1999 PLAYER / PITCHER OF THE WEEK #5
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| HELTON,Todd | HWE AL | .500 | 1.182 | 6 | 22 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| MILLWOOD,Kevin | CHI AL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| NAME | TEAM | AVG | SLG | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI | K | W | IW | SB | CS | HBP |
| GONZALEZ,Juan | NWB NL | .464 | 1.107 | 6 | 28 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| NAME | CLUB | G | W | L | S | ERA | IP | R | ER | H | K | BB | IBB | WP | BK | HB | HR |
| OLIVARES,Omar | NWB NL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1.32 | 13.2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Castle Rock Hounds @ Southlake Scorpions |
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| Series Preview: | The Hounds are 10-2 at home and they are facing off against a Scorpions team that has not left their friendly confines for a road game yet. Castle Rock is looking to keep its bats hot as they welcome Southlake into town for six. |
| Game #1: | Thurman vs. Burkett (need those innings) in Game 1. Southlake jumps out to an early 2-0 lead. It is quiet until the 6th, when the Scorpions pick up two more to make it 4-0. Meanwhile, Castle Rock can’t figure out Thurman, as they get 5 walks, but only two hits as he goes 8 IP without allowing a run. Shuey comes out to finish it and the final is 4-0, Southlake.
WP: Thurman (3-1) |
| Game #2: | Hermanson vs. Parque in Game 2. Scorpions plate 1 in the first, but Tatis brings Castle Rock back with a two-run homer in the bottom half. Castle Rock adds another in the second after a Polanco triple, but Scorpion ties it up 3-3 with a Bagwell homer. Looks like we may be in for a slugfest today. Hounds pick up two in the 3rd to make it 5-3, but Russ Davis pops a solo HR to make it 5-4. Royce Clayton delivers an RBI single to make it 6-4 as Parque is finally pulled from the mound in the bottom of the 5th. Hermanson calms the Southlake bats and gets through 7 IP. Ben Petrick adds a solo HR for Castle Rock to extend their lead to 7-4 in the bottom of the 7th. And, that is is how it finishes as the Hounds bullpen gets the job done.
WP: Hermanson (4-0) |
| Game #3: | Dreifort and Cone in Game 3. Southlake strikes first again, in a major way, as Russ Davis hits a 3-run homer in the top of the 1st to take a 4-0 lead (all with two outs). That may be enough for Cone, the 14. Dreifort settles himself nicely, going 8 innings and only allowing those first inning runs. But, Cone is better. He goes the full nine innings, give up just two hits and no runs.
WP: Cone (2-3) |
| Game #4: | Scott Elarton gets a spot start vs. Andy Ashby in Game 4. Bonds stakes the Hounds to a 2-0 lead with a first-inning homer. Southlake gets one back on an unearned run in the 3rd and Bichette gives the Scorpions the 3-2 lead with a 2-run homer in the 4th. Castle Rock cedes another unearned run as well to give Southlake the 5-2 lead. Tatis delivers a solo shot to make it 5-3. A sloppy game all around as Castle Rock gets within one run on a Weiss error.
Bagwell delivers a clutch two-out two-run HR in the top of the 7th to extend the Southlake lead to 7-4. Kevin Young piles on with a solo shot of his own. Rivera comes on for Southlake, but proceeds to give up back-to-back singles to make it 8-6 after 8. Mariano comes back out for the 9th and Matt Luke leads off the inning with a solo shot to make it 8-7. Rocker comes in and gets the next three batters to close it out. Final is 8-7, Southlake as they take a commanding 3-1 series lead. WP: Ashby (3-1) |
| Game #5: | Chris Carpenter and Ismael Valdez in this one. Bichette opens the scoring with a solo HR in the 2nd for Southlake. Easley ties it up with a homer of his own in the 3rd and Luis Gonzalez scores Bonds with a two-out triple to take the 2-1 lead. O’Leary delivers an RBI single for Southlake to make it 2-2. Cairo delivers an RBI infield hit to make it 3-2, Southlake in the 5th. Dan Wilson adds another two-out RBI with a double to make it 4-2. Southlake has been delivering the clutch hits.
Southlake delivers three more runs, punctuated by a Kevin Young two-run homer to make it 7-2. And, that’s how it ends, 7-2 Southlake as they take the 4-1 series lead. WP: Valdez (3-2) |
| Game #6: | Kenny Rogers tries to save face for Castle Rock as he faces Thurman, who controlled the Hounds quite well in Game 1. For the second time in three games, Bonds hits a two-run homer in the first to give Castle Rock a 2-0 lead. Sweeney adds another to make it 4-0, as they seem to have the book on Thurman this time around. In the bottom of the second, Castle Rock loads the bases with nobody out and Bonds up. But Bonds grounds into a 1-2-3 double play and Gonzalez flies out to squelch the rally.
Easley hits the third Hounds homer of the game to extend the lead to 5-0 in the 4th. Thurman is pulled after just 3.2 IP. Meanwhile, Kenny Rogers is cruising, giving up no runs through 7 IP. Dye hits the fourth Hounds homer of the day in the 7th to extend the lead to 7-0. Castle Rock tacks on another in the 8th to make it 8-0. Rogers goes the distance in the 8-0, Castle Rock victory. WP: Rogers (3-1) |
| Series Summary: | Castle Rock was feeling pretty good coming in, but Southlake takes the series, 4-2. Scorpions had the clutch hits and the superior bullpen. |
Hollywood Vampires @ Hampton Huskies
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| Series Preview: | Off to a lousy start, the Hampton Huskies drag their battered bones home to host the Vampires of Hollywood for six games as they try and figure out whether they will be buyers or sellers this year in the MWWL. |
| Game #1: | Hard to field a frigging team when injuries have reduced normal platoon players into worn out bags of crap, but thankfully Grade 4 starter Carl Pavano pitched more like a 14 (or more likely the Vampires were too busy laughing at us to hit) and the Huskies wound up taking the opener 3-2. Bill Spiers had three innocuous singles that didn’t factor much into the scoring but SJ Surhoff homered and drove in the winning run on a ground out. Marlon Anderson singled and stole two bases for Hollywood. W-Pavano (1-0) Sv-Graves (2) L-Halama (1-1) Hr-HAM: Surhoff (2) |
| Game #2: | Roy Halladay never even broke a sweat as the Huskies could only manage three hits in an easy 5-0 Hollywood win. Halladay was not overpowering – only two Ks and four walks – but never allowed anyone to reach 2nd base in the eight innings he pitched. FP Santangelo upped his average to a crazy .366 with three hits in three at bats. He also scored a run and drove in one. W-Halladay (4-1) L-Arrojo (0-4) HR-none |
| Game #3: | The Huskies may have won the headhunting battle but they lost the game as Ruben Rivera drove in two runs and stole two bases to lead the Vampires to a 5-2 win. Hampton starter Joe Nathan plunked John Valentin and Orlando Palmeiro (to start the game) and hurt both of them – Valentin for 5 days and Palmeiro for 22, but it was not until he smacked Mike Stanley lin the 6th inning that he finally got tossed. Hollywood starter Vlad Nunez was also tossed for hitting (but not injuring Jeromy Burnitz who was just back from an injury). W-Lowe (1-0) Sv-Foulke (4) L-Nathan (1-2) HR-none |
| Game #4: | Kent Bottenfield pitched well for Hampton, but Jeff Brantley did not as the latter almost blew a 4-run lead late in the game and only a perfect 9th inning from Danny Graves saved the day as Hampton evened the series with a narrow 6-5 win. Mike Stanley and Deivi Cruz each had two hits for Hollywood while Jeremy Giambi drove on a pair. Jeromy Burnitz led the Huskies with three RBIs on a two-run homer and a bases loaded walk that brought in a run. W-Bottenfield (3-1) Sv-Graves (3) L-Perez (1-2) HR-HAM: Burnitz (5), Rodriguez (5) |
| Game #5: | Fat Freddy Garcia allowed just five hits in eight strong innings as the Vampires edged Hampton 2-1. Just as Hampton was about to get its lineup basically back intact, Bill Mueller had a hard grounder hit him in the kneecap and hobbled him for 5 days. sigh. Cliff Floyd had two hits for the Vampires who were still looking for their first homer of the series. Garcia fanned six and walked just two in the contest while Keith Foulke continued to rack up the saves against Hampton with a near perfect 9th – he allowed a walk. W-Garcia (3-2) Sv-Foulke (5) L-Guzman (1-2) Hr-HAM: Vaughn (6) |
| Game #6: | Danny Graves literally threw the game away for Hampton in the 11th inning when with FP Santangelo on 3rd base he sent a ball high over catcher Mike Redmond‘s head and to the backstop allowing what would prove to be the winning run for Hollywood 3-2. Deivi Cruz had both Hollywood RBIs with a double off starter Carl Pavano in the 2nd inning. Keith Fpulke saved his 4th game of the series. W-Lowe (2-0) Sv-Foulke (6) L-Graves ( |
| Series Summary: | Ugh. Hollywood takes four of six. |
Harper Woods Expos @ California Quakes |
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| Series Summary: | California takes 4-2 from Harper Woods. |
DeWitt Tigers @ Portland Mavericks |
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| Series Preview: | Home opening series for the DeWitt Tigers hosting Portland. |
| Game #1: | DeWitt wins their home opener over Portland 6-4.
W Loaiza 1-1 |
| Game #2: | Portland wins game 2 8-6
W Morgan 1-1 |
| Game #3: | Portland bats come alive even more in game 3 win 14-6
W Meadows 1-1 |
| Game #4: | DeWitt walks off Portland in the 9th to win 5-4
W Wells 1-0 |
| Game #5: | DeWitt wins 7-6. Portland gets a 3 run homer in the 9th to pull within 1
W Eric Milton 2-3 |
| Game #6: | DeWitt wins 8-2. Cameron, Sosa, and Nillson with homers for DeWitt
W Loaiza 2-1 |
| Series Summary: | DeWitt opens the home season by winning the series against Portland 4-2 |
Baltimore Blue Crabs @ Valdosta Bombers |
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| Series Preview: | The 12-10 Valdosta Bombers visit the 11-11 Baltimore Blue Crabs. |
| Game #1: | Crabs jump out to a 7-3 lead and hold on to take the opener. Russ Johnson led the way with 3 hits, including his 2nd homerun of the season, and 3 RBIs. Eric Karros hit homerun #8 for the Bombers.
BOMBERS 5 /12/ 1 |
| Game #2: | Woody Williams has a REALLY bad day as the Bombers tag him for 7 runs and 7 hits in just 1 2/3 innings. Manny Ramirez (#7) and Warren Morris (#4) go deep for Valdosta.
BOMBERS 9 /13/ 0 |
| Game #3: | Ramirez (#8), Karros (#9), and Chavez (#3) all homer as part of a 15 hit Valdosta attack and the Bombers win their 2nd in a row.
BOMBERS 6 /15/ 0 |
| Game #4: | For the 4th straight game, Valdosta has double digit hits. This time it gets ugly, as the Bombers bomb 6 Crab pitchers for 18 runs and 28 hits. Joe Randa led the way, with 5 hits, Warren Morris hit his 5th homerun and knocked in 5. Rico Brogna hit 2 homeruns (#s 3 & 4) part of a 16 hit Baltimore day, but the Crabs came up WAY short!
BOMBERS 18 /28/ 0 |
| Game #5: | Crabs rally for 2 in the 8th to eke out a one run victory. For the first time in the series, Valdosta fails to get a dozen hits.
BOMBERS 4 /8/ 0 |
| Game #6: | Manny Ramirez hits his 3rd homerun of the series, and 9th of the season, as Valdosta builds a 5-2 lead. But 4 Blue Crab longballs (Chipper Jones #11, Sean Casey #4, Tony Batista #5, and Chris Widger #2) propel Baltimore to its second straight victory.
BOMBERS 7 /12/ 1 |
| Series Summary: | Lots of hits in this one! In 6 games, Baltimore had 73 hits, but Valdosta had 88! Crabs bounce back from the 28-hit shellacking in game 4, to win a pair of one run victories to close out the series and earn the split. |
Danbury Mad Hatters @ Santa Rosa Beach Bums |
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| Series Preview: | Danbury brings a talented group to Santa Rosa for a 6 game set. |
| Game #1: | SRB 10 DMH 9 3 errors by Danbury and their comeback comes just short as they score 4 in the top of the 9th. WP: Smoltz (3-0) LP: Batista (0-1) SV: Karsay (6) HR: Davis (2) |
| Game #2: | SRB 4 DMH 2 Pitchers duel. 3 run 8th wins it for the Bums. WP: Ortiz (2-3) gave up 2 hits through 8 innings of work LP: Remlinger (2-1) SV: Almanza (1) HR: Aven (1) |
| Game #3: | DMH 4 SRB 2 Danbury’s turn to win a pitchers duel as Bums comeback in bottom of 9th comes up short. WP: Mercker (3-0) LP: Rapp (2-2) SV: Lowe (3) HR: Griffey (7), Berkman (1) |
| Game #4: | SRB 8 DMH 3 Danbury carried a 3-0 lead into the 5th, but all Bums after. WP: Rosado (1-3) gave up 1 earned run over 7.1 innings LP: Alverez (2-3) SV: Karsay (7) HR: Sanders (5) |
| Game #5: | SRB 2 DMH 1 Fantastic duel between Smoltz (one 3 days rest) and reliever Sullivan (had to replace an injured Tomko, 5 days). WP: Smoltz (4-0) 7.1 innings 6 hits and 1 earned run allowed LP: Sullivan (2-2) allowed 0 earned runs over 6.1 innings. Lost on 2 unearned runs as Danbury commits 3 errors in game. SV: Karsay (8) |
| Game #6: | DMH 5 SRB 3 Bell’s 3-run HR in the 4 run 6th inning does the Bums in. Saberhagen gets first win. Bums had runners (stranded 8), but could not get the big hit. Hatters excellent pen did the job. WP: Saberhagen (1-4) 3 runs in 8 innings LP: Ortiz (2-4) SV: Lowe (4) HR: Bell (5), Alomar (3) |
| Series Summary: | Tight series with Santa Rosa getting 4 wins. Smoltz two excellent starts and Karsay 3 saves make the difference in the series. Almanza had to get some key outs against Griffey and Thome, too! Tomko injured for 5 days for Danbury. (Stray, SRB rotation and line-ups are set for next week.) |
Long Beach Titans @ Newark Bears |
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| Series Summary: | Newark sweeps the 6 game series from Long Beach. |
Fort Worth Panthers @ Corktown Bootleggers
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| Series Preview: | The Defending champions come in still rolling from 1998 with a 18-4 record. Fort Worth has hopes of a 1999 pennant after winning their division last year. |
| Game #1: | Corktown blows a 2 run lead with 2 outs in the 9th. The Panthers win it in the 10th. Could this be a sign of a great series? Fort Worth 4-3 (10) |
| Game #2: | Good Pitching and good hitting gets it down for Fort Worth. Fort Worth 6-1 |
| Game #3: | Corktown realizes this will be a series of getting players rest. They go down 10-0 in the first 2 innings. They slowly crawled back, but it wasn’t enough. Fort Worth 10-7 |
| Game #4: | A back and fourth battle. Ft Worth had a 2-1 lead, but the Bootleggers tied it in the 9th. However, the road warriors get it done again in the 10th. Fort Worth 3-2 |
| Game #5: | This one was all Panthers. Even after committing 2 errors. Fort Worth 6-2 |
| Game #6: | Corktown wasn’t even able to salvage 1 win at home this week. Panthers playing championship ball. Fort Worth 4-1 |
| Series Summary: | This was a statement series for the MWWL. Fort Worth comes into a tough place to play and punches the Champions in the mouth taking all 6 games. |
Michigan Mauraders @ Blarney Drive Bandits
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| Series Preview: | Two Michigan teams going at it for 6 games. |
| Game #1: | Marauders strand 8 and Palmer (finally!) hits his 1st HR of the season, a 3-run job.
MM 1 BDB 7 W: Hampton (4-1) |
| Game #2: | Blarney plates two in the 9th to send it to extras but Michigan takes it in the 12th. Lieberthal 2-5 w/ 3 RBI.
MM 7 BDB 5 W: White (1-0) |
| Game #3: | Nagy is pummeled early and can only record 6 outs. Bandits were efficient scoring 7 on just 8 hits.
MM 3 BDB 7 W: Yoshii (3-0) |
| Game #4: | 5-4 after 6 full, Blarney score 3 in the 8th off a rare Bordick 3-run shot to pull away.
MM 5 BDB 9 W: Benes (3-1) |
| Game #5: | Johnson strikes out 7 over 7 full allowing just 4 hits. Bandits collect 3 doubles in key spots.
MM 1 BDB 6 W: Johnson (3-1) |
| Game #6: | Henderson 3-5 w/ double and HR, and Giles 2-4 w/ HR led Blarney in the finale.
MM 3 BDB 7 W: Hampton (5-1) |
| Series Summary: | Blarney takes 5 of 6. |
Manhattan Gas Hornets @ Winnipeg Goldeyes |
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| Series Preview: | Goldeyes vs Gas Hornets – plenty of history between these teams. Interesting series dominated by hitting. |
| Game #1: | Down 4-2 in 9th, Manhattan scores 3. Then Winnipeg tallies twice in 9th on homers by Carl Everett (1) and Mark McGwire (his 2nd, 15) both off closer Matt Mantei. Then the Gas Hornets get 2 of their own in the bottom of the 9th to win the game 7-6! WGE 6-10-2 LP Francisco Cordero (0-1), BS Kim (1) MGH 7-12-1 WP Mantei (1-0) BS (1) |
| Game #2: | Hitting by Goldeyes, not by Gas Hornets – Tom Glavine looks like a real TG – 8 innings, 1 hits, (but 5 walks). Greg Myers goes 3 for 4 with 2 rbis. Mark McGwire drives in 3. WGE 10-16-1 WP Glavine (3-2) MGH 0- 3-1 LP Brian Moehler (1-3) |
| Game #3: | Rick Reed gets his 1st win of the year going 8 innings, 7 hits, 1 run. Matt Stairs (6) 2 run homer and Garrett Anderson (6) solo homer pace the offense. Robin Ventura 2 hits in the loss. WGE 1-7-0 LP Kevin Tapani (2-2) MGH 4-8-0 WP (1-3) S John Wetteland (2) |
| Game #4: | 3 treys beats 2 fours in poker AND baseball. Goldeyes get 3 runs in the 3rd, 4th and 5th (plus 1 in the 6th) to overcome a 4 run Gas Hornets 1st and later a 4 run 7th (and a singleton in the 9th). Omar Vizquel drives in 4, Carl Everett drives in 3 and Paul O’Neill smack 3 hits. Both starters got the decisions, but no impressive numbers. WGE 10-9-1 WP Chris Holt (2-2) S Jeff Shaw (5) MGH 9-11-1 LP Tim Wakefield (3-2) |
| Game #5: | Series tied 2-2 and Gas Hornets get the win in the 5th game with 3 in the 1st and 4 in the 2nd. Sterling Hitchcock strong in 8 inning (6 hits, 2 runs, 7 ks). Mark McGwire gets one of the rbis with his 16th PED homer! Tino Martinez drives in 3 with his 9th homer. Jason Kendall gets 2 doubles and a single. WGE 2-6-1 LP Curt Schilling (1-3) 6 ip, 6 hits, 7 runs (3 earned, 2 walks) MGH 8-9-0 WP Hitchcock (5-0) |
| Game #6: | The series tilting game goes to the home team when they flip a 4-2 deficit into a 7-4 lead with a 5 run 6th. After a Mark McGwire solo homer (17) gets 1 back in the 7th, the Gas Hornets score 5 more in the 8th for a 12-5 win (with no homers and only 1 extra base hit!). 13 singles and 7 walks – Matt Stairs gets 4 singles and scores 3. 4 guys at bottom of order get 2 rbis each! WGE 5-11-1 LP Armando Reynoso (1-3) MGH 12-14-0 WP Nelson P. Cruz (2-1) S John Wetteland (3) |
| Series Summary: | Gas Hornets finally beat the Goldeye in a series!!! 4 to 2. |
Stockton Wings @ Houghton Penguins
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| Series Preview: | Central leader Stockton visits East cellar dwellers. |
| Game #1: | Down by 1 in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, Jose Cruz hits a homerun to tie it up. Unfortunately, the Penguins give up a 3-run shot to the Wings’ Perez in the top of the 10th to go down STO 7 – HOU 4. |
| Game #2: | The Wings hammer out 15 hits and 4 homeruns on the way to a STO 9 – HOU 4 win. |
| Game #3: | Stockton’s Yarnell gives up 2 unearned runs and strikes out 12 on the way to a complete game win. STO 6 – HOU 2. Jaha hits 2 HRs for Stockton. |
| Game #4: | Pitchers’ duel for most of the game. Houghton ties up the game at 3 in the bottom of the 8th and go on to win the game in 11 innings. HOU 4 – STO 3. Stockton’s Varitek hit 2 homeruns. |
| Game #5: | Houghton’s Rueter takes a shutout into the 9th, but gives up a solo homeruns to Stockton’s Bubba Trammell. Houghton’s Travis Fryman powers Houghton’s offense for a HOU 5 – STO 1 victory. |
| Game #6: | Blake Stein picks up his 4th win for Stockton as they pound out 14 hits in the victory. Houghton’s Willie Blair goes to 1-4. Final score STO 11 – Hou 4. |
| Series Summary: | Stockton takes 4 of 6 games from Houghton. |
Chicago Demolition @ Montreal Canadiens |
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| Series Summary: | Chicago takes 5 of 6 in some offensive games. |