2018 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #4

NAME	TEAM	AVG	SLG	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	K	W	IW	SB	CS	HBP
GOLDSCHMIDT,Paul	HOL AL	.469	.813	7	32	15	2	0	3	7	7	6	0	0	1	0	0

NAME	CLUB	G	W	L	S	ERA	IP	R	ER	H	K	BB	IBB	WP	BK	HB	HR
McGUIRE,Deck	TIJ AL	2	2	0	0	0.00	12	1	0	2	9	1	0	0	0	0	0

NAME	TEAM	AVG	SLG	G	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	R	RBI	K	W	IW	SB	CS	HBP
VALAIKA,Pat	SEL NL	.588	1.353	6	17	10	1	0	4	5	11	1	0	0	0	0	0

NAME	CLUB	G	W	L	S	ERA	IP	R	ER	H	K	BB	IBB	WP	BK	HB	HR
SCHERZER,Max	SAC NL	2	2	0	0	1.38	13	2	2	8	12	0	0	0	0	0	1

Tijuana Bottle Rockets @ Manhattan Project
Series Preview:	Tijuana hosts Manhattan for a 6 game series
Series Summary:	Home team sweeps!!

Southwest Detroit Fighting Chihuahuas @ Virginia Sluggers
Series Preview:	The Sluggers host the Fighting Chihuahuas of Southwest Detroit.
Series Summary:	The Fighting Chihuahuas win first one, then lose three in a row, but played the Sluggers tight in the final two.

Jersey Nor’easters @ Columbus Explorers
Series Preview:	Nor’easters blow into Columbus trying to get away from the all the Nor’easters that have plagued the East Coast lately. But they are coming to visit a team that is still working to dig out of the blizzard the desert bound Tempe Tempers covered them with in week 1. Who will prevail?
Game #1:	Well this game belongs to Eduardo Nunez who played this game at 2nd giving Gordon the day off and Jordan Lyles (and 5 relievers)! Nunez opened the game with a solo homer (2), then hit another one in the 7th (3) and added a 3rd hit just for good measure. Lyles goes 5 innings, 4 hits, 1 run, a Jose Ramirez double (1 of 2 he had in the game). 5 relievers come in beginning in the 6th and give up a walk and nothing else the rest of the way. JNE 1-4-1 LP Mike Montgomery (1-1) COL 4-9-1 WP Lyles (1-0) S DavidRobertson (4)
Game #2:	Dinelson Lamet (JNE) and Matt Shoemaker (COL) both pitched well, each giving up 2 runs innings, but neither factor in the decision. Jersey’s offense started a little late, down 2-0 through 5, but then they get 4 runs of the next 3 innings to take the lead. However, Josh Hader blows the 3-2 lead in the 7th and Brad Hand blows the 4-3 lead in the 9th (a Ryan Zimmerman homer [7]. Columbus then plates the winner in the 11th. JNE 4- 9-1 LP Shaw (0-2) BS Hader (1), Hand (2) COL 5-12-1 WP Chris Rusin (2-3)
Game #3:	This game saw Ervin Santana cruise for all but one batter in his 7.2 innings. He gives up a 7th inning homer to Jose Ramirez (8) for the only hit he allows. Curtis Granderson gets 2 of the 9 Columbus hits, 4 rbis and a homer (1) as Columbus gets its 3rd win of the series. JNE 1-2-2 LP Vincent Velasquez (1-2) COL 6-9-0 WP Santana (3-1)
Game #4:	After a day off, the Explorers come back again find a way to stymie the Nor’easters bats limiting them to 5 hits and 1 run, a 2-out 9th inning homer by Jay Bruce (5) which spoiled the shut-out bid by Josh Tomlin. Shin-Soo Choo was the big offensive contributor with 2 hits, 3 rbis and a homer (3). Jose Iglesias also had 3 hits. JNE 1-5-1 LP Jake Junis (0-2) COL 4-8-0 WP Tomlin (3-1)
Game #5:	There was a difficult pattern developing for the Nor’easters in this series. Control issues. Game 1 – 3 walks given up. Game 2 – 6 walks, Game 3, 4 walks, Game 4 – 5 walks. Then game 5 – their 5 pitchers give up 10 walks and their defense commits 4 errors. Needless to say Columbus benefited greatly with an 8 run 3rd, 2 more in the 4th and rested most of their regulars after that. And J.A. Happ pitches 6, giving up 2 hits and the relievers give up 2 more for a combined 10-0 shut-out. JNE 0-4-4 LP Dan Straily (2-1) COL 10-9-0 WP Happ (1-2)
Game #6:	This game had some excitement. Keon Broxton hits a 2 run homer (2) off Jordan Lyles in the 3rd. Lyles stays in to pitch 6 and is then lifted for a pinch-hitter. Martin Perez had been dominate through 5 (1 hit) but in the 6th he gives up 5 more and Tommy Hunter gives up another and the Explorers plate 4 for 4-2 lead. Chris Rusin come in for the 7th, gets 1 out but gives up a double to Dimingo Santana who then scores on a Juan Graterol ground out. 4-3 Columbus after 7. Well in the 7th, Columbus changes pitchers and called on David Robertson (by mistake). But they didn’t want to lose, so they left him in for 2.2 ip save – and he came through and fanned 6 along the way. JNE 3-6-0 LP Perez (1-1) COL 4-7-1 WP Lyles (2-0) S Roberston (5)
Series Summary:	Series sweep for the Explorers – surprisingly, but we’ll take it. Columbus goes back on the road, heading to Valdosta while Jersey looks to regroup next week at home against Rosemere.

Motor City Muscle @ Dallas Cougars
Series Summary:	Good series. Motor City wins the last three – including 2 in the top of the 9th to go up 1.5 games in front of Dallas in AL East. Dallas has a couple of key injuries to Harrison and Cashner.

Portland Lumber Jax @ Selkirk Steelers
Series Preview:	Selkirk comes in to the series playing .500 and Portland was above .500. Selkirk fully expects to end up with 90 losses but they are playing great with a very strong bench cards. Portland was expecting to win 5 and at worst 4 games in this 7 game series as thye play for the wildcard.
Game #1:	Cron gets 4 hits, Pillar drives in 3 as Portland crushed Selkirk 12-5. W-Freeland(4-0) L-Nicolino(2-1) HR: FTG: Valaika PORT:Mahtook
Game #2:	Valaika hits a big 2 run homer and Hedges hits another as Davies allows just 4 hits but 2 runs as Pillar homered for Portland. SEL 4 POR 2 W-Davies(1-2) L-Elfin(0-1)
Game #3:	It looked like an easy win for Portland as they were up 4-2 int he 8th, when Valaika again hits a pinch hit homer to drive in 3 more! Three games in a row with a homer. Selkirk 4 Portland 2 W-Ramirez(3-1) Neris(5) L-Sauphold(0-1)
Game #4:	Early season ace James Shields proves hes a #1 starter throws a 4 hitter to win the game 1-0 for selkirk. The win was from a pinch hit single by Winker in the 9th. W-Shields(4-0) L-Freeman(2-1)
Game #5:	Sweet revenge Portland scores 9 runs. Mahtook,Lagares, Leon and Beckham 2 homers.Senzatela allows just 2 hits in 7 innings. Portland 9 Selkirk 0
Game #6:	Portland jumped out to 4-0 lead as Nicolino did not have it asGalvis drives in 2. But Selkirk fought back with runs in the 4th, 5th,7th(20 and 8th. Castro went 4 for 4 with 3 rbis and Bourjous won the game on a solo homer off Stripling. Selkirk 5 Portland 4 W-Norris(1-0) S-Neris(6) L-Stripling(1-2)
Game #7:	A bad error int he first setup Selkirk to score 3 runs int he first. How was it done a 3 run homer by Valaika! His 4th of the series and he only started 2 games. Davies was great again allowing just 4 hits and 2 runs in 7.2 innings. Selkirk 3 Portland 2 W-Davies(2-2) S-Neris(7) freeland (4-1) . Tough game for Freeland as he did not allow a earned run in 7 innings.
Series Summary:	Wow Selkirk manages to win 5 of the games as Valaika was amazing. Three of his homers won games. Hitter of the week: Valaika 10 for 17 .588 with 4 homers and 11 rbis. (3 game winners) Pitcher of the week: Shields 9 innings 4 hits 1 walk and 4 strikeouts.Selkirk fans are excited for the first time in years as this young team is off to a great start and at some point Hoskins will explode as they win games with pinch hit homers.

Valdosta Snappers @ Sacramento Capitals
Series Summary:	Sacramento beats visiting Valdosta 4 games to 2. Sacramento started the split 6-game set with 3-straight convincing wins, outscoring Valdosta 28-5 with a Jason Vargas NO-HITTER. But, the wheels fell off after the rest day and Sacramento dropped 2 of 3, with Valdosta outscoring Sacramento 15-9.

Detroit Crime @ Coconut Creek Crushers
Series Preview:	Champs vs Chumps
Game #1:	Two solo HR’s is all Karns and bullpen need as CCC wins 2-0.
Game #2:	Strasburg returns the favor with a nice 2-hit shutout for DET. Final 4-0.
Game #3:	Machado kicks a grounder and allows an unearned run in the 1st inning. No wonder they look to move him off the hot corner for next year! 🙂 Samardzija and Peacock make that run hold up for a 1-0 CCC win.
Game #4:	Godley and bullpen lead CCC to another 1-0 win.
Game #5:	Kendrys Morales says no more shutouts. He goes 4 for 4 with two 2B’s and two HR’s to single handedly lead DET’s offense. Nola is dominant on the mound as well as DET wins 5-0.
Game #6:	Old man Colon leads DET to a 3-1 win. The first game in the series that wasn’t a shutout!
Game #7:	Strasburg is strong again and leads DET to an easy 6-1 win.
Series Summary:	DET wins the series 4-3. The losing team was shut out 5 times and only scored one run the other 2 times.

Fremont Cannons @ Chicago Mobsters
Series Preview:	The young up coming Cannons of Fremont head into the Windy City for a six game set to take on the aging Mobsters of Chicago.
Game #1:	A bean ball war broke out with three pitchers being ejected along with 5 hit batters. Freddie Freeman was the biggest hit of the game after being plunked by Dylan Bundy Freeman was put on the shelf for 12 days. Final Score: Fremont 7 – Chicago 5 Win: Dylan Bundy 3-0 (1.02) Loss: Julio Teheran 1-1 (4.91)
Game #2:	Chicago scores 5 in the 8th to break a 3-3 tie. Andrew McCutchen & Max Stassi both Homer for Chicago. Final Score: Chicago 8 – Fremont 3 Win: Trevor Rosenthal 1-0 (3.86) Loss: Josh Fields 2-1 (4.50)
Game #3:	Sal Romano was solid for 6.1 Innings of work. Juan Nicasio did the job after that for the Cannons. Final Score: Fremont 2 – Chicago 1 Win: Sal Romano 1-2 (4.64) Loss Carlos Matias Martinez 1-2 (4.15) Save: Juan Nicasio #2
Game #4:	C.C. Sabathia inches closer to the 250 Win mark with #241 of his career. Close game, but Chicago gets 3 in the 8th to put it away. Final Score: Chicago 5 – Fremont 1 Win: C.C. Sabathia 2-1 (2.41) Loss: Jamie Garcia 2-2 (5.00)
Game #5:	Injuries hit for both teams in this one as Carlos Correa goes down for 14 days for the Cannons & Dexter Fowler pulls a hamstring & will need 5 days to rest. Andrew McCutchen & Alex Bregman both have 2 RBI’s for Chicago. Javier Baez & Jonathan Schoop both have 3 Hits for Fremont. Jose Quintana goes 6 Innings & the Chicago bullpen takes over allowing nothing but 1 Hit in the final 3 Innings of work. Final Score: Chicago 6 – Fremont 3 Win: Jose Quintan 4-0 (3.45) Loss: Austin Pruitt 1-3 (3.71) Save: Aroldis Chapman #8
Game #6:	Khris Davis has a 3-Run Home Run in the 8th off Marcus Stroman to bury the Mobsters. Final Score: Fremont 4 – Chicago 1 Win: Dylan Bundy 4-0 (1.09) Loss: Marcus Stroman 4-2 (2.68) Save: Shane Greene #1
Series Summary:	Fremont plays the Mobsters tough & earn the split.

Triple Creek Patriots @ Long Beach Dirt Bags
Series Summary:	Long Beach wins 4 of 7 in a series that featured either really good pitching or really bad hitting.

Southbend Lynx @ Yonge Street Stalkers
Series Preview:	The Lynx visited the Stalkers.
Game #1:	Estrada was just a bit stronger than Bergman, though both pitched well. Whitley issued the games only walk in relief and was saddled with the loss in a tight opener. Soler and Heyward swatted solo shots for YSS, while Joyce and Gale did the same for the Lynx. YSS 4 – SBL 3
Game #2:	A sloppy game overall. The home team misplayed 3 balls early and the tallies were frequent. 3 members of the Lynx homered and 3 more helped to plate 9. SBL 9 – YSS 2
Game #3:	Two Words, bitches…Matt Cain. He gave up 2 runs in the first inning, and then went to “Operation Shutdown”. Luckily (if you’re YSS), Foltynewicz gave up 3 in his half of the first and that was the end of the scoring. YSS 3 – SBL 2
Game #4:	For the second consecutive game, SBL tallied 2 and YSS answered with 3 in the first inning. Michael Pineda (2-1) allowed just those 2 runs in 8 strong innings to bring his early season ERA down to 7.03. Soler popped a 3 run shot. YSS 4 – SBL 2
Game #5:	Gerrit Cole and Herrera combined on the shutout. D’arnaud hit a pair of solo shots. YSS 6 – SBL 0
Game #6:	YSS opened up a can. To rub salt in the wound, an itchy late inning fire balling RP plunked J. Blash and injured him for 27 days. YSS 14 – SBL 2
Game #7:	YSS closed it out in walk-off fashion. Banda and Estrada in the pitchers duel everyone saw coming. YSS 2 – SBL 1.
Series Summary:	A wildly entertaining series, mostly for the home squad. Each team scored a blowout, Gerrit Cole threw a shutout, and then there were 4 very close games all won by YSS. The Stalkers took 6 of 7 and await CCC’s visit. SBL will head home to host DET.

Corktown Cycle @ Harsens Island Walleye
Series Preview:	Corktown travels to the Island to take on the Walleye
Game #1:	A 2 run 8th knocks out Geo Gonzalez and the Walleye. Corktown wins 3-2. W- C. Edwards L- G. Gonzalez S- C. Knebel
Game #2:	Luis Servino throws a complete game 4 hitter while striking out 12. Harsens Island 9 Corktown 0. W- L. Servino L- D. Gossett
Game #3:	Corktown never looked back after a 7 run first. C. Taylor led the Cyclone offense with 5 hits and 2 homers. Corktown wins 16-7. W- J. Berrios L- J. Urena
Game #4:	Eric Hosmer and the Cyclones were too tough for the Walleye winning 6-1. W- A.Asher L- E. Rodriguez
Game #5:	Solid pitching by Koehler was too tough for the Walleye. Corktown wins 3-0. W- T.Koehler L- M. Harvey S- C. Knebel
Game #6:	A walk off sac fly by Brian McCann wins it for the Walleye 3-2. W- F.Rodney L- C.Knebel
Game #7:	3 hits for Elvis Andrus provided the O for C-Town. They win 4-1. W- B. Johnson L- L. Servino S- C. Knebel
Series Summary:	Corktown proves that they are a legit contender for first place in the N.L. East. They take 5 of 7 from Harsens Island.

Pittsburgh Lumber Company @ Tempe Tempers
Series Preview:	Lumber Company comes to Tempe for a seven game series
Game #1:	Davis and Votto each went deep to put Tempe up 3-0 after one inning. In the 2nd, the lumber loaded the bases but Tempe’s pen came on early to stop any rally. Tempe added single runs in the 3rd, 4th and 5th to take 6-0 lead. The Lumber Co. got things going in the 7th with four runs, capped by a Grichuk three run homerun off Lester. However, Infante and Olson pitched a scoreless 8th and 9th for the win. Tempe 6-4
Game #2:	Votto rbi single put Tempe up 1-0 in the 1st. Back to back doubles by Judge and Bell tied in the 2nd. Another timely single by Votto put Tempe up 2-1 in the 5th. Polanco rbi double tied it in 7th, but a Votto solo homerun in the bottom of the 7th put Tempe back up. Philips went deep in the 8th to give Tempe a 4-2 lead. Olson surrendered a solo homerun to Delmonico in the 9th, but he held on for his 2nd save of the series. Tempe 4-3
Game #3:	Greinke pitched his best game of the season with a complete game, two hit shutout. Tempe 3-0
Game #4:	Wilkerson made his first (of only two) starts of the season and nearly matched Greinke. He threw a complete game two hitter, but one of the hits was a Marisnick two run homerun in the 8th. Beltre had a homerun and a double and drove in two runs. Tempe 5-2
Game #5:	Bridwell and seven Tempe relievers combine to shutout the Lumber Company. Votto continued to mash with two hits and two more RBIs. Tempe 4-0
Game #6:	Both teams failed to produce with bases loaded early on. Marisnick finally broke a 1-1 tie with a RBI single in the 6th, but the lead only lasted for an inning. Austin Jackson slugged a pinch hit three run homerun in the 7th and Olson pitched two scoreless innings for his third save of the season. Tempe 4-2
Game #7:	A Polanco solo homerun put Pittsburgh up 1-0 in the 3rd. Tempe tied it in 4th on a Beltre rbi double. Gattis went deep in the 7th to put Tempe up 2-1 and Olson went the final 2.1 innings for his fourth save of the series. Hamels pitched eight good innings, but took the loss. Tempe 2-1
Series Summary:	Tempe pulled off the unlikely sweep behind outstanding pitching and a little timely hitting and defense. The Tempers should come back to reality soon when their part timers run out of gas and its only a matter of time before Lumber Company’s big boppers get those swing angles figured out. Votto was the hitter of the series and Olson the pitcher of the series with four saves over 5.2 innings.

Bethesda Bandicoots @ Rosemere Renegades
Series Preview:	One 500 team while the other well… not so much.
Game #1:	Rendon ad Story go deep in a 4-1 Bethesda win.
Game #2:	A Cobb went 9 innings, throwing a one hitter and facing only 29 batters but Rosemere prevails 1-0 (15) R Ruiz (!) produces the only run.
Game #3:	S Gray went the distance in an easy 3-0 win. Miller went deep twice.
Game #4:	Hill is the third Bethesda pitcher to go 9 innings in another shutout win 4-0. Rosales was the OFF start with a 3 runs blast.
Game #5:	Slater pinch hit 3 runs HR in B8 was enough in a 3-1 local win.
Game #6:	Bethesda plates 8 in the first in a 16-4 victory. Bethesda had 6 long balls.
Series Summary:	Mostly close games but the last one..

Hollywood Werewolves @ Mesa Solar Sox
Series Preview:	Hollywood looks to clean up against the woeful Solar Sox
Game #1:	Probably the worst game I’ve ever been a part of…and I mean EVER. Hollywood clubs out 27 hits (including 4 homers and 8 extra base hits) good for 28 runs. They took advantage of 11 walks received and 2 Mesa errors to win 28-2. NOW HERE’S THE WIERD PART……Mejia chips in with a NO HITTER!!!!!! He walks 5 and 2 Werewolf errors (both by Ketel Marte) allow the Solar Sox to at least get on the board…BUT REALLY!!!!!
Game #2:	More Hollywood scoring. They get 4 in the 1st and coast 9-1. Darwin Barney and Chris Ianetta each hit 2 homers.
Game #3:	Clayton Richard stops the bleeding by tossing a one hit, 7K, no walk shutout at the Werewolves!!! Nomar Mazara hits a homer for the Solar Sox and they win 2-0.
Game #4:	Homers from Chapman and Goldschmidt trump homers from Mazara and Suarez. Hollywood wins 6-2.
Game #5:	Steven Pearce hits 2 homers off Clayton Kershaw and the Sox win 3-2. Go figure….
Game #6:	Goldschmidt and Vazsquez go yard and 3 Hollywood pitchers shut out the Solar Sox on 4 hits.
Game #7:	Mesa get the long ball from Drury and Mazara (his 3rd of the series) and the SOlar Sox take it 8-5.
Series Summary:	OMG. How bad do you want to get beat? After the 1st 2 games, Mesa should have crawled away and died, but they didn’t and manage to win 3 of 7 from the first place and plenty scary Werewolves.