PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #24
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| WALKER,Larry | STO AL | .600 | 1.250 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| ABBOTT,Jim | FWP AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.53 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| THOMAS,Frank | GER NL | .429 | 1.000 | 5 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| MARTINEZ,Dennis | LBT NL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.56 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexico City Chihuahuas @ Janesville Juggernauts | |
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| Series Preview: | Mexico City comes into Janesville for a seven game set. |
| Series Summary: | Mexico City wins the series 5-2. |
| Valdosta Bombers @ Sugar Land Skeeters | |
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| Series Summary: | Sugar Land wins five of seven vs. Valdosta. |
| Fort Worth Panthers @ California Quakes | |
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| Series Summary: | Fort Worth shames California, taking all seven games. |
| Germantown Grays @ Michigan Marauders | |
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| Series Preview: | Germantown looks to be a much better team than Michigan. Looks like that happens in the series. |
| Game #1: | Germantown 8 Michigan 0
Mike Morgan is masterful as he tosses a shutout combined with Rick Aguilera. Frank Thomas and Shane Mack each crank homers. Greg Gagne adds 3 hits for |
| Game #2: | Germantown 3 Michigan 1
Juan Guzman wins his 10th game. Jeff Montgomery with his 35th save. Felix Jose and Frank Thomas connect on homers. Sutcliffe drops to 2-12. |
| Game #3: | Germantown 11 Michigan 4
Smoltz wins his 18th game. Caminiti and Mack hit homers. Pat Borders and Rafael Palmeiro hit homers for Michigan. |
| Game #4: | Germantown 6 Michigan 1
Appiers notches his 14th win. Shane Mack with 3 RBIs. |
| Game #5: | Germantown 6 Michigan 4
Close game. Morgan wins his 15th game. Frank Thomas and Felix Jose hit homers. Brady Anderson hits a homer for Michigan |
| Series Summary: | Germantown sweeps Michigan. Shane Mack, Felix Jose, and Frank Thomas each have great series. |
| Detroit Stars @ Chicago Demolition | |
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| Series Preview: | One of the I-94 Series as the Stars of Detroit head into Chicago to face the Demolition in a 5 game set over the course of 6 days. |
| Game #1: | Roger Clemens 10-13 (2.29) looked sharp covering all 9 Innings in a Complete Game win for Chicago. Final Score: Chicago 3 – Detroit 0 |
| Game #2: | Chris Nabholz 10-10 (3.57) looked spectacular for 8 Innings, Dave Valle was 3 for 5, including 2 Home Runs & 4 RBI’s. Final Score: Detroit 7 – Chicago 0 |
| Game #3: | Rickey Bones 5-5 (3.34) goes the distance. Brian Downing & Dave Valle have 2 RBI’s each. Final Score: Detroit 6 – Chicago 1 |
| Game #4: | After a day off the Demolition get a Complete Game out of John Doherty 3-4 (2.30). Lance Blankenship is 3 for 4. Wade Boggs has 2 RBI’s. Final Score: Chicago 5 – Detroit 0 |
| Game #5: | Things get heated as Benny Ayala of Detroit & Joe Hesketh of Chicago both get ejected in the 7th. Lance Blankenship collects 3 hits again. Final Score: Chicago 7 – Detroit 3 |
| Series Summary: | Chicago takes the series, but they are not even good enough to play spoiler this late in the season. |
| Steel City Sluggers @ Winnipeg Goldeyes | |
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| Series Preview: | Winnipeg has been on a very good run and have a bit of the led in the leagues toughest division. They were now facing Steel City who raised the white flag but are still an excellent team/ |
| Game #1: | Schilling was great in this game throwing a 4 hit shutout as Ventura and McGwire hit 2 run homers.
Winnipeg 4 Steel City 0 W-Schilling(17-6) L Grant(0-3) |
| Game #2: | Ventura hits another 2 run homerun and Candiotti went 5 innings to give Winnipeg a 4-3 win.
W Candiotti(13-6) S-Rojas(30) l-Hurst(6-14) |
| Game #3: | Ventura hit a 2 rbi double as Winnipeg wins 10-2.
W-Glavine(14-6) L-jackson(6-9) |
| Game #4: | Navarro was solid as Steel City wins this one 6-3. Hollins got three hits beating ex Steel City starter Darling Holmes gets his 9th save. |
| Game #5: | Liebrandt was great and Sandberg homers as Steel City Blows out Winning 12-3. |
| Game #6: | Schilling gets a tough loss allowing just 1 run in 7 innings.Grace gets two big Rbis. Grant wins his first game of the year.
SCS 4 SWin 2 |
| Game #7: | Grace 4 hits Sandberg hits a 2 run homer, Ventura however drove in 2 for Winnipeg.
Win 5 SCS 4 Rojas gets his 31 st save. |
| Series Summary: | Winnipeg manages to win 4 of the 7 games, which gives Germantown to trim the small lead. Pitcher of the Week Schilling 1-1 16 innings 1 run and just 8 hits. Ventura drove in 8 with 2 homers. |
| Long Beach Titans @ Blarney Drive Bandits | |
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| Series Preview: | Titans visit the Bandits for a 7 game set. |
| Series Summary: | Long Beach easily takes 5 of 7. |
| Corktown Bootleggers @ Stockton Wings | |
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| Series Preview: | Corktown @ Stockton for 7 games |
| Game #1: | STO 3 – CBL 1
WP: Erickson HR: STO–Hunter; CBL–Burks Cook goes all the way but is done in by a two-run E6. |
| Game #2: | CBL 4 – STO 3
WP: Grahe HR: CBL–Gomez CBL scored all their runs in the 3rd, then weathered a 9th inning rally by STO. Gomez’s two-run HR was the big blow. |
| Game #3: | STO 13 – CBL 10
WP: Olin HR: STO–Walker (3), Tettleton (2), Larkin, Grissom, Hayes CBL jumped out to a 4-0 1st inning lead, but STO proceeded to hit 8 home runs (2 in the 1st, 3 in the 4th, and 3 more in the 7th). Walker led the way with three bombs and Tettleton hit two. STO was up 13-5 but still needed their closer Eckersley to stop a late CBL rally. |
| Game #4: | CBL 5 – STO 2
WP: Rijo HR: STO–Anthony; CBL–Gomez Rijo outduels Mussina in another game in which the losing pitcher went the distance. |
| Game #5: | STO 7 – CBL 3
WP: M. Leiter HR: STO–Walker, Anthony Leiter cruised until tiring and giving up three in the 9th. |
| Game #6: | STO 9 – CBL 1
WP: Drabek (CG) HR: STO–Thompson CBL scores first (again), but STO scored six in the 3rd inning and never looked back. Drabek had perhaps his most dominant game of the season. Larkin and Walker had three RBI apiece. |
| Game #7: | STO 6 – CBL 3
WP: Olin HR: CBL–Munoz; STO–Anthony It was a 1-1 game until CBL pushed two across in the 8th. With a two-run lead and their closer on the mound, the wheels came off for CBL. After pinch-hitter Ernie Riles knocked in a run to trim the lead to 3-2, the Wings loaded the bases for another pinch-hitter, Eric Anthony, who ended it with a walk-off grand slam |
| Series Summary: | STO takes the series 5 games to 2, but it was a closer series than it looks. There were 18 HRs in the series, 14 by STO. For STO, Larry Walker had 4 HRs and 9 RBI in the series, Anthony had 3 HR and 7 RBI. |
| Manhattan Gas Hornets @ Missouri Black Bears | |
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| Series Preview: | Manhattan (82-59) visits the Missouri Black Bears (74-67) |
| Game #1: | Missouri 3, Manhattan 1 – 11 Innings Igor walk-off 2-run HR Bonds 2B, BB, RS, RBI Gonzalez 2 hits, HR, BB, RS, 2 RBI Ryan (ND) 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 4 K |
| Game #2: | Missouri 4, Manhattan 3 – 10 Innings Bonds walk-off 3B Tingley solo HR Smiley (ND) 7 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 3 BB, 9 K |
| Game #3: | Manhattan 4, Missouri 2 T. Martinez 2 hits, solo HR Santiago 2-run 2B Morris 7 IP, 7 H, 2 ER, 5 BB, 4 K |
| Game #4: | Manhattan 6, Missouri 1 Walker PH RBI 1B, part of 3-run 9th Huson 2B, RS Hershiser 7.2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 5 BB, 7 K Williams solo HR in the loss |
| Game #5: | Manhattan 3, Missouri 2 Livingstone H, Sac Fly, 2 RBI Pichardo 6.2 IP, 5 H, 2 ER, 3 BB, 6 K |
| Game #6: | Missouri 4, Manhattan 3 Ryan (W 13-6 – Career win #298) 7.1 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 4 BB, 7 K Igor go-ahead 5th inning HR Williams 2 hits, RS, RBI & RR |
| Game #7: | Missouri 7, Manhattan 3 Igor 3 hits, HR (#35), RS, 3 RBI Van Slyke 2 hits, RS, 2 RBI Williams 2-run HR Smiley 7 IP, 5 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 K |
| Series Summary: | Missouri wins 4 of 7, but it’s too little too late. Ryan is in line for possibly 3 more starts, needing to win 2 to get to 300 career wins |
| Flossmoor Flying Squirrels @ Portland Mavericks | |
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| Series Preview: | The Flossmoor Flying Squirrels are just 1.5 games back in the AL West, visit the Portland Mavericks, who appear to be out of the picture unless some kind of miracle happens. Do you believe in miracles? |
| Game #1: | Game 1 goes to extras and a error by the Mavericks gift the Squirrels the win in the 11th inning 4-3. |
| Game #2: | Hibbard pitches 8 shutout innings for Flossmoor. Squirrels win 5-0. |
| Game #3: | Squirrels only get 1-run in this one, but that is all they would need as they blank Portland again and get the 1-0 win. Maddux gets his 21st win of the year to go with his 1.81 ERA. |
| Game #4: | A 3-run home by Jeff Blauser gives Portland the 4-2 win. |
| Game #5: | Ruben Sierra hits a 2-run blast to give the Squirrels a 3-1 lead in the 5th, and it would end that way. |
| Game #6: | Close game until Flossmoor gets two runs in the 8th to win 7-5. |
| Game #7: | All Portland in this one as they get some frustration out in the 7-1 win. |
| Series Summary: | So there will be no miracle for Portland, but Flossmoor’s rise from last place and twelve games back of Mexico City should not go unnoticed. On oh by the way… next week the Squirrels and the Chihuahuas tango in the Squirrel den in what might decide the AL West champion. |