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A very disappointing series at home against Cozumel which saw the Paris Swingers get swept and they made some trades to get younger

Game #121- Cozumel Scouts 5 Paris Swingers 2

WP - Dick Niehaus (1-0)
LP - Sean Douglass (0-1)
Save - Suds Sutherland (6)

Star of Game - Wellington Castillo (3-4, 2 RBI's)

Homers
Cozumel - David Murphy (21), Von Joshua (13)


Recap - Cozumel scored 5 runs off Douglass in the 5th inning and that was the game. Douglass did not look very good at all. Carl Cashion started for Cozumel but only pitched 4 innings. Rudy Hernandez gave Paris 2 scoreless innings. Joshua hit the big 2 run homer off of Douglass in the 5th. Castillo had 3 hits and Jack Dawson had 2, as Paris had 9 hits but did not cash in


Game #122 - Cozumel Scouts 4 Paris Swingers 3

WP - Matt Wagner (11-10)
LP - Bill Gogolewski (8-9)
Save - Suds Sutherland (7)

Star of Game - Matt Wagner (5 IP, 5 hits, 2 ER, 4 K's)

Homers - None

Recap - Cozumel got 4 unearned runs off of Gogolewski in the 2nd innings and that was the game. Harlond Clift and newly acquired Eddie Miller had big errors in that inning. Gogolewski fanned 6 over five innings but the errors cost him. Wagner was in control and the Cozumel bullpen did the rest. Pete Browning and Johnny Estrada had 2 hits each for Cozumel in the win. Miller had a big 3 hit game in his Paris debut.


Game #123 - Cozumel Scouts 17 Paris Swingers 10

WP - Caleb Ferguson (4-4)
LP - Mitch Keller (2-4)

Star of Game - Harlond Clift (3-4, 3 homers 5 RBI's)

Homers
Cozumel - Pete Browning (18), Rick Monday (24)
Paris - Milt Bolling (10), Harlond Clift (27,28,29), Gail Hopkins (27), Gene Baker (7)

Recap - Paris had the 6-3 lead after 6 innings and Cozumel exploded for 14 runs in the final 3 innings. Clift had the big 3 homer game but it was for naught as Paris lost. Paris knocked former Chicago White Sox ace Clay Kirby out for 6 runs in 4 1/3 innings. Joel Collins started and only lasted 4 innings as well for Paris and Keller was terrible giving up 5 runs in 1/3 inning. Chris Stratton also gave up 4 runs and did not record an out. Monday drove in 4 runs while Tyler Austin had 4 hits and 3 RBI's for Cozumel in the win. Hopkins and Clift had 3 hit games for Paris and Bolling homered in his final game with Paris


Standing - Paris Swingers are 54-69 and tied for 8th place in the NL Atlantic with the West Palm Beach Dinos trailing the 7th place Savannah Thunder by 5 games and leading the 10th place Charleston Cheetahs by 5 games.

Looking Ahead - Paris heads to Santa Fe to play the Impact who are 31-92 and in 11th place in the NL West then they come home to play the expansion Nashua Fire Dogs.


Transactions - Ed Karger was traded to the El Paso Grizzlies for CF Eddie Miller. Miller is a fast guy that strikes out too much.....After that trade Johnny Dickshot was sent to the minors and Ernesto Cancino got recalled. Paris then traded Milt Bolling and Ricky Nelson as a package to the Staten Island Blue Jackets for LF Cal Abrams, Reliever Michael Tejera and reliever Adam Pettyjohn. Abrams is a 24 year old from Philadelphia who was tearing it up in AA ball for Staten Island. ... After those moves, Paris demoted John Stuper to the minors and recalled SS Doc Lavan from the minors. Lavan was hitting .270 with 35 RBI's in AAA, he came over in the same trade from the Houston Astros that saw Johnny Dickshot come to town.