PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #12

Flying Squirrels split with Chihuahuas

Steel City drops 4 of 7 to division rival Long Beach. Our team has the horses, but something’s wrong with the soup. Will there be a fire sale in the Steel City?!

Grand slam by Kelly keyed a five run 4th. Ft. Worth wins 6-2

Carter hits two home runs for the Portland – the 2nd one coming with two outs in the 9th. Portland wins 5-4

After the Mavericks pull within a run in the top of the 8th. Kelly hits a two run homer in the bottom half to put the game away. It was the third straight day he had hit a home run. Ft. Worth wins 7-4

Panthers score 3 in the first and never looked back. McGriff hit two homers. Ft. Worth wins 6-1

Pitching and defense ruled this one. The two teams combined for only 13 hits and the Mavericks had 4 double plays. Unfortunately the Panthers scored on one of those DP’s and got another run from a single by Anderson. Ft. Worth wins a tight one 2-1

Ft. Worth wins 4 of 5 against Portland.

The Marauders make a short trip to Davison, MI to take on the in-state rival.

MIC 3 BDB 0
Nagy shuts-out the Bandits and drives in a run to boot. Williams jacks one out for the visitors.

MIC 3 BDB 7
Kamieniecki gets hit hard in the middle innings and scatters 16 base-runners. Hoiles hits one out and Ripken collects 2 hits. Daryl Hamilton goes 4-5 and Willie Wilson
drives in 3 to pace the home squad.

MIC 2 BDB 3 (in 10 innings)
Rickie Henderson steals 3 bases and rips a double to back Hansen’s solid 7 innings. Lee Smith picks up the win. Willie Randolph hits safely 3 times.

MIC 6 BDB 1
Ripken 3-4 and Boone drives in 3 to assist DeShaies pick up his 8th victory.

MIC 4 BDB 5
Bandits score single runs in the 6th, 7th and 9th to pull out a squeaker. Hoiles goes deep and drives in 3 for the Marauders. Fletcher 4-4 w/ 2 doubles for Blarney Drive.

Bandits take the series 3-2.

Two teams going in opposite directions as the California Quakes head to Detroit’s Corktown neighborhood for a big series of 7. Fort Worth is begining to run away with the AL East, but there are still some wild card hope for these two teams.

The Quakes came right out of the gate the way they’ve been playing lately.California 11-5
W. Fernandez 4-7
L. Gooden 3-7

The frustration for the Bootleggers continued once again as California had a big 4 run 4th and that was all they needed.California 4-2
W. Boddicker 2-1
L. Martinez 3-5
S. Pena (1)

California started the game the same way as they rolled off 4 runs in the 1st and 2 in the 4th to jump out to a 6-1 lead. Finally, a turning point in the series/season for Corktown, as they slowly chipped their way back to send this one to extras. Albert Belle walked it off with a three run HR in the 11th.Corktown 9-6 (11)
W. Wayne 3-0
L. Fassero 5-2

Corktown kept the momentum from game 3 into game 4.

Corktown 11-3
W. Rijo 9-4
L. Harnisch 9-6

Gordon was very strong for the Quakes for four innings, but it was another late rally from the Bootleggers.Corktown 5-3
W.Grahe 1-1
L.Gordon 1-8

Corktown 5-2

W.Olivares 6-2
L. Saberhagen 5-5
S. Hernandez (19)

Corktown 6-2

W.Gooden 4-7
L. Fernandez 4-8

California’s hot streak ended after game 2 of the series as Corktown won the final 5 games.Corktown takes the series 5-2 as they bring in cross town rival Detroit next. Cali heads north to Portland.

The Demolition travel the I-95 corridor and visit the Juggernauts for a five game match-up.

Clemens for Chicago is masterful as the Demolition cruise to a game one victory of 4-0.

Janesville comes right back in game two, pounding out 12 hits and winning 10-0 behind Chris Hammond’s excellent pitching performance.

Game three sees the first close game of the series, but the Juggernauts, behind 1-0, score single runs in the sixth and seventh innings to win 2-1. Plunk earns his 15th save of the season.

Janesville’s Jack Armstrong still cannot find the win column, losing his sixth straight game as Chicago ties the series up winning 6-3.

The rubber game of the series sees the home team win it and the series, 5-2.

The Juggernauts take the series 3-2. Next up for Janesville is a road trip to visit the Flying Squirrels while the Demolition continue their road trip visiting the division leading Fort Worth Panthers.

A critical series with Second place Winnipeg facing the 1st place hornets. Winnipeg is in tougher division and have the better record. It should be a great series as both teams need to keep winning.

Danny Jackson the Winnipeg 5th start got the start but was pulled early. He allowed 2 runs in 3 innings as Benito Santiago got a homer. The Goldeyes never gave up and chipped away at Picjhardo ffor 4 runs as Bip Roberts went 3 for 3.

Winnipeg 4 Manhattan 2

W-Rojas(6-2) S-Beck(9) L-Pichardo(3-3)

Welch pitched great for Manhattan but so did Schilling for Winnipeg. Jeff Husen hit a solo homer off Schilling and Deveraux hit one off Welch. Rojas came in for the save and the 21 continued his disastrous season as a closer blowing his 7th save!. Lucky for Winnipeg Jordon got a pinch hit single in the bottom of the 9th to get a walk off over Jones the 18.

Wpg 3 Man 2

W-Rojas(7-2)  L-Jonesz(2-2)

Glavine pitched great for Winnipeg and was ahead of Stewart 3-2 in the 9th. Beck the 10 was asked to close and he blew it allowing 2 runs and took the loss.

MGH 4 WGE 3

W-Gott(5-4) S-Jones(14) L-Beck(2-2)

Morris was amazing 1 hit allowed in 7 innings. The Mannhattan pen bent but did not break allowing a run in the 9th to win 2-1.
W-Morris (9-3) L-Benes(8-3) S-Gott(2) Yount and Livingston hit solo homers for the gas hornets.

The knuckleballer Candiotti was great no need for the bullpen as he
threw a 4 hit shutout. Buhner homered for Winnipeg. WGE 3 MGH 0
W-Candiotti(6-4) Hershiser(5-7)

Winnipeg manages to take the series 3-2 dispite two more poor relief
showings by Beck and Rojas. They will need a near perfect finish to
their years to make up for this start.
Morris for pitcher of the week a 1 hit game against a tough Goldeye
team.

Germantown visits Valdosta.

Grays 5-0. Three Grays pitchers scatter 8 hits and shut down the Bombers.

Grays 9-1. Bombers manage just 3 hits. Grays’ Curtis, Mack and Sanders homered.

Bombers 5-3. Mike Morgan allowed two in the 8th and takes the loss. Franco picked up his 8th save.

Grays 2-0. John Smoltz spins a 2-hitter.

Bombers 3-2 (10 innings). Bombers blow a 9th inning lead but come back with 1 in the 9th for the win.

Grays take 3 of 5.

Sugar Land Skeeters (23-46) visit the Missouri Black Bears (34-31)

Missouri 8, Sugar Land 1
Bichette 4 hits, HR, 3 RS, 2 RBI
Van Slyke 2 hits, 3B, BB, 2 RS, RBI
Fletcher 2 hits, BB, RS, 2 RBI
Burkett 8 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 2 BB, 5 K

Missouri 4, Sugar Land 1
Bonds 2 hits, 2 HR, 2 RS, 3 RBI
Van Slyke RBI 2B
Bielecki 8 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 5 K

Sugar Land 3, Missouri 1
Daulton & Merced back-to-back solo HR in the 9th
Tapani CG, 5 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 11 K
Portugal 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 7 K

Missouri 9, Sugar Land 5
7-run 8th powers the Bears
Petralli 3 hits, 2 2B, RS, 3 RBI
Offerman H, 2 BB, 2 RS, RBI
Van Slyke 2 hits, 2B, BB, 2 RS, RBI
James 2 hits, 2B, HR, 2 RS, 2 RBI in the loss

Sugar Land 6, Missouri 3
Griffey 2 hits, 3-run 9th inning 2B
Bell 3 hits, 2B, RS
Daulton 2 hits, 2B, RS, RBI
 

Missouri 11, Sugar Land 3
7-run 7th for the Bears
Igor 2 hits, 2 HR, BB, 2 RS, 5 RBI
Galarraga 4-4, HR, 2 RS, 3 RBI
Injury: MBB – K. Gross (8 days)

Missouri 11, Sugar Land 2
Bonds 4-4, 2 2B, HR, BB, 4 RS, 2 RBI
Offerman 4-4, RS, 3 RBI
Igor 3 hits, 2 HR, 3 RS, 2 RBI
Burkett 7 IP, 4 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 1 K

Black Bears win 5 of 7 against the Skeeters.  Black Bears will ride out the injury to Gross.

Detroit @ Stockton for a 5-game series

STO 5 – DET 3

WP: Olin
LP: Candelaria

HR: DET–Kruk; STO–Walker

DET tied the game in the 8th, and took the lead in the 12th (both on Vaughn RBI singles), but Larry Walker hit a walk-off three-run HR off Hartley to tag Candelaria with the loss.

STO 3 – DET 2

WP: Dibble
LP: Hartley

HR: STO–Hunter, Walker

Once again, DET come from behind to tie the game, only to see Walker hit a walk-off HR off Hartley.

DET 5 – STO 1

WP: McDowell (CG)
LP: Erickson

HR: DET–Butler; STO–Hrbek

A lead-off HR in the 1st and a 4-run 5th inning were all that Jack McDowell needed to breeze to a CG victory.

STO 2 – DET 1

WP: Mussina (CG)
LP: Haney

HR: none

Grissom’s two RBI singles were the difference for Mussina and the Wings.

STO 7 – DET 2

WP: Ojeda
LP: Schourek
SV: Dibble

HR: none

Five different Wings had RBI

STO takes the series 4 games to 1
Larry Walker had two walk-off HRs, both off Hartley.
Rob Dibble had a win and a save for STO.