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2026 - Report #14
The league is at the 31 game point in the season and there have been more frequent unique events
Jonah Simms the Cloud Nine underachieving retail clerk, won the AL Player of the Week award this week for the Portland Lions. Simms hit 5 homers and drove in 14 runs while going 13 for 29. Portland is 19-12 and 6 games behind the surprising Anchorage Bears in the AL Pacific.
In the National League, top honors for the week goes to legendary Bobby Thomson of the New York Mets. Thomson went 13 for 24 this week and hit 3 homers while driving in 13 runs. The Mets are off to a great start at 24-6 but are in 2nd place in the NL East trailing the first place Brooklyn Brawlers by 1 1/2 games.
Steve Ontiveros in his 8th year with the Cincinnati Reds and today he hit for the cycle in a 17-1 beating of the Sarasota Typhoon in Florida. Ontiveros drove in 7 runs in the game as the Reds also got 2 hits and 5 RBI's from Dino Restalli. Roy Oswalt improved to 3-1 with 7 1/3 innings of 1 run baseball.
The Los Angeles Dodgers spanked the Scranton Owls on the road at Dunder Mifflin Stadium as Rube Kisinger hurled a 1 hit shutout. Kisinger improved to 2-0 on the season with 3 strikeouts in the 1 hitter. The only Scranton hit was by rookie Lourdes Gurriel. The Dodgers got their offense from Johnny Peralta with 4 hits and 3 RBI's.
It was a big day for veteran Harmon Killebrew of the Barcelona Magicians as he slugged his 300th career homer today in a 7-4 home loss to the Columbus Barracudas. Killebrew hit the milestone homer off of Columbus reliever and Long Islander John Frascatore. Killebrew was not offered a contract with the Minnesota Twins where he played for 7 years so he took the chance to play in Europe.
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