2017 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #20
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| GARCIA,Avisail | MAN AL | .556 | 1.056 | 4 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| ARCHER,Chris | VIR AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.40 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| KEMP,Matt | PIT NL | .333 | .667 | 6 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| EICKHOFF,Jerad | RRG NL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.50 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chicago Mobsters @ Coconut Creek Crushers |
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| Series Preview: | Chicago heads down to the Coconut Creek for a six game series with the Crushers. |
| Game #1: | Chicago had on their hitting shoes. J.D. Martinez was 4 for 5 with 2 Doubles & 2 RBI’s. Billy Hamilton had 3 Hits in 6 trips with 3 RBI’s. Kolten Wong had 3 Hits in 6 At-Bats.
Final Score: Chicago 13 – Coconut Creek 2 Win: Aaron Sanchez 14-2 (2.43) |
| Game #2: | Noah Syndergaard went 7 Innings, Striking Out 8 along the way. Buster Posey had 3 Hits. Chicago’s bullpen pitched 2 Innings of scoreless relief.
Final Score: Chicago 2 – Coconut Creek 1 Win: Noah Syndergaard 16-3 (1.70) |
| Game #3: | Carlos Matias Martinez went 6.2 Shut-Out Innings. Chicago’s pen throws 2.1 Scoreless relief.
Final Score: Chicago 2 – Coconut Creek 0 Win: Carlos Matias Martinez 12-4 (3.36) |
| Game #4: | Felix Hernandez goes 8 Innings allowing only 2 Earned Runs for the Mobsters. Mookie Betts had those 2 RBI’s for the Crushers. Chicago gets single RBI’s from Josh Donaldson, Hanley Ramirez & Devon Travis.
Final Score: Chicago 3 – Coconut Creek 2 Win: Felix Hernandez 15-2 (2.94) |
| Game #5: | Nelson Cruz is 3 for 3 with a Home Run, 3 RBI’s & 2 Runs scored. C.C. Sabathia goes 5 Innings allowing only a 2 Run Home Run to Pete O’Brien. Chicago’s bullpen pitches 4 Innings allowing only 2 Solo Home Runs (Randal Grichuck & Robbie Grossman).
Final Score: Chicago 7 – Coconut Creek 4 Win: C.C. Sabathia 10-4 (4.94) |
| Game #6: | Chicago gets 3 in the 4th, & the Crushers get 2 in the 4th. No other scoring. Randal Grichuck is 2 for 4 with a 2 Run Home Run for Coconut Creek. Mookie Betts says something to Home Plate Umpire Joe West & Cowboy Joe reminds him that an early shower is nice every once in a while. Betts is restainded by his teammates & heads to the clubhouse cursing the Cowboy.
Final Score: Chicago 3 – Coconut Creek 2 Win: Marcus Stroman 9-1 (3.27) |
| Series Summary: | Even though the Mobsters sweep the series this was way closer than it appears. The Crushers played great ball & kept themselves in it for all but one of the games. Chicago heads home to take on Hollywood in a much anticipated series next week, while the Crushers have to take a 1 game road trip down south of the border down Mexico way for a Make-Up game vs. the Bottle Rockets of Tijuana before heading back home to take on the Solar Sox of Mesa. |
Tempe Tempers @ Bethesda Bandicoots |
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| Series Preview: | Tempe heads into Bethesda giving the real starting rotation a break as the Bandicoots try and take advantage of the Tempers contempt for their bats against a flotilla of AAA starting pitchers. With the gods smiling brightly on Tempe throughout the current season (or are they getting their help from somewhere more fiery?) we head into the series braced for pretty much anything. |
| Game #1: | Bethesda outhits the dopey Tempers but one player – Adrian Beltre – was awake enough to handle the entire Bandicoots roster as the veteran 3rd baseman slugged a pair of homers off Miguel Gonzalez in a 2-1 Tempe win. Tempe starter Hisanori Iwakuma improved to 3-0 by allowing just one run – on an Adrian Gonzalez single in the 1st inning. Miggy fell to 1-3 but actually pitched well to everyone other than Beltre allowing just two hits to the rest of the Tempe lineup in seven innings. A disturbing trend began in the game with two Bethesda runners on separate plays overrunning a base and getting gunned down. Hmmm. |
| Game #2: | All Bethesda as they give Rich Hill (9-0) way more offense than he needed in a 9-1 stomping of Hector Santiago and company. A sloppy game on both sides with Chris Davis dropping an easy fly ball and Troy Tulowitzki screwing up a double play for Tempe and on the Bethesda side Lorenzo Cain overthrew the cutoff man but not the hotdog vendor with Aledmys Diaz adding a couple of nifty bobble plays of his own. Brad Miller smashed a grand slam in the 1st inning off Santiago with Diaz and newly acquired Logan Morrison also going yard for the Bandicoots. Once again, this time Lorenzo Cain got nailed trying to advance an extra base on his own after one of the Tempe errors. |
| Game #3: | Brett (Super Itchy) Anderson was uber solid in a spot start allowing just two runs – one earned – over 7+ innings in an easy 6-2 Tempe win. Chris Davis and Robinson Cano homered for Tempe. Justin Nicolino got bumped around allowing 11 hits in eight innings for Bethesda to fall to 2-3 as he scrambled late in the season for some reason to get enough usage in to not become a free agent … as if that would be so bad. In this one the baseball gods chose to smile on Melky Cabrera as he nailed Brad Miller at 1st base with a great throw on what should have been a single. Go figure. |
| Game #4: | Bethesda outhits Tempe 15-11 but falls 6-3 with just a little more help from the baseball gods and some really well played smallball by the Tempers. The Tempers scored twice in the game on sacrifice flies and were perfect in advancing the runners on bunts (Matt Cain) and if that was not enough two rallies in consecutive innings (5th and 6th) were snuffed out by outfield throws by Chris Davis and Colby Rasmus when Bethesda runners ignored the 3rd base coach and went on their own to try and score only to be gunned down at the plate. Nice. Fate is a fickle thing. Davis, Troy Tulowitzki, Adrian Beltre and Evan Gattis each had two hits for Tempe. Brad Miller, Robert Andino and Eric Fryer (no those are not typos) each had three hits for Bethesda. Doug Fister took the loss after losing his mojo (six runs on 10 hits in six innings) to fall to 7-8 while Jim Johnson tossed three shutout innings to close out the game and earn the save for Tempe. |
| Game #5: | Oh c’mon. Brad Miller futzed up twice leading to big Tempe rallies as the Tempers smacked the Bandicoots upside the head 9-3 in what turned out to be a homerfest. Normally stingy with allowing hits John Lackey gave us a glimpse of how crappy he will be next season by allowing three homers (seven runs – five earned) in just two innings with Joey Votto, Adrian Beltre and Robinson Cano making him their bitch. Evan Gattis then got into the act homering off relievers Erasmo Ramirez in the 3rd and Fernando Salas in the 6th. In an ironic twise, Bethesda outhit Tempe 9-8 in the contest. For the second straight contest Colby Rasmus got an outfield assist throwing out Travis Shaw after he took too big a turn around 3rd base and dove back a little too slowly. The gods would not be denied I guess. |
| Game #6: | Ryan Madson showed why he should be run over by the team bus or used as platypus food as he coughed up a three-run homer to Evan Gattis in the top of the 9th to send the game into extra innings tied 6-6. Frig I hate that guy … Madson I mean. Yoenis Cespedes then led off the top of the 11th with a drive into the left field cheap seats off Chris Withrow to give Tempe a 7-6 edge. Tempe reliever Nick Vincent was in a world of trouble all through the bottom of the 11th loading the bases with a couple of walks and a hit but got bailed out big time by the defence that gunned down first Travis Shaw and then Robert Andino at the plate on infield grounders by Eric Fryer and Lorenzo Cain. With two outs and the bases still loaded, David Peralta golfed Vincent’s offering into the left field gap scoring Brad Miller and Fryer to end it with a dramatic 8-7 walkoff. Kind of a shame as we deserved to lose after blowing a 6-2 lead with Madson crapping the bed and then getting thrown out at home twice with the bases loaded, but we’ll take the win. Adrian Beltre also homered for Tempe. Peralta doubled and tripled to drive in three for the home team. |
| Series Summary: | Tempe’s nowhere near best still managed to take four of six against Bethesda’s near best in their march to the post-season (see godzilla vs small Japanese village). |
Selkirk Steelers @ Rosemere Renegades |
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| Series Preview: | A couple of bottom place teams both over 50 games out of first place … |
| Game #1: | Eickhoff goes the distance in a 4-1. Locals scored 3 unearned runs. |
| Game #2: | Souza is the difference in a Selrkirk 2-1 victory. |
| Game #3: | Liriano goes the distance in another 4-1 Rosemere win. 2 unearned runs helped this time. |
| Game #4: | Selkirk gets a couple of 4 runs innings in an easy 8-5 win. Top three batters had 6 ribbies for the visitors. |
| Game #5: | Rosmere scores 3 in the final two inning in a 5-3 win. |
| Game #6: | Eickhoff gets his 2nd CG 3-1 local thanks to a tow outs PH HR by Parra. |
| Series Summary: | The local prevailed 4-2. |
Mesa Solar Sox @ Motor City Muscle |
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| Series Preview: | Mesa comes north for a 6 game series with Motor City |
| Game #1: | MCM 10 – MSS 1
WP: Quintana HR: MSS–Herrera; MCM–V. Martinez (GS), Herrmann, Werth MCM busted it open early with five in the 1st (four on Victor Martinez’s grand slam). All MCM runs came as a result of HRs. |
| Game #2: | MSS 3 – MCM 1
WP: Fulmer HR: MCM–Castellanos; MSS–Frazier Michael Fulmer struck out nine and gave up only four hits. Jeff Locke pitched better than expected for MCM in an emergency start. Todd Frazier’s two RBI were the difference for MSS. |
| Game #3: | MCM 4 – MSS 3 (10 inn.)
WP: Harris HR: MCM–Moss MSS took a 3-2 lead into the 9th, but MCM tied it on a Joe Panik pinch-hit RBI single and won it in the 10th on Paulo Orlando’s walk-off RBI single. |
| Game #4: | MCM 8 – MSS 1
WP: Hendricks HR: MCM–Orlando, Werth; MSS–Herrera It was a 1-1 pitching duel until MCM blew it open with seven runs in the 8th inning. Jayson Werth had the big blow with a three-run HR. |
| Game #5: | MSS 3 – MCM 2
WP: Butler HR: none MSS built a 3-0 lead, then had to hold onafter Paulo Orlando’s two-run single in the 8th. MCM had the tying run on third in the 9th but Jeremy Jeffress shut the door. |
| Game #6: | MCM 6 – MSS 2
WP: Quintana HR: MSS–Blair, Dozier; MCM–V. Martinez (GS) Another close (2-2) game until Victor Martinez hit his second Grand Slam of the series in the 7th inning |
| Series Summary: | MCM takes the series 4 games to 2
Jose Quintana had two wins for MCM, defeating Aaron Blair both times. Victor Martinez had two Grand Slams, Jayson Werth had two three-run HRs in the series, and Paulo Orlando had five RBI in the series for MCM. Odubel Herrera had three solo HRs for MSS |
Windy City Black Sox @ Pittsburgh Lumber Company |
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| Series Preview: | After completing an 8 player trade, Windy City and Pittsburgh immediately square off and thrust their new players against their former team. |
| Series Summary: | Pittsburgh takes 5 of 6, dropping only the final game. Scores are 9-3, 8-7, 6-4, 2-0, 4-3 Pittsburgh then 5-4 (11) Windy City. In Game 4, Yu Darvish twirls a NO-HITTER, striking out 11 and walking 4. |
Southbend Lynx @ Hollywood Werewolves |
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| Series Summary: | Hollywood loses 4 of 6. |
Fremont Cannons @ Dallas Cougars |
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| Series Summary: | Two days after getting no hit the Cougars get no hit again by Carlos Rodon, who struck out 9 and walked 2. Dallas offense did just fine in the other 5 games with 39 runs on 72 hits taking the series 4 games to 2. |
Manhattan Project @ Virginia Sluggers |
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| Series Preview: | Manhattan coming off a tough series at Tijuana, takes it out on Virginia. |
| Game #1: | VIR 8-5 4 homer by the Sluggers, 2 by Anthony Rizzo to go with 4 RBI, is too much for MAN as VIR gets win number 1 of the series. |
| Game #2: | MAN 6-1 2-run jimmy-jacks in the 3rd by Freddy Freeman and Matt Holiday, is all Tyler Chatwood needs as he scatters 3 hits over 7 innings to get the win. |
| Game #3: | MAN 2-0 Rick Porcello improves to 16-6 with a CG 3-hitter. Jace Peterson and Bryan Holaday hit solo shots for all the runs. |
| Game #4: | MAN 19-1 A total rout. 26 hits and Avisail Garcia goes wild with 5 hits in 5 trips to the plate, 3 of those hits cleared the wall and helped him tally 9 RBI. |
| Game #5: | MAN 5-3 5 different players account for the 5 runs. Ryan Schimpf hits home run #10. |
| Game #6: | VIR 5-1 Chris Archer wins his 2nd game of the series. Nick Markakis goes deep and Jackie Bradley goes 3-4 with an RBI. |
| Series Summary: | Manhattan wins the series 4-2 as Virginia continues to slide. Avisail Garcia was 10-18 .555 BA, 4 runs, 10 RBI and 3 homers. Wilson Ramos was 8-16 .500 BA, 3 runs, 6 RBI and 2 homers. Manhatten heads home to take on Motor City,…the team they’re chasing for the AL East title. Virginia stays home to host Tijuana. |
Valdosta Snappers @ Columbus Explorers |
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| Series Preview: | NL Central showdown between 2nd place Columbus and 3rd place Valdosta – neither one with a chance to catch the runaway freight train Tempe Tempers who are on a pace to win more than 130 games this year. |
| Game #1: | Julio Teheran and Lance McCullers were in a good showdown, in fact McCullers fanned the first six outs he got in the game (10 in all with no walks). However, the Snappers snapped the scoreless streak in the 4th and then got single runs in each inning from the 4th through the 8th to take away a 5-1 win in the opener. Chris Carter (45) and Miguel Sano (15) homered and Ender Inciarte laced 3 singles (and stole two bases). VAL 5-11-0 WP Teheran (13-7) – tossed a 4 hitter with 8ks COL 1- 4-1 LP McCullers (4-4) |
| Game #2: | Columbus scored single runs in the 1st and 2nd, gave up a Chris Carter rbi single in the 6th, then put it out of reach with a single run in the 8th to tie the series. Ender Inciarte again with a multiple hit game as he gets a double and single and scores the lone run. Colby Lewis was strong, giving up 6 hits in 7 innings and 1 earned run, but was victim of his own error. Wade LeBlanc went 5 innings, 4 hits a run and fanned 5 for the win. Curtis Granderson drives in 2 with 2 hits nad Enrique Hernandez scores twice as he parlays 2 walks into scores. VAL 1-5-2 LP Lewis (6-9) COL 3-8-0 WP LeBlanc (6-1) S Francisco Rodriguez (14) |
| Game #3: | Ender Inciarte gets multiple hits again, both singles, scores a run and swipes a base. Chris Carter blasts home run #46, adds an rbi singles and drives in 2 in the game. Dillion Gee goes the distance tossing a brilliant 3 hitter giving up 1 unearned run and fanning 8. Chris Rusin the tough luck loss – 2 runs in 5 innings, but the Gee buzz saw does him in VAL 4-9-1 WP Gee (2-5) COL 1-3-1 LP Rusin (4-30) |
| Game #4: | Explorers ride 2 Matt Carpenter 2 run homers (24, 25) to a 4-1 victory. The first was in the 1st for a quick start. J.A. Happ gives up 5 hits in 6.1 scoreless innings. Slammin’ Chris Carter goes deep again (47) for the lone Snappers snap. Ender Inciarte only 1 hit this game. VAL 1-6-1 LP Matt Wisler (4-15) COL 4-8-0 WP Happ (13-6) |
| Game #5: | Collin McHugh and Ervin Santana each go 6, each give up 5 hits and 1 run (McHugh’s was unearned) and both take long rests before this game ends – in the 11th. Ender Inciarte goes back to multiple hits as he opens the game with a single (but’s he’s doubled up). Then he doubles home Adeiny Hechavarria in the 5th for the lone Snappers run in regulation time. That tied the game as Columbus had scored 1 in the 4th. After watching the Snappers take advantage of the Explorers catcher’s arms all series, they return the favor I the 11th after Ryan Zimmerman singled. He steals 2nd, Shin-Soo Choo walks, they do a double steal and with the infield in Iglesias drives one into the outfield for a walk-off single as Columbus wins 2-1. VAL 1-7-3 LP Zach Duke (1-6) 11 innings COL 2-6-0 WP Francisco Rodriguez (4-2) Explorers benefit from 7 walks. |
| Game #6: | The only blow out of the series, but it was a 2-1 Explorers lead through 5, but then Columbus tees off on Julio Teheran (opposite of game 1) for 2 homers and another off Mauricio Cabrera and score 3 in the 7th, 1 in the 7th and 3 more in the 8th. Ender Inciarte gets 1 hit this game. Ian Desmond (15) and Eduardo Nunez (11) get 2 hits, 2 runs and 2 rbis and a homer apiece. Ryan Zimmerman (7) adds a solo shot. Jhan Marinez gets the win in relief and Andy Chafin gets his 1st save of the year as he gets in some much needed work. VAL 2- 4-1 LP Teheran (13-8) COL 8-10-0 WP Marinez (4-1) S Chafin (1) |
| Series Summary: | ODDITY – In 5 of the 6 games the losing team scored 1 run. Ender Inciarte knocks out 11 hits but his team falls 2-4 in the series. Valdosta stays on the road going to Windy City next week and Columbus packs their bags for Grand Haven. |
Sacramento Capitals @ Long Beach Dirt Bags |
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| Series Summary: | Sacramento takes 5 of 6 from Long Beach |
Grand Haven Gators @ Triple Creek Patriots |
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| Series Preview: | Gators take a 2 hour road trip to take on Triple Creek. |
| Game #1: | Paulino has the dark one working as he tosses a 3-hit shutout.
GHG 4 TCP 0 W – Paulino (2) |
| Game #2: | Marquez allows just 1 run and the bullpen barely hangs on.
GHG 4 TCP 3 W – Marquez (6) |
| Game #3: | Down 3-0 heading into the bottom of 7, the Patriots battle back and score in the last 3 innings to win a squeaker.
GHG 3 TCP 4 W – Logan (4) |
| Game #4: | Back and forth battle all game and is settled in the 10th. Galvis 3-5 w/ double, rbi and 2 stolen bases.
GHG 6 TCP 5 W – Kintzler (4) |
| Game #5: | Patriots slug 3 homers and collect 12 hits in a one sided affair.
GHG 1 TCP 10 W – Griffin (3) |
| Game #6: | Triple Creek mash 15 hits but could only score in 1 inning. Galvis 3-4 w/ 3 rbi.
GHG 6 TCP 3 W – Chavez (4) |
| Series Summary: | Gators take the series 4-2. |
Corktown Cycle @ Jersey Nor’easters |
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| Series Preview: | Webster’s Dictionary defines the words “insignificant”, “meaningless” and “unimportant” as: A series between Corktown and Jersey in MWBL. |
| Game #1: | Odor and Duda homer early for Jersey but the Nor’easter give up 2 runs in the 9th and Corktown comes away with a 3-2 win. |
| Game #2: | Corktown coasts to an easy 8-2 win. |
| Game #3: | NO HITTER ALERT!!! Robbie Ray fires a no-hitter for Corktown as they win 2-0. |
| Game #4: | Jersey saved up their hits for this game as they pound out 17 of them and win 19-3. |
| Game #5: | Jersey comes back scoring 4 runs in the 7th to tie the game at 6-6 only to lose 7-6. |
| Game #6: | Jersey’s recently acquired Jordan Zimmermann throws a complete game shutout winning 4-0. Tomas goes 4-4 for the Nor’easters. |
| Series Summary: | Corktown win the series 4-2. |
Detroit Crime @ Yonge Street Stalkers |
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| Game #1: | The series opened with a brilliant pitchers duel. Marco Estrada walked 6, but K’d 12 in his 8 scoreless innings. Carlos Carrasco and Zach Britton combined to also K 12 in the shutout. The weary Stalker pen pissed this one away in the 9th. DET 3 – YSS 0 |
| Game #2: | The focus remained on the starters. Aaron Nola K’d 9 and gave up just 1 run in his 7+ innings. Fortunately, Shelby Miller made it stand up. He went the distance and K’d 7 in an awesome performance. YSS 1 – DET 0 |
| Game #3: | The home team jumped on Bartolo Colon early. YSS scored 1 in the first and added 6 more in the 3rd. Detroit chipped away with 1 run in the 2nd, another in the 3rd, then 2 more in the 4th and 3 in the 5th to tie the game at 7. YSS scored a single run in the 8th, but DET answered with 1 in the top of the 9th to tie it. Joc Pederson ended it with 1 out in the 9th. YSS 9 – DET 8 |
| Game #4: | Hey that Bryce Harper fella is pretty good. He homered twice, doubled and plated 5. |
| Game #5: | Madison Bumgarner was tough (6.1 IP, 2H, 5BB, 10K, 2 unearned runs). The DET pen was a little shaky, but not as shaky as Robert Stephenson. DET 7 – YSS 5 |
| Game #6: | Carlos Carrasco gave up 3 runs in 6+ innings to pick up his 15th win and the pen was tight as a drum. DET 5 – YSS 3 |
| Series Summary: | What started out promising, with 2 wins in the first 3 games…ended up a series loss. The Crime took 4 of 6 and will take their winning ways to SBL. YSS remains home to host DAL. |
Southwest Detroit Fighting Chihuahuas @ Tijuana Bottle Rockets |
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| Series Summary: | Tijuana takes the series 4-2 then loses a makeup game vs Coconut Creek. |