PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #5

Elyria and Virginia split the series 2-2. The other two games were rain outs.

Division rivals face off for a 6 game set North of the Border.In a Head to Head Match up played face to face.

Felix Hernandez (6-1 1.54) pitches 5.1 innings, allowing only 1 Earned Run, striking out 6 on 5 hits & 1 walk. Andrew McCutchen (Last weeks American League player of the week winner) continued his hot week going 3 for 4 with a solo Home Run. Enider Inciarte went 2 for 4 with 2 RBI’s.

Final Score: Chicago 6 – Yonge Street 1

Matt Latos (1-1 3.57) is the story here throwing a complete game Shutout. Seth Smith has a Home Run & drives in 3 RBI’s for Yonge Street. David Wright is 2 for 4 with 2 RBI’s as well.

Final Score: Yonge Street 6 – Chicago 0

Chris Sale (4-0 0.80) goes 9 innings allowing only 1 hit, striking out 11, & walking 3. Solo Home Runs by Steve Pearce & Pedro Alvarez are the only offense the Mobsters can muster against Michael Pineda (1-2 2.42) who went 8 strong.

Final Score: Chicago 2 – Yonge Street 0

Rookie Marcus Stroman (4-0 2.45) does his job with 5 scoreless, the Mobsters bullpen comes in & throws 4 scoreless innings. Ben Revere hits a two run HOME RUN. REPEAT – Ben Revere hits a two run HOME RUN!!!

Final Score: Chicago 6 – Yonge Street 1

Josh Beckett gives up 3 solo Home Runs, Zach Duke (1-0 1.00) vultures the win in relief of Beckett. Justin Turner is 3 for 4. Andrew McCutchen is 2 for 5 with a Home Run & 2 RBI’s.

Final Score: Chicago 6 – Yonge Street 4

Felix Hernandez (7-1 1.49) goes 7.2 allowing only 1 Earned Run on 6 hits, walking none & Striking Out 7. Ben Revere has 2 RBI’s, Dustin Pedroia is 2 for 4.

Final Score: Chicago 6 – Yonge Street 2

Adam Wainwright (4-2 3.68) bounces back from a horrible start in game #2 and pitches 8.1 innings allowing only 1 Earned Run. Aroldis Chapman comes in and picks up his 11th save on the season.

Final Score: Chicago 2 – Yonge Street 1

Chicago takes the series 6 games to 1. Series was closer than the final outcome as a few games could have went either way. Chicago heads home for the big match up against first place in the American League West Hollywood Werewolves, while Yonge Street heads down  to south to take on the Sluggers of Virginia.

Hollywood commits 3 errors which lets in 4 unearned runs; Det wins 5-1Kazmir W 3-2 L Price 3-2

Kershaw Ks 14 of the 1st 15 batters and wins this one 8-1 Kershaw 6-0L Starsburg 2-3 ; Goldschmidt Grand Slam

Carrasco and 4 RPs 1 hit Hollywood Det wins 2-0 ; Carrasco W 5-0 L Weaver 2-3 Sv Britton 4Injury E. Chavez (12) days

Hollywod wins 6-2 Cueto CG 6-1 L Wheeler 1-4

Hollywood wins this one 4-1 as some guy named D.Buchanan (W 2-0) pitches 8IP of 4 hit ball 0 runs; Save Cishek 5 L Baumgarner 3-3

Detroit wins the finally 8-3 Wilson gets the win 2-0 L Price 3-3

Detroit splits with Hollywood 3-3

The Dirt Bags return home after a 20 game road trip to face the always dangerous Tempe Tempers. This will be a good early test to see if Long Beach has what it takes to contend this year.

Tempe jumps on Dickey early and coasts to an easy 11-3 win. Cano with 4 hits along with Cabrera and Beltre’s 3 RBI each lead the offense as the Tempers pound out 15 hits.

This game was the opposite of the first game. It was scoreless until the 7th when Davis singled in Cespedes to give Tempe a 1-0 lead. Long Beach answered with 2 in the bottom of the inning with the go ahead run scoring on a Norris SF. Victor Martinez homered in the 8th
to make the final 3-1.

Another great pitcher’s duel. Tempe scored in the 1st and 9th on RBI 2Bs by Braun and Beltre to give Despaigne a 2-0 win. He pitched a  CG 5 hitter. Shoemaker was the tough luck loser giving up 1 run on 2 hits in 7 innings.

The 3rd pitcher dominated game in a row. Scoreless again into the 7th when Ozuno hit a solo HR. Long Beach added an insurance run in the 8th that was needed when Cespedes homered in the 9th to make the final 2-1. Lester went the distance giving up 6 hits and improving to 5-1.

Tempe took a 1-0 lead into the 8th. Smolinski had a PH 1B to drive in PR Dickerson and tie the game. Span followed with a 2B scoring Smolinski to give Long Beach the 2-1 win. For the 3rd time in the series Holland gave up a key hit driving in a run. Starters Iwakuma
and Ventura both pitched great.

Long Beach took a 3-1 lead into the 8th when Dickey was pulled and Hughes came in. Tempe jumped all over him and tied the game on RBI 1Bs by Cabrera and Beltre. Braun followed with another run scoring hit to give the Tempers a 4-3 lead. They continued pounding the  Long Beach bullpen and won 7-3. Cespedes continued his hot hitting with 3 more hits increasing his average to .351.

The 2 teams split the series giving the local fans hope that they will see September games that matter this year.

Selkirk heads in to Bethesda to try and take advantage of the crappy season start that the Bandicoots have had.

Another lackluster performance for Bethesda, but full credit to Selkirk for making us look bad.

Pittsburgh visits the Nor’easters for an early season 7-game series.

Not much happiness for the home team as Pittsburg wins an easy one 6-0. Ian Kennedy goes 8 shutout innings allowing only 2 hits for the win. Anthony Gose goess deep for Pittsburgh.

Jersey bounces back with a shutout of their own. Jose Quintana pitches a 3-hit complete game shutout for his 1st win of the season.  Lucas Duda hits a 2-run double in the 3rd for the only runs of the game. Drew Hutchinson pitches a strong game for Pittsburgh. Jersey wins 2-0.

Jersey’s Jeff Samardzija pitches a complete game of his own barely missing a shutout himself when Pittsburgh scores their lone run in
the 9th. For the second consecutive game Lucas Duda drives in all the runs for the Nor’easters with homer #8 on the year. Jersey wins
3-1.

Pittsburgh evens the series when Colby Lewis and 2 relievers shutdown the Nor-easters 3-2. Starling Marte had 3 hits for Pittsburgh while Chris Coghlan had 3 hits for Jersey.

Wade Miley and 2 relievers shutout Jersey 4-0. Eduardo Suarez had 3 hits and 2 RBI for Pittsburgh.

A good win for Pittsburgh and a tough loss for Jersey as Pittsburgh wins 2-1 in 11 innings. Michael Wacha pitches 4 shutout innings in
relief of Kennedy for the win.

It’s that man again for Jersey. Jose Quintana pitches his second complete game shutout of the series as Jersey wins 1-0 on a walk-off pinch hit sac fly by Bryan Pena in the 9th. Drew Hutchinson again pitched well but came up short for Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh wins the series 4-3. Jersey’s Jose Quintana has to be the front runner for pitcher of the week with 2 complete game shutouts
giving up a total of 7 hits.

Fiers carried Coconut Creek to a late lead. Rondon on for the save and he gives up a 2-out 9th inning HR to Odor. Tijuana scores again in the 10th to win 4-3.

Coconut Creek commits 7 errors in an ugly 7-0 loss.

Kluber cruises to a 7-1 Tijuana win.

Billy Butler hits a 2B, 2 HRs and 5 RBI to carry Tijuana to an easy 11-4 win.

Coconut Creek gets 4 runs off Greinke but it doesn’t matter.Tijuana wins 10-6.

Tijuana rides Homer Bailey to a 4-1 win

Tijuana sweeps Coconut Creek on the road.

NL West bottom-dwellers Triple Creek and Sacramento face off in Week 5.

Triple Creek takes the series 5-1, outscoring Sacramento 42-17. The highlight for Triple Creek had to be Lonnie Chisenhall’s 4-6, 8 RBI
Game 1.

Division leading Motor City comes to Fremont. In a low scoring series, four of the games would feature shutouts.

Fremont would only manage three hits against Lisalberto Bonilla, who picks up the CGSO win. OF Chris Young is lost to the Muscle for 10
days in the 5-0 Muscle victory.

Samuel Deduno and the Cannons bullpen return the favor, shutting out Motor City 3-0.

Zeroes are wild again as Juan Nicasio shuts down Motor City in a 6-0 Fremont victory. The Muscle only muster a meager two extra-base  hits in the two shutout losses.

The shutout streak ends in the first inning with Mike Trout’s 3-run homer, his first of the season. Fremont would fight back, but ultimately drop the game 5-3.  Edinson Volquez goes to 5-1.

Both starters go the distance in this one. Mike Leake allows 5 hits and no walks, but two of those hits are home runs by Carlos Gomez and Derek Dietrich as Fremont wins 2-0 with another shutout. Mark Buehrle allows 4 hits and no walks while striking out 12 in the CGSO.
Gomez now has 8 HR on the season.

Bonilla gets the start again for MCM, and the performance is similar to game 1: 3H, 1BB, and 7K with no ER. The result was different, however, as Khris Davis singles in two off of AJ Ramos in the ninth to win 2-1.

Motor City’s offense finally shows up, knocking out Taylor Jordan after only two innings in the 8-4 win. Castellanos (1), Gabby Sanchez (2), and Loney (5) all go deep for Motor City, while Khris Davis (3) and Viciedo (3) leave the yard for the Cannons.

The home standing Cannons take this series 4-3!

The 11-15 Dallas Cougars come into Traverse City to play the 12-15 Crusaders.

The Cougars and Cougars go 17 innings, with no scoring for 11 straight innings. Pedro Ciriaco is the unlikely hero with walk-off hit in the bottom of the 17th.

Crusaders 3, Cougars 2 (17 Inn) Win for Gregerson, Loss for Coke.

T.C. could only manage 2 hits against Dallas Keuchel. Nick Hundley for Dallas hits 2 HR’s (making it 3 for the season).

Cougars 8, Crusaders 0

Josh Harrison gets 3 hits, while former Crusader/Express pitcher LaTroy Hawkins locks down his 7th save.

Cougars 3, Crusaders 2

Ryan Raburn hits his 2nd HR of the season, while Drew Stubbs gets 2 hits & scores 2 runs.

Crusaders 5, Cougars 1 – Gregerson gets his 8th save for T.C.

Jose Abreu goes 2-for-5 with a HR & 2 RBI as the Cougars edge T.C. in extras; Abreu’s HR is already his 10th!

Cougars 4, Crusaders 3 (12 Inn)

The Crusaders up 7-4, get taken to extras, where they once again lost in 12 innings. Jeanmar Gomez gets the loss, with 4 innings of
work, Jamey Wright gets the win, as Hawkins logs Save #9 .Jose Abreu hits #11

Cougars win 4-2 over a tired T.C. team.

Valdosta comes to Columbus for 7 games – the Snappers are the heavy favorites, the Explorers looking for their 1st home win (only 2nd
home series).

Explorers get their 1st win at home as Desmond and Blackmon lead the offense and Tepesch and crew hold back the Snappers.

VAL 3-8-1 LP DelGado (0-1)

COL 6-9-0 WP Tepesch (1-3)

S Varvaro (4)HR: Parmalee (1)INJ – VAL Ross 12 days

Snappers come back in game 2 with late 3 runs in 8th and 9th to gain a 7-4 victory. McHugh wins in 7 innings giving up 5 hits and 4 runs (1 earned) and 7 ks). 3 Valdosta HRs help!!

VAL 7-8-2 WP McHugh (5-1) -S Doolittle (1)

COL 4-6-0 LP LeCure (0-2)

HRs: Carter (12), Francisco (4), Hechavarria (1)

2 run 9th by Explorers extends the game and Blackmon hits a walk-off HR in the 11th of De Fratus to give Explores win #2 in the series.
Suzuki 3 for 5 with 2 doubles leads Snapper attack – Blackmon answers with 3 hits of his own. Happ goes 6.2 innings with 9 ks.

VAL 5-10-2 LP De Fratus (2-1)

COL 6-11-2 WP Varvaro (2-1)

HRs: VAL – Carter (13); COL – Blackmon (2)

See-saw series continues with Valdosta taking game 4 with late run in the 8th to snap a 3-3 tie. Explorers jumped to 2-0 lead in 1st off Desmond dinger but Snappers kept coming back – Rodriguez PH 2 run HR in 6th, a 3 run inning tied the game setting up Reynolds game
winning rbi single in the 8th. Teheran walked off the mound in the 2nd with a 9 day injury! Guerra pitches 3.2 inning in relief with 7
ks to keep Snappers in the game.

VAL 4-10-1 WP De Fratus (3-1) – S Simmons (1)

COL 3-8-1 LP Dunn (0-2)

HRs: VAL – Bonnifacio (1), Rodriguez (4); COL – Desmond (8)

Valdosta tips the scales in their favor in this one as Hughes pitches a brilliant 2 hits, 13 k (no walks) CG shutout. Solo HRs from Martin and Infante provide only support he needed (or got). Ruined great performance from Baker (11 ks – but 10 hits)

VAL 2-10-0WP Hughes (3-4)

COL 0-2-1 LP Baker (2-1)

Explorers bounce back to take game 6 5-1 behind Matt Carpenter’s 2 for 4, 3 rbi game including a HR. Tepesch 8 innings, 6 hits, 1 run
performance is key. Bonifacio gets 3 hits for Snappers.

VAL 1-7-0 LP DelGado (0-2) walked 6 in 5.1 innings

COL 5-6-1 WP Tepesch (2-3) – S Bass (1)

HR: Carpenter (3)

Valdosta comes back to bang out 14 hits in the finale including 4 by Infante, 3 by Martin and 2 each by Reynolds and Hechavarria to support McHugh’s 2 hit outing (6.2 innings). Greene took the loss but fanned 12 Snappers in 6 innings.

VAL 4-14-0 WP McHugh (6-1)

COL 1-3-0 LP Greene (0-3)

HR: Desmond (9)

Snappers take remarkably close series 4 games to 3. Series featured 16 stolen bases – 9 by the Snappers!

Easter Weekend in Manhattan.Landfill Stadium decorated with flowers

Manhattan 3-2

Manhattan 2-1

Manhattan 2-0

Manhattan 5-1

Manhattan 10-1

Southbend 5-3

Series goes to Manhattan 5-1At least 3 of the games could have easily gone the other way.

First Place (!!) Outlaws looking to keep their good luck streak going.

NYO 8. GHG 5Haring wins ugly (5ip 6h 5r) but wins as Outlaws stage big comeback; scoring 7 runs over 3 consecutive innings.

GHG 2 NYO 0Ervin Santana throws a 2 hit 9K gem!

GHG 7 NYO 5Gators collect 13 hits en route to a victory. Aybar (3/4) and Garrett Jones (2/3) were the bat stars for Gators.

NYO 3. GHG 0Hamel 1 hitter!! (Bautista single in 9th breaks up no hitter). The Franchise guides Outlaws to a 3 zip win.

NYO 3. GHG 0Déjà Vu! Noesi’s turn for a 3 zip shutout!

NYO 6 GHG 4Outlaws chase Gator starter AJ Burnett in the 4th as they win Game Six.

Outlaws win this series 4 games to 2 !

Yinzers take the series 4 games to 2!