2018 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #10
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| SPRINGER,George | VIR AL | .722 | 2.278 | 5 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| BLACKBURN,Paul | HOL AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.08 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| SOUZA,Steven | SEL NL | .542 | .917 | 6 | 24 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| ARRIETA,Jake | BET NL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Southbend Lynx @ Southwest Detroit Fighting Chihuahuas |
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| Series Summary: | Southbend takes the series 4-2 |
Portland Lumber Jax @ Bethesda Bandicoots |
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| Series Preview: | The NL west’s 2nd place team, the Portland Lumber Jax (30-30) head way way east to take on the NL East 1st place Bethesda Bandicoots (36-23). |
| Game #1: | Hyun-Jin Ryu tosses five shutout innings and gets run support in the way of homers from Logan Morrison and Brad Miller as Bethesda opens the series with an 8-2 win over Portland. Christian Arroyo had two hits for Portland and drove in both runs. Miller and Morrison each drove in three for Bethesda with Miller going 3/4. |
| Game #2: | NO-HITTER ALERT Jake Arrieta walked three but did not much else wrong as he tossed a no-hitter in a 4-0 win for Bethesda. Arrieta also tripled and drove in a run in the game with Brad Miller driving in two with a two-run shot off Portland starter Anthony Senzatela in the 2nd inning. AJ Ellis scored twice and homered off Senzatela in the 5th. |
| Game #3: | Erasmo Ramirez was perfect through five innings but settled for a two-hitter as the Bandicoots blanked Portland 3-0. Both Portland bats came off the bat of hot-hitting and Midas gloved outfielder Kevin Pillar. Anthony Rendon and Travis Shaw each had two hits for Bethesda with Alen Hanson bopping his first homer of the season off German Marquez in the 7th inning. |
| Game #4: | Logan Morrison hammered two balls out of the park including a walkoff solo shot in the bottom of the 10th as Bethesda edged Portland 8-7. The Lumber Jax bats woke up big time as they hammered Bethesda starter Rich Hill for four runs in the first inning, but Robinson Chirinos hit a grand slam pinch hitting for Hill in the bottom of the Bethesda 5-run second to give them the lead which they held until the 8th inning. Up 7-5 in the 8th, the Lumber Jax jumped all over Tyler Lyons who had been nearly unhittable coming out of the Bethesda pen this year. Lyons gave up a bases loaded walk to Christian Arroyo and then an RBI groundout by Juan Lagares which tied the game at 7-7. Kevin Pillar (12) homered for the Lumber Jax and catcher Sandy Leon drove in two runs with a double in the first inning off Hill. Carlos Ruiz hit his first homer of the season for Bethesda off starter Adam Conley. |
| Game #5: | Portland starter Kyle Freeland was erratic, allowing three walks in the first inning as Bethesda counted four runs and cruised to a 6-2 win over the Lumber Jax. Logan Morrison continued to hit for power crushing his 15th of the year off Russ Stripling in the 5th inning. David Peralta chipped in with a 3/3 game for Bethesda. Tyler Saladino had two hits for Portland and drove in a run with the other RBI coming from Jeff Mathis |
| Game #6: | Hyun-Jin Ryu tossed his second strong game of the series, striking out 11 as the Bandicoots completed the sweep of Portland with a 3-2 squeaker. Portland opened the game quickly, scoring twice off the Korean lefty before he settled down and cruised all the way to the end of the 7th inning giving up just one hit after the 1st. Ryu opened by getting tough Kevin Pillar out but then gave up a warning shot double high off the wall to Juan Lagares. Heedless of the warning, Ryu went right after Mikkie Mahtook who promptly deposited the ball deep into the outfield stands for his 3rd homer of the season. Mahtook and CJ Cron had two hits for Portland. Steve Cishek struck out two in a perfect 9th to get his 13th save of the season. |
| Series Summary: | Portland beat up on Bethesda’s arguably best starting pitcher, but the Bandicoots capitalized on their chances and otherwise stilled the Lumber Jax bats to earn a sweep with strong pitching by Arrieta (no-hitter), Ramirez (2-hitter), Ryu (two wins, 2 runs and 8 hits in 12 innings) and even Tyson Ross (6 innings of shutout ball in game 5) |
Dallas Cougars @ Chicago Mobsters |
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| Series Preview: | Dallas looking to gain some ground in the American League East, takes on the Central leading Mobsters in Chicago. |
| Game #1: | The bottom of the line up has 4 RBI’s for the Panthers & Andrew Cashner is spectacular in 6 Innings of work. Manny Pina is 4 for 4 with 3 Runs scored.
Final Score: Fort Worth 6 – Chicago 0 Win: Andrew Cashner 5-1 (2.16) |
| Game #2: | Dallas comes out clubbing the ball again. Josh Harrison is 4 for 4 with 3 Runs Scored. Jose Pirela & Jose Abreu both have 3 RBI’s. Patrick Corbin goes 6 innings for the win.
Final Score: Fort Worth 9 – Chicago 4 Win: Patrick Corbin 7-1 (2.47) |
| Game #3: | Thanks to Jose Quintana the Mobsters right the ship. Dexter Fowler has 2 solo Home Runs. Justin Turner is 3 for 5 with a solo shot as well.
Final Score: Chicago 6 – Fort Worth 2 Win: Jose Quintana 7-3 (4.26) |
| Game #4: | Chicago loses their speedy Center Fielder Billy Hamilton for 9 days early on in this one. Marcus Stroman was dominant Striking Out 11 Panthers. Chicago’s bullpen picks up when Stroman exits the game after 7.1 Innings.
Final Score: Chicago 3 – Fort Worth 1 Win: Marcus Stroman 6-5 (4.03) |
| Game #5: | Chicago ties the game at 3 in the bottom of the 9th with 2 Outs when Daniel Nava hits a game tying Home Run. However Dallas gets 3 in the 10th, Chicago chips away with 2 in the 10th, but falls short.
Final Score: Fort Worth 3 – Chicago 2 (10 Innings) Win: Matt Albers 2-2 (3.04) |
| Game #6: | Chicago looking to tie the series at 3 games each, gets a dominant 7.1 Innings out of Felix Hernandez, as he allows only 4 hits, while Striking Out 8. Dexter Fowler goes off with a 3 for 4, 2 Runs Scored, Triple, Home Run & 4 RBI’s for the Mobsters.
Final Score: Chicago 8 – Fort Worth 1 Win: Felix Hernandez 3-0 (4.43) |
| Series Summary: | The series is split at 3 games each. Dallas heads home to take on the Sluggers of Virginia, as the Mobsters head to Coconut Creek to take on the Crushers. |
Sacramento Capitals @ Jersey Nor’easters |
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| Series Summary: | The Nor’easters play well against Division leading Sacramento and take the series 4-3. Included in the 4 wins were two 13 innings victories and a 5-0 3 hit shutout by Dinelson Lamet and his T.J. elbow. |
Yonge Street Stalkers @ Virginia Sluggers |
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| Series Preview: | Yonge Street comes to Virginia after taking a beating from a tough Dallas team. Virginia limps home after getting blasted by Tijuana. Both teams looking for a bounce-back. |
| Game #1: | YSS 3-2 W-Kelvan Herrera (1-1) L-Cory Gearrin (3-4)
4-hit pitching from both team’s starters (Taijuan Walker and Trevor Williams) kept this a low scoring game. Two Virginia errors aided Yonge Street in plating two runs while long balls from Anthony Rizzo and Nick Markakis accounted for Virginia’s scoring. Tied at 2-all, it was Ruben Tejada’s SF in the 10th that gave Yonge Street the win. |
| Game #2: | VIR 4-1 W-Luis Perdomo (6-1) L- Ivan Nova (4-6) SV- Felipe Rivero (12)
The beginning of a monster series by George Springer. Perdomo was stingy all game, giving up 5 hits while striking out 8 in 8 innings. But it was Springer who jump started the offense. Putting the barrell on the ball, Springer ripped 2 balls over the fence and tallied 3 RBI. Virginia took the lead, stayed in the lead, and with Neil Walker’s solo shot, added to the lead. Things looking up for Virginia. |
| Game #3: | VIR 6-1 W-Chris Tillman (2-3) L-Garritt Cole (3-5)
Chris Tillman was on his game, throwing a CG, 5-hit shut-out while striking out 13 Stalkers. Never in trouble, Tillman was given offensive support from home runs by Clint Frazier, Anthony Rizzo, and (yes) George Springer (his 3rd in 2 games). |
| Game #4: | VIR 6-3 W-Chris Archer (6-4) L-Tony Zych (0-1) SV-Felipe Rivero (13)
Yonge Street looked like they might pull this one out. Virginia jumped out to a 2-0 lead on a Ryan Flaherty double only to see Yonge Street tie it up with RBI singles from Trea Turner and Eric Thames. George Springer tried to work his magic again and sent another ball out of the yard for a 3-2 VIR lead. But a Neil Walker error lead to another Yonge Street run and the game was tied at 3-all entering the 8th. Enter one Carlos Santana with the bases loaded, not known for his speed, who lines one into the corner and somehow ends up at 3rd with a 3-run triple. That was all Felipe Rivero needed as he struck out the side in the 9th to pick up the save. |
| Game #5: | VIR 9-2 W-Trevor Cahill (2-7) L-Matt Cain (4-6)
Yonge Street got 2 RBI’s from Mike Zunino, who was 0-1 with 2 walks. That was it. Meanwhile, Virginia’s Neil Walker and George Springer were wrecking havoc. Walker doubled and tripled in a 4-hit day while driving in 4 runs and Springer hit two screamers into the bleachers for his 5th and 6th homers of the series and drove in 3 runs. |
| Game #6: | VIR 8-1 W-Trevor Williams (5-3) L-Taijuan Walker (3-5)
Virginia came out of the gate with 4 runs in the 1st, including a Jean Segura longball. The Sluggers then put it away in the 3rd with 3 more runs, again, sparked by a Segura RBI. From there Williams coasted to his 5th win. |
| Game #7: | VIR 8-4 W-Luis Perdomo (7-1) L-Matt Cain (4-7) SV-Paul Sewald (1)
The exclamation point for George Springer’s monster series. After homering in the 1st, Springer lofted a 3-run shot that ended up in the upper deck and capped a 5-run 5th that put Virginia up 7-3. And then Springer, playing in his 5th game of the 7 game series with 8 home runs in the series so far, lined a bullet in the 7th that just cleared the wall for his 9th homer of the series. Finishing the game 4-4 with 3 home runs, 3 runs scored nd 5 RBI, Springer made a strong statement for Player of the week. |
| Series Summary: | A 6-1 series win for a struggling Virginia team. The Slugger bats came alive against a good Yonge Street team that just ran out of gas. But the big story is George Springer. In 5 games he was 13-18, a .722 BA, 11 runs scored, 14 RBI’s and 9 Home Runs. |
Hollywood Werewolves @ Coconut Creek Crushers |
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| Series Preview: | Preparing for an ass whipping. |
| Game #1: | HOL gets 7 quick runs off Peacock. CCC shows a little life to battle back to 8-6 before losing by a 10-7 score. |
| Game #2: | CCC gets 2 in the first and makes it hold up…..until the 8th inning. HOL take the lead and holds on to win 3-2. |
| Game #3: | Three 3-run HR’s stake HOL to a quick 10-0 lead. They coast to a 12-3 win. |
| Game #4: | Ozuna hits 2 HR’s including a grand slam as HOL cruises 12-1. |
| Game #5: | Snell conquers HOL as CCC finally wins 4-2. |
| Game #6: | This time Peacock holds HOL down. But CCC struggles to score so the game goes extra innings. CCC lack of bullpen costs the game as HOL wins 3-2 in the 12th. |
| Game #7: | Leading 3-1 in the 8th inning, HOL blows it open and wins 10-1. |
| Series Summary: | HOL takes 6 of 7. |
Harsens Island Walleye @ Valdosta Snappers |
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| Series Preview: | A battle of last place teams as the Walleye visit the Snappers in Valdosta. |
| Game #1: | Harsens Island 5-3. Nolan Arenado homered twice, including the game winner in the 9th. Bad news for the Walleye though as Brian McCann goes down for 23 days after a HBP. |
| Game #2: | Harsens Island 4-0. Nolan Arenado homered twice again as the Walleye get an easy win. |
| Game #3: | Harsens Island 3-2. Brett Gardner hit a 3-run blast in the 1st inning and that’s all the Walleye needed as they sneak past the Snappers. Gio Gonzalez goes down in the 3rd for 6 days with a blister. |
| Game #4: | Valdosta 4-2. Light hitting Jose Perraza smacked a 3-run HR in the 6th to put the Snappers up. Meanwhile, Kenta Maeda (8-2) went 7 strong IP for the win. Craig Kimbrel with the save. |
| Game #5: | Valdosta 2-0. Jason Hammel (3-8) tossed 8 shutout innings and Craig Kimbrel came on for his 12th save. |
| Game #6: | Valdosta 10-9. The Snappers walk it off in the bottom of the 9th after being down 7-0 after 2 innings. Bad news though as Aaron Altherr goes down for 12 days with an injury. |
| Series Summary: | Series split at 3-3. Valdosta is starting to look like a M.A.S.H. unit as they will have 4 guys on the DL next week. |
Detroit Crime @ Motor City Muscle |
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| Series Summary: | Detroit wins the series 4-3. |
Fremont Cannons @ Manhattan Project |
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| Series Preview: | Two struggling teams meet in Manhattan for a 7 game series. |
| Game #1: | Manhattan 4-2 WP Tanaka LP Romano SV Allen INJURED: NELSON CRUZ OF 4 DAYS |
| Game #2: | Manhattan 5-2 WP Porcello LP Garcia SV Swarzak |
| Game #3: | Fremont 8-7 WP Smoker LP Moylan SV Doolittle |
| Game #4: | Fremont 7-3 WP Bundy LP Swarzak |
| Game #5: | Manhattan 7-4 WP Chatwood LP Pruitt |
| Game #6: | Fremont 7-4 WP Romano LP Allen SV Nicasio |
| Game #7: | Fremont 11-8 WP Garcia LP Porcello SV Doolittle |
| Series Summary: | Fremont takes the series 4 games to 3 |
Tijuana Bottle Rockets @ Mesa Solar Sox |
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| Series Preview: | Tijuana looks to bash around the Solar Sox |
| Series Summary: | They did, taking 5 of 6. |
Selkirk Steelers @ Rosemere Renegades |
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| Series Preview: | One team aiming at 500 ball while the other aiming at … next year draft. Slowly building …. |
| Series Summary: | Selkirk takes the first five games rather easily while Rosemere takes the final two. |
Tempe Tempers @ Corktown Cycle |
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| Series Preview: | There is always something special in the air when the defending champion comes to town, but its takes a bigger notch when Chris Douglas and his his 10 rings come to your town. |
| Game #1: | Corktown fought and both managers had a quick trigger on their starters. The game was tied 2-2 to begin the 9th when Corey Knebel came in and walked 3 batters. The two runs the Tempers needed to win walked across the plate.
Tempe 4-2 |
| Game #2: | Brandon Mccarthy scattered 7 hits and went 9 shut out innings for Tempe.
Tempe 3-0 |
| Game #3: | A base hit in the 3rd and another base hit with 2 outs in the 9th is all the Tempers could muster against rookie Jake Faria. Faria went 9 fanning 6 while walking 1. Chris Taylor homered twice and would go on to have some big hits in the series.
Corktown 6-0 |
| Game #4: | Things continued to go in the direction of the Cycle in game 4. Robbie Ray K’d 10 through 7.
Corktown 7-1 |
| Game #5: | Tempe jumped out early with 3 runs in the 1st with a costly Corktown error. Corktown would chip away until they tied it in the 5th. Marcus Semien lead off the bottom of the 9th with a base hit and stole 2nd and 3rd from Evan Gattis. Michael A Taylor eventually drove in Simien for the walk off after two strikeouts from Greg Holland.
Corktown 4-3 |
| Game #6: | Game 6 began similar to game 5. Tempers jump out early, Corktown comes back. Except this time the Cycle erreased a 2-0 lead and turning it into a 6-2 lead. This is when Corktown decided to go to the pen because they didn’t trust their 3 grade starting pitcher. The result: 5 earned runs in the 5th inning. Tempe overtook the lead once again to 7-6. The balls just seemed to bounce the way of the home team in this entire series as Corktown was able to tie it and again walk it off. The 10th went the way of game 5 as Eric Hosmer singled and stole 2 bases to eventually be driven in for the W.
Corktown 8-7 (10) |
| Game #7: | Tempe gets out to a 4-0 lead early…..And somehow, someway, the Cycle once again crawl back to to take their 5th victory of the series.
Corktown 6-4 |
| Series Summary: | Corktown shocks everyone and the fans got to witness some great baseball. The Cycle won the final 5 games of the series including the final 3 being down 3 runs or more in each contest. It’s just a flesh wound for the Tempers, as they “fall” to 47-18 and the Cycle, have now won 14 of their last 19 and are now a game shy of .500.
Corktown wins the series 5-2 |
Pittsburgh Lumber Company @ Triple Creek Patriots |
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| Series Summary: | Pittsburgh takes the series 4 games to 3. |
Long Beach Dirt Bags @ Columbus Explorers |
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| Series Preview: | Dirt Bags vs. Explorers – interesting series -2 runs keeps it from a sweep, couple of late rallys kept Long Beach from winning 4. [Short recap – long busy week] |
| Game #1: | Down 4-2, Columbus gets 3 in the 6th and then 10 in the 7th (not a misprint) for 15-4 win. Kevin Kiermaier gets 3 run homer (2) for Dirt Bags. Ryan Zimmerman (12), Curtis Granderson (5) and Shin-Soo Choo go deep for Columbus. WP Ervin Santana (6-2) LP Danny Salazar (4-5) |
| Game #2: | Happ goes 8 innins and gives up 2 hits, both in the 6th. The 1st to Lance Lynn, a double, the 2nd to Ben Gamel who drives him in. Meanwhile Lynn goes the distance tossing a 3 hitter, 8 ks and NO RUNS for the shutout. Long Beach wins 1-0! Great pitcher’s duel. WP Lynn (5-3) LP J.A. Happ (5-4) |
| Game #3: | Dirt Bags keep pouring it on. After falling behind 2-0 in the 1st, Long Beach plates 8 in the 3rd. Explorers kept working it hard, 2 in the 4th, 3 in the 7th, but Kettredge was able to close the door. Whew, what a game. Riddle homers (2) for 2 of the runs.. Final 8-7 Long Beach Ryan Zimmerman (13) homers again, as does Shin-Soo Choo (10) and Paul DeJong (9) WP Tyler Skaggs (4-3) S Andrew Kittredge (2) LP Phil Hughes (5-2) |
| Game #4: | Tight low scoring game again as Tyler Anderson and Josh Tomlin hang tough. 1-1 through 6, but the Explorers where down Anderson and score 5 runs in the 7th including a 2 run Jesus Sucre homer (5). Big bat was Ian Desmond who drives in 5. Final 6-1 Columbus WP Tomlin (9-2) LP Anderson (1-6) |
| Game #5: | Explorers get up 4-0 through 3, give up 2 but get one more to finish up 5-2 for the win. WP Lance McCullers (5-0) S David Robertson (12) LP Michael Fiers (1-11) |
| Game #6: | Dirt Bags plate 3 in the 4th keyed by a J.T. Riddle 2 run double. Explorers get them right back in the bottom half for 4-3 lead. 3 more runs late gives Columbus a 7-4 lead. Big player in the game was Enrique Hernandez slamming 2 homers (6) and driving in 4. Paul DeJong homers (10) so does Russell Martin (3). WP Ervin Santana (7-2) S David Robertson (13) LP Jeremy Hellickson (4-5) |
| Series Summary: | Columbus takes the series 4-2 and get ready for 1st Place in the NL East Bethesda to come to town. Long Beach heads back to the left coast to host a right coast team – Jersey. |