Abreau has another 3-Run Home Run for Dallas. Kyle Blanks has 4 RBI’s for Chicago.Final Score: Chicago 7 – Dallas 6

Felix Hernandez (16-1 1.16) is masterful in a 4 hit complete game Shutout of the Cougars. Kyle Blanks & Justin Morneau both go 3 for 4 for Chicago.Final Score: Chicago 5 – Dallas 0

Adam Wainwright (13-4 2.32) picks up the win for Chicago. Chicago’s offense is hot pounding out 16 hits and scoring 11 runs.Final Score: Chicago 11 – Dallas 3

Josh Beckett (6-4 3.82) picks up his 2nd win of the series. Buster Posey goes 2 for 4 with 4 RBI’s for the Mobsters.Final Score: Chicago 7 – Dallas 0

Chicago sweeps Dallas as holds on to first place in the American League Central for at least another week.

SPLIT!

Iron City is having a rebuilding year. Selkirk is still a poor team but they are getting betetr every year and they had hopes that their pitching could let them reach .500

Alvarez after missing three weeks got the start for Selkirk,.He went 8 plus but did allow 3 runs late as Iron City made a game of it. Homers by Callaspo and Chirinos.

Selkirk 8 IRN 5

W-Alvarez(5-5)

S_Soria(10)

L-Hellickson(5-9)

Chirinos hoemrs again but it was not enough as Lynn game up 4 runs.
Sel 6 IRN 3

W-Hammel(7-4)

S-Soria(11)

L-Lynn(12-7)

Fuld homer was all Iron City could muster off Gibson and the Selkirk pen.

Sel 2 IRN 1

W-Gibson(8-4)

S-Geltz(1)

L-Koeler(7-3)

Danks improves to 2-11 as they hit Danny Salazar hard. Edgin got the save his 13th.

IRN 7 Sel 4

McCarthy got rocked as Iron City wins 8-3. Homers by Lemaheiu and Hosmer.Maholm wins his 4th.

Heart breaker for Selkirk up 1-0 int he 9th as Alvarez out pitched Lynn, as Soria blows the save. Andrus has a big game with 3 doubles.
IRN 2 Sel 1

W-Frasor(3-3)

S- Shieve(5)

L-Soria (1-2)

So after going up 3-0 Selkirk dropped the next 3 and lost an opportunity to get closer .500.

Bethesda travels to Grand Haven for a 6 game series

Odorizzi (BET) vs. Burnett (GHG)

Game Final: Grand Haven 5 – Bethesda 2

Wood (BET) vs. Fister (GHG)

Offensive game here. Bethesda jumps out to an early 7-0 lead after 3 innings, Grand Haven come back to make it 7-5, but it’s not enough.

GameFinal: Bethesda 8 – Grand Haven 5

Gray (BET) vs. Wilson (GHG)

Bethesda keep up the hot bats; while Grand Haven’s go cold.

Game Final: Bethesda 9 – Grand Haven 1

Cobb (BET) vs. Morton (GHG)

Bandicoots take an early 2 run lead in the first. Grand Haven slowly gets back into it and ties the game up in the 8th. Cobb and Morton both pitching superbly for their respective teams. Gators end up scoring 4 runs in the 8th to take a 5-2 lead. Joe Smith comes in to lock down the game for Grand Haven.

Game Final: Grand Haven 5 – Bethesda 2

Odorizzi (BET) vs. Burnett (GHG)

Great pitching performances by both Odorizzi and Burnett in this one….Burnett pitches just a bit better for the Gators.

Game Final: Grand Haven 4 – Bethesda 1

Grand Haven takes 4 of the 6 games

Yuck

Trevor May looks like a Cy Young contender. He posts 8-1/3 IP of shutout ball with 14 K’s to pace a CCC 2-0 win.

Trout and Perez provide just enough offense in leading MCM to a 12 inning 2-1 win.

Repeat of Game-2 except this one goes 16 innings.MCM wins 2-1.

First game with a little hitting included. CCC squeaks it out 5-4.

MCM goes back to what has worked for them in this series. Another extra inning game and this one goes 20 innings.But, CCC manages to take this one 3-2.

Trevor May wraps up pitcher of the week honors.He throws a complete game 3-hitter with 12 K’s in a 2-1 CCC win.  MCM’s only run was unearned.

CCC takes the series 4-2.Trevor May goes 2-0 with an ERA of 0.00.He threw 17-1/3 IP, gave up only 7 hits and had 26 K’s.Not bad for a grade-3 SP.

First place Jersey heads west to take on the Sacramento Capitals.

The Capitals stun Jersey with a split.

TIJ is the team trying to figure out how many games over 100 they will win. VIR is the team trying to figure out just how to win.They still haven’t figured it out,…

TIJ 9-3

\Kluber (11-4) allowed 2 hits in 7 inns. and K’d 9. Odor had 4 of the 15 team hits and Choo drove in 3 runs.All 3 of the VIR runs came on a bottom of the 9th HR by Rizzo.

TIJ 7-1

Roark (11-2) continues the solid pitching going 8 innings allowing 3 hits. Choo drives in 2 more with a solo shot and a SF in his 2-2 day. H.Ramirez also chips in 2 RBI and a homer.

TIJ 17-1

And so it goes…Greinke (13-1)throws 8, allows 4 hits. Everyone on TIJ hits except Encarnacion and Zobrist,…and PHer Choo. Puig and Bautista leave the yard,…and collect 4 RBI each. Odor goes 4-6 with 3 RBI.

TIJ 7-1

Bailey (11-2) only goes 6 innings and gives up 2 hits. I guess TIJ needed to work it’s bullpen a little. 12 hits for the Rockets
including Bautista’s 2-run bomb.

TIJ 4-0

Kluber (12-4) improves on Gm.1 with a CG 1-hitter. Puig goes 3-4 with 2 runs and a RBI. TIJ only needed 8 hits to win this one.

TIJ 2-1

Worn out and using up most all of their hits in the earlier games, Rockets had to settle for a 1 run win. Roark went 8 and the Sluggers got all 3 of their hits off him and managed to get 1 run, a HR from Segura in the 1st. However, Bautista’s 16th homer had given TIJ 2 runs in the top of the 1st and those 2 runs were all Roark and O’Day needed.

There was a lot of good pitching and hitting in this series,…all of it from TIJ who simply out-classed VIR by sweeping them 6-0.  TIJ outscores VIR 46-7.

Detroit takes series over Eyria 5-1;  – Kazmir has a No Hitter in this series

Pats visit Valdosta

Valdosta 2-0 (18 Innings). The Snappers win on a 2 run PH HR by Josh Reddick for the only runs of the game.

Triple Creek 7-0. Clay Buchholz goes the distance with a nifty 5 hitter. Headley added 4 hits for the visitors.

Valdosta 2-1. Huddy pitches well enough to even his record at 7-7.  Kimbrel with his 19th save.

Valdosta 2-0 (13 Innings). Chris Parmalee hit a walk off 2 run HR to give Uehara the win.

Triple Creek 6-3. Oddly, Chris Parmelee is nailed with a pitch after yesterday’s heroics and will miss a month. Gonzalez evens his record
at 6-6.

Triple Creek 6-5. Jason Vargas got just enough offense to sneak past the Snappers. Valdosta hit two guys but nobody injured today.

A 3-3 split.

New York Outlaws trying to claw their way back to the top of the N.L. East

Outlaws grab this one 5 games to 1 !!! Look out Jersey!

Coming off a close, series loss to end the first half, will the home team be fired up?

Shields vs Simon lived up to the hype. David Wrights solo shot was all the offense needed, but young Soler drove in a run too. Shields combined with 2 RP on the shutout.

YSS 2 – MAN 0

Shaky defense and timely hitting in the bottom of the 8th Young Soler had a 2RHR.

YSS 4 – MAN 3

Four 1st inning runs were more than enough as Danny Duffy and 3 relievers shut down the Stalkers. Matt Holliday hit 2 homers and 3 others also went yard for MAN in the rout.

MAN 8 – YSS 1

Vance Worley was magical. He faced 30 batters, allowing 1 H and 1 walk in the CGSO. Holliday, Willingham and Jennings continued the brief MAN HR outburst.

MAN 4 – YSS 0

Pineda allowed only a Seager solo shot and worked with 3 strong innings of relief from Herrera and Papelbon to cruise to victory.
YSS 3 – MAN 1

A very well pitched game. Porcello faced 35 batters in his 9 innings. 4 relievers faced 22 more batters as MAN shut down the home team. Little used Hunter Strickland probably faced a batter or 2 too many at the end.

MAN 3 – YSS 1 in 15 innings.

YSS had a chance to build some momentum heading to ELY next week, but instead…splitsville. MAN continues a tough road trip next week to DET.

Clovis comes to Tempe for the remaining half dozen. Both teams didn’t have their #1 squads on the field for all of the games. Tempe in a battle for usage requirements started multiple backups during the series and Wheat Kings needed to rest players after a free beer all-star celebration.

Tempe jumps on Gonzalez for five hits and four runs in the 1st and then cruises the rest of the way. Cruz hit a solo shot in the 9th to prevent the shutout. Tempe 5-1

Gattis launched a 3 run homerun off Richards in the 1st and Tempe cruised to another win. Cruz another solo in the 9th. Tempe 7-2

Volgoson lost it in the 3rd allowing the first 7 batters to reach base including 3 straight doubles to Cespedes,Braun, and Beltre. Byrd solo and a Belt two run shot started to make it a game, but a Bogeart homerun put it away.Tempe 7-4

Bryd two run homerun broke a 1-1 tie in the 7th. Clovis 3-1

Liriano ran out of gas in the 6th as Tempe took a 5-1 lead. Byrd hit a two run hr in the 7th to cut the lead. La Roche then took Holland deep in the 9th to tie the game at 5-5. Holland pitched a scoreless 10th and Gattis rewarded him with a walk off homer. Tempe 6-5

Clovis jumped out to a 5-0 lead and then barely managed to hold off a Tempe rally. Clovis 5-4

Tempe went an impressive 9-3 over the twelve games, but the only “head to head” record that matters for these two teams are the  games in October.

Traverse City takes the series 5-1, in a tight series where the largest margin of victory was three. Low light of the series is Fremont’s four errors in the first inning of Game Six.