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gehrig38 · 12-01-2012, 03:04 AM

WEEK 15 (7-13-19) (and the first big IBL blockbuster trade!)

2 @ West Michigan (32-56 27 GB MW)
3 vs Brooklyn (31-57 18 GB EMP)
2 @ Columbus (54-34 5 GB of us but +6 in the wild card)

GAME 89
Mike Davis (3-1) dominates a bad West Michigan club going 9-2-1-1-3-4. Ron Miller doubles and homers (8) driving in 4 in the first two innings before Gutierrez relieves him for his first AB’s off the DL. Massi Lorenzelli hits his 5ht for 2 RBI’s and Wes Morgan has 2 hits.
CHI 9 WMI 1 (60-29 +5)

ORG NEWS
Gabriel Fries went 5-5 in a 3-2 win with Belleview today. The 21 year old, after a short unsuccessfull bid in AA, was sent back and is finding his swing, hitting 285-3-22 in 52 games.

INJURY NEWS
Houston’s Cy May is out again, this time with a herniated disc that will keep him out 2-3 weeks. May is hitting .354-21-62 so far this year, helping Houston to a 6 game lead over Tulsa at 47-42. With May in the lineup Houston leads the Coastal League in Runs and HR’s an is 2nd in Avg and 3rd in OBP.

GAME 90
Collins (25) and Morgan (21) go back to back in the top of the first for a 3-0 lead. Collins finishes the day 3-5 with 2 runs and 3 RBI’s on a double and triple in addition to the homer and Wes Morgan goes 3-3 driving in 2. Paul Riggs stays hot going 3-4 with 2 runs and Jean Chartier goes 2-5 with a run and 4 RBI’s on his 17th HR. Collins (22) Gutierrez (14) and Lorenzelli (15) stole bases. MacFadden (5-4) got the win going 6.1-8-5-5-1-7 and Winston got out of a sticky jam in the seventh with a DP.
CHI 10 WMI 5 (61-29 +6)

STATS/STREAKS
New York Knights 2014 #1 pick (#2 overall) SP Jesus Romano tossed his first IBL shutout today in a 1-hitter over Columbus. The 22 year old punched out 6 and walked 2 moving to 9-7 4.42 in 19 starts.

GAME 91
A win in a heavily deflated clubhouse. Eric Hudson went down with what looks like a bad ankle injury and Hugh Collins came out after hurting himself as well. Alejandrez (11-3) struggled, throwing 101 pitches in 5, with a 1st inning 2 out none on catchers interference turning into a 3 run inning. He went 5-6-4-4-2-5 and Moore (H4) Winston (H6) Torres (H3) got the game to Ken Johnson for his 24th save. Chartier and Alexander had 2 hit days and Ignacio Ferrer drove in 2 with a double.
CHI 5 BRO 4 (62-29 +6)

INJURY NEWS
Hudson will miss the next 4 weeks with a sprained ankle. Jesus Fuentes will be placed on the roster and recalled from Tulsa (he was hitting .283/331/480 and is a left handed bat. Above average catcher with gap pop). Flores will hit 9th and catch vs lefties and Fuentes and he will play every other day vs righties with Flores being a late inning defensive replacement.

No word on Collins, hopeful it’s a day to day thing. HUGE blow if he has to miss any length of time.

DRAFT NEWS
We get an extra 5th pick (24) next year for failing to sign Rosado. Would rather have had him…

GAME 92
Ron Cox (6-4) was horrific. A 2.2-7-8-8-1-4 outing with 3 home runs. Ron Miller went 2-4 with his 9th HR and drove in 3, Gutierrez, Chartier, Lorenzelli, Ferrer and Flores had 2 hit games with Gutierrez hitting his 27th double and scoring two and stealing 2 (17) and Chartier scrored twice.
BRO 9 CHI 7 (62-30 +5)

STATS/STREAKS
Vegas’s Jesus Andrales went 2-5 to extend his streak to 20 games today. At .364 he’s leading the CL (and Cy May by 10pts) in hitting.

INJURY NEWS
It could be worse. Hugh Collins will miss the next 3 weeks with a rib cage strain. Hopefully he’s back and ready to go the final 8 weeks. Alfredo Lozano a switch hitting OF is getting antoher shot. He struggled in a short ’13 stint but is raking at AAA this year at 322/397/495. Not to mention he can play ALL three OF positions extremely well. Outstanding runner.

GAME 93
A tired but determined pen threw 4 hitless innings in relief of a tired Spike Davis who threw 100 pitches over a 5-7-2-2-2-5 outing. Van Bodegraven (3-2) got the win with 2.1 IP and 3 K’s and Johnson got the final 4 outs with 2 K’s for Save 25. Feliz and Gutierrez had 2 hits apiece and scored a run.
CHI 3 BRO 2 (63-30 +5)

GAMES
Clipper SP Marcos Diaz shut down West Michigan on 6 hits in a 6-0 Columbus win. He struck out 11 in moving to 11-4 3.97 in 19 starts this year.

INJURY NEWS
Brooklyn lost 2B Paul Morris for the rest of the 2015 season when he suffered a herniated disc in today's game. He was hitting 265-5-26 in 73 games.

New York learned it would be without oft traveled 1B Lee Allen for the next 8 weeks with a bad hamstring strain. Allen is hitting 291-8-35 in 58 games this season. He hit 304-22-66 in 97 games for the Knights last season after coming from Brooklyn 2013 winter trade. He was the 3rd round pick of Fresno in the 2012 IBL Inaugural draft.

GAME 94
That same tired pen failed tonight. Handed a 1-0 lead in the 8th with 2 out and nobody on Dave Winston needed to get All Star catcher Dean Strong out, and couldn't. Strong his a game tying solo shot (19) and Jorge Sanchez (2-3) blew the lead and then walked the winning run in, in the bottom of the 10th. Chartier went 4-5 with a double and his 20th SB and Gutierrez and Alexander had 2 hit nights. Sherman Mitchell went 9.2-10-2-2-0-4.
COL 3 CHI 2 (63-31 +4)

DL NEWS
Jorge Sanchez is optioned down and Ernesto Cruz is called back onto the roster. None of the lefties deserved to be sent out but there had to be room made to keep Johnson on the roster and up. He’ll close in AAA and provide insurance over the next 6 weeks until I can get him back up here.

GAME 95
Ernesto Cruz is back! Throwing a scoreless 9th to notch his first save of 2015, setup by one Ken Johnson! And Ryan Pennington (H11). Dan MacFadden (6-4) went 7-5-0-0-1-6. Bill Alexander went 2-4 with a run and 2 RBI’s on his 28th HR.Ferrer and Chartier had 2 hit days.
CHI 3 COL 1 (64-31 +5)

WEEK 15 WRAP
GAMES
A quiet year for 3 time All Star Walt Thomspon (BRO) got louder yesterday when he posted his first shutout of 2015 in blanking Green Bay 1-0 on 3 hits. The 33 year old is 9-9 4.21 in 21 starts.

STUFF
Buffalo Bison LF Bob Veeck took home FL PotW honors for his 14-30 3 HR 7 RBI effort this week. On the year he is hitting .335-17-56 in 85 games as he aims for his 3rd straight 30 HR season (30-33-17 this year).

Vegas 51 RF Bob White took home CL PotW after he went 9-19 with 3 HR’s and 12 RBI’s. The 23 year old is hitting 268-13-70 on the year.

HUGE TRADE ALERT!
In a stunning trade today, defending World Champion Philadelphia shipped slugger Dave Ladd to the Tulsa Drillers, along with 940K cash, for 33 year old Catcher Rajah Lashari and 19 year old pitching prospect Luis Quinones. Ladd was hitting 278 with 17 HR’s and 75 RBi’s this year after his 287-30-103 World Series campaign. Ladd is a career 293/378/540 hitter with 107 HR’s and 394 RBI’s in 504 games. He’s a 2 time all star and 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove winner in Left field. Lashari, a 2012 All Star, is hitting 343-12-33 in 46 games this season but the emergence of 27 year old Rich Alfred appears to have made him expendable (he hitting 251 with 11 HR’s and 33 RBI’s in 76 games and an outstanding defender). The 19 year old Quinones was the 10 round pick of Tulsa and converted from SS to Closing where he is displaying upper 90’s stuff with an ‘off the table slider’. He is a few years out but is a 4.5 star guy in many scouts books. This smells of a ‘rebuild’ move for the defending champs who are currently 45-50 and 15 games behind division leading Pittsburgh. Tulsa is just 3 back of 1st place Houston in the Lone Star Division and Ladd figures to sit right in the middle of the powerful Tulsa lineup, protecting 1B Curt Whimster.

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

Bottom 5
22) Green Bay
23) Brooklyn
24) San Antonio
25) Corpus Christi
26) West Michigan

12-01-2012, 03:04 AM	#430
gehrig38 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Medfield, Mass Posts: 5,509	Week 15week 15 (7-13-19) and... WEEK 15 (7-13-19) (and the first big IBL blockbuster trade!) 2 @ West Michigan (32-56 27 GB MW) 3 vs Brooklyn (31-57 18 GB EMP) 2 @ Columbus (54-34 5 GB of us but +6 in the wild card) GAME 89 Mike Davis (3-1) dominates a bad West Michigan club going 9-2-1-1-3-4. Ron Miller doubles and homers (8) driving in 4 in the first two innings before Gutierrez relieves him for his first AB’s off the DL. Massi Lorenzelli hits his 5ht for 2 RBI’s and Wes Morgan has 2 hits. CHI 9 WMI 1 (60-29 +5) ORG NEWS Gabriel Fries went 5-5 in a 3-2 win with Belleview today. The 21 year old, after a short unsuccessfull bid in AA, was sent back and is finding his swing, hitting 285-3-22 in 52 games. INJURY NEWS Houston’s Cy May is out again, this time with a herniated disc that will keep him out 2-3 weeks. May is hitting .354-21-62 so far this year, helping Houston to a 6 game lead over Tulsa at 47-42. With May in the lineup Houston leads the Coastal League in Runs and HR’s an is 2nd in Avg and 3rd in OBP. GAME 90 Collins (25) and Morgan (21) go back to back in the top of the first for a 3-0 lead. Collins finishes the day 3-5 with 2 runs and 3 RBI’s on a double and triple in addition to the homer and Wes Morgan goes 3-3 driving in 2. Paul Riggs stays hot going 3-4 with 2 runs and Jean Chartier goes 2-5 with a run and 4 RBI’s on his 17th HR. Collins (22) Gutierrez (14) and Lorenzelli (15) stole bases. MacFadden (5-4) got the win going 6.1-8-5-5-1-7 and Winston got out of a sticky jam in the seventh with a DP. CHI 10 WMI 5 (61-29 +6) STATS/STREAKS New York Knights 2014 #1 pick (#2 overall) SP Jesus Romano tossed his first IBL shutout today in a 1-hitter over Columbus. The 22 year old punched out 6 and walked 2 moving to 9-7 4.42 in 19 starts. GAME 91 A win in a heavily deflated clubhouse. Eric Hudson went down with what looks like a bad ankle injury and Hugh Collins came out after hurting himself as well. Alejandrez (11-3) struggled, throwing 101 pitches in 5, with a 1st inning 2 out none on catchers interference turning into a 3 run inning. He went 5-6-4-4-2-5 and Moore (H4) Winston (H6) Torres (H3) got the game to Ken Johnson for his 24th save. Chartier and Alexander had 2 hit days and Ignacio Ferrer drove in 2 with a double. CHI 5 BRO 4 (62-29 +6) INJURY NEWS Hudson will miss the next 4 weeks with a sprained ankle. Jesus Fuentes will be placed on the roster and recalled from Tulsa (he was hitting .283/331/480 and is a left handed bat. Above average catcher with gap pop). Flores will hit 9th and catch vs lefties and Fuentes and he will play every other day vs righties with Flores being a late inning defensive replacement. No word on Collins, hopeful it’s a day to day thing. HUGE blow if he has to miss any length of time. DRAFT NEWS We get an extra 5th pick (24) next year for failing to sign Rosado. Would rather have had him… GAME 92 Ron Cox (6-4) was horrific. A 2.2-7-8-8-1-4 outing with 3 home runs. Ron Miller went 2-4 with his 9th HR and drove in 3, Gutierrez, Chartier, Lorenzelli, Ferrer and Flores had 2 hit games with Gutierrez hitting his 27th double and scoring two and stealing 2 (17) and Chartier scrored twice. BRO 9 CHI 7 (62-30 +5) STATS/STREAKS Vegas’s Jesus Andrales went 2-5 to extend his streak to 20 games today. At .364 he’s leading the CL (and Cy May by 10pts) in hitting. INJURY NEWS It could be worse. Hugh Collins will miss the next 3 weeks with a rib cage strain. Hopefully he’s back and ready to go the final 8 weeks. Alfredo Lozano a switch hitting OF is getting antoher shot. He struggled in a short ’13 stint but is raking at AAA this year at 322/397/495. Not to mention he can play ALL three OF positions extremely well. Outstanding runner. GAME 93 A tired but determined pen threw 4 hitless innings in relief of a tired Spike Davis who threw 100 pitches over a 5-7-2-2-2-5 outing. Van Bodegraven (3-2) got the win with 2.1 IP and 3 K’s and Johnson got the final 4 outs with 2 K’s for Save 25. Feliz and Gutierrez had 2 hits apiece and scored a run. CHI 3 BRO 2 (63-30 +5) GAMES Clipper SP Marcos Diaz shut down West Michigan on 6 hits in a 6-0 Columbus win. He struck out 11 in moving to 11-4 3.97 in 19 starts this year. INJURY NEWS Brooklyn lost 2B Paul Morris for the rest of the 2015 season when he suffered a herniated disc in today's game. He was hitting 265-5-26 in 73 games. New York learned it would be without oft traveled 1B Lee Allen for the next 8 weeks with a bad hamstring strain. Allen is hitting 291-8-35 in 58 games this season. He hit 304-22-66 in 97 games for the Knights last season after coming from Brooklyn 2013 winter trade. He was the 3rd round pick of Fresno in the 2012 IBL Inaugural draft. GAME 94 That same tired pen failed tonight. Handed a 1-0 lead in the 8th with 2 out and nobody on Dave Winston needed to get All Star catcher Dean Strong out, and couldn't. Strong his a game tying solo shot (19) and Jorge Sanchez (2-3) blew the lead and then walked the winning run in, in the bottom of the 10th. Chartier went 4-5 with a double and his 20th SB and Gutierrez and Alexander had 2 hit nights. Sherman Mitchell went 9.2-10-2-2-0-4. COL 3 CHI 2 (63-31 +4) DL NEWS Jorge Sanchez is optioned down and Ernesto Cruz is called back onto the roster. None of the lefties deserved to be sent out but there had to be room made to keep Johnson on the roster and up. He’ll close in AAA and provide insurance over the next 6 weeks until I can get him back up here. GAME 95 Ernesto Cruz is back! Throwing a scoreless 9th to notch his first save of 2015, setup by one Ken Johnson! And Ryan Pennington (H11). Dan MacFadden (6-4) went 7-5-0-0-1-6. Bill Alexander went 2-4 with a run and 2 RBI’s on his 28th HR.Ferrer and Chartier had 2 hit days. CHI 3 COL 1 (64-31 +5) WEEK 15 WRAP GAMES A quiet year for 3 time All Star Walt Thomspon (BRO) got louder yesterday when he posted his first shutout of 2015 in blanking Green Bay 1-0 on 3 hits. The 33 year old is 9-9 4.21 in 21 starts. STUFF Buffalo Bison LF Bob Veeck took home FL PotW honors for his 14-30 3 HR 7 RBI effort this week. On the year he is hitting .335-17-56 in 85 games as he aims for his 3rd straight 30 HR season (30-33-17 this year). Vegas 51 RF Bob White took home CL PotW after he went 9-19 with 3 HR’s and 12 RBI’s. The 23 year old is hitting 268-13-70 on the year. HUGE TRADE ALERT! In a stunning trade today, defending World Champion Philadelphia shipped slugger Dave Ladd to the Tulsa Drillers, along with 940K cash, for 33 year old Catcher Rajah Lashari and 19 year old pitching prospect Luis Quinones. Ladd was hitting 278 with 17 HR’s and 75 RBi’s this year after his 287-30-103 World Series campaign. Ladd is a career 293/378/540 hitter with 107 HR’s and 394 RBI’s in 504 games. He’s a 2 time all star and 2013 Rawlings Gold Glove winner in Left field. Lashari, a 2012 All Star, is hitting 343-12-33 in 46 games this season but the emergence of 27 year old Rich Alfred appears to have made him expendable (he hitting 251 with 11 HR’s and 33 RBI’s in 76 games and an outstanding defender). The 19 year old Quinones was the 10 round pick of Tulsa and converted from SS to Closing where he is displaying upper 90’s stuff with an ‘off the table slider’. He is a few years out but is a 4.5 star guy in many scouts books. This smells of a ‘rebuild’ move for the defending champs who are currently 45-50 and 15 games behind division leading Pittsburgh. Tulsa is just 3 back of 1st place Houston in the Lone Star Division and Ladd figures to sit right in the middle of the powerful Tulsa lineup, protecting 1B Curt Whimster. IBL Power Rankings 1) Chicago 2) El Paso 3) Las Vegas 4) Pittsburgh 5) Columbus Bottom 5 22) Green Bay 23) Brooklyn 24) San Antonio 25) Corpus Christi 26) West Michigan