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Week 17
WEEK 17 (7/27-8/2)
1 @ Dayton
3 vs Staten Island
3 vs Edmonton
GAME 102
Ron Cox (8-4) was brilliant in a complete game 2 hitter. He went 9-2-1-1-1-6. The bottom of the lineup carried us today with 6-9 going 8-13 with 4 runs and 5 RBI’s lead by Paul Riggs 2-3 3 RBI day on his 24th double and Raul Feliz 2-3 2 run day. Ernesto Gutierrez went 1-5 with 2 RBI’s on his 29th double.
CHI 7 DAY 1 (68-34 +5)
GAMES
Rialcats Fernando Martinez tossed a 4 hitter on LA in moving to 6-7 5.64 on the year.
INJURY NEWS
El Paso Diablo 3B Vincent Lange (294-19-50) will miss the next 3 weeks with an ankle sprain suffered in todays game.
TRADE NEWS
The New York Knights have traded 2B Tomas Ruiz (243-13-48 in 88 games) and 24 year old prospect SP Alfredo Lucrerios and a 3rd round pick to Sacramento for 26 year old OF Jamie Hilton. Hilton (rated by the bureu as a 3.5 star prospect) has hit 259/351/453 in 71 games this year with 11-17 steals. He’s a leader who everyone feels will be a 25 homer 410 OBP corner OF. Lucererios was the Knights 7th rounder (156 overall) in 2014 out of Arkansas State and is 1-4 5.16 in Class A this year.
GAME 103
Paul Riggs continued to snap out of his funk going 3-4 with his 25th double and 2 RBI’s and Rafael Flores went 2-4 with a double (4) and triple (1) and 2 runs. Alfredo Lozano went 3-4 with a run. Massi Lorenzelli went 2-4 with 2 RBI’s on his 30th double and Wes Morgan drove in 2 in a 1-4 day. Spike Davis (13-3) went 5-7-4-4-1-4 surrendering Travis Bryants 21st HR.
CHI 9 SI 4 (69-34 +5)
GAME 104
A banged up Raul Feliz went 2-4 and drove in the game winner on a 9th inning walk off single. Jean Chartier went 2-5 with 2 RBI’s on his 18th HR and Wes Morgan drilled his 23rd. Paul Riggs went 2-3 and Mike Davis wiggled in and out of jams going 5-6-4-4-6-4 before Jose Torres came in to toss 3 hitless innings in relief before Ryan Pennington (6-1) got the final 6 outs in perfect order with 3 K’s.
CHI 5 SI 4 (70-34 +5)
INJURY NEWS
Columbus Clipper CF Antonio Santana, at 27, is done. The outfield called it quits after a severely damaged ankle refused to co-operate. In 294 career games he hit 278/339/355 with 59 doubles, 11 triples and 5 home runs with 82 RBI’s and 167 runs. He also stole 64-101 bases finishing 6th in the FL in 2013 with 32.
TRADE NEWS
Arizona dealt 32 year old 2B Thatcher Smith and a 2nd round pick to Alaska for 29 year old Catcher Doug Winston and 22 year old catching prospect Tim Cade. Winston was hitting 238-11-38 in 82 games for the Aces after being acquired from Baltimore in the expansion draft. He was the everyday catcher for the Railcats playing in 409 games over the 3 years, hitting 38 HR’s and driving in 160. Cade is an outstanding defensive catcher who was signed by the Aces as a minor league free agent. He figures to get a shot at the every day job in the next year or two if he continues to progress, having great strike zone awarenees and outstanding gap power. Smith is a marginal defender who’s bat is his tool. A very good base stealer who puts the ball in play he’s a career 296/365/432 hitter in 384 games with 95 doubles 12 triples and 19 HR’s. He’s struck out just 101 times to 144 walks in over 1300 career AB’s. It’s likely Alaska will use him as bait to continue getting stronger in the draft and younger down below.
GAME 105
MacFadden (6-6) was in a hole early and we never dug out. Going 5.1-7-6-6-3-4 as Ron Pearce (14-6 3.58) shut down the Chicago offense with a 8-9-1-1-2-1 outing. Bill Alexander was 3-4 and Alfredo Lozane went 2-3 with his 1st SB.
SI 6 CHI 1 (70-35 +4)
GAME NEWS
Bulldog Ace Vince Bray tossed his 2nd shutout in 10 days, this time a 4 hitter vs Philly in which he struck out 9. He’s now 16-2 1.97 with 161 K’s in 173.1 IP. All three totals are CL best with his 16 wins an IBL lead by 2 over Staten Island’s Ron Pearce (14-6 and the guy who just shut us down). Pittsburgh is 65-40 and 12 games up on 2nd place Baltimore, 14 on Philly.
ORG NEWS
Heavener is sending 4 players to the SS All Star Game: SP Garrett Austin (4-0 1.84) MR Orlando Velez (0-0 3 SV 1.61) and Catcher Michael Martin (306/382/510 with 2 HR’s 14 RBI’s) and SS Paul Whitaker (296/380/506 4 HR’s 11 RBI’s)
INJURY NEWS
The bad news continues to pile on in Philly. The Patriots learned they will be without starting SS Manny Navarro for at least 6 more weeks after complications from his meniscus repair arose. He was hitting 300-5-37 when he went down.
GAME 106
Chicago’s 3rd 20+ run game in history. Gutierrez went 1-3 with 2 walks and 3 runs and 2 SB (23), and that was a ‘bad day’ today. Jean Chartier was 3-6 with 2 runs and 4 RBI’s hitting a triple (9) and his 19th HR. Bill Alexander went 2-5 with 2 runs and 3 RBI’s, Wes Morgan went 3-5 with 3 runs, 3 RBI’s on 2 HR’s (25) and Alfredo Lozano went 3-6 with an RBI. Massi Lorenzelli had 4 singles in a 4-5 4 run 2 RBI day with his 18th SB and Jesus Fuentes continued to fill in for the injured Eric Hudson with a 4-5 2 run 6 RBI day on 2 doubles and his 2nd HR. All of that offense for Alfredo Alejandrez (13-4 4.26) who went 8-6-2-2-0-7. Edmonton’s Brandon Osborne dropped to 2-15 6.22.
CHI 20 EDM 2 (71-35 +4)
JULY RECAP
Dayton 1B Wally Howard went 5-5 in an 8-5 loss to Arizona today.
El Paso’s Gerald Wright took home the July FL Player of the Month Award. He hit .347 with 11 HR’s and 34 RBI’s, while scoring 24 times to bring his season totals to 348-38-114.
Las Vegas OF Jesus Andrales hit a stunning .449 in July to win CL Player of the Month. He had 3 HR’s, 25 RBI’s and scored 23 times while posting a .496 OBP. Andrales is hitting .373 on the season, leading the Coastaal league and Houston’s Juan Cabrera by 22 pts, as well as tied with LA’s Felix Torres for steals with 33, 1 ahead of Baltimore’s Mehpare Ishfahani.
Edmonton Trapper SP Paco Gonzalez took home the July Pitcher of the Month for the FL after he went a perfect 6-0 2.82 with 31 K’s in 51 innings. Gonzale is 12-6 3.45 on the year.
Vince Bray also posted a perfect 6-0 and ALSO took home Pitcher of the Month honors (his 3rd). Bray went 6-0 1.82 with 36K’s in 49.1 IP. He’s 16-2 1.97 on the year, leading the CL in all three triple crown categories.
Dayton Dragon rookie Julio Martinez won the FL Rookie of the Month for July by hitting .278 with 5 HR’s and 22 RBI’s. For the year the 23 year old is hitting 243-8-31 in 61 games. He was Dayton’s 2nd round pick (#48 overall) in the 2013 June Draft.
Las Vegas 51 rookie Jorge Gonzales hit .354 with 2 HR’s and 13 RBI’s to win the CL Rookie of the Month award. He’s hitting .326 with 2 HR’s and 15 RBI’s in 34 games. Gonzales was Las Vegas’ 11th round pick (253rd overall) in the 2012 June Draft and entered 2015 as the #8 IBL Prospect.
ORG NEWS
Heavener Sting SP Garrett Austin took home the GCL July Pitcher of the Month for his 4-0 2.01 month. He’s 4-0 1.84 on the year. Garrett was our 15th round pick (379 overall) in the 2015 June Draft out of VCU.
2014 #1 Pick (#8 overall) Roberto Martinez won the NYP Pitcher of the Month Award for July after he went 4-0 0.61. He’s 5-1 2.43 in 6 starts.
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