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gehrig38 · 11-29-2012, 04:14 AM

Quietly started some discussions with OF Hugh Collins on a contract extension. He’ll be arbitration eligible after this year and my guess is he’s in for another monster season.
Also starting to look at ways of locking up Chartier and Gutierrez (who is also abr eligible this year).

GAME 27
Spike Davis (4-1) was awesome, and early on needed to be. Up against R Ortiz (3-1 2.72) who came into the game with a sub 2 ERA he went the distance (9-5-1-1-1-4). Ortiz went 7-5-5-5-2-6. Bill Alexander went 2-4 with a run and 3 RBI’son his 7th HR, Hugh Collins hit his 11th, driving in 2. Hudson doubled and Gutierrez scored twice.
CHI 5 SI 1 (19-8 +2)

INJURY NEWS
Green Bay lost the services of CF Andruw Jones for the next 5 weeks after he pulled a hamstring. Jones Is hitting 200-3-14 in the early going.

GAME 28
A game where no one in the pen wants to be the name called. Williams (1-3) stunk, going 3.2-7-9-6-4-3 and Pacheco continued to slide with a 2.2-4-4-4-1-1 outing. A huge error by Chartier early opened it up. Toby Clifton went 3-4 with 6 RBI’s on his 6th HR in the win. Ernesto Gutierrez went 4-4 with 4 runs on 3 doubles and Jean Chartier went 4-5 with a run and 2 RBI’s. Collins and Alexander each drove in 2.
EDM 14 CHI 8 (19-9 +1)

DL News
Raul Feliz went off on a rehab assignment, looking like it’ll be a week or so depending on how the big club goes.

ORG NEWS
Eric Coates is finding his stride in AA, hitting .336-6-17 through Bakersfield’s first 33 games. Former #1 Gerardo Zamora gave up 5 runs and got 0 outs in his first AAA start this year. At 20, he’s young for the league, but he’s rebounded nicely, giving up just 10 runs in 30 IP in 5 starts since (3.00).

STUFF
New York Knights OF Lee Allen went 5-6 in a 6-5 loss to Brooklyng today.

INJURY NEWS
Houston will be without co-ace Sergio De La Garza for the next 7 weeks after his elbow problems flared up again. He was 3-0 3.46 in 6 starts this year after a 14-12 3.83 season last year.

GAME 29
Criminy. A 6 run second isn’t enough. Another offensive night that our SP wastes. Staked to an early lead MacFadden goes 4.1-8-8-8-1-4 and gives up 3 HR’s. Thomas gives up 2 in 3.1 and Edmonton rolls on us again. Chartier drills his 7th and drives in 3, and we steal 3 bags but waste it. Roberto Gonzalez goes 3-5 with 3 runs and 2 RBI’s hitting his 1st HR. Juan Sanchez (1) and Toby Clifton (7) also homer for the Trappers.
EDM 10 CHI 6 (19-10 tied with Columbus)

STUFF
Ross Tunstall (PIT) went 5-5 with 6 RBI’s in a 8-4 win over San Antonio today, he hit 2 HR’s and is now at .327-6-24 on the year.

Matt Moore of the Knights went 4-5 with 3 RBI’s in hitting for the cycle in a 15-6 win over Brooklyn. On the year Moore is hitting 310-5-19.

GAME 30
Shut down by Edmonton SP L Ernandez (1-3 3.88) on 3 hits. 9-3-1-1-2-5 with Wes Morgan having 2 of them and the lone RBI on a double. Bentley gives up 6 runs on 10 hits in 4.1 to drop to 2-1 5.40
EDM 6 CHI1 (19-11 Tied)

MINORS NEWS
Eric Coates, off to a great start is out at least a month with a quad strain. He’s hitting .319-6-17 through 33 AA games.

GAME 31
Alejandrez (3-1) gets into the 6th (5.2-8-3-3-1-8) and Sanchez (H5) Thomas (H2) Pennington (H4) get it to Johnson for his 7 save. A 2 run Wes Morgan single in the 1st (part of a 2-4 2 RBI day) and Hugh Collins 12th HR in the 3rd were all the offense.
CHI 4 ALK 3 (20-11 Tied)

INJURY NEWS
Philly Ace Andrew Olson will miss the remainder of the 2015 season afer a torn lat muscle was found today. The 38 year old righty was 4-1 3.29 in 7 starts after starring in the 2014 series vs San Antonio. A career 45-39 4.18 in 100 starts covering 711 innings with 653 K’s and 232 walks.

GAME 32
Up 5-0 heading to the 7th, up 5-2 after 7, up 5-3 after 8 to down 6-5 after top 9 to walk off winners after the bottom half of 9. That kinda day. Spike Davis worked a high wire act for 6 scoreless (6-6-0-0-5-3) and Sib van Bodegraven started unraveling it with 4 hits and 2 runs in 1/3rd of an inning. KJ comes in with 1 out in the eighth and walks his first hitters of the year, but with 2 outs and the bases loaded makes his pitch, which Wes Morgan kicks to give Alaska the lead. Former Iron Pig Riley Potts comes on to save it and PH Angel Lopez promptly triples. Gutierrez draws a walk, Chartier singles in the tying run, Gutierrez goes to third. Collins punches out and Alexander sends a line drive to center to walk it off 7-6. Morgan was 2-4 with 5 RBI’s and his 3rd HR. Chartier went 2-5 with a run and an RBI, Alexander 2-2 with 2 runs and an RBI. Johnson got the win in relief (2-0). Alaska had 15 hits, including a 5-6 day from OF Tony Gonzalez. Arod was 2-2 with 2 RBI’s and 4 walks, Glaus went 2-6 with 2 RBI’s and Arturo Rodriguez went 3-5.
CHI 7 ALK 6 (21-11 +1)

STUFF
Ernie Kelly (DAY) spun a 2 hitter in Daytons 11-0 win over Michigan today. Kelly is 3-3 4.79 in 7 starts.

GAME 33
6 unearned runs on 2 errors was the game. Mark Williams (1-4) wasn’t good by any stretc 6.2-11-10-4-4-3 but he made pitches to get out of jams and the defense tanked. Alex Rodriguez went 3-3 with 4 runs and an RBI on a double, triple and his 8th HR. Former Roughrider Art Doane his 7th. Hugh Collins went 2-4 with 2 runs and 6 RBI’s on 2 HR’s (14) and Gutierrez Alexander and Chartier had 2 hit days as did Ron Miller and Ignacrio Ferrer. Chicago outhit the Aces 15-13. Chartier (4) and Ferrer (2) made the errors.
ALK 12 CHI 8 (21-12 +1)

WEEK 5 RECAP
Mario Orosco (SI) went 1-4 today to extend his hitting streak to 20 games in a 5-0 loss to El Paso.

El Paso’s Caden Haynes took home FL PotW honors with his 13-29 6 HR 14 RBI week. On the year the 26 year old is hitting .331-11-30 for the 28-5 Diablos

Tulsa Driller Rich Alfred won the CL PotW award after he went 10-20 with 3 HR’s and 5 RBI’s.

ORG NEWS
It was announced today that we (Chicago) had inked 25 year old superstar Hugh Collins to a 4 year contract extension for 10.42M dollars. He will receive 1.1/2.1/3.1/4.1 over the next 4 with a hefty award package he has every chance to earn. This takes a HUGE bite out of cost uncertainty with a player I think will be top 5 in the MVP for many years. He’s a legit 40/40 guy and not even in the prime yet.

Fan interest jumped 6 pts, to 93, with the signing.

IBL Power Rankings
1) El Paso
2) Las Vegas
3) Chicago
4) Pittsburgh
5) Fresno

Bottom 5
22) Tulsa
23) San Antonio
24) Green Bay
25) Sacramento
26) Brooklyn

11-29-2012, 04:14 AM	#395
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,509	Week 5 Quietly started some discussions with OF Hugh Collins on a contract extension. He’ll be arbitration eligible after this year and my guess is he’s in for another monster season. Also starting to look at ways of locking up Chartier and Gutierrez (who is also abr eligible this year). GAME 27 Spike Davis (4-1) was awesome, and early on needed to be. Up against R Ortiz (3-1 2.72) who came into the game with a sub 2 ERA he went the distance (9-5-1-1-1-4). Ortiz went 7-5-5-5-2-6. Bill Alexander went 2-4 with a run and 3 RBI’son his 7th HR, Hugh Collins hit his 11th, driving in 2. Hudson doubled and Gutierrez scored twice. CHI 5 SI 1 (19-8 +2) INJURY NEWS Green Bay lost the services of CF Andruw Jones for the next 5 weeks after he pulled a hamstring. Jones Is hitting 200-3-14 in the early going. GAME 28 A game where no one in the pen wants to be the name called. Williams (1-3) stunk, going 3.2-7-9-6-4-3 and Pacheco continued to slide with a 2.2-4-4-4-1-1 outing. A huge error by Chartier early opened it up. Toby Clifton went 3-4 with 6 RBI’s on his 6th HR in the win. Ernesto Gutierrez went 4-4 with 4 runs on 3 doubles and Jean Chartier went 4-5 with a run and 2 RBI’s. Collins and Alexander each drove in 2. EDM 14 CHI 8 (19-9 +1) DL News Raul Feliz went off on a rehab assignment, looking like it’ll be a week or so depending on how the big club goes. ORG NEWS Eric Coates is finding his stride in AA, hitting .336-6-17 through Bakersfield’s first 33 games. Former #1 Gerardo Zamora gave up 5 runs and got 0 outs in his first AAA start this year. At 20, he’s young for the league, but he’s rebounded nicely, giving up just 10 runs in 30 IP in 5 starts since (3.00). STUFF New York Knights OF Lee Allen went 5-6 in a 6-5 loss to Brooklyng today. INJURY NEWS Houston will be without co-ace Sergio De La Garza for the next 7 weeks after his elbow problems flared up again. He was 3-0 3.46 in 6 starts this year after a 14-12 3.83 season last year. GAME 29 Criminy. A 6 run second isn’t enough. Another offensive night that our SP wastes. Staked to an early lead MacFadden goes 4.1-8-8-8-1-4 and gives up 3 HR’s. Thomas gives up 2 in 3.1 and Edmonton rolls on us again. Chartier drills his 7th and drives in 3, and we steal 3 bags but waste it. Roberto Gonzalez goes 3-5 with 3 runs and 2 RBI’s hitting his 1st HR. Juan Sanchez (1) and Toby Clifton (7) also homer for the Trappers. EDM 10 CHI 6 (19-10 tied with Columbus) STUFF Ross Tunstall (PIT) went 5-5 with 6 RBI’s in a 8-4 win over San Antonio today, he hit 2 HR’s and is now at .327-6-24 on the year. Matt Moore of the Knights went 4-5 with 3 RBI’s in hitting for the cycle in a 15-6 win over Brooklyn. On the year Moore is hitting 310-5-19. GAME 30 Shut down by Edmonton SP L Ernandez (1-3 3.88) on 3 hits. 9-3-1-1-2-5 with Wes Morgan having 2 of them and the lone RBI on a double. Bentley gives up 6 runs on 10 hits in 4.1 to drop to 2-1 5.40 EDM 6 CHI1 (19-11 Tied) MINORS NEWS Eric Coates, off to a great start is out at least a month with a quad strain. He’s hitting .319-6-17 through 33 AA games. GAME 31 Alejandrez (3-1) gets into the 6th (5.2-8-3-3-1-8) and Sanchez (H5) Thomas (H2) Pennington (H4) get it to Johnson for his 7 save. A 2 run Wes Morgan single in the 1st (part of a 2-4 2 RBI day) and Hugh Collins 12th HR in the 3rd were all the offense. CHI 4 ALK 3 (20-11 Tied) INJURY NEWS Philly Ace Andrew Olson will miss the remainder of the 2015 season afer a torn lat muscle was found today. The 38 year old righty was 4-1 3.29 in 7 starts after starring in the 2014 series vs San Antonio. A career 45-39 4.18 in 100 starts covering 711 innings with 653 K’s and 232 walks. GAME 32 Up 5-0 heading to the 7th, up 5-2 after 7, up 5-3 after 8 to down 6-5 after top 9 to walk off winners after the bottom half of 9. That kinda day. Spike Davis worked a high wire act for 6 scoreless (6-6-0-0-5-3) and Sib van Bodegraven started unraveling it with 4 hits and 2 runs in 1/3rd of an inning. KJ comes in with 1 out in the eighth and walks his first hitters of the year, but with 2 outs and the bases loaded makes his pitch, which Wes Morgan kicks to give Alaska the lead. Former Iron Pig Riley Potts comes on to save it and PH Angel Lopez promptly triples. Gutierrez draws a walk, Chartier singles in the tying run, Gutierrez goes to third. Collins punches out and Alexander sends a line drive to center to walk it off 7-6. Morgan was 2-4 with 5 RBI’s and his 3rd HR. Chartier went 2-5 with a run and an RBI, Alexander 2-2 with 2 runs and an RBI. Johnson got the win in relief (2-0). Alaska had 15 hits, including a 5-6 day from OF Tony Gonzalez. Arod was 2-2 with 2 RBI’s and 4 walks, Glaus went 2-6 with 2 RBI’s and Arturo Rodriguez went 3-5. CHI 7 ALK 6 (21-11 +1) STUFF Ernie Kelly (DAY) spun a 2 hitter in Daytons 11-0 win over Michigan today. Kelly is 3-3 4.79 in 7 starts. GAME 33 6 unearned runs on 2 errors was the game. Mark Williams (1-4) wasn’t good by any stretc 6.2-11-10-4-4-3 but he made pitches to get out of jams and the defense tanked. Alex Rodriguez went 3-3 with 4 runs and an RBI on a double, triple and his 8th HR. Former Roughrider Art Doane his 7th. Hugh Collins went 2-4 with 2 runs and 6 RBI’s on 2 HR’s (14) and Gutierrez Alexander and Chartier had 2 hit days as did Ron Miller and Ignacrio Ferrer. Chicago outhit the Aces 15-13. Chartier (4) and Ferrer (2) made the errors. ALK 12 CHI 8 (21-12 +1) WEEK 5 RECAP Mario Orosco (SI) went 1-4 today to extend his hitting streak to 20 games in a 5-0 loss to El Paso. El Paso’s Caden Haynes took home FL PotW honors with his 13-29 6 HR 14 RBI week. On the year the 26 year old is hitting .331-11-30 for the 28-5 Diablos Tulsa Driller Rich Alfred won the CL PotW award after he went 10-20 with 3 HR’s and 5 RBI’s. ORG NEWS It was announced today that we (Chicago) had inked 25 year old superstar Hugh Collins to a 4 year contract extension for 10.42M dollars. He will receive 1.1/2.1/3.1/4.1 over the next 4 with a hefty award package he has every chance to earn. This takes a HUGE bite out of cost uncertainty with a player I think will be top 5 in the MVP for many years. He’s a legit 40/40 guy and not even in the prime yet. Fan interest jumped 6 pts, to 93, with the signing. IBL Power Rankings 1) El Paso 2) Las Vegas 3) Chicago 4) Pittsburgh 5) Fresno Bottom 5 22) Tulsa 23) San Antonio 24) Green Bay 25) Sacramento 26) Brooklyn