June 18, 2001
Monday Morning Report
AL Player of the Week - Steve Carrillo, 3b, Detroit (27 L .393/.414/.636) Had 10 hits with 2 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR, 5 R and 5 RBI in 6 G His 4th Player of the Week award this season and 2nd in a row. How many players have ever won the POW in a week that saw their batting average drop? Carrillo just did....
NL Player of the Week - Floyd Miller, ss, San Diego (27 R .284/.367/.498) Had 12 hits with 1 2B, 5 HR, 5 R and 13 RBI in 6 G Sure thought Julio Chapa would be the winner. He had 6 HR, 8 R and 15 RBI.
(Slash lines are for the season, not the week)
June 11: RHP Phil Putnam of San Francisco pitched a 3-hit shutout at home versus Arizona. He walked 1 and struck out 8. He is now 5-4 with a 3.42 ERA. The Giants won, 6 to 0.
June 13: CF Julio Chapa of Colorado hit 2 home runs at home versus St. Louis. He had 3 hits and 3 RBIs. The Rockies won, 9 to 3.
June 13: Boston scored three times in the bottom of the 9th to beat Washington, 5 to 4. A 1-out, 1-run double by 2B Bob Meyer ended the game.
June 14: LHP Doug Stone pitched a 5-hit shutout at Chicago (N). He did not walk a batter and struck out 4. He is now 6-1 with a league-leading 1.55 ERA. The Expos won, 5 to 0. It is his first complete game shutout of the season, but the 5th shutout he has started, which leads the major leagues.
June 14: LF Mike Cane of Houston hit 2 home runs at home versus San Diego. He had 4 RBIs. The Astros won, 10 to 8. Cane is the first major leaguer to reach 20 home runs on the season. It was the Astro's 65th game of the season, so Cane is on pace to hit 49.8 for the year. His 2nd home run came off a lefty, only the 2nd of his 20 that come off left-handed pitching, against whom he is hitting .194.
June 14: LHP Greg Weber of San Francisco pitched a 4-hit shutout at home versus Los Angeles (N). We walked 2 and struck out 3. He is now 6-5 with a 2.55 ERA. The Giants won, 9 to 0. It is Weber's 2nd shutout of the season, tying him for the major league lead.
June 15: St. Louis had two players each hit a pair of home runs at Arizona. 1B Miguel Medina had 3 hits, drew a walk, scored 3 runs and had 4 RBIs. C Art Green also hit a double, drew a walk and had 6 RBIs. The Cardinals won, 15 to 4.
June 15: LHP Bob Guardado of Kansas City pitch a rain-shortened 6 inning shutout at home versus Minnesota. He allowed 3 hits, no walks and struck out 5. He is now 5-0 with a 2.03 ERA. The Royals won, 7 to 0.
June 16: Each team had a player hit 2 home runs in the San Diego at Houston game. SS Floyd Miller of San Diego had 3 hits and 5 RBIs. Doug Frain of Houston did not start the game, but led off the 7th inning with hit a pinch-hit home run and when his team batted around, he hit another, this one a Grand Slam! The Astros scored 11 runs in the inning. Miller's 2 home runs were the only ones hit by San Diego, but Houston hit 7 all together, 6 in that 7th inning! The Astros won, 12 to 7.
June 17: 1B Manny Esquivel of New York (N) hit 2 home runs art Cincinnati. He had 4 RBIs. The Mets won, 9 to 1.
June 17: CF Joe Gombos of Chicago (N) hit 2 home runs at home versus Montreal. The Cubs lost, 3 to 2.
June 17: LF Mike Cane of Houston hit 2 home runs at home versus San Diego. He had 4 hits with a double and a Grand Slam and 6 RBIs. The Astros won, 7 to 1. He now has 68 RBIs in the Astros 68 games. Let me do the math....that is a pace for 162 RBI on the season!
June 17: LHP Don Hinkle of Chicago (A) pitched a 5-hit shutout at home versus Texas. He walked 1 and struck out 10. He is now 3-9 with a 4.02 ERA. The White Sox won, 5 to 0.
Random Fact of the Week: In the voting for the All-Star Game, there is quite a race for the starting spot among NL catchers. Stan Brown of San Francisco currently leads, with Howard Morrell of Houston second and Dwight Smith of Montreal in third. Less than 45,000 votes separate first from third place.