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Severn's -
Paul Konerko
Fremont's -
Freddy Garcia
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City's -
Victor Martinez
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Homer Bailey| Fremont @ Dallas - Dallas and Fremont split. |
| Yonge Street @ Southbend - Southbend and Yonge Street battle to a 3-3 series split. |
| Detroit @ Coconut Creek - CCC's Marcum, Uggla and Cruz all get injured early in Game-2 and Detroit wins 9-7. Crushers roll in the other 5 games to easily win the series. |
| Severn @ Chicago - The Mobsters are cardiac kids and win a few late games and take the series 5 games to 1. |
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Virginia
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Hollywood
- Hollywood hosts rival Virginia Game 1: Scherzer vs Weaver. Jay Bruce knocks in a run in the first on a FC to give Hollywood a 1-0 lead. Hollywood jumps out to a 2-0 lead when Kurt Suzuki pops a 2-out single to right. Carlos Pena hammers a grand slam in the 5th en route to a Hollywood easy win 15-4. Weaver picks up win 21. Game 2: Danks vs Volquez. Nate Schierholtz hammers a 2-run homer in the 1st to give Virginia a 2-0 lead. David Ross homers in the 2nd to cut the lead to 2-1. Paul Goldschmidt triples in a run to tie the score. Ben Francisco gives Hollywood a 3-2 lead with an rbi single. Michael Bourne doubles home a run in the 4th to tie the game @ 3. Then in the 5th, Aramis Ramirez hammers a 2-run shot to give Virginia a 5-3 lead. Emilio Bonifacio cuts the lead to 5-4 with a SF in the 6th. Starlin Castro than ties the see-saw affair with an RBI single. Than Hollyoowd takes the lead @ 7-5 when Alex Gordon follows that with a triple. James Loney doubles a run in the 7th to cut that Hollywood lead to 7-6. In the 7th, Hollywood gets a 2-run shot from Drew Stubbs to take a 9-6 lead. Heath Bell loads the bases in the 9th, but gets out if it, picking up save #20. Volquez picks up his 1st win of the year, but more importantly reached 246 MBF, which is 1 batter over he needs to be protected. Game 3: Cahill vs Buerhle. Hollywood takes the lead in the 4th on a Jay Bruce single. Virginia attempts to tie it in the 5th, but Carlos Santana is thrown out by Drew Stubbs on Jason Bartletts double. However in the 8th, with two runners on, Aramis Ramirez comes up big with a 2-out RBI single, driving in two to give Virginia the 2-1 lead. Emilio Bonifacio ties the game at 2, when he singles in Stubbs with 2-outs in the 8th. Carlos Santana drops a Drew Stubbs popup in the 10th, which gives Hollywood a runner with 1-out. Stubbs promptly steals 2nd. Carlos Pena than delivers the walk-off single and Hollywood wins 3-2. Game 4: Garcia vs Price. Jay Bruce hammers a homer to give Hollywood a 1-0 lead in the 2nd. Bobby Abreu gives Virginia the 2-1 lead in the 6th when he hammers a homer off Price. Hollywood, trailing 2-1, gets Jay Bruce on, thanks to another Carlos Santana error. Bonifacio pinch runs and immediately steals 2nd base. After a failed bunt attempt by Don Kelly, Starlin Castro singles to put runners at the corners for David Ross (who entered the game after Suzuki was injured on a HBP). Castro than steals 2nd base, forcing the infield in. Guillermo Mota than walks Ross in favor of Edgar Renteria. Hollywood than dips to their bench, in favor of Ian Kinsler. Kinsler hammers a grounder to 3rd, but all Ramirez can do is knock it down and get the out at 3rd, scoring Bonifacio. Than after Drew Stubbs walks, Mota is pulled for Wil Ohman to face Alex Gordon. Gordon topps it out in front of the plate, Ohman reaches it and tosses it home, but not before David Ross slides in before the force play. Arguing ensues, but it's all over as Alex Gordon knocks in the inning run on what's ruled a fielders choice. Hollywood wins 3-2. Game 5: Cecil vs Kershaw. With Ross still only 'available' and Suzuki down with injuty, Don Kelly is forced into action behind the plate. With Kershaw on the mound, one only hopes that not many runners reach..... Kyle Phillips doubles off Kershaw in the 3rd to give Virginia the 1-0 lead. Alex Cora reaches on a Starlin Castro error, which gives Virginia a 2-0 lead. Bourne makes it 3-0 on an RBI single to left. Brett Cecil out pitches Kershaw as Virginia finally holds on for a win 4-0. Game 6: Lyles vs Weaver. Bobby Abreu jumps on a Weaver pitch in the first for a 1-0 Virginia lead. Vlad does the same in the 3rd to make it 2-0. Then Weaver is hammered for his 3rd homer of the game when Santana makes it 4-0. Trailing 4-0, Drew Stubbs cuts the lead in half, with a 2-run homer of his own. Than Jay Bruce ties it at 4 with a 2-run homer. Hollywood than jumps out to the lead on a Jason Kubel single, which drives home Gordon. Orlando Hudson homers in the 6th to tie it. The wind must be blowing out today.....that's the 4th homer given up by Weaver today. Carlos Pena gets the run back in the bottom of the 6th with a SF to give Hollywood a 6-5 lead. Starlin Castro commits a critical error in the 8th which allows Virginia to tie the game. Than with 2-outs, Michael Bourne delivers a big 2-run single to get them an 8-6 lead. Santana than hammers his 2nd homer of the game to cement the victory at 10-6. Virginia just beat Hollywood's 2-best pitchers in back-to-back games. Hollywood takes 4 of 6. |
| Pittsburgh @ Tijuana - Matt Kemp homers twice and drives in 5 in the final game of the series, helping save The Lumber Company from being swept...Tijuana takes this series 5 games to 1. |
| Bethesda @ Elyria - Elyria sweeps Bethesda. |
| Manhattan @ Jersey - The Nor'easters climb back to 500 by winning 5 of 6 from Manhattan. |
| Valdosta @ Iron City - Yinzers reignite playoff fever with a sweep of Valdosta. |
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Tempe
@
Camarillo
- Game 1: Tempe 11 Camarillo 1 Tempe jumps on Quest ace CJ Wilson early and often and cruise to convincing victory. Game 2: Camarillo 5 Tempe 2 Camarillo tags Matt Cain with just his second loss of the year and raised his era to 1.28 (allowing 4 earned runs). Carl Crawford had a pair of doubles and 3 rbis. Game 3: Camairllo 1 Tempe 0 Another average pitcher turned Cy Young material in McCarthey dueled knuckleball RA Dickey. Jeff Keppinger singled home Jose Bautista for the game winner in the bottom of the 9th. Game 4: Camarillo 2 Tempe 1 Another Tempe pitcher was tagged with just his second loss of the year - in Chacin (who dropped to 13-2) when Joey Votto singled in two runs in the 5th. Kyle Lohse improved to 11-7 with Casilla notched his 30th save of the year. Game 5: Tempe 4 Camarillo 2 Tempe hit CJ Wilson hard ealry and took a 4 to 0 lead after 2 and behind Cy Young candidate Tim Stauffer - they had nothing to worry about. Stauffer improve to 20-0. ???? Game 6: Camarillo 2 Tempe 0 Doug Fister and three other releivers combined on the 6-hit shutout. Votto had 3 hits, including a home and a triple to lead the way for the Quest who take the series 4 games to 2. Tempe scores just 7 runs over the last five games and increases their loss total to 25. They must now face Sacramento. Their dream of a 130 win season may be coming to an end. |
| Clovis @ Bay State - Clovis expected better facing the AAA Baystate Minutemen/ They did win 4 games to 2 but really expected better. |
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Owensboro
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Motor City
- Owensboro takes 4 of 6. Gm 1: 5-3 OWN; Flores and Ortiz trade 2-R bombs, Fukodome has 3 hits and scores 2 runs. WP--Vazquez LP--Blanton SV--Walden Gm 2: 10-6 OWN; Napoli and Hannahan with 3 RBI each, Napoli and Olivo both hit solo shots. Josh Bell has 3 hits for MCM as thy rally late to make it look respectable. Young a 3-R HR for MCM. WP--Wells LP--Leake Gm 3: 4-0 MCM; Tommy Hunter CG 4-hitter. Flores hits a 3-R HR. WP--Hunter LP--O'Sullivan Gm 4: 5-0 MCM; Locke twirls a gem with a CG 2-hitter and throws in an RBI 1B. MCM loses Perez for 30 days.WP--Locke LP--Galarraga Gm 5: 10-8 OWN; Once again, the OWN bullpen has trouble closing it out, but MCM runs out of time. Berkman and Ortiz boith homer. Ortiz has 4 hits and 2 RBI, Napoli adds 3 hits and an RBI. WP--Vazquez LP--Pelfrey SV--Ayala Gm 6: 5-0 OWN; Bruce Chen is dominating in a 3-hit CG. Hannahan each have 2 hits and an RBI, Berkman also scores 3 runs. Napoli homers again. MCM loses J. Bell for 9 days. WP--Chen LP--Leake |
| West Coast @W Roseville - Roseville and West Coast split the series 3 games apiece. |
| Long Beach @ Sacramento - Sacramento wins the first four games against Long Beach, but the Dirtbags put the Capitals in their place by taking the final two games in convincing fashion. The Capitals still can't figure out a workable lineup. Anyone want to trade a bat? |