1998 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #6
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| RODRIGUEZ,Alex | CBL AL | .448 | .793 | 6 | 29 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| DAAL,Omar | CBL AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.20 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| RAMIREZ,Manny | VAL NL | .379 | .897 | 6 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| MENDOZA,Ramiro | STO NL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.40 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Castle Rock Hounds @ Chicago Demolition |
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| Series Preview: | Two solid teams with playoff aspirations face off in the Windy City. |
| Game #1: | A pitcher’s duel that goes into the 11th. Chicago wins it on a walk-off single by Shannon Stewart scoring Tony Womack, who scored both of Chicago’s runs.
Final Score: Chicago 2 – Castle Rock 1 (11 Innings) Win: Scott Radinsky 3-0 (3.09) |
| Game #2: | Luis Gonzalez hits a 2-Run Home Run in the top of the 9th to win it.
Final Score: Castle Rock 3 – Chicago 1 Win: Paul Quantrill 1-1 (1.80) |
| Game #3: | Carlos Delgado was 2 for 4 with 2 Doubles & 2 RBI’s. Pedro Martinez goes the distance for the Demolition. Jessie Levis is injured for Chicago for 15 days.
Final Score: Chicago 3 – Castle Rock 2 Win: Pedro Martinez 4-2 (3.40) |
| Game #4: | Barry Bonds is 3 for 3 with a Double, Home Run & 3 RBI’s. Royce Clayton goes down for 2 days with an injury for the Hounds. Castle Rock beats up on Chicago.
Final Score: Castle Rock 5 – Chicago 1 Win: Chris Carpenter 4-2 (2.14) |
| Game #5: | Castle Rock puts up a 5 spot in the 4th Inning to take a 5-1 lead. Chicago storms back in the 6th with 6 Runs of their own. 3 more in the 8th put this one in the win column for the Demolition. Jeff Cirillo has 4 RBI’s & Carlos Delgado chips in with 3 RBI’s for Chicago. Darren Bragg has 3 RBI’s for Castle Rock.
Final Score: Chicago 10 – Castle Rock 6 Win: Kevin Millwood 203 (5.40) |
| Game #6: | Tied at 5 runs each after 9, this one goes to the 10th where Castle Rock brings in Armando Benitez for the bottom half of the inning. He throws 1 ball, and something went wrong, as he’s pulled from the game with an injury. Scott Elarton gives up a one-out Home Run to Shannon Stewart who walks it off for the Chicago win.
Final Score: Chicago 6 – Castle Rock 5 (10 Innings) Win: Scott Radinsky 4-0 (5.40) |
| Series Summary: | Chicago takes the series 4 games to 2, however they could have easily lost the series 4 games to 2, as 2 of these wins were in extra innings. Chicago scored 23 Runs in the series, Castle Rock scored 22 Runs. It was that close of a series. |
Blarney Drive Bandits @ Danbury Mad Hatters |
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| Series Preview: | The road weary Mad Hatters (10-18) host the Bandits (8-20) for their first home series of the year. |
| Game #1: | DAN 4 BDB 3
Biggio leads off the 1st with a HR Game MVP – Biggio 3 – 3 2 home runs 3 RBIs |
| Game #2: | BDB 6 DAN 2
After giving up 2 runs in the bottom of the 1st BDB score six runs in the 3 – 6 innings for the win. Game MVP – Green 5 -2 2 home hrs 3 rbis |
| Game #3: | BDB 13 DAN 0
BDB explode for 6 runs in the 1st inning and that’s all she wrote. Game MVP’s – Green 4- 2 4 rbi’s |
| Game #4: | DAN 2 BDB 1
DAN walk off in the bottom of the 9th by scoring 2 runs. Game MVP – Bell |
| Game #5: | BDB 7 DAN 3
Danbury again score 3 runs in the bottom of the 1st Game MVP – David Wells complete game |
| Game #6: | DAN 6 BDB 1
Danbury score throughout the game for their 3rd home win Game MVP – Biggio – HR |
| Series Summary: | Danbury stays home for a while after playing 28 away games in a row. Hopefully they will start living up to pre-season press. |
Corktown Bootleggers @ Detroit Stars |
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| Series Summary: | Corktown Bootleggers win the series over the Detroit Stars. |
Baltimore Blue Crabs @ Winnipeg Goldeyes |
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| Series Preview: | Last place Baltimore at first place Winnipeg. |
| Game #1: | Hershiser solid and batista homers as Baltimore shocks Winnipeg 7-3 McGwire hit a homer in the loss. |
| Game #2: | Lopez hits a 3 run homer and ace Glavine allows just 1 earned run in the 6-2 Winnipeg win. |
| Game #3: | Curt Schilling was amazing 9 innings 2 hits no runs 2 walks and 10 K’s winning 1-0. |
| Game #4: | Valentin a homer and 4 rbis Winnipeg wins 7-2. |
| Game #5: | McGwire, Lopez and Buhner homers as Selkirk wins it late 7-4. |
| Game #6: | McGwire 3 run homer as Selkirk holds on to win 7-5, Chipper gets 3 hits in the loss. |
| Series Summary: | Winnipeg manages to win 5 of 6 in a series thta was tighter than it looked. Pitcher of the Week. Schilling 9 innings 2 hits 2 walks 10 Ks’. Batter McGwire 8 for 18 3 homers 7 rbis 6 walks. |
Valdosta Bombers @ Hampton Huskies |
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| Series Preview: | Two decent teams meet up for some shits and giggles. |
| Series Summary: | Thank you to Valdosta for reminding me of how much I disliked that piece of crap Manny Ramirez – one of the few guys ever I would have armed a pitcher with a .45 and had hit shoot Manny in the crotch. Valdosta takes 4 of 6 as the Hampton pitching luck finally runs out. |
New Hampshire Nighthawks @ Fort Worth Panthers |
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| Series Summary: | Nighthawks and Panther’s split in Ft. Worth. |
Manhattan Gas Hornets @ Michigan Mauraders |
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| Series Preview: | First place Manhattan travels to Michigan for a 6 game series. |
| Game #1: | Manhattan 11 Michigan 1 The Gas Hornets have an explosive offense and they dominate Michigan. Rick Reed throws a solid 8 innings for the win. Tino Martinez with a homer and 5 RBIs. Jeter with 3 hits. |
| Game #2: | Michigan 5 Manhattan 4 Jim Edmonds hits a grand slam in the 4th inning to lead Michigan to the win. Mark Gardner with the win and Ligtenberg earns the save. |
| Game #3: | Manhattan 11 Michigan 2 This game was a lot like the first game, except that Michigan scored one more run. Brian Moehler goes to 4-0. Jeter with 2 homers. Durham has 4 RBIs. Jeter has 3 RBIS. |
| Game #4: | Michigan 5 Manhattan 4 Jim Edmonds hits a 2 run homer. Hinch has the game winning hit. Michigan earns a come from behind win. |
| Game #5: | Michigan 13 Manhattan 12. Crazy back and forth game. Michigan with 20 hits. Vinny Castilla goes 5 for 6 with 4 homers and 1 RBI. Brett Boone with 4 hits. |
| Game #6: | Michigan 3 Manhattan 2 (11) innings. Vinny Castilla hits a walk off homer to win it. Vinny also had a homer earlier. Plesac with the win in relief. |
| Series Summary: | Michigan wins four (1 run games). Manhattan wins the two blow outs. |
Santa Rosa Beach Bums @ Long Beach Titans |
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| Series Summary: | Santa Rosa wins the first game and Long Beach takes the next 5. |
Hollywood Vampires @ DeWitt Tigers |
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| Series Summary: | Hollywood and DeWitt split a 6 game series. |
Stockton Wings @ Newark Bears |
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| Series Preview: | The 9-19 Stockton Wings visit the 21-7 Newark bears. |
| Game #1: | Juan Acevedo pitches 7 1/3 scoreless innings for Stockton, gets promoted to a grade 20, then promptly gives up a 2 run homer to Mike Piazza and a 3 run homer to Tony Fernandez – that propels the Bears to a late comeback victory!
Final score 5-1 (Bears) |
| Game #2: | The second game was all Wings – the Bear’s Chuck Finley walks 8 in three innings and Stockton’s Ramiro Mendoza only allows 2 runs in 8 innings.
Final score 7-2 (Wings) |
| Game #3: | In game 3, Stockton was leading 3-2 after 7 ½ innings and it looked like they were on their way to victory behind 7 quality innings from Jason Schmidt, but then the Bears exploded for 9 unanswered runs in the bottom of the eight, highlighted by a Juan Gonzalez grand slam HR.
Final Score – 11-3 (Bears) |
| Game #4: | In game for 4 it looked like the Bears would secure their third victory of the series, leading 7-3 after 6 innings with Al Leiter (grade 19) on the mound and a rested bullpen, alas, the APBA God had other plans, the Wings score 7 unanswered runs against Leiter and Graham Lloyd (grade 20) and hand the Bears a bitter defeat.
Final Score – 10-7 (Wings) |
| Game #5: | n game 5, the Wings scores 4 runs in the top of the 2nd of a wild Omar Olivares, as it turned out that was all they needed. Juan Acevedo pitched 6 scoreless innings, Vladimir Guerrero hit his 10th homer.
Final Score – 7-3 (Wings) |
| Game #6: | Stockton completes the humbling of the 1st place Bears behind seven 2 run innings from Ramiro Mendoza, Ramiro also helped his own cause in the top of the 7th by hitting a double and scoring on a 2 base error by Darryl Strawberry
Final Score – 5-2 (Wings) |
| Series Summary: | Nice job by the Stockton Wings defeating the 1st place Bears and taking the series 4 game to 2, actually, if not for the late game heroics in game #1, it would have been a 5-1 series defeat for the Bears. |
Flossmoor Flying Squirrels @ California Quakes |
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| Series Summary: | Flossmoor beats California 5 games to 1. |
Portland Mavericks @ Harper Woods Expos |
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| Series Preview: | Portland visits Harper Woods. |
| Game #1: | 10-7 Expos W Osuna 1-1 5.25 era L White 1-1 6.75 era S Orosco 5 0.64 era |
| Game #2: | 12-6 Expos W Greene 1-2 7.53 era L Moore 1-4 7.15 era |
| Game #3: | 6-4 Mavs W White 2-1 6.41 era L Mussina 4-2 3.09 era S Wall 4 6.75 era |
| Game #4: | 8-5 Mavs W Eldred 1-3 7.51 era L Washburn 2-4 7.12 era S Lopez 2 8.38 era |
| Game #5: | 8-7 Mavs W Sparks 2-4 7.60 era L Erickson 4-2 4.57 era S Wall 5 5,79 era |
| Game #6: | 6-2 Expos W Wright 1-5 L Sirotka 2-4 6.35 era |
| Series Summary: | Portland and Harper Woods split |