PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #22

Bet was expected to win this series as they are a 1st place club and Selkirk keeps coming close to .500 and then falls. Selkirk has been a weird team and their pitching has beat some very good teams this year.

A-Gone goes deep twice and Arrieta was great.

Bet 4 Sel 2
W-Arrieta(10-4)

S Broxton(24)

L-Hammel(11-8)

Selkirk wins in walk off fashion 4-3. As Roberson drives in Cabrera the pinch runner.

W-Soria(2-3)

L-Chamberlian(5-8)

Cobb for Bet did not have it Alverez for Selkirk did 7-2. Sandovaal hit a big homer.

Sandovaal again a homer and 4 rbis as Selkirk wins 7-3

Bet was on here 10-2 pounding of Selkirk.Smith went 4 for 4 with 4 runs scored..

Classic game that went Selkirk way as Melvin Upton hits a walk off homer to give Selkirk a 2-1 win in 10 innings

Selkirk is thrilled to have won 4 of the 6 game and is now just 4 games below .500. Panda went 9 for 19 with 7 rbis 2 homers and 3 doubles as the big guy led the Steelers to the series win,.

Yonge Street took the drive in from the QEW & I-94 West into the Windy City of Chicago for a six game set.

Felix Hernandez (23-1 1.01) looked sharp for 7.1 innings. Ender Incarte was 3 for 5 & Michael McKenry was 3 for 5 with 2 RBI’s for Chicago.

Final Score: Chicago 7 – Yonge Street 1

Taijuan Walker (1-2 2.25) picked up his 1st win in the season for the Talkers. Kelvin Herrera picked up his 2nd save on the season.

Final Score: Yonge Street 2 – Chicago 1

Josh Beckett (11-4 2.91) picked up the win. Kristopher Negron was 3 for 4 with 2 Home Run’s & 4 RBI’s. The game was costly for the Mobsters who went down with a 5 day injury.

Final Score: Chicago 8 – Yonge Street 1

Adam Wainwright (20-5 1.86) picked up his 20th win on the season. Aroldis Chapman picked up save #39.

Final Score: Chicago 3 – Yonge Street 0

Jenrry Mejia (3-0 3.38) was solid for 5.1. Zach Duke & Trevor Rosenthal combined for 3.2 innings. Andrew McCutchen Homers & has 3 RBI’s. Justin Turen has 2 Doubles & 4 RBI’s.

Final Score: Chicago 13 – Yonge Street 4

Felix Hernandez (24-1 0.99) allows only 2 hits, while striking out 6 in 5 scoreless innings. Wade Davis, Andrew Miller & Dellin Betances combined for 4 scoreless Innings. Pedro Alvarez has 2 Home Runs & 3 RBI’s. Andrew McCutchen has 3 hits and 2 RBI’s including a Home Run. Buster Posey has a Home Run & 2 RBI’s.

Final Score: Chicago 10 – Yonge Street 0

Chicago out plays the Stalkers and takes 5 of 6. Chicago now sits at 111 & 27, while the Stalkers are 56 & 82.  Chicago takes on Elyria next week while Yonge Street heads to Dallas.

Dallas and Traverse City split the 6 game series.   Cougar rookie Jose Abreu now has set team season records for hits with 138 and runs with 60 in addition to highest season home run and RBI totals at 24 and 80.

Pittsburgh drops 4 of 5 in an uninspired effort.

Hollywood vs Detroit

Weaver goes 6.1 innings in picking up his 14th victory. Hollywood wins 5-2

Johnny Cueto is 3 outs from a perfect game gives up a walk and a hit in succession to lead off the 9th. Hollywood cruises 8-0

Detroit scores a hugwe comeback win by scoring 4 in the 8th to win 7-5

Madison Bumgarner is nearly unhittable in the 3-0 shutout

Kershaw goes 23-2 as Hollywood wins 4-3

Jered Weaver pitches a strong 7 to get his 15th win. McGee grabs his 21st save

Detroit may have been outmatched this season, but they will be a scary team in 2016. Hollywood takes 4 of 6

Tijuana just misses the sweep. The Crushers take game 7 2-0 to avoid fore-mentioned sweep.

Fremont  Cannons vs. Motor City  Muscle in a 6 game series

FRE 4 – MCM 3

WP: Strop

LP: Ramos

SV: Qualls

HR: Rosario, VargasRamos blows the save after Motor City had come back to take a one-run lead in the 8th inning. Swisher’s two-run single in the ninth was the winner for Fremont.

FRE 7 – MCM 2

WP: Greenwood

LP: Chavez

SV: Qualls

HR: Johnson, Trout, Gomez, Viciedo, RosalesGreenwood got the win in relief after Cosart left the game in the third with an injury. Cannons’ offense was booming, with four HRs in the game. Trout had the only 2 RBI for Motor City.Cosart out 10 days.

MCM 5 – FRE 3 (11 inn.)

WP: Grimm

LP: Detwiler

HR: Schoop, TroutBack and forth game goes extras after Schoop’s RBI double tied it at two in the 7th inning. Davis’s steal of home in the 11th gave Fremont a brief lead, but Chris Young’s second RBI of the day tied it and Mike Trout’s 2 run walk-off HR gave Motor City a much-needed win. Fremont’s Schoop matched Trout and Young’s 2 RBI total.

FRE 2 – MCM 0

WP: Buehrle

LP: Volquez (CG)

SV: Qualls

HR: noneVolquez gave up two in the top of the first then settled down to pitch well the rest of the way, but the Muscle offense couldn’t solve Buerhle, who scattered 6 hits over 8 innings.

FRE 3 – MCM 0

WP: Kendrick

LP: Buchanan

SV: Qualls

HR: noneAnother shutout by Fremont pitching. Qualls records his fourth save of the series

FRE 5 – MCM 4

WP: Greenwood

LP: Straily

SV: Farquhar

HR: Schoop, Baez, GOmez, DavisMotor City took an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, but Fremont eliminated it with four solo HRs in the third inning. Panik tied the game in the fourth with an RBI single, but Davis’s SF in the 5th was the winner. Fremont’s bullpen locked it down.

Fremont takes the series 5 games to 1,Fremont had 11 HRsQualls had 4 SVsGreenwood won 2 games

Last place Columbus visits the slumping 2nd place Snappers, glad to be home after a rough road trip.

Valdosta 3-1.

Kevin Correia made his first appearance of the year a good one as he pitched 7 shutout innings. Kimbrel with the save.

Valdosta 5-1.

Zeke Spruill saw his first action of the year as he went 8 strong IP and was aided by a pair of Chris Carter HR’s.

Valdosta 3-1.

More strong pitching from the Snappers as Teheran improves to 12-9. Kimbrel with save #31.

Valdosta 2-0.

Snappers pitching allows just one base knock as Hughes wins (10-14) and Kimbrel saves again.

Valdosta 2-1.

Mark Reynolds hit a walk off HR in the bottom of the 9th off of Vavaro to make a winner of Koji Uehara (8-2).

Columbus 5-0.

The Explorer bats wake up a little as JA Happ scattered 8 hits for the win.

Snappers get some home cookin’ and win 5 of 6 in Valdosta.

The Dirt Bags come to Tempe hoping to maintain their lead in the NL West Division.

Tempe 2-1 10 INN

Tempe 5-3

Tempe 2-0

Long Beach 4-3

Tempe 6-5

Tempe 7-6 10 INN

Tempe seemed to catch all the breaks winning 5 of 6 in a very tight series. Tempe let scrubs get usage in game six and Long Beach built a 6-0 lead. They eventually lost the lead when Tulo knocked a pinch hit three run homerun in the 8th. Tempe then brought in all the other starters and won it in the 10th. Lester finished with two no decisions.

Elyria still in the race in the AL East . VIR is 40 games out and in 2nd place in the West.

ELY 2-1

Nuno pitches well allowing 1 run in 8 innings on 4 hits for ELY. But Flande is stingy for VIR and keeps ELY off the board until A.Cabrera cracks a 2-run shot in the 7th. Thielbar come in for ELY to notch his first save.

ELY 11-5

M.Minor may be an 18 game loser, but he won this one. His offense generated 18 hits,…so that helped and there was only 1 extra base hit,…a double by L.Schafer. Bernadina was 3-4 with 4 RBI and Punta was 4-4 scoring 4 runs.

ELY 6-2

J.Zimmerman pitched a CG and K’d 11 to pick up his 14th win. O.Aecia was the offense as he blasted 2 homers to drive in 4 runs. Punto chipped in 2 RBI to account for the 6 runs.

VIR 4-1

M.Scherzer wins #15. R.Flaherty settled this one with a Baltimore Special in the 2nd inning and Scherzer coasted from there. Valbuena did smack his 20th homer of the year for ELY.

ELY 4-3

B.Bevan won his 1st game as ELY scored 4 runs in the 2nd inning without the benefit of an extra base hit. Homers by Markakis and A.Ramirez were just not enough for VIR as E.de la Rosa and D.Robertson shut VIR down.

ELY 10-4

Nuno picks up his 2nd win in the series. Arcia triples in a pair of runs and R.Rivera swats his 9th homer to pick up 2 RBI and ELY rides a 5 run 2nd and 4 run 4th to coast to the win.

ELY takes the series 6-2.

(45-87) Sacramento vs. (62-70) Triple Creek in a NL West scrum.

Haren vs. Masterson

Disasterson allows 4 walks and 3 doubles and 5 runs in the 1st. And that’ll be all for him this day. Haren is then torched up for 5 runs in the bottom of the 1st as he could only record 1 out before being pulled. 5-5 after one full and Sacramento just had more horses today. Teams combine for 25 hits.Capitals Pujols 4-5 w/ 6 RBI double and a HR Patriots Headley 3-4 w/ 4 RBI and 2 HRs

SAC 12 TCP 8

Peacock vs. Gonzalez

Patriots strike early for 2 in the bottom of the first. Sacramento responds with 4 in the top of the 3rd. Each team plate a couple more but the home squad couldn’t catch up. Teams rack up 24 hits and total 49 now for the series.Capitals Dickerson 2-5 w/ 3 RBI double and HR

SAC 6 TCP 4

Webster vs. Buchholz

Buchholz goes 6 solid for win number 12. Russel tosses 1 hit ball over the last 3 innings to secure his 3rd save.Capitals Dickseron 3-4Patriots Weeks hits a pinch hit 2 run dinger late.SAC 3 TCP 6

Nelson vs. De La Rosa

Rubby-Dub-Duck scatters 8 hits over 8 innings allowing just 1 run. Three Patriot batters have a multi-hit game as they pound out 12 singles.Capitals Pujols 3-4 and Flores 3-4Patriots Reyes 3-5, Pierzunski 3-4 and Goins 2-4.SAC 1 TCP 6

Ross vs. Vargas

Each team score 2 in the first but then it’s quiet until the 8th. With Triple Creek up 3-2 in the 8th the Patriots plate 4 off of Wieland to put it out of reach.Patriots Susac 2-4 w 3 RBI and Weeks 2-4 w/ 2 RBI

SAC 3 TCP 7

Haren vs. Masterson

Haren tosses 6 innings of 1-run ball to lead Sacramento to the W.Capitals Mesoraco 5-5 w/ 2 RBI, Springer 3-5 w/ 4 RBI

SAC 11 TCP 3

Sacramento and Triple Creek split the 6 game set.

Iron City, struggling this year and stuck near the bottom in the National East ventures to Clovis to take on the Wheat Kings who once again find themselves in a great pennant race with the Long Beach.

Clovis 7 Iron City 1

Byrd drives home 4 with a pair of round trippers and Paxton shuts down the Yinzers for an easy Clovis win.

CWK 5 IRN 3

Cruz, Arenado, and Castro all go deep to make Kyle Lohse a winner for the 14th time this season.

CWK 9 IRN 0

Byrd goes 4 for 4, drives home 5, and hits one over the fence for the Wheat Kings. Richards and Torres combine for the 2 hit shutout.

IRN 1 CWK 0

Rios knocks one in the first and Lance Lynn sets the cruise control for a dominating 3 hit, 11 strikeout, complete game shutout to improve to 15-11 on the season.

CWK 5 IRN 2

Castro drives home 2, La Roche goes deep and Gonzalez, Watson, and Casilla muffle the Yinzers.

CWK 8 IRN 0

James Paxton slams an exclamation mark on the series with a NO-HITTER to give Clovis the 5-1 series win. Paxton faced thirty, struck out 10 and walked 3 to put himself into the record books.Byrd ripped his fourth homer of the series and drove home a couple more in his bid for POTW.

Clovis dominates Iron City and keep the pressure on Long Beach.Paxton makes his bid for Pitcher of the Week with a 2-0 record, 15 innings pitched, only 1 run allowed, 3 hits, 5 walks and 17 strikeouts. Oh yeah, and a NO-HITTER.Byrd throws his hat in the ring for Player of the Week with a 9 for 19 week, 5 runs, 11 RBI, and 4 home runs.

First place Manhattan vs. fourth place Southbend – ’nuff said

Manhattan sweeps Southbend; two close games, the rest were not.

The Outlaws of the NL East travel to take on the NL West Gators

Outlaws win 5-4

Outlaws win 3-2

Outlaws win 5-3

Outlaws win 7-3

Outlaws win 6-2

Gators win 7-1

Some very close games at the beginning of the series that could have went either way…..in the end, New York took 5 of 6 from Grand Haven.