2021 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #26
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| MACHADO,Manny | DET AL | .455 | 1.273 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| PAXTON,James | MSS AL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| SOTO,Juan | BET NL | .444 | 1.556 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| GONZALES,Marco | JNE NL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bethesda Bandicoots @ Corktown Cycle |
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| Series Summary: | Bethesda takes both games from Corktown, – Thank God that is over. Corktown may be a contender next year! |
Chicago Mobsters @ Tijuana Bottle Rockets |
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| Series Preview: | Two teams separated by many games in the standings. One playing out the string, one resting up for the playoffs. |
| Game #1: | A Gary Sanchez Bomb put the Mobsters down early. They never recover from this.
Final Score: Tijuana 6 – Chicago 3 Win: Framber Valdez 4-7 (3.69) |
| Game #2: | Kolten Wong Homers, & Michael Tauchman has 2 RBI’s. Chicago throws out 6 relievers after Lance McCullers goes 6 strong Innings. The Bottle Rockets score a couple of late runs, but Chicago prevails.
Final Score: Chicago 6 – Tijuana 2 Win: Lance McCullers 6-4 (2.89) |
| Series Summary: | The Bottle Rockets will rise up in the American League Central someday soon with the rebuild in process. But for now, they head to the golf course. Chicago heads home for a playoff series (Most likely against Hollywood). Chicago’s not well-rested, but after bringing their own water bottles to Tijuana they are feeling better than they thought they would. |
Sacramento Capitals @ Triple Creek Patriots |
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| Series Preview: | Season finale brings the Capitals to where the Creeks meet. |
| Game #1: | Holy Hits Batman! Teams bang out 28 of them in total. Bellinger delivered the biggest one with a Grand Salami in the 6th to give the Patriots some needed breathing room. Castro 3-5 and two other Caps collect 2 hits. Bellinger 3-4 w/ 4 RBI, Seager 3-5 w/ 3 RBI and Hiura 4-4 ( where has that been all year!) lead Triple Creek.
SC 5 TCP 13 W – Montas (1-4) |
| Game #2: | Dugger was en fuego as he tossed 7 innings of shutout ball. Alex Wood nearly matched him allowing just 1 run over 6 full. Heading into the bottom of the 9th it was still 1-0 Caps until Triple Creek mounted a rally and pinch-hitter Villar delivered a walk off double.
SC 1 TCP 2 W – Woodford (1-1) |
| Series Summary: | Triple Creek bangs out 27 hits in the two games and take the series 2-0. |
Harsens Island Walleye @ Columbus Explorers |
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| Series Preview: | Last week of the season – tune up and rest for post season. Columbus hosts Harsens Island whose plans are based on next year. |
| Game #1: | Columbus bats scores 3 in the 1st and 2nd, 2 in the 3rd, 1 in the 4th. Walleye wake up and get 2 in the 2nd and 2 in the 3rd but then they falter until the 8th and 9th where they add 1 more in each inning. Ty France gets 3 hits, Nolan Arenado drives in 2. Columbus gets big games from Matt Carpenter, 3 for 4, Asdrubal Cabrera 3 for 3, 2 walks, 4 rbis and a homer (6) and D.J. LeMahieu, 3 for 4, 3 rbis, homer (8). Trevor Story also connects (21) and collects 3 hits and 3 rbis. HIW 6-10-0 LP Ryan Castellani (2-9) COL 14-16-0 WP J.A. Happ (6-2)The fun part of the game was the RARE PLAY where I’m in the script!!! * J. LAGARES facing K. MIDDLETON, B 7th, 2 Outs, 1st and 2nd, Ahead 11-4 MIDDLETON now … off-speed pitch … misses … LAGARES draws a walk … that fills the bases * D. GORDON facing K. MIDDLETON, B 7th, 2 Outs, Bases Loaded, Ahead 11-4 And MIDDLETON drops the ball! … it’s a balk! … the ump is bringing CABRERA home HERNANDEZ moves to third … LAGARES’s taking second … Fritz is out of the stands and the ump’s taking some heat … Roswell and Kenneth are off the bench Jeff, Sam, and Ileana are waving their arms phenoms Colby, Alan, Gregg, Corlise, and Bill are running over … everyone’s hopping mad but the call stands … and the fans leave the field |
| Game #2: | Well we could have used a couple of those excess runs for game one in this one – but a tired Michael King comes in a pitches a CG 10 hit SHUTOUT!!! And in addition to giving up 10 hits, he gives up 7 walks – and yet NO RUNS!! Columbus leaves 14 on base and hit into 3 DPs (2 by Jarrod Dyson). And then there was Mike Fiers – he pitches 7 innings, 5 hits (5 walks) and gives up a 6th inning solo homer to Max Stassi – and that was the games ONLY RUN!! Explorers were resting a lot of guys – but 14 LOB!! Even the scrubs should have done something with all those base runners – give King and his defense some credit, they made it work! HIW 1- 5-0 WP King (3-9) COL 0-10-0 LP Fiers (3-4) |
| Series Summary: | So we finish a surprising season with perhaps the leagues 2nd best record and berth in the playoffs – not bad for a team expected to finish 2nd to last (or last) in the early preseason scouting reports. But since we are getting old – we hope for a surprising run in the post-season (who knows, usage rules will cause a lot of weird pitching usage). |
Coconut Creek Crushers @ Detroit Crime |
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| Series Summary: | Detroit wins both vs CCC 12-2 & 23-4. |
Portland Lumber Jax @ Selkirk Steelers |
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| Series Preview: | 3rd place selkirk went with the backups to save for the playoffs. Portlandsent a solid team as they want 8th place. |
| Game #1: | Efflin is strong 2 in 7 plus and Tavares hits a homer and drives in 3. 4-2 Portland. |
| Game #2: | Vlad and Stewart drive in 2 each and Mahle was great 4-1 Portland. |
| Series Summary: | Back ups in Selkirk can’t do much while Portland can sweeping Selkirk in the final 2. |
Jersey Nor’easters @ Pittsburgh Lumber Company |
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| Game #1: | Marco Gonzales pitches a 2 hit, complete game shut out for the Nor’easters. Kole Calhoun‘s 2 doubles and 2 RBIs pace the Jersey offense.
JER 4/6/2 |
| Game #2: | Solo homeruns by Calhoun and Gregorius lead Jersey to a game 2 victory. Verlander strikes out nine, but cannot get any offensive support, taking the loss.
JER 2/4/0 |
| Series Summary: | In their last games in Pittsburgh the Lumber Company goes down with a whimper, ending a disappointing season. |
Southwest Detroit Fighting Chihuahuas @ Dallas Cougars |
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| Series Preview: | The Cougars need one win to clinch best record in A.L. |
| Game #1: | In extra innings Mesa squeaks one out 8-7, in a game with no homers. A note because… |
| Game #2: | Each team hits 5 homers in a wild 16-13 Virginia win. |
| Series Summary: | Mesa ends the year 33-33, while Virginia ends the year 10 games over .500 at 38-28. |
Cincinnati Skyliners @ Fremont Cannons |
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| Series Preview: | Fremont tries to rest some players going into the playoffs, but still with an eye on home field advantage. Virginia would hold the tie-breaker. |
| Game #1: | Corbin Burnes retires the first 10 Dallas batters before a 1 out triple by Miguel Rojas in the 4th. After a walk to Pollock, Will Smith doubled home both to give the Cougars a lead they wouldn’t relinquish. Smith would later score on a single by Josh Fuentes. Dallas scored once more in the 5th and twice more in the 6th off a 2 RBI double by Anderson Tejada.
Dallas wins going away 6 to 2. |
| Game #2: | Two home runs by Southwest Detroit saw Dallas down 3-0 going into the bottom of the 7th. Fuentes delivered a big two out hit doubling home two runs. In the 8th Justin Smoak tied the with a solo home run. Manny Pina followed with a single and one out later Hunter Dozier stepped up, “The pitch … DOZIER smacks it … straight down the line in left … could it go? … it could and it does! … just inside the left field foul pole … a two-run shot”
Hunter’s home run was enough as a pair of lefties finished off the Chihuahuas in the 9th. Dallas wins 5 to 3. |
| Series Summary: | Dallas finishes the season with 10 straight wins clinching the top spot in the A.L. |
Virginia Sluggers @ Mesa Solar Sox |
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| Series Preview: | Two teams battling… |
| Game #1: | Mesa comes from behind to win this one 5-3. |
| Game #2: | James Paxton hurls a 3 hit shutout, striking out 12. Mesa wins 6-0. |
| Series Summary: | Mesa ends up taking both games to finish the season. |
Tempe Tempers @ Valdosta Snappers |
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| Series Preview: | The young Valdosta squad hosts a resting Tempe squad for the final two games of the year. |
| Game #1: | Valdosta jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with RBI singles by Acuna and Sano. Ademes added a solo homerun in the 6th to make it 3-0. Cole Hamels pitched a complete game 4 hitter. His only mistake was a solo shot to Ozuna in the 9th. Valdosta 3-1 W – Hamels 4-8 L – Kluber 0-1 |
| Game #2: | Light hitting Casali launched a grandslam in the first to give Tempe 4-0 lead. Wainwright allowed solo homeruns to Acuna and Adames and a total of three runs over 6.1 innings. The Tempe pen worked out of couple jams in the 7th and 8th. Rendon launched a three run homerun in the 9th to the put the game away. W – Wainwright 10-0 L – Zimmerman 5-4 |
| Series Summary: | Valdosta gets the split and finishes the season 28-38 with some really exciting youngsters looking to show more in 2022. Tempe finishes 54-12 with their eyes firmly set on winning he World Series before a potential rebuild in 2022. |
Motor City Muscle @ Yonge Street Stalkers |
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| Series Preview: | The Muscle visits Yonge Street to close out the year. |
| Game #1: | The verrrrry tired Muscle squad did their best to snatch a victory. Trout homered and doubled, but the visitors spread their production evenly. Seven members of the Muscle plated a run, with Candelario driving home a pair. Jorge Soler ended it in the 10th with a walk off solo shot. YSS 9 – MCM 8 |
| Game #2: | Again, the Muscle sped out to an early lead. A Castellanos homer saw MCM with a 4-0 lead after 3 innings. Yonny Chirinos proved to be a calming influence for the home team. He finished the game with 3.1 hitless innings, bailing out an ineffective Brady Singer. The Stalker offense waited til the latter innings to pile on the runs and pull away. Madrigal, Nola, Darnaud and Ruf each had 3 hits. YSS 10 – MCM 4 |
| Series Summary: | MCM gave it their all. YSS was much healthier and in the end pulled out both games. |
Rosemere Renegades @ Long Beach Dirt Bags |
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| Game #1: | Hoskins broke up a close game with a 2 run HR in the 8th and Rosemere won 4-1. Weaver gave up 1 run in 8 2/3 to pick up the victory. |
| Game #2: | Ervin hit a walk off 2 run HR in the 9th as Long Beach ended the season with a 7-5 win. Tatis hit 2 HRs while Slater and Grossman each had 3 hits. |
| Series Summary: | Rosemere and Long Beach split 2 games to end the regular season. |
Hollywood Werewolves @ Southbend Lynx |
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| Series Summary: | Teams split as Hollywood plays teh roster to get ready for the playoffs. |