1996 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #6
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| VAUGHN,Mo | DET AL | .381 | 1.000 | 6 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| WOJCIECHOWSKI,Steve | CRH AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.80 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| GONZALEZ,Juan | CIN NL | .350 | .650 | 5 | 20 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| HENTGEN,Pat | VAL NL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Castle Rock Hounds @ Mexico City Chihuahuas | |
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| Series Summary: | Mexico City got spanked! All 6 Games. |
| Santa Rosa Beach Bums @ Winnipeg Goldeyes | |
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| Series Preview: | Santa Rosa fighting for a wild card because of a killer start by Steel City is as first-place Winnipeg who are a solid team in a weak division. |
| Game #1: | Vanderwaal does his best with a 3 rbi homer game for the Beach bums. But Buhner homered for Winnipeg and the pen gets the 5-4 win |
| Game #2: | this time the bums hit two homers Big Hurt and Macfarlane but it was Buhners homer and the pen that wins 5-4 for Winnipeg |
| Game #3: | McGuire hits two homers but Winnipeg loses 9-7 as Caminiti hits a homer and drives in 5! in the Santa Rosa 9-7 win |
| Game #4: | Glavine out pitches Smoltz and then Smoltz gets hurt as Winnipeg wins 7-6 in 10 innings as Roberts gets the walk-off. Big Mac homered as did the Bums Macfarlane |
| Game #5: | Finley was on as he wins 10-2 allowing just a Ventura homer. Gagne homered for the Bums in the 10-2 win |
| Game #6: | With series 3-2 Winnipeg Santa Rosa was looking for the split. Appier was great 2 runs allowed thanks to a Buhner homer but Torres throws a 3 hitter for Winnipeg winning 2-0 |
| Series Summary: | Winnipeg wins the series 4-2. |
| New Hampshire Nighthawks @ Chicago Demolition | |
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| Series Preview: | Bottom of the East, vs. top of the Central in an American League Showdown in the windy city of Chicago. |
| Game #1: | Deadlocked at 1, in the 11th Brian L. Hunter knocks a single that scores Jeff Cirillo for the walk-off.
Final Score: Chicago 2 – New Hampshire 1 Win: Dario Veras 1-1 (3.12) |
| Game #2: | Up 2-1 Mike Timlin blows a save & the score is deadlocked at 2-2 headed to the bottom of the ninth. Chicago walks off the second in a row with a 9th Inning comeback.
Final Score: Chicago 3 – New Hampshire 2 Win: Mike Timlin 1-0 (0.96) |
| Game #3: | Jose Guzman was solid for 6.2 Innings allowing only a solo Home Run to Alvaro Espinoza. Rany Velarde has 2 Hits, both Doubles & knocks in 2 RBI’s.
Final Score: Chicago 5 – New Hampshire 2 Win: Jose Guzman 5-0 (1.43) |
| Game #4: | In a not so close game, the Demolition put a hurting on the Nighthawks. Tony Phillips has 4 Hits & 5 RBI’s & Carlos Delgado with a 3-Run Home Run are most of the offense for Chicago.
Final Score: Chicago 12 – New Hampshire 0 Win: Roger Clemens 4-3 (4.61) |
| Game #5: | A couple of knockdowns. Two Hit Batters. One Ejection (Aaron Sele). Chicago holds on in the end, thanks to 5 Hits by Lance Johnson & 3 RBi’s by Randy Velarde.
Final Score: Chicago 7 – New Hampshire 5 Win: Dave Mlicki 2-0 (1.86) |
| Game #6: | New Hampshire goes off on Todd Stottlemyre with 8 Hits, 3 Walks & scores 10 Runs. David Segui Homers & had 4 RBI’s for the Nighthawks.
Final Score: New Hampshire 10 – Chicago 2 Win: Robert Person 1-2 (3.59) |
| Series Summary: | Chicago picks up 5 wins in 6 tries and continues to be dominant in the American League. |
| Portland Mavericks @ Harper Woods Expos | |
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| Series Preview: | Portland comes to town. |
| Game #1: | Barry Larkin hits 2 of Harper Woods 4 homers in a 9-2 home team victory W Erickson 1-3 5.01 era L Bones 1-1 5.13 era |
| Game #2: | The Expos continue their winning ways 6-4 W Salkeld 3-4 4.68 era L Wall 0-5 10.19 era S Eckersley 5 6.43 era |
| Game #3: | Harper Woods holds on 5-4 W Astascio 2-1 3.63 era L Sparks 0-2 14.14 era S Eckersley 6 6.00 era |
| Game #4: | Mike Mussina pitches a shutout 3-0 W Mussina 3-2 2.72 era L Rodriguez 2-4 4.31 era |
| Game #5: | Ron Coomer walks it off for the Expos 4-3 W Grace 2-1 5.13 era L Springer 1-4 5.22 era |
| Game #6: | Portland finally get a W 13-5 W Lopez 1-1 4.60 era L Salkeld 3-5 5.77 era |
| Series Summary: | Harper Woods takes 5 of 6. |
| Detroit Stars @ Corktown Bootleggers | |
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| Series Preview: | A couple of teams with good starts face off in the Michigan Ave Battle in Detroit’s Corktown district. |
| Game #1: | Detroit 8-4 W. Schourek 3-2 L. Valenzuela 1-1 S. Shuey 1 |
| Game #2: | Detroit scores 3 in the 1st and pitching ruled the rest of the game.
Detroit 3-1 |
| Game #3: | The same story early as Detroit once had a 4-1 lead. But Corktown was able to finally make a comeback and walk-off HR by Jason Giambi in the 9th off the inexperienced Mariano Rivera.
Corktown 5-4 |
| Game #4: | Same story as game 3, as Detroit blows a 4-0 lead and Corktown walks it off again in the 11th.
Corktown 6-5 |
| Game #5: | Detroit had a 6-1 and 8-4 leads in this game, but the home team did it again with 3 in the 9th to walk it off for the 3rd straight game.
Corktown 11-10 |
| Game #6: | Would you believe me if I told you Detroit had an early 3-0 lead and lost in the late innings again? Corktown scores 5 in the 8th. No walk-off needed.
Corktown 8-5 |
| Series Summary: | Detroit had an early lead in every game of at least 3 runs. Corktown was able to comeback and take the final 4 games. Great battle, no lead was ever safe. Can these 2 meet up again come October? |
| Stockton Wings @ Michigan Mauraders | |
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| Series Preview: | After 28 games on the road to start the season, Michigan is at home! The Stockton Wings visit Michigan for a six-game stand. |
| Game #1: | Wasdin vs. Estes. Michigan gets off to a 3-0 start. Stockton scores 4 unanswered runs to win the game. John Jaha knocks in 2 runs.
Wasdin wins his second and Estes loses his first. Stockton 4 Michigan 3 |
| Game #2: | Wilson vs. Morgan. Michigan with another early 3 runs and Stockton comes back to take the lead. Michigan has a great comeback to tie the game. But, Jaha and the Wings are too strong. Jaha has two homers and Wilkins adds a tater. Hamilton has 4 hits for the Wings.
Florie gives up 4 runs in 1 inning but gets the win. Borland takes the loss. Stockton 8 Michigan 7 |
| Game #3: | Mendoza vs. Avery. Avery with a gutsy 8 hit shutout. Brady Anderson and Robby Thompson hit homers.
Avery gets his 3rd win and Mendoza takes his 1st loss. Michigan 7 Stockton 0 |
| Game #4: | Schmidt vs. Nagy. Michigan gets its 2nd straight shutout. Nagy throws a 4 hitter. Jim Edmonds hits his 4th homer.
Nagy with his 2nd win and Schmidt takes his 5th loss. Michigan 4 Stockton 0 |
| Game #5: | D’Amico vs. Gardner. In the 10th inning, Chris Hoiles hits a 3 run homer to win the game. Brady Anderson had a 3 run homer in the 9th to tie the game. Jaha hits his 10th homer for Stockton.
Borland with his 2nd win. Garces takes his 1st loss. Michigan 9 Stockton 6 (10) |
| Game #6: | Wilson vs. Radke. Anderson, Palmeiro, and Casanova hit homers. Brady Anderson goes 5 for 5! Casanova has 4 RBIs.
Radke gets his 4th win and Wilson gets his 2nd loss. |
| Series Summary: | Michigan overcomes two early losses and wins four straight. Michigan 4 Stockton 2. Jaha has 3 homers in the series. Brady Anderson goes 5 for 5 in game 6. Michigan is happy to be home. |
| Long Beach Titans @ Sugar Land Skeeters | |
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| Series Summary: | Sugar Land takes 4 of 6 from Long Beach. |
| Valdosta Bombers @ Steel City Sluggers | |
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| Series Summary: | Steel City is very lucky to come away with 2 wins; Valdosta is legit. |
| DeWitt Tigers @ Fort Worth Panthers | |
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| Series Preview: | Ft. Worth enters the series with 4 straight wins. In the AL they are 6th in batting at .266, 4th in slugging, 4th in steals, and first in ERA at 3.04. For the Tigers, they come to Ft. Worth with 3 straight wins. On the league leader boards, Dewitt is 7th in batting at .261, 3rd in home runs with 35, and tied for 4th in stolen bases with the Panthers. |
| Game #1: | Wasn’t much of a cat-fight in this one as the Panthers mauled the Tigers for 17 runs on 19 hits while shutting them out on 5 hits. Five Ft. Worth hitters had 3 hits.
Panthers 17, Tigers 0 |
| Game #2: | Doug Drabek crashed back to earth after pitching a CG shutout in his previous start as even a five-run first was not enough for him. He hung around for 5 innings plus, but gave up 9 runs on 11 hits as the Tigers evened the series at a game apiece.
Tigers 10, Panthers 6 |
| Game #3: | Dewitt went ahead 6 to 5 in the 8th, but it was an exciting bottom of the 9th for the home town crowd. Fred McGriff led and Gary Sheffield followed with a walk. Then Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez stepped up, “The pitch is on the way … there’s a little blooper … down the right-field line it might drop in … it does! … MCGRIFF scores … tie game! … SHEFFIELD’s rounding third … they’re waving SHEFFIELD in … ORDONEZ will relay … here’s the play at the plate … and he’s … out!…just missed getting in … oh, those TIGERS they have cut off the winning run!” Two batters later Kevin Elster walked it off by singling home Pudge.Panthers 7, Tigers 6 |
| Game #4: | Kevin Brown continued pitching strong with the only damage being a two-run home run by Dante Bichette. Meanwhile, Brown’s teammates had 3 home runs themselves. McGriff and Edgar Martinez each had two-run homers and Kevin Elster blasted a three-run shot in the 8th.
Panthers 9, Tigers 2 |
| Game #5: | After the Tigers went ahead 2-1 with Sammy Sosa’s 13th homer of the year Ft. Worth roared back with 5 runs in the bottom of the third on a two-out two-RBI single by Ivan Rodriguez and then a three-run homer by Howard.
Panthers 6, Tigers 3 |
| Game #6: | The Panthers closed out the series the way they started it by shutting out Dewitt. Four Ft. Worth pitchers combined on the 5 hit shutout. Five different Panthers drove in a run.
Panthers 5, Tigers 0 |
| Series Summary: | Ft. Worth takes the series 5 games to 1. |
| Manhattan Gas Hornets @ Blarney Drive Bandits | |
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| Series Summary: | Gas Hornets take 4 of 6 while outscoring Blarney 45-20. |
| Hampton Huskies @ Cincinnati Outlaws | |
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| Series Preview: | Hampton rolls into balmy Cincinnati for a six-game set. |
| Series Summary: | The Outlaws win games one and two and then gag four straight–including surrendering five runs in the ninth of game six. |
| Flossmoor FLying Squirrels @ California Quakesa | |
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| Series Summary: | The Flying Squirrels put a hurting on the Quakes 5 games to 1. |