1995 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #27

NAME	TEAM	AVG	SLG	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	K	W	IW	SB	CS	HBP
MCGRIFF,Fred	FWP AL	.350	.900	5	20	7	2	0	3	6	8	1	4	0	0	0	0

NAME	CLUB	G	W	L	S	ERA	IP	R	ER	H	K	BB	IBB	WP	BK	HB	HR
LEITER,Al	DET AL	1	1	0	0	0.00	8	0	0	1	9	4	0	0	0	1	0

NAME	TEAM	AVG	SLG	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	K	W	IW	SB	CS	HBP
SURHOFF,B.J.	HAM NL	.524	.857	4	21	11	4	0	1	3	8	2	0	0	0	0	0

NAME	CLUB	G	W	L	S	ERA	IP	R	ER	H	K	BB	IBB	WP	BK	HB	HR
NAGY,Charles	MIC NL	1	1	0	0	0.00	7	0	0	5	7	2	0	0	0	1	0

Fort Worth Panthers @ Castle Rock Hounds
Series Preview:	The division leaders, with the best record in all of baseball, come to Castle Rock for the penultimate series. No doubt, the Panthers are expecting to beat down on the Hounds.
Game #1:	The first game is a great pitching matchup with Kenny Rogers facing Hideo Nomo. The Hounds take a 2-0 lead on a JT Snow dinger, and extend it to 4-1 with a two-out two-RBI single by Easley. Rogers dances in and out of trouble for the Hounds through 7. Roberto Kelly has a clutch single in the 8th to plate two more, and make it 6-2 Colorado, which will be the final. WP: Rogers (12-11) LP: Nomo (18-5)
Game #2:	Pettitte vs. Kevin Brown in the second game. Much like Rogers in the first game, Pettitte is working in and out of trouble throughout, but manages to keep Fort Worth from breaking the flood gates open. It is 2-2 after a Luis Gonzalez homer for Castle Rock in the bottom of the 6th. The score stays that way into extras, where the Fort Worth bullpen is much stronger than Castle Rock’s. Sheffield hits a solo shot in the top of the 11th, and although Bonds gets to 2nd in the bottom of the inning, Snow strikes out to end it, 3-2 Fort Worth. WP: Jackson (6-1) LP: Benitez (2-1)
Game #3:	We have now hit the bottom of Castle Rock’s rotation (3 grades), and things might get ugly. But, surprisingly, Castle Rock jumps all over Rapp, plating 6 runs through 4. Wall gives Castle Rock a quality start, going 7 and giving up 3 earned. The Hounds pen does the rest. Pagnozzi is the hero for Castle Rock, as he is a home run short of the cycle out of the 9 spot in the lineup. WP: Wall (2-6) LP: Rapp (13-6)
Game #4:	An itchy Willie Banks faces off with Donovan Osborne in Game 4. JT Snow and Royce Clayton hit homers to stake Castle Rock to a 3-0 lead. McGriff brings it to 3-2 in the 3rd with a two-run shot of his own. The teams trade leads through the first five innings. But the Panthers break it open in the later innings off a depleted Hounds bullpen. Fort Worth has 18 hits on the day, including a perfect 6-6 for Luis Sojo! WP: McDowell (1-2) LP: Dougherty (1-4)
Game #5:	The rubber match comes down to Tewksbury vs. Rekar. The Panthers jump all over Rekar early, plating 4 runs through 3 innings. Castle Rock can’t match that firepower, only getting 2 runs off of Tewksbury through 5. The Hounds keep it tight, narrowing the gap to 7-5 going into the 8th. Henneman comes on to close it out with a double play in the 9th. WP: Tewksbury (18-4) LP: Rekar (11-11) S: Henneman (33)
Series Summary:	As expected, Fort Worth takes the series. But, Castle Rock was able to keep things close throughout most games.

Detroit Stars @ Harper Woods Expos
Series Preview:	Detroit comes to town hoping to claim first. They are 4 back with 10 left
Game #1:	Expos 3-1 W McDowell 12-7 3.95 era L Valdes 11-8 2.67 era S Eckersley 7 2.01 era
Game #2:	W Leiter 11-6 4.04 era L Leiter 16-6 3.13 era S Fossas 12 3.41 era
Game #3:	Stars 7-5 W Blair 8-4 L Erickson 8-11 5.86 era S Fossas 13 3.32 era
Game #4:	Expos 5-2 W Brewington 7-3 4.07 era L Eschman 6-4 3.72 era S Eckersley 8 1.91 era
Game #5:	Expos ace Mike Mussina gets injured on the first pitch of the game. Stars win in 13 innings 13-4 W Harris 2-4 5.19 era L Carmona 0-1 9.22 era
Series Summary:	Detroit comes to town winning 3 of 5.

Michigan Mauraders @ Sugarland Skeeters
Series Summary:	Michigan takes three of five from Sugar Land.

Manhattan Gas Hornets @ Hampton Huskies
Series Preview:	The Manhattan Gas Hornets and Hampton Huskies just going through the motions and jockeying for position in the 1996 draft.
Game #1:	A four-run 6th inning was the difference as the Huskies jumped all over Glenn Dishman and topped the Hornets 5-3. Mickey Tettleton inched closer to the 30-homer plateau with #29 being a solo shot off Dishman in the 4th inning. Dishman also did the Huskies a favor by knocking Brian McRae out of the game with a ball to the nuts in the 2nd inning as his replacement – Jim (Twitchy) Eisenreich – creamed a Dishman pitch for his 11th homer of the year in the 6th. Eisenreich also singled, walked and scored twice in a 2/2 performance. Dishman (4-9) gave up all five Huskies’ runs on nine hits in 5.2 innings. He struck out five and walked two. Doug Drabek (6-7) continued to try and make a case to be kept on the roster after this season by holding the Hornets to three runs (two earned) on eight hits in six pretty sloppy innings in which he also walked four and struck out three. Try harder, Doug. TJ Mathews (11) held the Hornets scoreless in the 9th to earn the save for Hampton. Luis Alicea was 1/1 with two walks for Manhattan Gas while Dave Martinez had two singles and an RBI and Wil Cordero singled and had the team’s only extrabase hit – a double.
Game #2:	Hampton scored three times in each of the first two innings and then put things in cruise control and held on to win over Manhattan Gas 8-3. Al Martin (7) homered twice and Mike Stanley (11) added another for Hampton off Hornets’ starter Brian Anderson while Tino Martinez (32) countered for Manhattan Gas. Martinez’s homer put him over the 100-RBI mark. Martin’s two-homer performance gave him a season high five RBIs in the game. Orel Hershiser improved to a stellar 17-6 on the year by giving up just two runs on six hits in five innings. Turner Ward had two hits for the Hornets. Chris Gomez, BJ Surhoff and Mickey Tettleton had two each for Hampton.
Game #3:	The Manhattan Gas Hornets cranked out 21 hits in machine gun fashion spraying bullets evenly at six Hampton pitchers as the visitors downed the Huskies 12-5. Garret Anderson (13) led the hit parade with three hits and three RBIs and was one of five Hornets to homer in the game. Also homering were Scott Livingstone (6), Tino Martinez (33), Benito Santiago (12) and Wil Cordero (11). The three hits put Anderson’s batting average at a plump .334. The score could have been much worse as the Hornets mercifully stranded 13 runners in the game. Sterling Hitchcock (7-10) lasted six innings for the win for Manhattan Gas and helped himself out with two hits in two at bats and also laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt. BJ Surhoff had three hits including two doubles for the losers who were led on the mound by Arthur Rhodes (4-9) who gave up six runs on 11 hits in four innings.
Game #4:	The Hornets outhit the Huskies, but the difference was a Jim Eisenreich grand slam in the 1st inning as the home team took the game 8-4. Eisenreich (12) also singled and scored two runs in the game and lifted his average to .325. Bobby Jones (12-11) gave up two runs (one earned) in six innings to earn the win. Benito Santiago doubled and had three singles in a losing effort for Manhattan Gas.
Game #5:	Boom, Crunch, Smack. Hampton avenges the game three gutting by Manhattan Gas by butchering the Hornets 17-5 thanks in no small part to a 13 run (no, not a typo) 8th inning. Tom Gordon (7-9) actually had a shutout going into the 9th inning, but ran out of gas and was hammered for five runs by the unsympathetic Hornets’ hitters led by Luis Polonia who tripled and drove in two runs and Luis Alicea who doubled in two. For Hampton only Game 4 grand slam-hitting Jim Eisenreich failed to get a hit. BJ Surhoff lef the way with three singles, a grand slam homer (#13) and seven RBIs. His supporting cast included Eric Young (3/4 four runs scored, his 10th triple, two RBIs and two walks), Jose Hernandez (2/4 two runs, two home runs (18) including a grand slam and five RBIs), Chris Gomez (3/4 two runs and a walk), and Joe Girardi (3/5 two runs, two RBIs, and a home run (6)). Brian McRae (8) also homered.
Series Summary:	The five-game futile flailathon is won by Hampton four games to one who head on the road to close out the season four games up on Manhattan and way way way back (18.5 games) of Santa Rosa.

Winnipeg Goldeyes @ Long Beach Titans
Series Summary:	Didn’t have time for a write-up. Long Beach takes 3 of 5 from Winnipeg.

Corktown Bootleggers @ DeWitt Tigers
Series Summary:	Corktown takes the series 3-2.

Steel City Sluggers @ Santa Rosa Beach Bums
Series Summary:	Santa Rosa Beach takes 4 of 5.

Cincinnati Outlaws @ Valdosta Bombers
Series Summary:	Cincinati takes 3 of 5. Chipper Jones homered 2 times each in games 3 and 4. The Outlaws keep their playoff hopes alive and they will finish the season next week with 1st place Sugar Land. Best of luck to all the playoff teams and thanks to STRAY for another fun year!

Chicago Demolition @ Mexico City Chihuahuas
Series Summary:	Mexico City takes their final home series from Chicago 4-1.

Blarney Drive Bandits @ Stockton Wings
Series Preview:	First place Blarney Drive @ last place Stockton for 5 games.
Series Summary:	Stockton wins the series 3 games to 2.

Portland Mavericks @ California Quakes
Series Summary:	Portland takes the series 3-2.

Flossmoor Flying Squirrels @ Montreal Dreamers
Series Summary:	The Dreamers take the first 2 games & drop the last 3 to Flossmoor.