1956, 6/16 THRU 6/30
6/16 day off
6/17 KC @ DET:
WIN 11-9 John Nolting (4-2, 2.64) got the win giving up 6R (5ER) in 8IP. John Patterson stifled the 9th inning rally KC started on Adkins and ended up with his 6th save. Grady Ingram (11-4, 3.06) gave up 9R (6ER) in 7.2IP for the loss. Top KC hitters were 3B Bud Ayers (3 for 4, 2R, 4RBI, 2HR, POG) & Charlton Brown (2 for 5, 2R, 5RBI, 2HR). For us, Mike Kreitenberg went 4 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1TRPL, 2SB. Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 3R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 3RBI, 1DBL. Jim Coleman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.
6/18 KC @ DET:
loss 3-6 Hal Andrew (8-9, 4.34) gave up 6R (5ER) in 8IP for his 3rd consecutive loss. Dan Mau (6-5, 4.33) got the win giving up 3R in 8.2IP. Top KC hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (2 for 5, 1HR) & LF Chip Sinton (2 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR, POG). For us, Hal Andrew went 2 for 3. Gale Adams went 2 for 3, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4.
6/19 KC @ DET:
loss 1-4 Roy Wolfe (8-8, 4.36) gave up 4R in 8.1IP for the loss. Martin Gwaltney (13-2, 1.87) got the win giving up just 1R in 7IP. Top KC hitters were LF Em Ryan (1 for 4, 1HR), RF Charlton Brown (1 for 2, 2BB, 1HR) & C Sal Poulos (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Jim Coleman went 1 for 2, 2BB, 1DBL.
6/20 day off
6/21 DET @ WSH:
loss 0-1 Bud Ulrich (5-4, 3.78) gave up just 4H and 1R in 7.1IP but still lost. Bob Netsky (5-11, 5.37) pitched 8.1 shutout innings for the win and POG. Top WSH hitters were LF Ernest Greenbush (2 for 3, 1DBL) & C Andy Gonyea (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 3, 1BB on a day where we were held to just 3H. Everybody in the Tiger lineup but Kitterman struck out at least once.
6/22 DET @ WSH:
loss 1-4 John Nolting (4-3, 2.85) gave up 4R for the CG loss. Lukas Dietrich (4-8, 4.54) gave up just 1R in 8.1IP for the win and POG. Wow, when Nolting is getting his butt kicked by Dietrich, there is something seriously wrong in the world. Top WSH hitters were 2B Sean Lee (3 for 4, 3RBI, 1DBL) & SS Walt Mayotte (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1DBL, 1SB. Ray Kress went 0 for 1, 3BB.
6/23 DET @ WSH:
WIN 14-4 Hal Andrew (9-9, 4.21) breaks out of his slump striking out 10 and allowing just 2R in 8.1IP for the win and POG. Van Melbourn (4-13, 6.73) gave up 7R in 3.2IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were RF Will Griffin (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB) & Ernest Greenbush (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 3R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1DBL. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Hal Andrew went 3 for 3, 2R, 2BB and is now hitting .347 for the season. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 5, 5R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1DBL and tied the AL Record of 5 runs in a game.
6/24 BAL @ DET:
WIN 6-3 Roy Wolfe (9-8, 4.30) gave up just 3R in 8IP for the win. Alter Sennelnekoff (8-6, 3.42) gave up 5R in 7IP for the loss. Top BAL hitter was CF Mike Maginnis (1 for 4, 1TRPL). For us, Jim Coleman got POG going 2 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 2R, 2BB. Roy Wolfe went 1 for 2, 1RBI. Dave Castaneda filled in at SS and went 2 for 3, 1BB.
6/25 BAL @ DET:
loss 2-9 Bud Ulrich (5-5, 4.11) had another ugly game on a rainy day. He only lasted 2.1IP and gave up 6R. Jack Garvin (10-7, 3.60) on the other hand pitched 7 shutout innings for the win and POG. Almost every BAL hitter hit well today including the pitcher. For us, only Jim Coleman hit well going 2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR.
6/26 BAL @ DET:
loss 6-7 John Nolting gave up 7R (6ER) for the CG loss. Frank Vamos (7-5, 3.85) got the win giving up 4R (3ER) in 7IP. Top BAL hitters were SS Kenneth Whitt (3 for 5, 1R), CF Mike Maginnis (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL, 1SB) & C Walt Stein (1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 2R, 1DBL. Mike Kreitenberg went 2 for 4, 1R, 1SB. Jim Coleman went 1 for 4, 3RBI.
6/27 day off
6/28 KC @ DET:
WIN 4-2 Hal Andrew (10-9, 4.1) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. John Patterson pitched a scoreless 9th for his 8th save. Tad Zonkas (10-6, 3.32) gave up 4R for the CG loss. Top KC hitters were CF Roger McNicholas (2 for 4, 1DBL) & 2B Ace Habermehl (1 for 5, 2RBI, 1HR). for us, Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Ray Kress went 0 for 1, 1R, 3BB.
6/29 KC @ DET:
WIN 6-0 Roy Wolfe (10-8, 4.04) pitched a 4H CG shutout for the win and POG. Martin Gwaltney (13-4, 2.16) gave up 6R in the CG loss. Top KC hitters were SP Martin Gawltney & C Sal Poulos who both went 1 for 3. For us, Jim Coleman went 3 for 4, 3RBI, 2DBL. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R.
6/30 KC @ DET:
loss 3-4 Bud Ulrich (5-6, 4.13) get the loss giving up 4R in 8IP. Jackie Bowen (13-4, 2.80) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. We out hit them 13 to 9 but still were out scored. Top KC hitters were RF Charlton Brown (2 for 3, 1HR) & 3B Bud Ayers (1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG) who subbed in at 3B late in the game and knocking in the game winning runs. For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 5, 1HR.
STANDINGS
43-35, #4 in the AL, 12 games behind NY, 5-7 in the last couple of weeks
BAD NEWS
-Where to begin... at the risk of sounding like a broken record… Our pitching was inconsistant would be putting it mildly.
-Bud Ulirch started the season 5-0, but went 0-6 in his last 10 games. He's had a few games where he had less run support than he's used to. However, in a lot of those 10 non-wins, he just flat out stunk.
-Number of HRs by Kress for the entire month... 1. Total so far this season... 8. He seems to be going through the motions these days content to climb the Career Leaderboard in Walks. Come on Kress... Where's "The Boss", where's our on field leader... step up man. You did well AVG-wise this month, but where's that power hitting?
-Perly didn't pick up any of the slack. He hit .180 for the month and a dismal .236 for the season.
GOOD NEWS
-Both Andrew and Wolfe finished the month with nice wins.
-Kreitenberg (.374, 18R), Andrew (.368), Kitterman (.358, 20R), Mitchell (.348), Kress (.329, 35BB), Degal (.311, 25R, 25RBI, 8HR), Coleman (.301, 5HR, 25RBI) all hit well.
ROSTER MOVES
-We lost Mitchell in the last game of the month and that really suck as we have no decent hitting OF outside our starting 3. He's expected to be out a month and a half. Barring a trade I may have to call upon Cano. I wouldn't be screwing up his offensive developement because injuries have alread done that to him. However, the kid makes spectacular diving catches out there in RF and might spark some excitement with his defense alone.
-Corky Stell wasn't happy about going down to the minors and objected big time when we informed him of the plan. But when a pitching coach / player option was mentioned, he reluctantly "did what's best for the team".
HITTING THRU 6/30
Code:
Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG
Code:
D. Kitterman 67 261 91 16 6 4 31 50 22 22 .349 .400 .502
I. Mitchell 75 263 91 12 2 5 44 30 19 31 .346 .400 .464
M. Kreitenberg 70 223 76 3 3 1 19 36 20 31 .341 .393 .395
J. Degal 73 261 87 7 1 27 77 63 40 30 .333 .421 .678
H. Andrew 20 52 17 4 0 0 7 8 5 13 .327 .379 .404
J. Coleman 73 255 77 14 1 13 62 40 40 37 .302 .393 .518
R. Kress 72 235 65 10 1 8 42 55 91 50 .277 .477 .430
D. Castaneda 65 233 64 9 0 4 21 42 30 35 .275 .363 .365
R. Fish 74 246 61 5 0 10 41 30 31 26 .248 .333 .390
M. Perly 70 246 58 6 4 16 59 44 42 53 .236 .342 .488
B. Ulrich 20 56 12 1 2 0 1 2 2 13 .214 .241 .304
G. Adams 37 81 17 3 0 5 11 8 5 16 .210 .256 .432
P. Short 37 90 16 5 3 2 5 11 6 12 .178 .227 .367
M. Shirley 28 35 4 1 0 0 0 7 0 7 .114 .114 .143
PITCHING THRU 6/30
Code:
Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K
Code:
R. Wolfe 19 19 10 8 0 4.04 147.0 140 76 66 38 82
H. Andrew 20 20 10 9 0 4.10 147.0 110 74 67 65 129
B. Ulrich 20 20 5 6 0 4.13 143.2 119 70 66 64 87
E. Faulkner 13 9 5 1 0 4.79 67.2 66 39 36 26 38
J. Nolting 11 11 4 4 0 3.20 81.2 71 33 29 30 51
J. Patterson 24 0 3 1 8 3.04 26.2 26 10 9 11 9
O. Adkins 23 0 3 2 2 8.53 25.1 35 28 24 18 19
M. George 22 0 2 3 2 3.66 19.2 20 11 8 4 12
S. Cole 17 1 1 2 1 3.90 27.2 23 12 12 15 9
C. Stell 3 0 0 0 0 8.10 3.1 5 3 3 2 1
T. Donahue 8 0 0 0 0 11.57 9.1 13 12 12 4 3
S. Brown 4 0 0 0 0 6.35 5.2 6 4 4 1 0