Notes from the TWB Detroit Tigers Manager - Page 12

m0ng00se · 02-02-2005, 05:57 PM

1951 - 5/16 THRU 5/31

5/16 day off

5/17 PHI @ DET: WIN 7-6 Bud Ulrich gave up 3R (2ER) in 3.2IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (4-1, 4.76) who pitched a hitless 9th. Ellis Weeks gave up 1R in 3IP. The loss went to Jim Lindros who recorded no outs and gave up back to back HRs to Kress and Ormiston in the bottom of the 9th. Top A's batters were 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 1BB, 1HR), 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 5, 1TRPL) & CF Todd Walker (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL). For us, John Dirtbag Degal got POG going 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR.

5/18 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-4 Roy Wolfe (6-4, 3.98) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Oswald Adkins got the save pitching a scoreless 9th. Tad Zonkas (4-5, 3.94) gave up 5R in 7.2IP for the loss. Top A's hitter was 3B Bud Ayers who went 4 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 3 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. That HR gave us the go ahead run. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL.

5/19 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-3 Corky Stell (3-6, 4.71) got the win giving up 3R in 6.1IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for his 5th save. Danny Mau (6-2, 3.25) gave up 5R in 7.1IP. Top A's hitter was RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI). For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Once again, Sandoz is clutch giving us the go ahead runs... he's not a power hitter so these past two games have been a nice effort. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1HR.

5/20 DET @ WSH: loss 1-7 Hal Andrew (6-5, 4.56) got yanked after 4IP after giving up 7R (5ER). Chris Frays (6-4, 2.79) only gave up 1R in 8IP for the win. Top WSH hitters were 3B Jim Dunkel (3 for 4, 2R, 4RBI, 1HR, POG), 2B Dean Parente (3 for 5, 2R, 2DBL) & 1B Chris Anderson 1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR. For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 4.

5/21 DET @ WSH: loss 7-8 Bud Ulrich gave up 5R in 7IP, but the loss went to Don Vonkitzing (0-1, 3.46) who was unable to hold in the 8th. Van Melbourn gave up 5R in 5.1IP and had to leave the game with a back injury. The win went to Raul Velazquez (4-2, 3.22) for pitching a scoreless 2.2 in relief. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR), C John Fine (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & SP Van Melbourn (2 for 3, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman was an awesome 5 for 5, 3R, 1TRPL. Dave Castenda went 3 for 5. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 3R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 5RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1HR.

5/22 DET @ WSH: loss 1-9 Roy Wolfe (6-5, 4.46) gave up 7R in 6IP for the loss. Eric Slater (6-3, 4.34) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Top WSH hitters were CF Delmar Yordy (3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB), 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4, 3R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL), & 2B Dean Parente (2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. We were held to 4 hits and 1BB.

5/23 BOS @ DET: WIN 2-1 Corky Stell gave up 1R in 6IP for POG. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (5-1, 4.05) who pitched a hitless 9th. Red Finley pitched 5.2 shutout innings. But their closer Billy Hyberg (1-2, 1.00) blew a hold op in the 9th. Top Sox hitter was RF Hutch Kahle who went 2 for 4. For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL.

5/24 BOS @ DET: WIN 2-1 Hal Andrew (7-5, 4.18) allowed only 1R in a CG win for POG. Cort Nagel pitched 7.1 shutout innings, but their closer Billy Hyberg (1-3, 1.96) blew a save op in the 9th compliments of a 2R HR by Kress. Top Sox hitter was RF Ben Hargey who went 2 for 3, 1HR. Hal held the Sox to 4 hits. For us, Steve Zucal filled in at 2B and went 1 for 2, 1R, 2BB. Ray Kress subbed in mid way into the game and went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

5/25 BOS @ DET: loss 3-13 Bud Ulrich (2-5, 5.22) gave up 6R in 5.2IP for the loss. Sonny Faulkner (6-4, 4.21) gave up 3R in 7.1IP for the win. Top Sox hitters were 1B Bobby Johnson(2 for 5, 1R, 5RBI, 1HR, POG), C Em Pelto (2 for 4, 3R 2RBI, 1BB), & SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 3 for 4. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB.

5/26 BOS @ DET: WIN 11-9 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R in 4.2IP. The win went to Don Vonkitzing (1-1, 3.12) who pitched a scoreless 6th. Lloyd Wyman got his 6th save pitching a scoreless 9th. Nippy Schnaubert gave up 9R in 4.1IP, however the loss went to Smiley Crago (2-1, 3.94) for giving up 2R in the 7th & 8th. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR), RF Ben Hargey (2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL), & SS Tequila Allen (2 for 5, 5RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Isaac Mitchell got POG thanks to a PH grandslam in the 5th that put us in the lead for good. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 6, 1R, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R.... basically everyone hit well except for Sandoz and Wolfe.

5/27 DET @ CHI: WIN 7-5 Corky Stell (4-6, 4.54) got the win despite giving up 4R in 6.2IP. Lloyd Wyman got his 7th save pitching a hitless 9th. Johnny Gordley (4-5, 3.96) gave up 7R in 6.2IP for the loss. Corky was overheard after the game "It's nice to get some frick'n run support for a change". Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1HR) & RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 2RBI. Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R.

5/28 DET @ CHI: loss 3-7 Hal Andrew (7-6, 4.52) continues his insane inconsistency giving up 7R in 7.2IP for the loss. Jake Craze (4-7, 4.72) gave up 3R in a CG win. POG went to Sox RF Chester Munch who went 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR. C Bud Mobley, 3B Donald Medart & SS Rex Seelinger all went 2 for 4. For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3.

5/29 DET @ CHI: WIN 8-1 Bud Ulrich (3-5, 4.79) finally pitched a nice game giving up only 1R in a CG win. Gene Masarech (5-4, 4.18) gave up 4R in 6IP for the loss. Top Sox hitters were RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1HR) & 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4). For us, Clinton Darling filled in at 3B and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB.

5/30 day off

5/31 NYY @ DET: loss 1-3 Roy Wolfe (6-6, 4.77) struck out 9, but gave up 3R in a CG loss. Eric Williams (7-3, 2.94) only gave up 1R in 8IP for the win and POG. Top Yank hitters were 1B John Wilson (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & Charles Gillis (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 3.

STANDINGS
26-25, 5th in the AL, 9.5GB Philly, 8-6 in the last two weeks.

BAD NEWS
-We swept the A's and still lost ground as our starters remains inconsistent.
-Ormiston is still only hitting .236 and Degal (.167) is making it hard to sit Smokey. I think I'll have to see about increasing Smokey's starts against RHP as he's hitting .304.

GOOD NEWS
-Ray Kress was name Player of the Month - He hit .303 in 99 AB, with 12 homers and 26 RBI. That AVG is a bit low for him, but the 12 HR is nice as he's only 3 away from jumping on the career leaderboard.
-Rollin Fish is evolving into a decent hitter. He's one of those like Castaneda where I felt that I didn't care if he couldn't hit, I just loved his glove. But like Castaneda, he was thrown to the wolves and has grown as a hitter. He's approaching .300 and is not far behind Perly and Ormiston in HRs and RBIs.
-Lloyd Wyman is having a better year than last. He's getting more work in this year and is currently at the #22 spot in career Saves.
-Having Stell in the lineup and the chronic rain delays have made for a busy bull pen this year (as I expected). The Pen is 7-3, so they have been doing their job. Once the rain delays taper off and our starters start pitching with some consistency (it will happen, I just know it will happen... I hope), our bullpen should find them selves a bit more rested.
-Kitterman and Perly are starting to hit for better average after a pathetic start to the year.
-Sandoz and Mitchell continue to play their best in a platoon situation in RF.

BATTING THRU 5/31

Code:

Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG

Code:

 
C. Darling   21  28 10  1  1  2   7  4  2  4 .357 .387 .679 
D. Castaneda 50 189 60  5  3  0   9 27 32 27 .317 .414 .376 
R. Kress     49 181 57  4  2 17  49 36 36 21 .315 .429 .641 
I. Mitchell  34  70 22  2  1  2   9  5  4  2 .314 .347 .457 
C. Sandoz    44 151 46  5  1  2  21 20  7 10 .305 .333 .391 
J. Meacham   34  69 21  2  1  3  16  7  8  8 .304 .380 .493 
R. Fish      48 170 50  8  2  6  23 21 17 15 .294 .358 .471 
M. Perly     51 180 49  9  1  8  33 28 24 23 .272 .354 .467 
D. Kitterman 49 194 51  7  2  2  14 32 23 19 .263 .347 .351 
P. Short     16  24  6  0  0  0   1  2  1  2 .250 .280 .250 
L. Ormiston  47 165 39  8  0  8  20 24 34 15 .236 .367 .430 
H. Andrew    13  28  6  0  0  1   1  3  4  6 .214 .313 .321 
C. Stell     13  34  7  2  0  0   7  4  1  4 .206 .222 .265 
J. Degal     40 126 21  4  0  2  11  8  6 17 .167 .205 .246 
S. Zucal     25  18  3  0  1  0   0  6  6  0 .167 .400 .278 
G. Young      9  18  3  0  0  1   2  1  1  2 .167 .211 .333 
M. Ferron    12  22  3  0  0  0   2  2  3  2 .136 .240 .136

PITCHING THRU 5/31

Code:

Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K

Code:

 
H. Andrew     13 13 7 6 0  4.52 91.2  78 48 46 41 57 
R. Wolfe      13 13 6 6 0  4.77 94.1 109 57 50 27 58 
L. Wyman      15  0 5 1 7  3.52 15.1  12  6  6  6  7 
C. Stell      13 13 4 6 0  4.54 85.1  84 47 43 32 39 
B. Ulrich     13 13 3 5 0  4.79 88.1  93 56 47 38 51 
D. Vonkitzing 18  0 1 1 2  3.12 17.1  17 11  6  8 10 
S. Brown       5  0 1 0 0  0.00  7.0   6  0  0  5  1 
A. Paule      14  0 0 0 0  3.60 20.0  17  9  8 11 11 
O. Adkins     20  0 0 1 2  4.34 18.2  22 11  9 10  8 
E. Roberts    13  0 0 0 0  5.28 15.1  17 11  9 10  8

m0ng00se · 02-07-2005, 06:12 PM

1951 JUNE

Arg!!!!!!! I've spent hours on this post and lost it twice. Flipp'n amazing bad luck with a comptuer today.

There's no way I'm doing a full month game by game post a third time today, so here's the gist of what happened in June:

STANDINGS
40-37 - 3rd in the AL - 16 games behind Philly.

We played well against everybody except for the two AL leaders (Philly & Boston). Unfortunately those two kicked our tail bad in all but a couple of games this month. Thus the big lead for them over us.

Hal Andrew nearly got his ERA to 4.00 but then threw four bad games. The only reason his last two wins were wins were becase he lucked out with some run support.

Our other starters were better this month. Stell was especially good going 4-2, 2.83 for the month. In his last 4 he only allowed a total of 2 runs and even had a CG shutout win in one of them.

Ray Kress made it onto the career leaderboard and has jumped up all the way to the #22 spot. His average dipped below .300, but then he rebounded a bit in the last few games.

Ormiston hit 9HR, Perly 7, Kress 7, Fish 6. Fish also got a Player of the Week award on 6/27

Meacham was our top hitter for AVG going .355. Kitterman is on the rebound and hit almost as well as Meacham.

Lloyd Wyman was doing very well this year until he had one bad game on 6/1. He was immediately sent to the dog house and not given an save op all month. I'm going to put him in as #2 setup guy as well as closer to se if I can force him to get more save ops. I can't afford for him to lose any more skill due to too much pine time as has happened over the last couple of years. Its especially frustrating that he's not geting work when you see that he has only allowed runs in one of his last 10 games and has rarely even giving up a hit. Stupid AI. He's still stuck on the #22 spot in career saves.

Two new coaches were brought in at the middle of the month:
Pitching Coach: Bob Guilderson - Hired '51 after the previous coach stepped down due to health concerns. Bob had only been retired for a year and a half, but he has been bored out of his mind and eager to get back into baseball in any capacity. He spent his entire ML career as a Tiger winning 239 games and is on the career leaderboard with 2036 Ks. An exteremly loyal man, he's also provided excellent leadership in the locker room. He has 22 years of professional pitching experience to draw upon. On top of all that, he's played ball with just about everyone on our roster so he can step in and give input right away.

Hitting / 3B Coach: Kid Fite - Hired a few days after Bob. Fite is not the vocal leader that Bob Guilderson brings to the club house. He's more of the lead by example type. He racked up 3699 hits and hit .329 in his amazing 23 year career. He also knows a little bit about winning as he was a huge part of the 1928 Detroit World Series victory and won another in 1942 with Washington. An amazing fact - he only at 4 minor league at bats before securing a starting spot on Detroits active roster in '22 hitting .260. He was never once sent back to the minors. He even finished his career with a .315 average that last year as a starter making people wonder if he could have continued playing well into his 40s.

canadiancreed · 02-07-2005, 06:16 PM

looks like you're getting some old school help to whip your team into shape

Matt from TN · 02-07-2005, 08:33 PM

So how close to the end is Killbreath in Detroit?

m0ng00se · 02-08-2005, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt from TN

So how close to the end is Killbreath in Detroit?

Good question, I'm having a hard time deciding on a replacement for him, so he's gotten a slight reprieve at the moment.

canadiancreed · 02-08-2005, 05:33 PM

Didnt think he was doing so bad till I saw the stats. Not pretty at all

m0ng00se · 02-08-2005, 05:48 PM

1951, JULY

7/1 CHI @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (8-6, 4.36) gave up only 2H & 1R in a CG win for POG. Moonshine Allen (5-12, 3.68) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. Bud Ulrich went 1 for 3, 1R, 1SB.

7/2 CHI @ DET: loss 6-7 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R (6ER) in 9IP for the loss. Johnny Gordley only lasted 3.2IP after giving up 6R. The win went to closer William Baum (2-1, 4.02) who pitched a scoreless 9th & 10th innings. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, POG), RF Chester Munch (2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & CF Homer Jewell (4 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR.

7/3 CHI @ DET: WIN 6-2 Corky Stell (9-8, 3.79) got the win giving up only 2R (1ER) in 7IP. Gordie Crum (1-6, 6.47) gave up 6R in 5IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was C Bud Mobley (1 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Smokey Meacham got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB.

7/4 DET @ StL: WIN 8-3 Hal Andrew (12-9, 4.54) gave up 3R in a CG win for POG. Don Allen (4-5, 2.73) gave up 7R in 6IP. Top StL hitters were C Frank Bowers (2 for 4, 1RBI) & 2B Dale Thompson (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Ray Kress and Matt Perly had to be replaced by Isaac Mitchell & Clinton Darling as they were both tossed arguing strikeout calls.

7/5 DET @ StL: WIN 7-2 Bud Ulrich (9-6, 4.22) gave up only 2R in a CG win for POG. Eugene Sprecher (5-10, 4.82) gave up 4R in 8IP for the loss. Top StL hitter was LF Jack Buback (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 2R, 3BB. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Dave Castaneda went 1 for 2, 1R, 1BB, 1SB.

7/6 DET @ StL: loss 4-6 Roy Wolfe (8-12, 4.44) gave up 6R (4ER) in a CG loss. Buster Davis (8-10, 4.68) got the win giving up 3R in 7.2IP. Top StL hitters were CF Jessie Witt (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1TRPL), 1B Vince Chipple (2 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL) & C Frank Bowers (2 for 4, 2R). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 3BB, 1DBL.

7/7 DET @ StL: WIN 4-1 Corky Stell (10-8, 3.65) gave up only 1R in 8IP for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 8th save. Cotton Simson loses to us again, this time giving up 4R in a CG loss. Top StL hitter was C Frank Bowers (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell gave Kress a day off and went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. Pete Short gave Fish a day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 2DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R.

7/8 BOS @ DET: loss 3-8 Hal Andrew (12-10, 4.50) gave up 7R (3ER) in 7.1IP. Two errors for us proved costly. Sonny Faulkner (8-10, 4.86) got the win giving up 3R in 8.2IP. POG went to Sox 1B Bobby Johnson who went 3 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Their CF Cy Helbig went 1 for 2, 2R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. Isaac Mitchell back in RF went 2 for 4. Clinton Darling gave Ormiston the day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI.

7/9 BOS @ DET: loss 4-5 Bud Ulrich gave up 4R (3ER) in 8.1IP. But the loss went to Lloyd Wyman (5-3, 4.18) who blew a hold situation. Dane Fabre (5-4, 4.98) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Sox PH Pete Murovic, 1B Bobby Johnson, & Darrell Thomas (POG) all homered with their only hits. For us, Ray kress went 2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for3, 1BB, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. Matt Perly hit a 3R HR with his only hit.

7/10 BOS @ DET: WIN 6-3 Roy Wolfe (9-12, 4.39) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 5th save. Nippy Schnaubert (13-5, 4.06) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitters were 2B Curt Rodd (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI), LF Don Myer (2 for 3) & C Em Pleto (2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 6RBI, 2HR). Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2R.

ALLSTAR - We only had 3 make it this year. Ray Kress started in LF and accounted for the only 2 AL hits of the game. Matt Perly got in a couple innings at 2B and went 0 for 1, but was part of a nice double play. Hal Andrew pitched the final inning for the AL, striking out 1 and allowing no runs in that one inning. Other ex-Tigers getting some play time was SP Jack Boe, CF Mark Silcox, & C/3B Bud Moore.

7/15 DET @ CHI: loss 2-3 Corky Stell gave up only 2R (1ER) in 8IP, but Don Vonkitzing (1-2, 3.27) got the loss as he was unable to hold in the 10th. Johnny Gordley only gave up 2R in 9IP for POG. The win went to William Baum (4-2, 3.72) who pitched the final two outs. Top Sox hitter was 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 3, 1RBI. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1BB.

7/16 DET @ CHI: WIN 9-2 Hal Andrew (13-10, 4.35) gave up only 2R (1ER) in 7.2IP for the win. Jake Craze (5-8, 4.88) got pulled after only 2.2 after giving up 6R. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (2 for 3, 1R, 1DBL), RF Chester Munch (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL) & SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1BB). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 3RBI. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 1 for 4, 1BB, 1HR.

7/17 DET @ CHI: loss 1-3 Bud Ulrich (9-7, 4.13) gave up 3R in a CG loss. Gene Masarech (10-6, 3.26) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7.1IP. Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (1 for 3, 1HR) & SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston and Matt Perly both went 1 for 3, 1BB.

7/18 day off

7/19 StL @ DET: WIN 9-3 Roy Wolfe (10-12, 4.32) gave up 3R in a CG win. Buster Davis (8-12, 5.29) only lasted 3.1IP giving up 8R. Top StL hitters were RF John Fahringer (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI) & LF Jack Buback (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 2BB. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 3RBI. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL.

7/20 StL @ DET: WIN 1-0 Corky Stell (11-8, 3.33) pitched a 3H CG shutout for the win and POG. Cotton Simson (13-10, 2.57) finally pitched well against us, but still lost giving up only 4H & 1R in a CG loss. Top StL hitter was 2B Dale Thompson (1 for 3). For us, it was Rollin Fish who went 1 for 2, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 1 for 2 as well.

7/21 StL @ DET: WIN 9-6 Hal Andrew (14-10, 4.45) got the win despite giving up 6R in 8.1IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 9th save. Don Allen got the loss giving up 9R in 6.2IP. Top StL hitters were RF Guss Brown (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR), C Frankie Bowers (3 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL) & CF Jessie Witt (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 4, 3RBI, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2R. Hal Andrew went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB, 1SB.

7/22 DET @ CLE: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich gave up 2R in 7.2IP. The win went to Alan Paule (1-1, 4.63) who pitched a scoreless 11th & 12th. Steve Brown got his first save of the season pitching a scoreless 13th inning. Houston Boler gave up 3R in 8.1IP. The loss went to Len Banty (0-4, 4.74) who was unable to hold in the 13th. Top CLE hitters were 1B Al Hippard (2 for 4, 1RBI) & 1B sub Jerry Tuggle (2 for 3). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham subbed in at C and went 2 for 2, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Pete Short subbed in at CF and went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1DBL.

7/23 DET @ CLE: loss 0-13 Ouch. Roy Wolfe (10-13, 4.61) gave up 7R in 2.2IP. This game combined with last game has really put a load on our bull pen. Bernard Homic provided his BP a day of rest by pitching a 4H CG shutout for the win and POG. Almost everyone hit well for CLE. The top batter wasRF Frank Winsett (3 for 5, 3R, 3RBI, 1HR). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB.

7/24 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-0 Corky Stell (12-8, 3.17) gave up only 3H & 1BB and pitched 8.1 shutout innings for the win and POG. Alan Paule got the final two outs to complete the shutout. Lex Tjeenk-Willink (12-9, 3.99) gave up 5R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was 1B Al Hippard (2 for 4). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham was a perfect 2 for 2, 1RBI, 1DBL before having to leave the game with an abb injury after sprinting out that double. He is expected to miss about 3 weeks.

7/25 CHI @ DET: WIN 7-0 Hal Andrew (15-10, 4.24) pitched a 6H CG shutout for the win and POG. Gene Masarech (10-8, 3.47) gave up 6R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4, 1DBL), C Bud Mobley (2 for 3, 1DBL) & 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4). For us, Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB.

7/26 CHI @ DET: WIN 5-2 Bud Urlich (10-7, 3.99) got the win giving up 2R in 7.1IP. Lloyd Wyman kept the final 1.2 scoreless for his 10th save. Moonshine Allen (7-15, 3.36) gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitters were 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4, 1RBI), 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 4) & RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 3RBI, 1DBL for POG.

7/27 CHI @ DET: loss 2-4 Roy Wolfe only gave up 2R in 8IP. Unfortunately Lloyd Wyman (5-4, 3.99) was unable to hold in the 9th. (I can't win with this closer situation. If I have Lloyd Wyman as a closer only he gets almost no work even when save ops come along. But if I have him in as closer & #2 setup, he's being over used badly even with other rested relievers available. Really frustrating.) Johnny Gordley (8-10, 4.10) only gave up 2R in 8IP for the win & POG. Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (1 for 4, 1HR) & C Cecil Marziani (1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1TRPL.

7/28 day off

7/29 DET @ NYY: WIN 8-0 Corky Stell (13-8, 3.02) pitched 8.2 shutout innings for the win. Oswald Adkins got the final out to complete the shutout. Tom Zonneveld (10-8, 3.46) gave up 5R in 8IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was C Rich Curtis (4 for 4, 2DBL) For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 3R, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 5, 1R.

7/30 DET @ NYY: loss 4-5 Hal Andrew (15-11, 4.29) gave up 5R in a CG loss. John Skoropat (4-8, 4.71) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were C Gus Tioni (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, POG) & SS Pip Seneca (2 for 4, 1R, 2DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 1 for 2, 1BB.

7/31 DET @ NYY: loss 3-9 Bud Urlich (10-8, 4.17) got the loss giving up 7R in 7IP. Carpenter Erickson (7-6, 4.22) got the win giving up 3R in 7.1IP. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (3 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1HR, POG), RF Jimmy Ditty (2 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1TRPL), C Gus Tioni (2 for 4, 2R) & LF Turk Baker (1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1RBI. Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 1R ,1RBI, 2BB, 2DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1RBI. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4.

STANDINGS
55-47, 3rd in the AL, 14.5 games behind Philly, 15-10 in July

BAD NEWS
-Hal Andrew continues to be very hot or icy cold. I may just have to deal with the fact that he's too inconsistent to be a true ace and hand that title over to Ulrich if he continues to get better.
-Speaking of cold Dave Castaneda hit a dismal .193 for the month and has seen his average dip to .275.
-Luther Ormiston is hitting for power (4th in the AL in HR), but he's really struggling to get on base this year. He has a phenomenal EYE but his .245 average isn't where he should be. He's about ready to lose his cleanup spot to Perly if he doesn't wake up.
-We get off 8/1 and then don't get another day off until September.

GOOD NEWS
-Corky Stell has been insanely good lately. He hasn't giving up more than 1ER in any of his last 10 games and is 9-0 during that time. He was named player of the week on 7/25 and Pitcher of the Month going 5-0, 0.55 and 1 shutouts in 6 games.
-Bud Ulrich has also been good giving up more than 3 earned runs only once in his last 10 games. He was 6-2 in that time, but didn't get as much run support as he normally enjoys.
-Ray Kress was named Batter of the Month hitting .408, 6HR, 22RBI, 23R - he's passed his new hitting coach Kid Fite on the HR Career Leaderboard... Kress is now at the #20 spot and should leap frog up to 18 before the end of next month.
-Lloyd Wyman jumped up to the #19 spot in the Save Career Leaderboard.
-Our top hitter in the past two months... maybe not who you'd think... Pete Short has averaged around .400. Dennis Kitterman hasn't been far behind rebounding well after a pathetic start to the year. He's now hitting a respectable .308.

TIGERS in the AL TOP 10

Code:

AVG - Kress #2
SLG - Kress #1, Perly #7, Ormiston #10
HIT - Kitterman #4
HR  - Kress #1, Ormiston #4, Perly #6
RBI - Kress #1, Ormiston #4, Perly #6
RUN - Kress #1, Kitterman #2
SB  - Fish #8
BB  - Kress #2, Ormiston #5
WIN - Andrew #1, Stell #5
SVs - Wyman #5
CG  - Andrew #2, Wolfe #4
Ks  - Andrew #4, Ulrich #8, Wolfe #9
ERA - Stell #5

m0ng00se · 02-09-2005, 08:05 PM

1951, 8/1 THRU 8/15
8/1 day off - our only day in August

8/2 PHI @ DET: loss 5-10 Roy Wolfe (10-14, 4.64) gave up 8R (6ER) in 6.1IP for the loss. Terry Mart (3-3, 3.00) got the win giving up 5R (2ER) in 7IP. Top A's hitters were 1B Sal Poulos (2 for 3, 3RBI, 1BB, POG), 3B Bud Ayres (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB) & SP Terry Mart (2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1HR.

8/3 PHI @ DET: loss 3-8 Corky Stell gave up 3R (2ER) in 6IP. The loss went to Lloyd Wyman (5-5, 5.52) who was unable to hold in the 8th. Bob Stevens (14-4, 2.71) got POG & the win giving up 3R (2ER) in 7IP. Top A's hitters were 1B Sal Poulos (3 for 4) & SP Bob Stevens (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI.

8/4 PHI @ DET: WIN 6-4 Hal Andrew (16-11, 4.30) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for this 11th save. Ellis Weeks (14-5, 2.19) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top A's hitters were 3B Bud Ayres (3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 2DBL) & C Hershel Lee (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 2 for 4, 3R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 2R.

8/5 NYY @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (11-8, 4.07) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 8th & 9th for his 12th save. Carpenter Erickson (7-7, 4.24) gave up 4R in a CG loss. There was little offense from NY as they were held to 4 hits. for us, Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4.

8/6 NYY @ DET: WIN 4-3 Roy Wolfe (11-14, 4.59) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 6th save. Chief Harrington (5-9, 4.19) gave up 4R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Yank hitters were Chief Harrington (2 for 3, 1RBI) & LF Turk Baker (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1SB. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB.

8/7 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-3 Corky Stell (14-8, 3.04) got the win giving up 3R in 7.2IP. Alan Paule allowed 2H and 2BB in the final 1.1, but held the runners for his first save of the season. Tom Zonneveld (11-9, 3.56) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitters were 2B Lonnie Christensen (2 for 4) & John Young (1 for 4, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR coming in late in the game. Isaac Mitchell went 3 for 4, 1R. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 2RBI.

8/8 DET @ BOS: loss 1-5 Hal Andrew (16-12, 4.31) got the loss giving up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. Nippy Schnaubert (17-5, 3.79) gave up only 1R in 7.2IP for the win and POG. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 3, 4R, 1BB, 1DBL) & 1B Bobby Johnson (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 4, 1HR. We out hit them 6-5 but committed 3 errors to their 2.

8/9 DET @ BOS: loss 2-9 Bud Ulrich (11-9, 4.29) gave up 6R in 2.1IP for the loss. Dane Fabre (9-5, 4.24) got the win giving up 2R in 7.2IP. Top Sox hitters were 1B Bobby Johnson (3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, POG), SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 3, 2R, 2BB) & 2B Skeeter Schaldemose (2 for 3, 2R, 2BB). For us, Gale Adams got his second start at C and his first ML hits going 2 for 4, 1RBI. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB.

8/10 DET @ BOS: WIN 8-4 Roy Wolfe (12-14, 4.59) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Cort Nagel (13-10, 3.19) got yanked after giving up 6R (4ER) in 2.1IP. POG went to Sox 1B Bobby Johnson who hit 3 solo HRs on a 3 for 4 day. Their LF Don Myer also hit well going 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB, 1TRPL. For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 2BB, 1HR.

8/11 CLE @ DET: WIN 6-4 Corky Stell gave up 3R (1ER) in 8IP. The win went to Alan Paule (2-1, 4.37) who pitched a scoreless 11th. George Kauffman gave up 2R in 8IP. The loss went to John Ashley (3-2, 3.17) for giving up the first of 2 11th inning runs. Top CLE hitter was PH Jerry Tuggle who went 1 for 1, 1R, 1RBI. For us, Matt Perly got POG going 2 for 4, 3R, 4RBI, 1BB, 2HR.

8/12 CLE @ DET: WIN 7-5 Hal Andrew (17-12, 4.37) got the win despite giving up 5R in 7.2iP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 7th save. Houston Boler (4-7, 4.23) gave up 7R in 7IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was RF Richard Gambling (2 for 4, 3RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Matt Perly was POG again going 2 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI. Hal Andrew went 2 for 3, 1R. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 2, 1BB.

8/13 CLE @ DET: loss 1-7 Bud Ulrich (11-10, 4.42) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. Bernard Homic (8-16, 4.67) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Top CLE hitters were RF Frank Winsett (3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR), 2B John Valcarcel (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB) & CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 1 for 3, 1R, 1BB.

8/14 CLE @ DET: loss 1-3 Roy Wolfe (12-15, 4.53) got the loss giving up 3R in 8IP. Lex Tjeenk-Willink only gave up 1R in 5.2IP. But the win went to John Ashley (4-2, 3.09) who pitched to one batter in the 8th. Top CLE hitters were SS Victor Estevez (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG) & 1B Al Hippard (3 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish wetn 1 for 2, 1BB on a day were we only had 2 hits.

8/15 DET @ WSH: loss 1-4 Corky Stell (14-9, 3.03) had been on quite the winning streak, but saw it end today giving up 4R in 7IP. Chris Frays (13-12, 3.57) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (3 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL), C John Fine (2 for 3, 1R) & CF Delmar Yordy (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1HR.

STANDINGS
62-54, 3rd in the AL, 14.5 GB Philly, 7-7 in the last 2 weeks.

BAD NEWS
-Playing 50-50 ball isn't going to get us caught up.
-Inconsistent starting pitching... yadda yadda yadda
-Inconsistent hitting in front of Kress - Kitterman was a pathetic .208 after I praised him for getting his average up.

GOOD NEWS
-Ray Kress was named Player of the week on 8/8 for hitting .579, 1HR, 10RBI.
-Jim Meacham is back from being injured. He was a perfect 1 for 1 in PH duty and will jump back into his backup catcher spot.

ROSTER MOVES
-Last month MR Errol Roberts was sent down to Toledo-AAA as he was sucking bad on our active roster. We called up vet Stan Leveck to replace him.
-At the beginning of this month, we temporarily demoted MR Oswald Adkins to make room for Gale Adams. Gale was called up to backup Dirtbag Degal while Smokey Meacham was down with a pulled ab muscle. Gale will most likely be sent back down now that the trainers say Smokey is 100% again.
-Gin Allen was demoted to Durham-A as he really started to struggle after a hot start to the season. He even took a minor talent hit so we sent him down as a precaution, probably for the remainder of the year. We really want to see this guy step up since he has the potential to have a monster bat and able to play anywhere in the OF with gold glove potential in RF but we have to be careful not to rush him too quickly.

m0ng00se · 02-09-2005, 08:11 PM

COACHING CHANGE part 3

With my best Vince McMahon impersonation, "Killbreath..... YOU'RRRRE FIIIRRRRED!!!!!!!"

OK, maybe not that enthusiastic but I'm officially giving Killbreath his walking papers. I really feel terrible that I have to do this but Killbreath has clearly lost the ability to rally the troops.

Recently acquired Pitching Coach Bob Guilderson will manage the rotation while new hitting coach Kid Fite will manage the lineup. This is only temporary until we can name Killbreath's replacement. I definitely hope to have a new manager & bench coach in place before the next draft and spring training.

canadiancreed · 02-09-2005, 09:21 PM

lol nice job McMahon

for your coaching shopping, I'd recommened to give us a call. I think that Hempkins or Mills would make good canidates, if not for the head job, for hitting or pitching coaches if you promote Kite or Guilderson

m0ng00se · 02-10-2005, 09:03 PM

1951, 8/16 THRU 8/31

8/16 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-0 Hal Andrew (18-12, 4.20) allowed only 2H & 2BB in a CG shutout for the win and POG. Raul Velazquez (10-7, 3.67) gave up 4R in 7IP for the loss. Top WSH hitter was LF Tom Foraker who went 1 for 3, 1BB. For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB.

8/17 DET @ WSH: WIN 2-0 Bud Ulrich (12-10, 4.25) pitched 8 shutout innings for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for this 13th save. Van Melbourn (3-5, 4.44) gave up only 2R in a CG loss. Top WSH hitters were RF Boyd Mylchreest (2 for 2, 2BB) & Van Melbourn (2 for 3). For us, Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 1DBL. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR, 1SB.

8/18 DET @ WSH: WIN 12-5 Roy Wolfe (13-15, 4.56) got the win giving up 5R in 8.1IP. Eric Slater (10-16, 4.89) gave up 10R in 6IP. Top WSH hitters were Eric Slater (2 for 3, 1DBL), SS Tuck Hugley (1 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR) & CF Delmar Yordy (3 for 4, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR, 2SB. Smokey Meacham went 3 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. HOLY CRUD, Ray Kress committed an error. It's only his second error in about 6 years now. But still, that was a big surprise to see.

8/19 DET @ NYY: WIN 8-0 Corky Stell (15-9, 2.94) pitched 7 shutout innings for the win. Alan Paule completed the shutout pitching the last 2 innings. John Skoropat (4-9, 5.15) gave up 8R in 3.1IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 1B John Wilson (3 for 3, 1BB, 2DBL). For us, George the Instigator Young gave Kitterman a day off and earned POG going 2 for 5, 1R, 4RBI, 1 GrandSlam. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Young's 464 foot shot was the longest of his ML career and 4RBI's was a personal best.

8/20 DET @ NYY: WIN 9-3 Hal Andrew (19-12, 4.16) got the win giving up 3R in 8.1IP. Eric Williams (10-11, 4.00) gave up 7R in 4.1IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 2B Leroy Powell (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL.

8/21 DET @ NYY: WIN 5-4 Bud Ulrich gave up only 2R in 8IP for POG. Lloyd Wyman (6-5, 5.08) blew the save but held on for the win giving up 2R in 1.2IP. Don Vonkitzing got the final out for his 8th save. Carpenter Erickson gave up 4R in 7IP but the loss went to Maury Baum who gave up a 10th inning solo HR to Ray Kress. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (2 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL) & RF Arnie Stewart (2 for 5, 1DBL, 1TRPL). For us, Ray Kress subbed in late in the game and went 1 for 1, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 3. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL.

8/22 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-3 Roy Wolfe (14-15, 4.52) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman redeemed his self striking out all three 9th inning batters for his 14th save. Eric Slater (10-17, 4.88) gave up 4R in 8IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were SP Eric Slater (2 for 3, 1HR), 3B Don McFarland (2 for 3, 1R) & LF Tom Foraker (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR for POG. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4. Roy Wolfe went 1 for 2.

8/23 WSH @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (15-10, 2.95) only gave up 3R in 8IP for the loss. Chris Frays (14-13, 3.53) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 5.1IP. Top WSH hitter was 2B Dean Parente (3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL, 1SB). For us, Rollin Fish went 1 for 2, 2BB, 1HR.

8/24 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-2 Hal Andrew (20-12, 4.10) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a hitless 9th for his 9th save. Raul Velazquez (10-9, 3.60) gave up 3R (0ER) in 6.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 4, 1DBL) & 3B Jim Dunkel (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL.

8/25 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (13-10, 4.03) got the win and POG giving up 1R (0ER) in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for this 10th save. Van Melbourn (4-6, 4.15) gave up 4R in 7.1IP for the loss. WSH was held to 2 hits and both of those came from 2B Dean Parente (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 3R, 1RBI. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 1R, 1TRPL.

8/26 DET @ PHI: WIN 8-7 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R in 4.1IP. The win went to Alan Paule (3-1, 3.78) who pitched 3.1 scoreless innings. Don Vonkitzing got his 3rd save in 3 consecutive days and his 5th save in his last 6 games by pitching a scoreless 9th. Terry Mart gave up 4R in 7.1IP. The loss went to Billy Crowell (10-5, 4.20) who gave up 2HR and was unable to hold in the 9th. Top A's hitters were CF Todd Walker (1 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1HR), 2B Ace Habermehl (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB), LF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL) & C Matt Gazarek (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress subbed in mid game and went 2 for 2, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR for POG. Smokey Meacham also subbed in at mid game and went 1 for 2, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Matt Perly was 2 for 2, 1RBI, 1TPRL until leaving mid game with after injuring his leg trying to stretch out that triple. He's expected to be day to day for at least a week.

8/27 DET @ PHI: WIN 6-0 Corky Stell was awesome earning POG for allowing only 4H and no BB for a CG shutout win. Bob Stevens (16-5, 2.72) gave up 6R in 7IP for the loss. Top A's hitter was LF Greg Morris (1 for 3, 1SB). For us, Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

8/28 DET @ PHI: loss 4-7 Hal Andrew (20-13, 4.20) gave up 6R in 7.1IP for the loss. Ellis Weeks (17-6, 2.34) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top A's hitters were 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 2HR, POG), C Hershell Lee (1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR), LF Peaches Badeau (2 for 3, 2DBL) & 1B Sal Poulos (3 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

8/29 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich (14-10, 3.97) got the win giving up 2R in 8.1IP. Eric Williams (10-13, 4.16) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (2 for 4) & 1B John Wilson (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 2HR. George Young gave Kitterman a 2nd day off and went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Mitch Ferron gave Castaneda the day off and went 2 for 3, 1R. Smokey Meacham gave Degal the day off and went 1 for 4, 1HR.

8/30 NYY @ DET: WIN 3-0 Roy Wolfe (15-15, 4.53) pitched a 3H CG shutout for the win and POG. Carpenter Erickson (9-9, 3.92) gave up 3R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 2B Lonnie Christensen (1 for 3). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 3, 2RBI.

8/31 NYY @ DET: loss 3-5 Corky Stell (16-11, 2.83) gave up 3R (2ER) in 6.2IP for the loss. Chief Harrington (7-12, 4.07) got the win giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Jimmy Ditty (4 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 2DBL, POG), SS Pip Seneca (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL), 1B John Wilson (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Isaac Michell went 1 for 4, 1HR & Ray Kress PH a solo HR.

STANDINGS
75-57, #2 in the AL, 11 GB Philly, 13-3 in the last two weeks

BAD NEWS
-Despite our 13-3 record in the last two weeks, we still only made up 3.5 games. At this point, I'd have to concede that we are out of the pennant race and should look to setting this team up for next year.

GOOD NEWS
-After I groaned about Dennis Kitterman sucking the first half of the month he turned it around and earned Player of the Week on 8/22 for hitting .619, 2HR & 7 RBI.
-Most of our starters were excellent in the last couple weeks of August as we managed 5 shutouts in 16 games.
-For the month Ormiston and Kress both belted 7HR, Perly hit 6.
-Ray Kress is tied with Tigers pitching coach Kid Fite on the all time AVG leaders - both tied at #24 w/ .329 AVG. Ray has also jumped up to the #18 spot in the career HR leaderboard.

DEVELOPMENT NEWS
-Clinton Darling is slipping all around - age and lack of at bats are slowly taking their toll.
-Don Vonkitzing's endurance slipped - since we are out of the AL race, I'd like to give Vonk a few starts in a temporary 5 man rotation. We lucked out with the fact that none of our starters missed a game… but that ment Vonkitzing spent the entire season in the 'pen and he's always itching to get in a few starts when ever possible.
-Dave Castanada's contact is up against lefties and he is starting to draw more walks.
-John Dirtbag Degal's HR power is up vs everyone - now if he can just get that contact and eye up a bit more... look out. Too bad about that talent plummet in EYE earlier this year, but he's still young, so maybe he'll recover or exceed in another area. I've been trying to give Meacham more and more at bats without killing Degal's growth. Not an easy thing to balance.

BATTING THRU 8/31

Code:

Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG

Code:

 
R. Kress     129 444 151 14  3 37 110 110 98 52 .340 .456 .635 
J. Meacham    74 156  51  8  1  8  36  22 16 19 .327 .389 .545 
D. Kitterman 127 500 148 18  4  8  52  87 54 48 .296 .368 .396 
C. Sandoz    102 323  92 11  5  2  34  38 15 24 .285 .315 .368 
C. Darling    52  71  20  3  1  2   9  10  7 12 .282 .342 .437 
M. Perly     127 434 122 21  3 25  89  72 67 75 .281 .375 .516 
I. Mitchell   91 253  71  8  3  3  27  18 10 16 .281 .306 .372 
D. Castaneda 124 474 132 12  4  1  26  67 71 69 .278 .376 .327 
R. Fish      122 427 112 21  2 14  67  51 53 39 .262 .341 .419 
P. Short      42  81  21  8  1  1   7   7  1  8 .259 .265 .420 
L. Ormiston  123 436 105 20  3 28  93  77 78 46 .241 .355 .493 
G. Young      21  51  10  1  0  3  10   5  2  4 .196 .226 .392 
J. Degal     101 332  65  9  0  8  40  35 29 37 .196 .262 .295 
M. Ferron     34  71  12  2  0  0   3   5  5  6 .169 .224 .197 
G. Adams       5  12   2  0  0  0   1   0  1  1 .167 .231 .167 
S. Zucal      50  60   9  0  1  0   0   9 11  5 .150 .292 .183

PITCHING THRU 8/31

Code:

Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K

Code:

 
H. Andrew     33 33 20 13  0 4.20 251.0 218 128 117 94 172 
C. Stell      34 34 16 11  0 2.83 241.1 211  89  76 66 101 
R. Wolfe      33 33 15 15  0 4.53 246.1 277 139 124 76 132 
B. Ulrich     33 33 14 10  0 3.97 236.0 213 116 104 99 133 
L. Wyman      40  0  6  5 14 5.15  43.2  39  25  25 23  30 
A. Paule      38  0  3  1  1 3.76  52.2  47  25  22 26  17 
S. Brown      16  0  1  0  1 1.99  22.2  20   6   5  8   4 
D. Vonkitzing 36  0  1  2 11 3.16  31.1  33  16  11 13  12 
S. Leveck      4  0  0  0  0 5.40   3.1   3   2   2  3   0 
O. Adkins     27  0  0  1  3 3.95  27.1  28  14  12 16   9 
E. Roberts    19  0  0  0  0 7.08  20.1  27  18  16 14  10

m0ng00se · 02-11-2005, 04:29 PM

1951, 9/1 THRU 9/15

9/1 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-1 Don Vonkitzing (2-2, 2.68) got his first start of the year and got a CG win and POG allowing only 1R. Tom Zonneveld (13-12, 3.49) gave up 6R in 7.1IP. Top NYY hitters were SS Pip Seneca (3 for 4, 1HR) & RF Arnie Stewart (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 3R, 1RBI. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2R. Clinton Darling went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1TRPL. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2RBI.

9/2 DET @ BOS: WIN 6-1 Hal Andrew (21-13, 4.08) got the CG win and POG giving up only 1R, 3H, 2BB. Sonny Faulkner (11-17, 4.89) gave up 6R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (2 for 4) & ex-Tiger C Pete Murovic (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 3 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

9/3 DET @ BOS: WIN 9-5 Bud Ulrich got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Nippy Schnaubert (19-8, 3.74) got yanked very early giving up 7R (3ER) in 2.2 for the loss. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (4 for 5, 2R, 1DBL) & CF Cy Helbig (3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 1 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 3R, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL.

9/4 DET @ BOS: loss 8-10 Roy Wolfe (15-16, 4.75) struggled giving up 9R in 5.2IP for the loss. Dane Fabre gave up 7R in 4.1IP but the win went to Red Finley (1-1, 3.53) who gave up 0R in the next 1.2IP. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 4, 2R, 5RBI, 1HR, POG), SS Rusky Lutske (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1TRPL) & RF Ben Hargey (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 4 for 4, 3R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL, 1SB. Rolin Fish went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR, 1SB. Isaac Mitchell gave Kress most of the day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL.

9/5 day off (our first since 8/1)

9/6 StL @ DET: WIN 5-4 Corky Stell gave up 4R in 6.2IP but the win went to Oswald Adkins (1-1, 3.81) for pitching a scoreless 11th inning. Cotton Simson gave up 4R in 8IP. The loss went to Neil Clare (1-3, 14.40) who was unable to hold in the 11th. I could be wrong, but I don't think Cotton has beaten us yet this season and we have no games left against StL. Top StL hitter was CF Jessie Witt (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 5, 3R, 1RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda & Matt Perly both went 2 for 4.

9/7 StL @ DET: WIN 6-5 Don Vonkitzing (3-2, 3.17) got the win giving up 5R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 15th save. Don Allen gave up 6R in 5.2IP for the loss. Top StL hitters were 2B Dale Thompson (3 for 4, 3RBI, 2DBL) & SS Elmer Menard (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR.

9/8 StL @ DET: WIN 7-2 Hal Andrew (22-13, 4.01) gave up only 2R in a CG win for POG. Eugene Sprecher (9-18, 4.22) gave up 7R in a CG loss. Top StL hitters were SS Speedy Perly (2 for 3, 1BB, 1HR), RF Guss Brown (3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & Jess Witt (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI.

9/9 DET @ NYY: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich (16-10, 3.88) gave up 2R (1ER) in a CG win for POG. Chief Harrington (7-14, 4.24) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. NY was held to 3 hits and 3 walks. For us, Rollin Fish went 1 for 4, 1R, 1GrandSlam. Bud Ulrich went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB.

9/10 DET @ NYY: WIN 9-3 Roy Wolfe (16-16, 4.69) gave up 3R in a CG win. Tom Zonneveld (13-14, 3.88) gave up 7R in 5IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Arnie Stewart (3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR) & SS Pip Seneca (3 for 5, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 3 for 4, 2R, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 1 for 5, 1HR.

9/11 DET @ NYY: WIN 12-5 Corky Stell gave up 5R in 6IP. However, the win went to Alan Paule (4-1, 3.61) who pitched a scoreless 7th. Eric Williams gave up 5R in 7IP. The loss went to Maury Baum (2-5, 5.24) for giving up 3R in 0.1IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Arnie Stewart (3 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL) SP Eric Williams (2 for 3, 1R, 1DBL, 1SB) & CF John Young (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 4 for 6, 2R, 2RBI, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 3 for 5. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 3, 2RBI. Rollin Fish went 3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB.

9/12 day off

9/13 DET @ CLE: loss 4-8 Don Vonkitzing (3-3, 3.99) gave up 8R in a CG loss. Herman Labombard (1-1, 3.96) earned his first ML victory giving up 4R in a CG win. Top CLE hitters were CF Richard Gambling (2 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR, POG), 3B Bill Connor (1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR), & SS Wilbur Taylor (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4.

9/14 DET @ CLE: WIN 6-4 Hal Andrew gave up 4R in 7IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (7-5, 4.53) who struck out three and allowed no runs in the final 2 innings. Lex Tjeenk-Willink allowed 3R in 7.2IP. The loss went to Charley Nagel (0-5, 5.64) who blew a save op giving up 3R in the 9th. Top CLE hitters were 3B Emerson Meggs (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL) & 2B John Valcarcel (2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 5 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 3TRPL. Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 3BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4.

9/15 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-2 Bud Ulrich got the win and POG giving up only 2R in 8IP. Oswald Adkins pitched a scoreless 9th for his 4th save. George Kauffman (17-13, 3.79) gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top CLE hitter was RF Frank Winsett (1 for 3, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR.

STANDINGS
86-59, 2nd in the AL, 9GB Philly, 11-2 in the last two weeks

BAD NEWS
-Not much to gripe about lately as Guilderson and Fite have got this team on a roll. We are 24-5 since firing Killbreath. Still looking for a replacement. But the fans have taken Castaneda's "We don't need no stinking manager" quote and are rolling with it right now. Fite has been running the dugout sometimes from the 3B coach spot while Guilderson has been giving fiery locker room speeches and providing strategy input especially with regards to "his" pitchers. Maybe I should let them manage and just hire 3B & 1B coaches. Hmmmm... I'm starting to like this idea.

GOOD NEWS
-We went from being one of the worst pitching staffs (stats-wise) to one of the better ones very quickly. If we can just get off to a better start next season and can stay healthy, we will definitely make the AL race more interesting that it was this year.
-Luther Ormiston was named Player of the week on 9/5 for hitting .429, 3HR & 9RBI
-Dennis Kitterman got the award in the following week for hitting .478, 3HR & 9RBI.

m0ng00se · 02-13-2005, 05:53 PM

1951, 9/16 THRU SEASON END

9/16 DET @ PHI: WIN 6-1 Roy Wolfe (17-16, 4.57) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Ellis Weeks (20-7, 2.42) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top A's hitter was C Hershell Lee (1 for 3, 1DBL, 1SB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 3 for 5, 1R, 4RBI, 2DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1TRPL.

9/17 DET @ PHI: WIN 5-3 Corky Stell (17-11, 3.02) gave up 3R in 8IP for the win & POG. Tad Zonkas gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top A's hitters were C Hershell Lee (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & CF Todd Walker (2 for 4). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB. Corky Stell went 1 for 2, 2RBI, 1DBL.

9/18 DET @ PHI: loss 1-4 Don Vonkitzing (3-4, 4.06) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Terry Mart (6-7, 3.16) only gave up 1R in a CG win for POG. Top A's hitters were CF Todd Walker (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR), RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB) & 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Dave Castaneda went 1 for 2, 1BB. We were held to 3 hits.

9/20 CHI @ DET: WIN 5-2 Hal Andrew (23-13, 3.99) struck out 10 and only allowed 2R in 8IP for the win and POG. Oswald Adkins pitched a scoreless 9th for his 5th save. Gene Masarech (12-11, 3.46) gave up 5R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1DBL) & 2B Tony Seats (1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

9/21 CHI @ DET: loss 4-6 Bud Ulrich (17-11, 3.94) gave up 6R in 6.1IP for the loss. On a positive note, Bud Ulrich set a career high with 10Ks. Moonshine Allen (13-18, 3.19) got the win giving up 4R in 8.1IP. POG went to Sox 3B Don Medart (2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR). 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 5, 1HR), SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 4, 2R, 1BB) & C Cecil Marziani (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL) also hit well. For us, Top hitter was Isaac Mitchell going 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. Dave Castandea went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

9/22 CHI @ DET: loss 5-10 Roy Wolfe (17-17, 4.64) gave up 8R (6ER) in 7.2IP. Jack Craze (13-12, 4.90) got the CG win giving up 5R. Top Sox hitters were C Cecil Marziani (3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, POG), LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR), 1B Lonnie Arrendale (3 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB), CF Homer Jewell (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB, 1DBL) & Donald Medart (2 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 1RBI.

9/23 PHI @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (17-12, 3.06) got the loss giving up 3R in 6IP. Terry Mart (7-7, 3.04) got the win and POG giving up only 4H & 2R in 8IP. Top A's hitter was CF Todd Walker (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR.

9/24 PHI @ DET: loss 1-16 This has to be the absolute worst game we played all season... actually the worst game I remember since 1945. We were out hit 18-3 and we committed 6 errors to their none. Even Kress committed an error for his 2nd of the season. Don Vonkitzing (3-5, 5.02) who had a nice season going saw his decent RBI blown up giving up 8R in 2IP. Bob Stevens struck out 8 and only gave up 1R in a CG win for POG. Everyone hit well for the A's. For us, only Rollin Fish played well going 2 for 4 and 0 errors. My momma said there will be days like this.

9/25 PHI @ DET: WIN 6-5 Hal Andrew gave up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. The win went to Oswald Adkins (2-1, 3.74) pitching a scoreless 9th. Ellis Weeks had allowed 4R in 7IP but the loss went to ex-Tiger Billy Crowell (10-6, 4.36) who blew another save against us. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (5 for 5, 2RBI, 1DBL), LF Hershell Cooley (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 2DBL, 1SB) & Peaches Badeau (2 for 5, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR, 1SB. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 3, 1R.

BAD NEWS
-Finishing 2nd overall will mean another bad draft position in '52
-Our "ace" Hal Andrew finished strong, but had his second consecutive 4.00+ era season due to an inconsistent first half of the season.
-There were no league or team records for us this season.

GOOD NEWS
-Ray Kress missed the official triple crown by a few RBIs after last years Quadruple Crown. However, he's a triple crown winner in my mind as he lead the league in AVG, HR & R. He jumped on the career league leader board finishing the season tied at #24 (.329) with our new manager Kid Fite & #18 in HR with 261. Barring any injuries, he should make it into the top 10 in HR by the end of next year. He is our team MVP again this year and is a favorite for Batter of the Year and MVP.
-Smokey Meacham was awesome in his first year in the league hitting .332. We knew he'd be good, but we had no idea he'd be that good.
-John Dirtbag Degal's .198 average doesn't represent how much he's improve this season. We expect respectable power numbers from him next year.
-Corky Stell was a nice pickup for us although I hated to give up on Boe. His 3.06 ERA was the lowest for him since 1945 and the best out of all our starters. Hopefully he'll be able to give us another couple of years as we don't have much depth anymore at SP.
-We were lucky to stay so healthy. There were almost no major injuries to our active roster and none of our SP missed a game this year.
-We were #1 in the league in HR, #3 in walks, #5 in AVG.
-After a pathetic start to the season, we finished #4 in team ERA and #2 in opponent AVG.

FINAL AL STANDINGS

Code:

Team W L PCT GB L10

Code:

Philadelphia  99 55 .643   -  5-5 
Detroit       90 64 .584  9.0 5-5 
Boston        89 65 .578 10.0 8-2 
Cleveland     72 82 .468 27.0 7-3 
Washington    71 83 .461 28.0 2-8 
Chicago       70 84 .455 29.0 3-7 
New York      67 87 .435 32.0 5-5 
St. Louis     58 96 .377 41.0 5-5

TIGERS AL LEADERS

Code:

AVG - Ray Kress #1
SLG - Ray Kress #1, Luther Ormiston #6, Matt Perly #8
HIT - Ray Kress & Dennis Kitterman tied #5
3B  - Dennis Kitterman #6
HR  - Ray Kress #1, Luther Ormiston #3, Matt Perly #5
RBI - Ray Kress #2, Luther Ormiston #3, Matt Perly #5
RUN - Ray Kress #1, Dennis Kitterman #3, Luther Ormiston #9
SB  - Ray Kress, Dennis Kitterman & Rollin Fish tied #7
BB  - Ray Kress #2, Luther Ormiston #5, Dave Castaneda #10 (woohoo, go Dave)
WIN - Hal Andrew #1, Corky Stell & Roy Wolfe tied #7
SVs - Lloyd Wyman #5, Don Vonkitzing #10
Ks  - Hal Andrew #3, Bud Ulrich #9
ERA - Corky Stell #4

FINAL BATTING STATS

Code:

Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG

Code:

 
R. Kress     151 519 177 17  3 44 127 132 114 57 .341 .457 .640 
J. Meacham    89 190  63  9  1 10  40  27  18 23 .332 .389 .547 
D. Kitterman 149 589 177 19  8 12  70 102  63 55 .301 .372 .421 
C. Darling    59  82  24  3  2  2  12  13   8 14 .293 .348 .451 
D. Castaneda 145 547 157 13  5  2  31  84  85 79 .287 .386 .340 
C. Sandoz    117 368 104 12  5  2  39  41  19 26 .283 .315 .359 
M. Perly     149 505 140 24  3 27 104  82  75 90 .277 .369 .497 
I. Mitchell  107 298  80 11  3  3  30  21  11 17 .268 .293 .356 
R. Fish      142 500 132 21  2 17  82  63  58 41 .264 .337 .416 
P. Short      50  98  25  8  2  1   9   8   3 12 .255 .275 .408 
L. Ormiston  143 506 129 27  5 32 115  93  92 55 .255 .366 .518 
H. Andrew     40 104  21  2  0  1   6  14   9 21 .202 .265 .250 
J. Degal     118 384  76 10  0  9  44  40  32 47 .198 .260 .294 
G. Young      24  53  10  1  0  3  10   5   2  4 .189 .218 .377 
B. Ulrich     37  97  17  3  0  1   4   9   6 21 .175 .231 .237 
G. Adams       5  12   2  0  0  0   1   0   1  1 .167 .231 .167 
M. Ferron     41  84  14  3  0  0   4   8   6  9 .167 .222 .202 
S. Zucal      60  71  10  0  1  0   1  12  15  5 .141 .299 .169 
C. Stell      38 102  14  5  0  0  10  10   4 19 .137 .167 .186 
R. Wolfe      37  98  12  3  0  0   2  10   8 18 .122 .189 .153 
D. Vonkitzing 41  13   1  0  0  0   0   1   0  3 .077 .077 .077 
A. Paule      43   5   0  0  0  0   0   0   1  2 .000 .167 .000 
L. Wyman      49   1   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  1 .000 .000 .000 
S. Brown      18   2   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  1 .000 .000 .000 
O. Adkins     34   1   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  0 .000 .000 .000 
S. Leveck      6   1   0  0  0  0   0   0   0  0 .000 .000 .000

FINAL PITCHING STATS

Code:

Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K

Code:

 
H. Andrew     38 38 23 13  0 4.01 291.2 253 142 130 104 203 
B. Ulrich     37 37 17 11  0 3.94 267.1 240 130 117 110 150 
R. Wolfe      37 37 17 17  0 4.64 277.2 314 160 143  86 148 
C. Stell      38 38 17 12  0 3.06 268.0 241 104  91  73 114 
L. Wyman      49  0  7  5 16 4.14  54.1  47  25  25  25  38 
A. Paule      43  0  4  1  1 3.88  60.1  54  29  26  27  23 
D. Vonkitzing 41  5  3  5 11 5.02  66.1  78  42  37  26  21 
O. Adkins     34  0  2  1  5 3.74  33.2  34  16  14  19  13 
S. Brown      18  0  1  0  1 2.05  26.1  24   7   6   8   6 
S. Leveck      6  0  0  0  0 5.14   7.0   8   7   4   4   0 
E. Roberts    19  0  0  0  0 7.08  20.1  27  18  16  14  10

m0ng00se · 02-13-2005, 06:17 PM

1951 AWARDS:

AL Batter of the Year: Ray Kress (his second in a row & his 4th in the last 6 seasons)

AL Shortstop Gold Glove: David Castaneda, DET (his 4th in the last 5 seasons)

m0ng00se · 02-13-2005, 09:28 PM

1952 Coaching Staff

Manager - Kid Fite (2/16/1904)
Pitching Coach / Assistant Manager - Bob Guilderson (12/4/1910)
3B Coach / Hitting Coach - Troy Kinnear (8/21/1900)
1B Coach / Hitting Coach - Quenton Misisca (10/15/1900)
Bench Coach - Nick Graves (3/21/1899)

Most of these guys were members of the Tiger's 1928 World Champion team. I know some people will feel we are going the nostalgia route here, but I see this as a group of guys who figured out how to work together to win the big one. The Tigers need to learn out to play together as a team and develop some consistency. Hopefully this new staff will take us to the next level.

Sometimes I get a bit busy and just barely have time to handle the day2day tasks so we'd like to thank JDW Consulting Inc. for helping us fill out our coaching staff for our active roster.

m0ng00se · 02-14-2005, 07:15 PM

>>>Most of these guys were members of the Tiger's 1928 World Champion team<<<

Shame on me for forgetting that Arden Killbreath was also part of that '28 team.

Oh well, baring injuries or extreme talent dumps, I think we should improve upon last year which actually a good year win/loss-wise. I definitely have high hopes for this team in '52.

m0ng00se · 02-21-2005, 08:02 PM

1952 Preseason Changes

TRADE
-Gin Allen was traded to the Cardinals for SP/MR Sam Cole. As much as we liked Gin Allen's power hitting potential from CF or RF, we felt that we needed to upgrade our active roster after finishing a disappointed 2nd place again last year. Sam Cole gives us a solid pitcher to fill the setup role and also provides us with a legitimate backup starter. Vonkitzing didn't grow into the pitcher we had hoped. So, Sam steps in to fill his shoes.

ROLE CHANGES
-Backup 3B goes to Mitch Ferron. Mitch Ferron has gold glove potential at 3B. But, Clinton Darling had been getting the sub starts at 3B because he was so much better at the plate. But Clinton's slide at the plate has made Mitch's glove too hard to keep on the bench. Clinton will still be one of the first PH bats against lefties. But Mitch moves into the backup spot at 3B while remaining the primary backup at SS. Mitch will also be called in as a defensive sub at 3B when needed.

DRAFT
#1-2B Mike Kreitenburg has the potential to be an excellent contact hitting 2B. We believe he has the talent similar to Dennis Kitterman if he develops like we expect. He is a faster base runner and could ended up being a solid #2 or even a solid leadoff player at some point. He has an adequate glove at 2B. He could also backup SS, but his range is somewhat lacking there. He should jump to Williamsport-AA after a brief look at Durham-A.

#2-MR John Patterson is a lefty with good control and an excellent ability to hold runners. I had hoped to pick up a starter at the #2 spot, but there was a run on starters right before our pick. With some over achieving, he could turn into a real nice setup guy some day. Other wise, I see him as just a solid MR / mopup pitcher. He's only 18 so he will have to prove himself at the setup spot for Durham-A.

#3-C Lonnie Jolly is a solid defensive catcher with a good throwing arm. If catchers didn't bat, then I'd start him over Smokey and Dirtbag in a heartbeat. His potential with a bat isn't overly impressive and he is slow. He is consistent and has the potential to be a decent gap hitter, but other than that, I just see him as strictly a backup. Gale Adams is also decent defensively and looks to have more HR potential, so Lonnie may have a hard time beating out Adams for that backup to our backup roll. He'll start at catcher for Durham-A but will hopefully earn a promotion to Williamsport before the end of the year.

#4-SP Rich Foss is another lefty who can hold runners. He also has excellent endurance and decent movement on his pitches. I'm not sure he will ever have enough control or pure stuff to make it to our rotation. But, he was definitely worth a peek given that he was one of the last players available in the draft. He should get starts right away in Williamsport-AA.

m0ng00se · 02-22-2005, 02:23 AM

1952, APRIL

4/5 CHI @ DET: WIN 3-2 Corky Stell got POG giving up just 2R in 8.1IP. Alan Paule (1-0, 0.00) got the win in the 13th giving up 0R in 2IP. Moonshine Allen gave up 2R in 8IP but the loss went to Tim Knapp who gave up the 1R in the 13th. Top Sox hitter was CF Homer Jewell (3 for 5). For us, Mitch Ferron went 2 for 2, 1RBI filling in late in the game at 3B. Matt Perly went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

4/6 CHI @ DET: WIN 7-0 Hal Andrew (1-0, 0.00) threw 8.2 shutout innings for the win and POG. Johnny Gordley (0-1, 8.10) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 2HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

4/7 CHI @ DET: loss 4-7 Bud Ulrich gave up 4R (2ER) in 8IP. The loss went to Alan Paule (1-1, 8.10) who gave up a 3R HR to Rex Seelinger (POG) in the 12th. Adam Sardina gave up 4R in 9IP. The win went to Tim Knapp (1-1, 0.00) who pitched a scorless 1.2 final innings. Our top hitters were Carl Sandoz 2 for 3, 4RBI, 2DBL & Dave Castaneda 2 for 4.

4/8 DET @ WSH: WIN 3-1 Roy Wolfe got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman showed off his fastball striking out all three in the 9th for the first save of the season. Raul Velazquez (0-1, 4.26) gave up 3R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB) & LF Delmar Yordy (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1R. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1HR, 1SB.

4/9 DET @ WSH: WIN 5-1 Corky Stell (1-0, 1.76) got the win giving up 1R in 7IP. Joe Homic (0-2, 6.46) gave up 5R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top WSH batters were 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4) & 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 3BB, 1SB. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1TRPL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 2BB, 1HR.

4/10 DET @ WSH: WIN 5-3 Hal Andrew (2-0, 1.62) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 2nd save. Van Melbourn (0-1, 3.18) got the CG loss giving up 5R. Top WSH hitters were CF Bill Hall (3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 2HR, POG) & 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR.

4/11 StL @ DET: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich got the CG win and POG striking out 8 and giving up only 4H & 2R. Buster Davis (0-2, 5.40) gave up 6R in 7IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dale Thompson (2 for 4) & RF Guss Brown (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1BB, 2HR. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

4/12 StL @ DET: WIN 18-2 Roy Wolfe (2-0, 1.59) got the CG win giving up 2R. Neil Clare (0-2, 9.64) only lasted 1.1IP as he gave up 8R. Top StL hitter was C Tom Kruyt (3 for 4, 1R). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 6, 2R, 2RBI. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR, POG. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 4R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Pete Short filled in at CF and went 2 for 5, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell hit a PH grandslam on his only at bat.

4/13 StL @ DET: WIN 6-4 Corky Stell gave up 4R in 8IP. The win went to Sam Cole (1-0, 0.00) who pitched a scoreless 9th. Eugene Sprecher (0-3, 6.00) got the CG loss giving up 6R. Top StL hitters were Al Mugford (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI), 1B Vince Chipple (2 for 4, 1RBI) & Speedy Perly (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB, 1HR). Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3.

4/14 day off

4/15 DET @ CHI: loss 3-4 Hal Andrew (2-1, 2.55) got the CG loss giving up 4R. Johnny Gordley (1-2, 4.98) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Sox hitters were LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR), SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL) & 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1RBI, 1DBL.

4/16 DET @ CHI: WIN 7-1 Bud Ulrich (2-0, 1.88) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7IP. Adam Sardina (0-2, 5.82) lost giving up 6R in 4.2IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rex Seelinger (3 for 4, 1DB) & 3B Don Medart (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI.

4/17 DET @ CHI: loss 0-2 Roy Wolfe (2-1, 1.80) got the CG loss giving up only 2R. Max Matamoros (2-1, 3.91) pitched a 6H CG shut out for the win and POG. Top Sox hitter was 2B Tony Seats (2 for 3, 1BB). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 2. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3.

4/18 day off

4/19 WSH @ DET: WIN 7-3 Corky Stell (2-0, 2.51) got the CG win giving up 3R (2ER) for POG. Van Melbourn (0-3, 5.86) gave up 7R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were RF Ernest Greenbush (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & C John Fine (1 for 1, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 3, 1R. Ray Kress hit his first HR of the season (1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR). Matt Perly subbed in at CF late in the game and went 1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

4/20 WSH @ DET: WIN 3-2 Hal Andrew (3-1, 2.41) got the CG win and POG giving up 2R. Eric Slater gave up 2R in 8.2IP. The loss went to Cecil Frye (0-1, 4.77) who gave up an HR to Matt Perly in the 9th. Top WSH hitter was 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. We were out hit 5-4.

4/21 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich gave up 3R (2ER) in 6IP. The win went to Sam Cole (2-0, 0.00) who gave up no runs in the final 2 innings. Raul Velazquez gave up 2R in 8IP. Cecil Frye (0-2, 7.11) gave up 2R in the 9th for the loss. Top WSH hitters were C John Fine (2 for 4, 1R) & 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DB). For us, Dirtbag Degal got POG going 2 for 3, 2RBI. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL.

4/22 DET @ StL: WIN 8-5 Roy Wolfe (3-1, 2.45) got the win despite giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Sam Cole got the first save of his career pitching a scoreless 9th. Eugene Sprecher (0-5, 6.55) lost again gving up 8R in 5.1IP. Top StL hitters were 1B Vince Chipple (3 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL) & C Tom Kruyt (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 3 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL.

4/23 DET @ StL: WIN 3-1 Corky Stell (3-0, 2.29) got the win giving up 1R in 7IP. Lloyd Wyman got his 3rd save pitching a scoreless 9th. Don Allen (1-4, 5.00) got the CG loss giving up 3R. StL was held to 4H & 0 BB. For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB.

4/24 DET @ StL: loss 1-2 Hal Andrew (3-2, 2.34) had a 2H shutout going until the 9th but then he gave up 2R for the CG loss. Buster Davis (2-3, 4.35) gave up only 1R for the CG win & POG. Top StL hitter was C Tom Kruyt (1 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 1R, 1BB.

4/25 BOS @ DET: WIN 6-5 Bud Ulrich (3-0, 2.61) got the win giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 4th save. Sonny Faulkner (3-1, 2.13) gave up 6R in 5.1IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL) & 2B Skeeter Schaldemose (2 for 4, 2R, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4.

4/26 BOS @ DET: WIN 8-6 Roy Wolfe (4-1, 2.85) got the win giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Sam Cole allowed 1R (0ER) in the 9th for a save. Ox Lutske gave up 4R in 6.1IP, but the loss went to Tim Bice (0-1, 4.91) giving up 2R in the next 1.1IP. Top Sox hitters were C Don Lock (3 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL), RF Buster Myer (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & LF Grady Fisher (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 1 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1grand slam. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2R, 3RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Ray Kress finally had a good game going 3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB.

4/27 BOS @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (3-1, 2.31) gave up 3R (2ER) in 7.1IP for the loss. Matt Jackson (3-2, 5.80) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitter was 3B Darrell Thomas (1 for 2, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 1R 1BB. We out hit them 9-4.

4/28 BOS @ DET: loss 2-3 Hal Andrew (3-3, 2.47) got the loss giving up 3R in 8.2IP. Cort Nagel (3-2, 3.56) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Sox hitters were C Don Lock (2 for 3, 1BB), SP Cort Nagel (2 for 3) & 1B Bob Johnson (1 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2BB, 1TRPL. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 1HR.

4/29 DET @ PHI: loss 1-5 Bud Ulrich (3-1, 3.25) lost giving up 5R in 6.1IP. Ellis Weeks (4-0, 3.02) got the CG win and POG giving up only 1R. Top A's hitters were C Hershell Lee (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL) & RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3, 1BB. Clinton Darling hit a PH solo HR with his only at bat.

4/30 DET @ PHI: loss 4-6 Roy Wolfe (4-2, 3.49) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Tad Zonkas (4-2, 4.15) got the win giving up 4R in 8.2IP. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 4, 2R, 2SB), RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR) & C Hershell Lee (1 for 4, 1R 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2RBI.

STANDINGS
16-8, tied for 1st in the AL

BAD NEWS
-Ray Kress hit .266 and only 2HR all month, Dennis Kitterman is hitting a pathetic .216 and neither of our catchers is hitting above .154.

GOOD NEWS
-With the exception of a couple of games, our starting pitching has been awesome.
-Sam Cole and Lloyd Wyman have been nearly perfect in the setup and closer spots. They combine for a 2-0, 6SVs, 0.00era in 17.2IP.
-Matt Perly was named AL batter of the month hitting .342, 7HR, 24RBI, is #1 in RBI and tied for #1 in HR.
-Luther Ormiston is tied with Matt Perly and BOS Rusky Lutske with the AL lead in HRs with 7.
-Despite Ray Kress' low BA, he leads the league in BB.

BATTING

Code:

Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG

Code:

 
C. Sandoz    16 49 20  5  0  1 14  5  6  3 .408 .473 .571 
I. Mitchell  16 38 15  0  1  1  7  3  1  0 .395 .390 .526 
P. Short      8 13  5  1  1  1  1  3  0  1 .385 .385 .846 
M. Perly     23 79 27  3  0  7 24 13 16 12 .342 .453 .646 
C. Darling   12 13  4  0  0  1  2  3  1  0 .308 .357 .538 
B. Ulrich     6 14  4  0  0  0  1  2  0  5 .286 .333 .286 
D. Castaneda 23 96 27  1  1  0  8 12 14  9 .281 .373 .313 
L. Ormiston  24 81 22  6  1  7 16 22 21 16 .272 .423 .630 
R. Kress     24 79 21  3  2  2 11 19 29 12 .266 .463 .430 
D. Kitterman 23 97 21  4  1  0  5  7  8  9 .216 .283 .278 
H. Andrew     7 19  4  1  1  0  1  2  1  6 .211 .250 .368 
R. Fish      23 78 16  0  0  2 13  7 10  9 .205 .295 .282 
M. Ferron     6 10  2  0  0  0  1  1  0  0 .200 .200 .200 
J. Degal     15 52  8  0  0  3  7  5  4  5 .154 .211 .327 
S. Zucal     10  7  1  0  0  0  0  4  1  1 .143 .250 .143 
J. Meacham   17 41  5  1  0  0  0  6  5  5 .122 .217 .146 
G. Young      4  6  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 .000 .000 .000

PITCHING

Code:

Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K

Code:

 
R. Wolfe      6 6  4 2 0  3.49 49.0 55 21 19  8 21 
B. Ulrich     6 6  3 1 0  3.25 44.1 36 20 16 19 37 
H. Andrew     6 6  3 3 0  2.47 51.0 43 14 14 11 30 
C. Stell      6 6  3 1 0  2.31 46.2 30 14 12  9 28 
S. Cole      11 0  2 0 2  0.00 10.2  9  1  0  0  7 
A. Paule      3 0  1 1 0  6.23  4.1  3  3  3  4  1 
S. Leveck     1 0  0 0 0  0.00  2.0  2  0  0  0  0 
L. Wyman      7 0  0 0 4  0.00  7.0  4  0  0  0  9 
D. Vonkitzing 2 0  0 0 0  0.00  1.2  1  0  0  0  1 
S. Brown      2 0  0 0 0  0.00  2.0  0  0  0  0  0

m0ng00se · 02-22-2005, 07:12 PM

1952, 5/1 THRU 5/15

5/1 DET @ PHI: WIN 4-0 Corky Stell (4-1, 1.94) pitched a 2H CG shutout for the win and POG. Bob Stevens (4-3, 4.83) got the loss giving up 4R in 7IP. Top A's hitter was 2B Ace Habermehl (1 for 3, 1BB). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2RBI, 2BB, 1DBL.

5/2 DET @ WSH: loss 3-5 Hal Andrew (3-4, 2.44) got the CG loss giving up 5R (2ER). Hal was a victim of his own error. Van Melbourn (2-4, 4.47) got the win and POG giving up 3R in 8IP. Top WSH hitters were SS Blake Crocitto (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1SB) & 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1SB.

5/3 DET @ WSH: WIN 2-1 Bud Ulrich (4-1, 2.92) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Sam Cole pitched a hitless 9th for his 3rd save. Chris Frays (1-2, 3.12) lost giving up only 2R in 7IP. Top WSH hitters were 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & C John Fine (2 for 3, 1DBL). For us, Mitch Ferron started at 3B and went 2 for 2, 1BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 1HR.

5/4 DET @ WSH: loss 3-4 Roy Wolfe gave up 3R (2ER) in 8IP, but Lloyd Wyman (0-1, 1.00) was unable to hold in the 11th. Raul Velazquez gave up 3R in 7IP. The win went to Salvatore King (2-2, 13.50) who pitched a hitless 11th. Top WSH hitters were CF Bill Hall (3 for 6, 1SB), 3B Jim Dunkel (3 for 4, 2R, 1DBL) & RF Ernest Greenbush (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Matt Perly went 3 for 5, 1R, 1SB. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Mitch Ferron started at SS and went 2 for 4, 1RBI.

5/5 day off

5/6 NYY @ DET: WIN 3-1 Corky Stell gave up 1R in 7.1IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (1-1, 0.84) who allowed no hits for the remainder of the game. Carpenter Erickson (4-3, 3.12) gave up 3R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitter was CF Charles Gillis (1 for 3, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1BB, 1DBL. Both teams were held to 5 hits.

5/7 NYY @ DET: loss 5-6 Hal Andrew had been pitching an awesome game before having to leave with a blister. He had giving up no hits in 4.1 shutout innings. The loss went to Steve Brown (0-1, 3.00) for giving up 2R (1ER) late in the game. Tom Zonneveld (3-3, 5.40) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were LF Turk Baker (2 for 4, 2R), C Rich Curtis (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB) & 1B Arnie Stewart (1 for 2, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1DBL, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR.

5/8 NYY @ DET: loss 0-3 Bud Ulrich pitched 7 shutout innings. Unfortunately, Sam Cole (2-1, 2.13) was unable to hold in the 8th. Eric Williams (6-2, 3.57) got the win and POG pitching 7.1 shutout innings. Top Yank hitter was C Rich Curtis (2 for 4). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3.

5/9 day off

5/10 DET @ CLE: WIN 4-0 Roy Wolfe (5-2, 2.86) pitched a 6H CG shutout for the win and POG. Lex Tjeenk-Willink (2-5, 4.74) got the loss giving up 4R in 7IP. Top CLE hitter was C Alton Kee (3 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. George Young filled in at 1B and went 2 for 4, 1R. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR.

5/11 DET @ CLE: loss 4-6 Corky Stell (4-2, 2.50) gave up 6R in 5.1IP for the loss. Howie Leosh (3-2, 4.94) gave up 4R (2ER) in 7.1IP. Top CLE hitters were 1B Jerry Tuggle (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG), C Alton Kee (2 for 4, 2RBI) & 3B Owen Shankster (2 for 3, 1R). For us, Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2RBI. Steven Zucal filled in at 2B and went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB.

5/12 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-4 Hal Andrew gave up 3R in 8IP. The win went to Alan Paule (2-1, 3.00) who pitched a scoreless 11th. Houston Boler gave up 4R in 8IP but the loss went to Charley Nagel (0-2, 9.53) who gave up 1R in the final 1.2IP. Top CLE hitters were RF Frank Winsett (2 for 4, 1HR) & CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress finally got a POG going 2 for 6, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1R, 3BB. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 5, 1HR.

5/13 CHI @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (5-1, 2.41) got the win and POG giving up only 1R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for this 5th save. Johnny Gordley (2-7, 3.99) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitter was RF Stu Cripps (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 1R. Bud Ulrich went 2 for 3, 1R and his hitting a respectable .286. Smokey Meacham hit a PH 3R HR on his only at bat.

5/14 CHI @ DET: WIN 10-1 Roy Wolfe strained a tricep muscle and had to leave the game. He gave up 1R in 3.2IP. Roy is expected to be day to day for about 6 weeks. The win went to Stan Leveck (1-0, 1.42) who allowed 0R in the next 3IP. Adam Sardina (1-7, 6.02) got the loss giving up 6R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitter was RF Stu Cripps (1 for 3, 1RBI, 1TRPL). They were held to 6 hits. For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 4, 3R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB.

5/15 CHI @ DET: WIN 3-2 Corky Stell gave up 2R in 8IP for POG. Alan Paule (3-1, 2.70) got the win pitching a scoreless 10th. Jake Craze gave up 2R in 7IP. The loss went to their closer Goose Baum (1-1, 1.80) who was unable to hold in the 10th. Top Sox hitter was 1B Ed Monchak (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). They were held to 3 hits. For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 3. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4.

STANDINGS
24-13, tied for 1st in the AL, 8-5 in the last two weeks

BAD NEWS
-The injury to Wolfe makes me nervous. Having a starter listed as day2day for more than a month is no fun. If he struggles in the second half of the month, we may swap Roy with Sam Cole until Roy is health again.
-Ray Kress still hasn't awaken. He hit .231 with only 1HR in the last two weeks.
-Dennis Kitterman was a little better this month, but not by much.
-Some of our hitters are hitting well, but we aren't bringing home the runs so despite our starters pitching well, they've been finding wins hard to come by at times.

GOOD NEWS
-Still tied for #1 in the AL. After falling behind big time early in the season for the last couple of seasons, this is a promising start.
-Castaneda and Perly have been real hot. If they can stay hot and Kitterman/Kress wake up, we'll be rollin.

m0ng00se · 02-23-2005, 05:18 PM

1952, 5/16 THRU 5/31

5/16 day off

5/17 DET @ NYY: WIN 18-1 Hal Andrew (4-4, 2.24) gave up only 1R in 1 CG win. Tom Zonneveld (3-5, 5.13) got pulled after one inning after the Yanks he gave up 11R... 3R earned. No one hit well for the Yanks as they were held to 6 hits. For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 6, 2R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 4R 3RBI, 4BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 6, 3R, 4RBI, 1TRPL. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 6, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR.

5/18 DET @ NYY: WIN 4-0 Bud Ulrich (6-1, 2.13) pitched 8.2 shutout innings for the win and POG. Don Vonkitzing completed the shutout. Eric Williams (6-3, 3.36) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitter was 3B Tim Dilworth (2 for 4). For us, Smokey Meacham was 4 for 4, 2HR. Ray Kress went 4 for 5, 1HR. Bud Ulrich went 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL and is currently hitting .360.

5/19 DET @ NYY: loss 4-5 Roy Wolfe (5-3, 3.01) got the CG loss giving up 5R (4ER). Maury Baum (4-4, 3.86) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank batters were LF Turk Baker (2 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1 grand slam, POG) & C Rich Curtis (3 for 3, 1DBL). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL.

5/20 PHI @ DET: loss 1-9 Corky Stell (4-3, 2.80) struggled on a rainy day giving up 4R in 4IP for the loss. Danny Mau (6-2, 2.73) got the win & POG pitching 5 shutout innings. Top A's hitter was LF Matt Praks (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL.

5/21 PHI @ DET: WIN 2-1 Hal Andrew (5-4, 2.13) got the win and POg giving up 1R in 8.1IP. Lloyd Wyman close out the 9th for his 6th save. Ellis Weeks (6-2, 2.84) gave up 2R in a CG loss. Top A's hitter was 3B Bud Ayers (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1BB. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 1HR. We barely out hit the A's 6 to 4.

5/22 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-4 Bud Ulrich gave up just 2R in 8IP. Unfortunately Lloyd Wyman blew a save so the game went into extra innings. Stan Leveck (2-0, 1.23) pitched a hitless 15th inning and got the win compliments of a Luther Ormiston solo HR. Tad Zonkas gave up 3R in 8IP. The loss went to Ken Malia (0-1, 4.00) as he's the guy who gave up that game winning shot by Luther. We ended up using every reliever we had in this game. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 6, 2R, 1RBI, 2BB) & RF Peaches Badeau (4 for 8, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1R. Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 3RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1SB before being pulled in favor of Pete Short. Must have been a pinch run situation as I see no other explanation for pulling one of the most clutch bats in the league in a close game.

5/23 CLE @ DET: WIN 8-4 Roy Wolfe (6-3, 3.12) gave our bull pen the day off by getting the CG win giving up 4R. Howie Leosh (3-4, 5.83) gave up 7R in 3.1IP for the loss. POG was CLE CF Honus Dietrich (5 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR.

5/24 CLE @ DET: WIN 10-2 Corky Stell (5-3, 2.58) got the win and POG allowing only 1H and pitching 7 shutout innings. Houston Boler (4-5, 4.32) gave up 8R in 4.2IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was again CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4). Jerry Tuggle hit a PH solo HR for them with his only at bat. For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 4R, 1RBI, 2BB. George Young filled in at 1B and went 2 for 2, 2BB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 2BB. Rollin Fish went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R.

5/25 CLE @ DET: WIN 7-6 Hal Andrew (6-4, 2.51) got the win giving up 6R in 8IP. Alan Paule pitched a scoreless 9th for his first save of the season. George Kauffman (5-4, 4.43) got the loss giving up 7R in 4.1IP. Top CLE hitter was RF Frank Winsett (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 5RBI, 1BB, 2HR. Dennis Kitterman and Matt Perly both hit solo HRs with their only hits.

5/26 day off

5/27 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich (7-1, 2.25) got the win and POG giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 7th save. Joe Homic (5-6, 3.93) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top WSH hitter was 1B Chris Anderson (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Bud Ulrich went 2 for 2, 1R, 2RBI. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R.

5/28 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-2 Roy Wolfe (7-3, 3.04) gave up only 2R in 8IP for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for his 8th save. Van Melbourn (2-9, 4.67) gave up 4R in 8.2IP for the loss. No one hit well for WSH as they were held to 5 hits. For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 2DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 2BB.

5/29 DET @ WSH: WIN 7-2 Corky Stell (6-3, 2.57) gave up only 2R in 7.1IP for the win. Chris Frays (3-5, 3.31) gave up 4R in 7Ip for the loss. Top WSH hitter was SS Hitman Crocitto (2 for 4). Once again we held WSH to 5 hits. For us, Isaac Mitchell got POG going 3 for 5, 3R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB.

5/30 day off

5/31 DET @ StL: WIN 6-5 Hal Andrew gave up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (2-1, 2.05) who gave up 0R in the next 1.1IP. Alan Paule closed out the 10th for his 2nd save. Alter Sennelnekoff gave up 5R in 8.2IP. The loss went to Bob Jeakins (0-1, 2.50) who gave up 1R in the 10th. Top StL hitter was CF Jessie Witt (3 for 5, 1R). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 3 for 5, 1R, 1RBI. Luther Ormiston went 3 for 3, 1R, 2BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1RBI.

STANDINGS
35-15, #1 in the AL, 0.5 games ahead of Boston, 11-2 in the last two weeks.

BAD NEWS
-Rollin Fish hasn't found his groove this year currently hitting only .204
-Only 5 HR for Ray Kress in 2 months... he's giving the rest of the AL a heck of a head start this year in the HR race. I expected to see him make the top 10 on the career leaderboard in HRs, but he's not making it easy on himself.
-We've had a ton of injuries, but most of them are in the minors and to non-critical prospects.

GOOD NEWS
-We are on a 9 game win streak and were 11-2 in the last two weeks but we can't get cocky as we didn't face Boston during that time.
-All of our starters and nearly our entire bull pen are pitching very well... even Wolfe has been gutting out his tricep injury about as good as we can expect. Time to give Bob Guilderson a raise.
-Bud Ulrich was named AL Pitcher of the Month on 6/1. He had a record of 4-0, 1.32 in 6GS.
-Luther Ormiston was named AL Batter of the Month on 6/1 for hitting .345, 7HR, 27RBI, 20BB.
-Ray Kress is hitting better and has quickly gotten his average up to .304.
-Isaac Mitchell and Carl Sandoz have gotten off to another hot start this year platooning in RF. If Kitterman doesn't start hitting with some consitancy, he's going to lose his #2 spot to these two.

DEVELOPMENT OBSERVATIONS
-John Dirtbag Degal's swing is starting to look better from the right side of the plate.
-Bud Ulrich is finally starting to pitch like a potential ace. But, he's had hot starts before so only time will tell if he's really got the stuff. He's also leading out team with a .379 batting AVG at the moment.
-Lloyd Wyman was reported to have lost some velocity this year in spring training, but he's throwing triple digit fastballs now and looking sharp as our closer. He's moved up to the #17 spot on the career saves leaderboard and could make it into the top 10 this year if he stays healthy and consistant.
-Mike Kreitenberg's stay in AA may have to be cut short. He's got a better swing than some of the guys on our active roster now so I need to think about moving him to ToledoAAA sooner than I expected. We are going to have a serious log jam in our middle IF if he keeps improving.
-ToledoAAA coach is telling me I need to promote Sam Cheney at some point, but we don't have room for him at the moment and he still hasn't gotten his control back to the point where I'd be comfortable starting him anywhere above AAA.

HITTING THRU 5/31

Code:

Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG

Code:

 
B. Ulrich    12  29 11  1  0  0   3  5  0  8 .379 .400 .414 
I. Mitchell  35  95 34  2  1  3  13 15  2  6 .358 .370 .495 
C. Sandoz    33 106 36  5  0  1  16 11 10  8 .340 .393 .415 
D. Castaneda 47 184 58  5  1  0  16 28 31 16 .315 .414 .353 
L. Ormiston  49 168 52 13  1 14  43 39 41 27 .310 .445 .649 
R. Kress     48 161 49 11  2  5  28 32 51 24 .304 .472 .491 
M. Perly     48 174 52  7  0 11  36 24 27 26 .299 .396 .529 
M. Ferron    19  39 10  1  0  0   4  4  3  1 .256 .302 .282 
G. Young      9  20  5  0  0  0   0  1  4  1 .250 .400 .250 
D. Kitterman 47 196 48  6  3  1  20 20 15 17 .245 .308 .321 
J. Meacham   37  90 21  3  0  5  11 16 12 11 .233 .324 .433 
C. Darling   25  22  5  0  0  1   2  4  3  1 .227 .320 .364 
H. Andrew    14  40  9  1  1  0   1  7  1 10 .225 .262 .300 
R. Fish      49 162 33  6  0  4  23 16 23 17 .204 .298 .315 
J. Degal     32 107 21  2  0  5  16 12  7  7 .196 .248 .355 
S. Zucal     20  16  3  0  0  0   1  5  3  1 .188 .316 .188 
P. Short     19  31  5  1  1  1   1  3  1  4 .161 .188 .355

PITCHING THRU 5/31

Code:

Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K

Code:

 
B. Ulrich    12 12 7 1 0  2.25  92.0 65 27 23 34 60 
R. Wolfe     12 12 7 3 0  3.04  94.2 93 36 32 22 42 
H. Andrew    13 13 6 4 0  2.67 104.1 79 35 31 31 61 
C. Stell     13 13 6 3 0  2.57  94.2 61 29 27 22 48 
A. Paule     13  0 3 1 2  1.84  14.2  9  4  3  7  4 
S. Leveck     4  0 2 0 0  1.23   7.1  7  1  1  2  5 
S. Cole      23  0 2 1 3  1.50  18.0 13  4  3  3  9 
L. Wyman     19  0 2 1 8  2.05  22.0 16  5  5  4 20 
D. Vonkitzing 6  0 0 0 0 10.80   5.0 10  6  6  1  1 
S. Brown      6  0 0 1 0  3.12   8.2  9  4  3  1  2

02-02-2005, 05:57 PM	#221
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951 - 5/16 THRU 5/31 5/16 day off 5/17 PHI @ DET: WIN 7-6 Bud Ulrich gave up 3R (2ER) in 3.2IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (4-1, 4.76) who pitched a hitless 9th. Ellis Weeks gave up 1R in 3IP. The loss went to Jim Lindros who recorded no outs and gave up back to back HRs to Kress and Ormiston in the bottom of the 9th. Top A's batters were 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 1BB, 1HR), 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 5, 1TRPL) & CF Todd Walker (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL). For us, John Dirtbag Degal got POG going 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. 5/18 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-4 Roy Wolfe (6-4, 3.98) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Oswald Adkins got the save pitching a scoreless 9th. Tad Zonkas (4-5, 3.94) gave up 5R in 7.2IP for the loss. Top A's hitter was 3B Bud Ayers who went 4 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 3 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. That HR gave us the go ahead run. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. 5/19 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-3 Corky Stell (3-6, 4.71) got the win giving up 3R in 6.1IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for his 5th save. Danny Mau (6-2, 3.25) gave up 5R in 7.1IP. Top A's hitter was RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI). For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Once again, Sandoz is clutch giving us the go ahead runs... he's not a power hitter so these past two games have been a nice effort. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1HR. 5/20 DET @ WSH: loss 1-7 Hal Andrew (6-5, 4.56) got yanked after 4IP after giving up 7R (5ER). Chris Frays (6-4, 2.79) only gave up 1R in 8IP for the win. Top WSH hitters were 3B Jim Dunkel (3 for 4, 2R, 4RBI, 1HR, POG), 2B Dean Parente (3 for 5, 2R, 2DBL) & 1B Chris Anderson 1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR. For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 4. 5/21 DET @ WSH: loss 7-8 Bud Ulrich gave up 5R in 7IP, but the loss went to Don Vonkitzing (0-1, 3.46) who was unable to hold in the 8th. Van Melbourn gave up 5R in 5.1IP and had to leave the game with a back injury. The win went to Raul Velazquez (4-2, 3.22) for pitching a scoreless 2.2 in relief. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR), C John Fine (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & SP Van Melbourn (2 for 3, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman was an awesome 5 for 5, 3R, 1TRPL. Dave Castenda went 3 for 5. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 3R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 5RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1HR. 5/22 DET @ WSH: loss 1-9 Roy Wolfe (6-5, 4.46) gave up 7R in 6IP for the loss. Eric Slater (6-3, 4.34) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Top WSH hitters were CF Delmar Yordy (3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB), 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4, 3R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL), & 2B Dean Parente (2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. We were held to 4 hits and 1BB. 5/23 BOS @ DET: WIN 2-1 Corky Stell gave up 1R in 6IP for POG. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (5-1, 4.05) who pitched a hitless 9th. Red Finley pitched 5.2 shutout innings. But their closer Billy Hyberg (1-2, 1.00) blew a hold op in the 9th. Top Sox hitter was RF Hutch Kahle who went 2 for 4. For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. 5/24 BOS @ DET: WIN 2-1 Hal Andrew (7-5, 4.18) allowed only 1R in a CG win for POG. Cort Nagel pitched 7.1 shutout innings, but their closer Billy Hyberg (1-3, 1.96) blew a save op in the 9th compliments of a 2R HR by Kress. Top Sox hitter was RF Ben Hargey who went 2 for 3, 1HR. Hal held the Sox to 4 hits. For us, Steve Zucal filled in at 2B and went 1 for 2, 1R, 2BB. Ray Kress subbed in mid way into the game and went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 5/25 BOS @ DET: loss 3-13 Bud Ulrich (2-5, 5.22) gave up 6R in 5.2IP for the loss. Sonny Faulkner (6-4, 4.21) gave up 3R in 7.1IP for the win. Top Sox hitters were 1B Bobby Johnson(2 for 5, 1R, 5RBI, 1HR, POG), C Em Pelto (2 for 4, 3R 2RBI, 1BB), & SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 3 for 4. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB. 5/26 BOS @ DET: WIN 11-9 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R in 4.2IP. The win went to Don Vonkitzing (1-1, 3.12) who pitched a scoreless 6th. Lloyd Wyman got his 6th save pitching a scoreless 9th. Nippy Schnaubert gave up 9R in 4.1IP, however the loss went to Smiley Crago (2-1, 3.94) for giving up 2R in the 7th & 8th. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR), RF Ben Hargey (2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL), & SS Tequila Allen (2 for 5, 5RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Isaac Mitchell got POG thanks to a PH grandslam in the 5th that put us in the lead for good. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 6, 1R, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R.... basically everyone hit well except for Sandoz and Wolfe. 5/27 DET @ CHI: WIN 7-5 Corky Stell (4-6, 4.54) got the win despite giving up 4R in 6.2IP. Lloyd Wyman got his 7th save pitching a hitless 9th. Johnny Gordley (4-5, 3.96) gave up 7R in 6.2IP for the loss. Corky was overheard after the game "It's nice to get some frick'n run support for a change". Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1HR) & RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Carl Sandoz got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 2RBI. Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R. 5/28 DET @ CHI: loss 3-7 Hal Andrew (7-6, 4.52) continues his insane inconsistency giving up 7R in 7.2IP for the loss. Jake Craze (4-7, 4.72) gave up 3R in a CG win. POG went to Sox RF Chester Munch who went 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR. C Bud Mobley, 3B Donald Medart & SS Rex Seelinger all went 2 for 4. For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3. 5/29 DET @ CHI: WIN 8-1 Bud Ulrich (3-5, 4.79) finally pitched a nice game giving up only 1R in a CG win. Gene Masarech (5-4, 4.18) gave up 4R in 6IP for the loss. Top Sox hitters were RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1HR) & 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4). For us, Clinton Darling filled in at 3B and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB. 5/30 day off 5/31 NYY @ DET: loss 1-3 Roy Wolfe (6-6, 4.77) struck out 9, but gave up 3R in a CG loss. Eric Williams (7-3, 2.94) only gave up 1R in 8IP for the win and POG. Top Yank hitters were 1B John Wilson (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & Charles Gillis (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 3. STANDINGS 26-25, 5th in the AL, 9.5GB Philly, 8-6 in the last two weeks. BAD NEWS -We swept the A's and still lost ground as our starters remains inconsistent. -Ormiston is still only hitting .236 and Degal (.167) is making it hard to sit Smokey. I think I'll have to see about increasing Smokey's starts against RHP as he's hitting .304. GOOD NEWS -Ray Kress was name Player of the Month - He hit .303 in 99 AB, with 12 homers and 26 RBI. That AVG is a bit low for him, but the 12 HR is nice as he's only 3 away from jumping on the career leaderboard. -Rollin Fish is evolving into a decent hitter. He's one of those like Castaneda where I felt that I didn't care if he couldn't hit, I just loved his glove. But like Castaneda, he was thrown to the wolves and has grown as a hitter. He's approaching .300 and is not far behind Perly and Ormiston in HRs and RBIs. -Lloyd Wyman is having a better year than last. He's getting more work in this year and is currently at the #22 spot in career Saves. -Having Stell in the lineup and the chronic rain delays have made for a busy bull pen this year (as I expected). The Pen is 7-3, so they have been doing their job. Once the rain delays taper off and our starters start pitching with some consistency (it will happen, I just know it will happen... I hope), our bullpen should find them selves a bit more rested. -Kitterman and Perly are starting to hit for better average after a pathetic start to the year. -Sandoz and Mitchell continue to play their best in a platoon situation in RF. BATTING THRU 5/31 Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG Code: C. Darling 21 28 10 1 1 2 7 4 2 4 .357 .387 .679 D. Castaneda 50 189 60 5 3 0 9 27 32 27 .317 .414 .376 R. Kress 49 181 57 4 2 17 49 36 36 21 .315 .429 .641 I. Mitchell 34 70 22 2 1 2 9 5 4 2 .314 .347 .457 C. Sandoz 44 151 46 5 1 2 21 20 7 10 .305 .333 .391 J. Meacham 34 69 21 2 1 3 16 7 8 8 .304 .380 .493 R. Fish 48 170 50 8 2 6 23 21 17 15 .294 .358 .471 M. Perly 51 180 49 9 1 8 33 28 24 23 .272 .354 .467 D. Kitterman 49 194 51 7 2 2 14 32 23 19 .263 .347 .351 P. Short 16 24 6 0 0 0 1 2 1 2 .250 .280 .250 L. Ormiston 47 165 39 8 0 8 20 24 34 15 .236 .367 .430 H. Andrew 13 28 6 0 0 1 1 3 4 6 .214 .313 .321 C. Stell 13 34 7 2 0 0 7 4 1 4 .206 .222 .265 J. Degal 40 126 21 4 0 2 11 8 6 17 .167 .205 .246 S. Zucal 25 18 3 0 1 0 0 6 6 0 .167 .400 .278 G. Young 9 18 3 0 0 1 2 1 1 2 .167 .211 .333 M. Ferron 12 22 3 0 0 0 2 2 3 2 .136 .240 .136 PITCHING THRU 5/31 Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K Code: H. Andrew 13 13 7 6 0 4.52 91.2 78 48 46 41 57 R. Wolfe 13 13 6 6 0 4.77 94.1 109 57 50 27 58 L. Wyman 15 0 5 1 7 3.52 15.1 12 6 6 6 7 C. Stell 13 13 4 6 0 4.54 85.1 84 47 43 32 39 B. Ulrich 13 13 3 5 0 4.79 88.1 93 56 47 38 51 D. Vonkitzing 18 0 1 1 2 3.12 17.1 17 11 6 8 10 S. Brown 5 0 1 0 0 0.00 7.0 6 0 0 5 1 A. Paule 14 0 0 0 0 3.60 20.0 17 9 8 11 11 O. Adkins 20 0 0 1 2 4.34 18.2 22 11 9 10 8 E. Roberts 13 0 0 0 0 5.28 15.1 17 11 9 10 8 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-07-2005, 06:12 PM	#222
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951 JUNE Arg!!!!!!! I've spent hours on this post and lost it twice. Flipp'n amazing bad luck with a comptuer today. There's no way I'm doing a full month game by game post a third time today, so here's the gist of what happened in June: STANDINGS 40-37 - 3rd in the AL - 16 games behind Philly. We played well against everybody except for the two AL leaders (Philly & Boston). Unfortunately those two kicked our tail bad in all but a couple of games this month. Thus the big lead for them over us. Hal Andrew nearly got his ERA to 4.00 but then threw four bad games. The only reason his last two wins were wins were becase he lucked out with some run support. Our other starters were better this month. Stell was especially good going 4-2, 2.83 for the month. In his last 4 he only allowed a total of 2 runs and even had a CG shutout win in one of them. Ray Kress made it onto the career leaderboard and has jumped up all the way to the #22 spot. His average dipped below .300, but then he rebounded a bit in the last few games. Ormiston hit 9HR, Perly 7, Kress 7, Fish 6. Fish also got a Player of the Week award on 6/27 Meacham was our top hitter for AVG going .355. Kitterman is on the rebound and hit almost as well as Meacham. Lloyd Wyman was doing very well this year until he had one bad game on 6/1. He was immediately sent to the dog house and not given an save op all month. I'm going to put him in as #2 setup guy as well as closer to se if I can force him to get more save ops. I can't afford for him to lose any more skill due to too much pine time as has happened over the last couple of years. Its especially frustrating that he's not geting work when you see that he has only allowed runs in one of his last 10 games and has rarely even giving up a hit. Stupid AI. He's still stuck on the #22 spot in career saves. Two new coaches were brought in at the middle of the month: Pitching Coach: Bob Guilderson - Hired '51 after the previous coach stepped down due to health concerns. Bob had only been retired for a year and a half, but he has been bored out of his mind and eager to get back into baseball in any capacity. He spent his entire ML career as a Tiger winning 239 games and is on the career leaderboard with 2036 Ks. An exteremly loyal man, he's also provided excellent leadership in the locker room. He has 22 years of professional pitching experience to draw upon. On top of all that, he's played ball with just about everyone on our roster so he can step in and give input right away. Hitting / 3B Coach: Kid Fite - Hired a few days after Bob. Fite is not the vocal leader that Bob Guilderson brings to the club house. He's more of the lead by example type. He racked up 3699 hits and hit .329 in his amazing 23 year career. He also knows a little bit about winning as he was a huge part of the 1928 Detroit World Series victory and won another in 1942 with Washington. An amazing fact - he only at 4 minor league at bats before securing a starting spot on Detroits active roster in '22 hitting .260. He was never once sent back to the minors. He even finished his career with a .315 average that last year as a starter making people wonder if he could have continued playing well into his 40s. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963 Last edited by m0ng00se; 02-07-2005 at 06:17 PM.

02-07-2005, 06:16 PM	#223
canadiancreed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,660	looks like you're getting some old school help to whip your team into shape __________________ PT21 PT22

02-07-2005, 08:33 PM	#224
Matt from TN Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: In a funk.... Posts: 3,413	So how close to the end is Killbreath in Detroit? __________________ Set in Stone... Players Remain with Original Franchise

02-08-2005, 05:33 PM	#226
canadiancreed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,660	Didnt think he was doing so bad till I saw the stats. Not pretty at all __________________ PT21 PT22

02-08-2005, 05:48 PM	#227
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951, JULY 7/1 CHI @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (8-6, 4.36) gave up only 2H & 1R in a CG win for POG. Moonshine Allen (5-12, 3.68) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. Bud Ulrich went 1 for 3, 1R, 1SB. 7/2 CHI @ DET: loss 6-7 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R (6ER) in 9IP for the loss. Johnny Gordley only lasted 3.2IP after giving up 6R. The win went to closer William Baum (2-1, 4.02) who pitched a scoreless 9th & 10th innings. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, POG), RF Chester Munch (2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & CF Homer Jewell (4 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. 7/3 CHI @ DET: WIN 6-2 Corky Stell (9-8, 3.79) got the win giving up only 2R (1ER) in 7IP. Gordie Crum (1-6, 6.47) gave up 6R in 5IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was C Bud Mobley (1 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Smokey Meacham got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB. 7/4 DET @ StL: WIN 8-3 Hal Andrew (12-9, 4.54) gave up 3R in a CG win for POG. Don Allen (4-5, 2.73) gave up 7R in 6IP. Top StL hitters were C Frank Bowers (2 for 4, 1RBI) & 2B Dale Thompson (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Ray Kress and Matt Perly had to be replaced by Isaac Mitchell & Clinton Darling as they were both tossed arguing strikeout calls. 7/5 DET @ StL: WIN 7-2 Bud Ulrich (9-6, 4.22) gave up only 2R in a CG win for POG. Eugene Sprecher (5-10, 4.82) gave up 4R in 8IP for the loss. Top StL hitter was LF Jack Buback (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 2R, 3BB. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Dave Castaneda went 1 for 2, 1R, 1BB, 1SB. 7/6 DET @ StL: loss 4-6 Roy Wolfe (8-12, 4.44) gave up 6R (4ER) in a CG loss. Buster Davis (8-10, 4.68) got the win giving up 3R in 7.2IP. Top StL hitters were CF Jessie Witt (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1TRPL), 1B Vince Chipple (2 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL) & C Frank Bowers (2 for 4, 2R). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 3BB, 1DBL. 7/7 DET @ StL: WIN 4-1 Corky Stell (10-8, 3.65) gave up only 1R in 8IP for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 8th save. Cotton Simson loses to us again, this time giving up 4R in a CG loss. Top StL hitter was C Frank Bowers (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell gave Kress a day off and went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. Pete Short gave Fish a day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 2DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R. 7/8 BOS @ DET: loss 3-8 Hal Andrew (12-10, 4.50) gave up 7R (3ER) in 7.1IP. Two errors for us proved costly. Sonny Faulkner (8-10, 4.86) got the win giving up 3R in 8.2IP. POG went to Sox 1B Bobby Johnson who went 3 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Their CF Cy Helbig went 1 for 2, 2R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. Isaac Mitchell back in RF went 2 for 4. Clinton Darling gave Ormiston the day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI. 7/9 BOS @ DET: loss 4-5 Bud Ulrich gave up 4R (3ER) in 8.1IP. But the loss went to Lloyd Wyman (5-3, 4.18) who blew a hold situation. Dane Fabre (5-4, 4.98) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Sox PH Pete Murovic, 1B Bobby Johnson, & Darrell Thomas (POG) all homered with their only hits. For us, Ray kress went 2 for 3, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for3, 1BB, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. Matt Perly hit a 3R HR with his only hit. 7/10 BOS @ DET: WIN 6-3 Roy Wolfe (9-12, 4.39) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 5th save. Nippy Schnaubert (13-5, 4.06) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitters were 2B Curt Rodd (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI), LF Don Myer (2 for 3) & C Em Pleto (2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 6RBI, 2HR). Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2R. ALLSTAR - We only had 3 make it this year. Ray Kress started in LF and accounted for the only 2 AL hits of the game. Matt Perly got in a couple innings at 2B and went 0 for 1, but was part of a nice double play. Hal Andrew pitched the final inning for the AL, striking out 1 and allowing no runs in that one inning. Other ex-Tigers getting some play time was SP Jack Boe, CF Mark Silcox, & C/3B Bud Moore. 7/15 DET @ CHI: loss 2-3 Corky Stell gave up only 2R (1ER) in 8IP, but Don Vonkitzing (1-2, 3.27) got the loss as he was unable to hold in the 10th. Johnny Gordley only gave up 2R in 9IP for POG. The win went to William Baum (4-2, 3.72) who pitched the final two outs. Top Sox hitter was 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 3, 1RBI. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1BB. 7/16 DET @ CHI: WIN 9-2 Hal Andrew (13-10, 4.35) gave up only 2R (1ER) in 7.2IP for the win. Jake Craze (5-8, 4.88) got pulled after only 2.2 after giving up 6R. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (2 for 3, 1R, 1DBL), RF Chester Munch (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL) & SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1BB). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 3RBI. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 1 for 4, 1BB, 1HR. 7/17 DET @ CHI: loss 1-3 Bud Ulrich (9-7, 4.13) gave up 3R in a CG loss. Gene Masarech (10-6, 3.26) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7.1IP. Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (1 for 3, 1HR) & SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston and Matt Perly both went 1 for 3, 1BB. 7/18 day off 7/19 StL @ DET: WIN 9-3 Roy Wolfe (10-12, 4.32) gave up 3R in a CG win. Buster Davis (8-12, 5.29) only lasted 3.1IP giving up 8R. Top StL hitters were RF John Fahringer (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI) & LF Jack Buback (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 2BB. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 3RBI. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. 7/20 StL @ DET: WIN 1-0 Corky Stell (11-8, 3.33) pitched a 3H CG shutout for the win and POG. Cotton Simson (13-10, 2.57) finally pitched well against us, but still lost giving up only 4H & 1R in a CG loss. Top StL hitter was 2B Dale Thompson (1 for 3). For us, it was Rollin Fish who went 1 for 2, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 1 for 2 as well. 7/21 StL @ DET: WIN 9-6 Hal Andrew (14-10, 4.45) got the win despite giving up 6R in 8.1IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 9th save. Don Allen got the loss giving up 9R in 6.2IP. Top StL hitters were RF Guss Brown (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR), C Frankie Bowers (3 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL) & CF Jessie Witt (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 4, 3RBI, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2R. Hal Andrew went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB, 1SB. 7/22 DET @ CLE: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich gave up 2R in 7.2IP. The win went to Alan Paule (1-1, 4.63) who pitched a scoreless 11th & 12th. Steve Brown got his first save of the season pitching a scoreless 13th inning. Houston Boler gave up 3R in 8.1IP. The loss went to Len Banty (0-4, 4.74) who was unable to hold in the 13th. Top CLE hitters were 1B Al Hippard (2 for 4, 1RBI) & 1B sub Jerry Tuggle (2 for 3). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham subbed in at C and went 2 for 2, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Pete Short subbed in at CF and went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1DBL. 7/23 DET @ CLE: loss 0-13 Ouch. Roy Wolfe (10-13, 4.61) gave up 7R in 2.2IP. This game combined with last game has really put a load on our bull pen. Bernard Homic provided his BP a day of rest by pitching a 4H CG shutout for the win and POG. Almost everyone hit well for CLE. The top batter wasRF Frank Winsett (3 for 5, 3R, 3RBI, 1HR). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB. 7/24 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-0 Corky Stell (12-8, 3.17) gave up only 3H & 1BB and pitched 8.1 shutout innings for the win and POG. Alan Paule got the final two outs to complete the shutout. Lex Tjeenk-Willink (12-9, 3.99) gave up 5R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was 1B Al Hippard (2 for 4). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham was a perfect 2 for 2, 1RBI, 1DBL before having to leave the game with an abb injury after sprinting out that double. He is expected to miss about 3 weeks. 7/25 CHI @ DET: WIN 7-0 Hal Andrew (15-10, 4.24) pitched a 6H CG shutout for the win and POG. Gene Masarech (10-8, 3.47) gave up 6R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top Sox hitters were 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4, 1DBL), C Bud Mobley (2 for 3, 1DBL) & 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4). For us, Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB. 7/26 CHI @ DET: WIN 5-2 Bud Urlich (10-7, 3.99) got the win giving up 2R in 7.1IP. Lloyd Wyman kept the final 1.2 scoreless for his 10th save. Moonshine Allen (7-15, 3.36) gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitters were 3B Andy Martineau (2 for 4, 1RBI), 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 4) & RF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 3RBI, 1DBL for POG. 7/27 CHI @ DET: loss 2-4 Roy Wolfe only gave up 2R in 8IP. Unfortunately Lloyd Wyman (5-4, 3.99) was unable to hold in the 9th. (I can't win with this closer situation. If I have Lloyd Wyman as a closer only he gets almost no work even when save ops come along. But if I have him in as closer & #2 setup, he's being over used badly even with other rested relievers available. Really frustrating.) Johnny Gordley (8-10, 4.10) only gave up 2R in 8IP for the win & POG. Top Sox hitters were 1B Lonnie Arrendale (1 for 4, 1HR) & C Cecil Marziani (1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1TRPL. 7/28 day off 7/29 DET @ NYY: WIN 8-0 Corky Stell (13-8, 3.02) pitched 8.2 shutout innings for the win. Oswald Adkins got the final out to complete the shutout. Tom Zonneveld (10-8, 3.46) gave up 5R in 8IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was C Rich Curtis (4 for 4, 2DBL) For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 3R, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1R. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 5, 1R. 7/30 DET @ NYY: loss 4-5 Hal Andrew (15-11, 4.29) gave up 5R in a CG loss. John Skoropat (4-8, 4.71) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were C Gus Tioni (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, POG) & SS Pip Seneca (2 for 4, 1R, 2DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 1 for 2, 1BB. 7/31 DET @ NYY: loss 3-9 Bud Urlich (10-8, 4.17) got the loss giving up 7R in 7IP. Carpenter Erickson (7-6, 4.22) got the win giving up 3R in 7.1IP. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (3 for 5, 2R, 4RBI, 1HR, POG), RF Jimmy Ditty (2 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1TRPL), C Gus Tioni (2 for 4, 2R) & LF Turk Baker (1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1RBI. Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 1R ,1RBI, 2BB, 2DBL. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1RBI. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4. STANDINGS 55-47, 3rd in the AL, 14.5 games behind Philly, 15-10 in July BAD NEWS -Hal Andrew continues to be very hot or icy cold. I may just have to deal with the fact that he's too inconsistent to be a true ace and hand that title over to Ulrich if he continues to get better. -Speaking of cold Dave Castaneda hit a dismal .193 for the month and has seen his average dip to .275. -Luther Ormiston is hitting for power (4th in the AL in HR), but he's really struggling to get on base this year. He has a phenomenal EYE but his .245 average isn't where he should be. He's about ready to lose his cleanup spot to Perly if he doesn't wake up. -We get off 8/1 and then don't get another day off until September. GOOD NEWS -Corky Stell has been insanely good lately. He hasn't giving up more than 1ER in any of his last 10 games and is 9-0 during that time. He was named player of the week on 7/25 and Pitcher of the Month going 5-0, 0.55 and 1 shutouts in 6 games. -Bud Ulrich has also been good giving up more than 3 earned runs only once in his last 10 games. He was 6-2 in that time, but didn't get as much run support as he normally enjoys. -Ray Kress was named Batter of the Month hitting .408, 6HR, 22RBI, 23R - he's passed his new hitting coach Kid Fite on the HR Career Leaderboard... Kress is now at the #20 spot and should leap frog up to 18 before the end of next month. -Lloyd Wyman jumped up to the #19 spot in the Save Career Leaderboard. -Our top hitter in the past two months... maybe not who you'd think... Pete Short has averaged around .400. Dennis Kitterman hasn't been far behind rebounding well after a pathetic start to the year. He's now hitting a respectable .308. TIGERS in the AL TOP 10 Code: AVG - Kress #2 SLG - Kress #1, Perly #7, Ormiston #10 HIT - Kitterman #4 HR - Kress #1, Ormiston #4, Perly #6 RBI - Kress #1, Ormiston #4, Perly #6 RUN - Kress #1, Kitterman #2 SB - Fish #8 BB - Kress #2, Ormiston #5 WIN - Andrew #1, Stell #5 SVs - Wyman #5 CG - Andrew #2, Wolfe #4 Ks - Andrew #4, Ulrich #8, Wolfe #9 ERA - Stell #5 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-09-2005, 08:05 PM	#228
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951, 8/1 THRU 8/15 8/1 day off - our only day in August 8/2 PHI @ DET: loss 5-10 Roy Wolfe (10-14, 4.64) gave up 8R (6ER) in 6.1IP for the loss. Terry Mart (3-3, 3.00) got the win giving up 5R (2ER) in 7IP. Top A's hitters were 1B Sal Poulos (2 for 3, 3RBI, 1BB, POG), 3B Bud Ayres (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB) & SP Terry Mart (2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1HR. 8/3 PHI @ DET: loss 3-8 Corky Stell gave up 3R (2ER) in 6IP. The loss went to Lloyd Wyman (5-5, 5.52) who was unable to hold in the 8th. Bob Stevens (14-4, 2.71) got POG & the win giving up 3R (2ER) in 7IP. Top A's hitters were 1B Sal Poulos (3 for 4) & SP Bob Stevens (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. 8/4 PHI @ DET: WIN 6-4 Hal Andrew (16-11, 4.30) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for this 11th save. Ellis Weeks (14-5, 2.19) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top A's hitters were 3B Bud Ayres (3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 2DBL) & C Hershel Lee (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 2 for 4, 3R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 2R. 8/5 NYY @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (11-8, 4.07) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 8th & 9th for his 12th save. Carpenter Erickson (7-7, 4.24) gave up 4R in a CG loss. There was little offense from NY as they were held to 4 hits. for us, Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4. 8/6 NYY @ DET: WIN 4-3 Roy Wolfe (11-14, 4.59) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 6th save. Chief Harrington (5-9, 4.19) gave up 4R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Yank hitters were Chief Harrington (2 for 3, 1RBI) & LF Turk Baker (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1SB. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB. 8/7 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-3 Corky Stell (14-8, 3.04) got the win giving up 3R in 7.2IP. Alan Paule allowed 2H and 2BB in the final 1.1, but held the runners for his first save of the season. Tom Zonneveld (11-9, 3.56) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitters were 2B Lonnie Christensen (2 for 4) & John Young (1 for 4, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR coming in late in the game. Isaac Mitchell went 3 for 4, 1R. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 2RBI. 8/8 DET @ BOS: loss 1-5 Hal Andrew (16-12, 4.31) got the loss giving up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. Nippy Schnaubert (17-5, 3.79) gave up only 1R in 7.2IP for the win and POG. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 3, 4R, 1BB, 1DBL) & 1B Bobby Johnson (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 4, 1HR. We out hit them 6-5 but committed 3 errors to their 2. 8/9 DET @ BOS: loss 2-9 Bud Ulrich (11-9, 4.29) gave up 6R in 2.1IP for the loss. Dane Fabre (9-5, 4.24) got the win giving up 2R in 7.2IP. Top Sox hitters were 1B Bobby Johnson (3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, POG), SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 3, 2R, 2BB) & 2B Skeeter Schaldemose (2 for 3, 2R, 2BB). For us, Gale Adams got his second start at C and his first ML hits going 2 for 4, 1RBI. Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB. 8/10 DET @ BOS: WIN 8-4 Roy Wolfe (12-14, 4.59) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Cort Nagel (13-10, 3.19) got yanked after giving up 6R (4ER) in 2.1IP. POG went to Sox 1B Bobby Johnson who hit 3 solo HRs on a 3 for 4 day. Their LF Don Myer also hit well going 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB, 1TRPL. For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 2BB, 1HR. 8/11 CLE @ DET: WIN 6-4 Corky Stell gave up 3R (1ER) in 8IP. The win went to Alan Paule (2-1, 4.37) who pitched a scoreless 11th. George Kauffman gave up 2R in 8IP. The loss went to John Ashley (3-2, 3.17) for giving up the first of 2 11th inning runs. Top CLE hitter was PH Jerry Tuggle who went 1 for 1, 1R, 1RBI. For us, Matt Perly got POG going 2 for 4, 3R, 4RBI, 1BB, 2HR. 8/12 CLE @ DET: WIN 7-5 Hal Andrew (17-12, 4.37) got the win despite giving up 5R in 7.2iP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for his 7th save. Houston Boler (4-7, 4.23) gave up 7R in 7IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was RF Richard Gambling (2 for 4, 3RBI, 1TRPL). For us, Matt Perly was POG again going 2 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI. Hal Andrew went 2 for 3, 1R. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 2, 1BB. 8/13 CLE @ DET: loss 1-7 Bud Ulrich (11-10, 4.42) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. Bernard Homic (8-16, 4.67) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Top CLE hitters were RF Frank Winsett (3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR), 2B John Valcarcel (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB) & CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 1 for 3, 1R, 1BB. 8/14 CLE @ DET: loss 1-3 Roy Wolfe (12-15, 4.53) got the loss giving up 3R in 8IP. Lex Tjeenk-Willink only gave up 1R in 5.2IP. But the win went to John Ashley (4-2, 3.09) who pitched to one batter in the 8th. Top CLE hitters were SS Victor Estevez (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG) & 1B Al Hippard (3 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish wetn 1 for 2, 1BB on a day were we only had 2 hits. 8/15 DET @ WSH: loss 1-4 Corky Stell (14-9, 3.03) had been on quite the winning streak, but saw it end today giving up 4R in 7IP. Chris Frays (13-12, 3.57) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (3 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1TRPL), C John Fine (2 for 3, 1R) & CF Delmar Yordy (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1HR. STANDINGS 62-54, 3rd in the AL, 14.5 GB Philly, 7-7 in the last 2 weeks. BAD NEWS -Playing 50-50 ball isn't going to get us caught up. -Inconsistent starting pitching... yadda yadda yadda -Inconsistent hitting in front of Kress - Kitterman was a pathetic .208 after I praised him for getting his average up. GOOD NEWS -Ray Kress was named Player of the week on 8/8 for hitting .579, 1HR, 10RBI. -Jim Meacham is back from being injured. He was a perfect 1 for 1 in PH duty and will jump back into his backup catcher spot. ROSTER MOVES -Last month MR Errol Roberts was sent down to Toledo-AAA as he was sucking bad on our active roster. We called up vet Stan Leveck to replace him. -At the beginning of this month, we temporarily demoted MR Oswald Adkins to make room for Gale Adams. Gale was called up to backup Dirtbag Degal while Smokey Meacham was down with a pulled ab muscle. Gale will most likely be sent back down now that the trainers say Smokey is 100% again. -Gin Allen was demoted to Durham-A as he really started to struggle after a hot start to the season. He even took a minor talent hit so we sent him down as a precaution, probably for the remainder of the year. We really want to see this guy step up since he has the potential to have a monster bat and able to play anywhere in the OF with gold glove potential in RF but we have to be careful not to rush him too quickly. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-09-2005, 08:11 PM	#229
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	COACHING CHANGE part 3 With my best Vince McMahon impersonation, "Killbreath..... YOU'RRRRE FIIIRRRRED!!!!!!!" OK, maybe not that enthusiastic but I'm officially giving Killbreath his walking papers. I really feel terrible that I have to do this but Killbreath has clearly lost the ability to rally the troops. Recently acquired Pitching Coach Bob Guilderson will manage the rotation while new hitting coach Kid Fite will manage the lineup. This is only temporary until we can name Killbreath's replacement. I definitely hope to have a new manager & bench coach in place before the next draft and spring training. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-09-2005, 09:21 PM	#230
canadiancreed Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,660	lol nice job McMahon for your coaching shopping, I'd recommened to give us a call. I think that Hempkins or Mills would make good canidates, if not for the head job, for hitting or pitching coaches if you promote Kite or Guilderson __________________ PT21 PT22

02-10-2005, 09:03 PM	#231
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951, 8/16 THRU 8/31 8/16 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-0 Hal Andrew (18-12, 4.20) allowed only 2H & 2BB in a CG shutout for the win and POG. Raul Velazquez (10-7, 3.67) gave up 4R in 7IP for the loss. Top WSH hitter was LF Tom Foraker who went 1 for 3, 1BB. For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Ray Kress went 3 for 4, 1R. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB. 8/17 DET @ WSH: WIN 2-0 Bud Ulrich (12-10, 4.25) pitched 8 shutout innings for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for this 13th save. Van Melbourn (3-5, 4.44) gave up only 2R in a CG loss. Top WSH hitters were RF Boyd Mylchreest (2 for 2, 2BB) & Van Melbourn (2 for 3). For us, Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 1DBL. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR, 1SB. 8/18 DET @ WSH: WIN 12-5 Roy Wolfe (13-15, 4.56) got the win giving up 5R in 8.1IP. Eric Slater (10-16, 4.89) gave up 10R in 6IP. Top WSH hitters were Eric Slater (2 for 3, 1DBL), SS Tuck Hugley (1 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR) & CF Delmar Yordy (3 for 4, 1R). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 4 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR, 2SB. Smokey Meacham went 3 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. HOLY CRUD, Ray Kress committed an error. It's only his second error in about 6 years now. But still, that was a big surprise to see. 8/19 DET @ NYY: WIN 8-0 Corky Stell (15-9, 2.94) pitched 7 shutout innings for the win. Alan Paule completed the shutout pitching the last 2 innings. John Skoropat (4-9, 5.15) gave up 8R in 3.1IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 1B John Wilson (3 for 3, 1BB, 2DBL). For us, George the Instigator Young gave Kitterman a day off and earned POG going 2 for 5, 1R, 4RBI, 1 GrandSlam. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Young's 464 foot shot was the longest of his ML career and 4RBI's was a personal best. 8/20 DET @ NYY: WIN 9-3 Hal Andrew (19-12, 4.16) got the win giving up 3R in 8.1IP. Eric Williams (10-11, 4.00) gave up 7R in 4.1IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 2B Leroy Powell (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. 8/21 DET @ NYY: WIN 5-4 Bud Ulrich gave up only 2R in 8IP for POG. Lloyd Wyman (6-5, 5.08) blew the save but held on for the win giving up 2R in 1.2IP. Don Vonkitzing got the final out for his 8th save. Carpenter Erickson gave up 4R in 7IP but the loss went to Maury Baum who gave up a 10th inning solo HR to Ray Kress. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (2 for 5, 1R, 1RBI, 1TRPL) & RF Arnie Stewart (2 for 5, 1DBL, 1TRPL). For us, Ray Kress subbed in late in the game and went 1 for 1, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 3. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. 8/22 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-3 Roy Wolfe (14-15, 4.52) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman redeemed his self striking out all three 9th inning batters for his 14th save. Eric Slater (10-17, 4.88) gave up 4R in 8IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were SP Eric Slater (2 for 3, 1HR), 3B Don McFarland (2 for 3, 1R) & LF Tom Foraker (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR for POG. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4. Roy Wolfe went 1 for 2. 8/23 WSH @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (15-10, 2.95) only gave up 3R in 8IP for the loss. Chris Frays (14-13, 3.53) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 5.1IP. Top WSH hitter was 2B Dean Parente (3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL, 1SB). For us, Rollin Fish went 1 for 2, 2BB, 1HR. 8/24 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-2 Hal Andrew (20-12, 4.10) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a hitless 9th for his 9th save. Raul Velazquez (10-9, 3.60) gave up 3R (0ER) in 6.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 4, 1DBL) & 3B Jim Dunkel (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. 8/25 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (13-10, 4.03) got the win and POG giving up 1R (0ER) in 8IP. Don Vonkitzing pitched a scoreless 9th for this 10th save. Van Melbourn (4-6, 4.15) gave up 4R in 7.1IP for the loss. WSH was held to 2 hits and both of those came from 2B Dean Parente (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 3R, 1RBI. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 1R, 1TRPL. 8/26 DET @ PHI: WIN 8-7 Roy Wolfe gave up 7R in 4.1IP. The win went to Alan Paule (3-1, 3.78) who pitched 3.1 scoreless innings. Don Vonkitzing got his 3rd save in 3 consecutive days and his 5th save in his last 6 games by pitching a scoreless 9th. Terry Mart gave up 4R in 7.1IP. The loss went to Billy Crowell (10-5, 4.20) who gave up 2HR and was unable to hold in the 9th. Top A's hitters were CF Todd Walker (1 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1HR), 2B Ace Habermehl (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1SB), LF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL) & C Matt Gazarek (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress subbed in mid game and went 2 for 2, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR for POG. Smokey Meacham also subbed in at mid game and went 1 for 2, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Matt Perly was 2 for 2, 1RBI, 1TPRL until leaving mid game with after injuring his leg trying to stretch out that triple. He's expected to be day to day for at least a week. 8/27 DET @ PHI: WIN 6-0 Corky Stell was awesome earning POG for allowing only 4H and no BB for a CG shutout win. Bob Stevens (16-5, 2.72) gave up 6R in 7IP for the loss. Top A's hitter was LF Greg Morris (1 for 3, 1SB). For us, Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 8/28 DET @ PHI: loss 4-7 Hal Andrew (20-13, 4.20) gave up 6R in 7.1IP for the loss. Ellis Weeks (17-6, 2.34) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top A's hitters were 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 2HR, POG), C Hershell Lee (1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR), LF Peaches Badeau (2 for 3, 2DBL) & 1B Sal Poulos (3 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 8/29 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich (14-10, 3.97) got the win giving up 2R in 8.1IP. Eric Williams (10-13, 4.16) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitters were CF John Young (2 for 4) & 1B John Wilson (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 2HR. George Young gave Kitterman a 2nd day off and went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Mitch Ferron gave Castaneda the day off and went 2 for 3, 1R. Smokey Meacham gave Degal the day off and went 1 for 4, 1HR. 8/30 NYY @ DET: WIN 3-0 Roy Wolfe (15-15, 4.53) pitched a 3H CG shutout for the win and POG. Carpenter Erickson (9-9, 3.92) gave up 3R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Yank hitter was 2B Lonnie Christensen (1 for 3). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 3, 2RBI. 8/31 NYY @ DET: loss 3-5 Corky Stell (16-11, 2.83) gave up 3R (2ER) in 6.2IP for the loss. Chief Harrington (7-12, 4.07) got the win giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Jimmy Ditty (4 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 2DBL, POG), SS Pip Seneca (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL), 1B John Wilson (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Isaac Michell went 1 for 4, 1HR & Ray Kress PH a solo HR. STANDINGS 75-57, #2 in the AL, 11 GB Philly, 13-3 in the last two weeks BAD NEWS -Despite our 13-3 record in the last two weeks, we still only made up 3.5 games. At this point, I'd have to concede that we are out of the pennant race and should look to setting this team up for next year. GOOD NEWS -After I groaned about Dennis Kitterman sucking the first half of the month he turned it around and earned Player of the Week on 8/22 for hitting .619, 2HR & 7 RBI. -Most of our starters were excellent in the last couple weeks of August as we managed 5 shutouts in 16 games. -For the month Ormiston and Kress both belted 7HR, Perly hit 6. -Ray Kress is tied with Tigers pitching coach Kid Fite on the all time AVG leaders - both tied at #24 w/ .329 AVG. Ray has also jumped up to the #18 spot in the career HR leaderboard. DEVELOPMENT NEWS -Clinton Darling is slipping all around - age and lack of at bats are slowly taking their toll. -Don Vonkitzing's endurance slipped - since we are out of the AL race, I'd like to give Vonk a few starts in a temporary 5 man rotation. We lucked out with the fact that none of our starters missed a game… but that ment Vonkitzing spent the entire season in the 'pen and he's always itching to get in a few starts when ever possible. -Dave Castanada's contact is up against lefties and he is starting to draw more walks. -John Dirtbag Degal's HR power is up vs everyone - now if he can just get that contact and eye up a bit more... look out. Too bad about that talent plummet in EYE earlier this year, but he's still young, so maybe he'll recover or exceed in another area. I've been trying to give Meacham more and more at bats without killing Degal's growth. Not an easy thing to balance. BATTING THRU 8/31 Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG Code: R. Kress 129 444 151 14 3 37 110 110 98 52 .340 .456 .635 J. Meacham 74 156 51 8 1 8 36 22 16 19 .327 .389 .545 D. Kitterman 127 500 148 18 4 8 52 87 54 48 .296 .368 .396 C. Sandoz 102 323 92 11 5 2 34 38 15 24 .285 .315 .368 C. Darling 52 71 20 3 1 2 9 10 7 12 .282 .342 .437 M. Perly 127 434 122 21 3 25 89 72 67 75 .281 .375 .516 I. Mitchell 91 253 71 8 3 3 27 18 10 16 .281 .306 .372 D. Castaneda 124 474 132 12 4 1 26 67 71 69 .278 .376 .327 R. Fish 122 427 112 21 2 14 67 51 53 39 .262 .341 .419 P. Short 42 81 21 8 1 1 7 7 1 8 .259 .265 .420 L. Ormiston 123 436 105 20 3 28 93 77 78 46 .241 .355 .493 G. Young 21 51 10 1 0 3 10 5 2 4 .196 .226 .392 J. Degal 101 332 65 9 0 8 40 35 29 37 .196 .262 .295 M. Ferron 34 71 12 2 0 0 3 5 5 6 .169 .224 .197 G. Adams 5 12 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 .167 .231 .167 S. Zucal 50 60 9 0 1 0 0 9 11 5 .150 .292 .183 PITCHING THRU 8/31 Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K Code: H. Andrew 33 33 20 13 0 4.20 251.0 218 128 117 94 172 C. Stell 34 34 16 11 0 2.83 241.1 211 89 76 66 101 R. Wolfe 33 33 15 15 0 4.53 246.1 277 139 124 76 132 B. Ulrich 33 33 14 10 0 3.97 236.0 213 116 104 99 133 L. Wyman 40 0 6 5 14 5.15 43.2 39 25 25 23 30 A. Paule 38 0 3 1 1 3.76 52.2 47 25 22 26 17 S. Brown 16 0 1 0 1 1.99 22.2 20 6 5 8 4 D. Vonkitzing 36 0 1 2 11 3.16 31.1 33 16 11 13 12 S. Leveck 4 0 0 0 0 5.40 3.1 3 2 2 3 0 O. Adkins 27 0 0 1 3 3.95 27.1 28 14 12 16 9 E. Roberts 19 0 0 0 0 7.08 20.1 27 18 16 14 10 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-11-2005, 04:29 PM	#232
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951, 9/1 THRU 9/15 9/1 NYY @ DET: WIN 6-1 Don Vonkitzing (2-2, 2.68) got his first start of the year and got a CG win and POG allowing only 1R. Tom Zonneveld (13-12, 3.49) gave up 6R in 7.1IP. Top NYY hitters were SS Pip Seneca (3 for 4, 1HR) & RF Arnie Stewart (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 3 for 4, 3R, 1RBI. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2R. Clinton Darling went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1TRPL. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2RBI. 9/2 DET @ BOS: WIN 6-1 Hal Andrew (21-13, 4.08) got the CG win and POG giving up only 1R, 3H, 2BB. Sonny Faulkner (11-17, 4.89) gave up 6R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (2 for 4) & ex-Tiger C Pete Murovic (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 3 for 3, 2R, 3RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 9/3 DET @ BOS: WIN 9-5 Bud Ulrich got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Nippy Schnaubert (19-8, 3.74) got yanked very early giving up 7R (3ER) in 2.2 for the loss. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (4 for 5, 2R, 1DBL) & CF Cy Helbig (3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 1 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 3R, 1BB, 1DBL, 1TRPL. 9/4 DET @ BOS: loss 8-10 Roy Wolfe (15-16, 4.75) struggled giving up 9R in 5.2IP for the loss. Dane Fabre gave up 7R in 4.1IP but the win went to Red Finley (1-1, 3.53) who gave up 0R in the next 1.2IP. Top Sox hitters were CF Cy Helbig (2 for 4, 2R, 5RBI, 1HR, POG), SS Rusky Lutske (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1TRPL) & RF Ben Hargey (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 4 for 4, 3R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL, 1SB. Rolin Fish went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR, 1SB. Isaac Mitchell gave Kress most of the day off and went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. 9/5 day off (our first since 8/1) 9/6 StL @ DET: WIN 5-4 Corky Stell gave up 4R in 6.2IP but the win went to Oswald Adkins (1-1, 3.81) for pitching a scoreless 11th inning. Cotton Simson gave up 4R in 8IP. The loss went to Neil Clare (1-3, 14.40) who was unable to hold in the 11th. I could be wrong, but I don't think Cotton has beaten us yet this season and we have no games left against StL. Top StL hitter was CF Jessie Witt (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 5, 3R, 1RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda & Matt Perly both went 2 for 4. 9/7 StL @ DET: WIN 6-5 Don Vonkitzing (3-2, 3.17) got the win giving up 5R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 15th save. Don Allen gave up 6R in 5.2IP for the loss. Top StL hitters were 2B Dale Thompson (3 for 4, 3RBI, 2DBL) & SS Elmer Menard (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. 9/8 StL @ DET: WIN 7-2 Hal Andrew (22-13, 4.01) gave up only 2R in a CG win for POG. Eugene Sprecher (9-18, 4.22) gave up 7R in a CG loss. Top StL hitters were SS Speedy Perly (2 for 3, 1BB, 1HR), RF Guss Brown (3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & Jess Witt (2 for 4, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2R, 2RBI. Ray Kress went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. 9/9 DET @ NYY: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich (16-10, 3.88) gave up 2R (1ER) in a CG win for POG. Chief Harrington (7-14, 4.24) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. NY was held to 3 hits and 3 walks. For us, Rollin Fish went 1 for 4, 1R, 1GrandSlam. Bud Ulrich went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB. 9/10 DET @ NYY: WIN 9-3 Roy Wolfe (16-16, 4.69) gave up 3R in a CG win. Tom Zonneveld (13-14, 3.88) gave up 7R in 5IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Arnie Stewart (3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR) & SS Pip Seneca (3 for 5, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 3 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 3 for 4, 2R, 1DBL. Matt Perly went 1 for 5, 1HR. 9/11 DET @ NYY: WIN 12-5 Corky Stell gave up 5R in 6IP. However, the win went to Alan Paule (4-1, 3.61) who pitched a scoreless 7th. Eric Williams gave up 5R in 7IP. The loss went to Maury Baum (2-5, 5.24) for giving up 3R in 0.1IP. Top Yank hitters were RF Arnie Stewart (3 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL) SP Eric Williams (2 for 3, 1R, 1DBL, 1SB) & CF John Young (2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 4 for 6, 2R, 2RBI, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 3 for 5. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 3, 2RBI. Rollin Fish went 3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. 9/12 day off 9/13 DET @ CLE: loss 4-8 Don Vonkitzing (3-3, 3.99) gave up 8R in a CG loss. Herman Labombard (1-1, 3.96) earned his first ML victory giving up 4R in a CG win. Top CLE hitters were CF Richard Gambling (2 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR, POG), 3B Bill Connor (1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR), & SS Wilbur Taylor (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4. 9/14 DET @ CLE: WIN 6-4 Hal Andrew gave up 4R in 7IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (7-5, 4.53) who struck out three and allowed no runs in the final 2 innings. Lex Tjeenk-Willink allowed 3R in 7.2IP. The loss went to Charley Nagel (0-5, 5.64) who blew a save op giving up 3R in the 9th. Top CLE hitters were 3B Emerson Meggs (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DBL) & 2B John Valcarcel (2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB). For us, Dennis Kitterman got POG going 5 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 3TRPL. Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 3BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4. 9/15 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-2 Bud Ulrich got the win and POG giving up only 2R in 8IP. Oswald Adkins pitched a scoreless 9th for his 4th save. George Kauffman (17-13, 3.79) gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top CLE hitter was RF Frank Winsett (1 for 3, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 5, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR. STANDINGS 86-59, 2nd in the AL, 9GB Philly, 11-2 in the last two weeks BAD NEWS -Not much to gripe about lately as Guilderson and Fite have got this team on a roll. We are 24-5 since firing Killbreath. Still looking for a replacement. But the fans have taken Castaneda's "We don't need no stinking manager" quote and are rolling with it right now. Fite has been running the dugout sometimes from the 3B coach spot while Guilderson has been giving fiery locker room speeches and providing strategy input especially with regards to "his" pitchers. Maybe I should let them manage and just hire 3B & 1B coaches. Hmmmm... I'm starting to like this idea. GOOD NEWS -We went from being one of the worst pitching staffs (stats-wise) to one of the better ones very quickly. If we can just get off to a better start next season and can stay healthy, we will definitely make the AL race more interesting that it was this year. -Luther Ormiston was named Player of the week on 9/5 for hitting .429, 3HR & 9RBI -Dennis Kitterman got the award in the following week for hitting .478, 3HR & 9RBI. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963 Last edited by m0ng00se; 02-11-2005 at 04:31 PM.

02-13-2005, 05:53 PM	#233
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951, 9/16 THRU SEASON END 9/16 DET @ PHI: WIN 6-1 Roy Wolfe (17-16, 4.57) gave up only 1R in a CG win for POG. Ellis Weeks (20-7, 2.42) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Top A's hitter was C Hershell Lee (1 for 3, 1DBL, 1SB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 3 for 5, 1R, 4RBI, 2DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1TRPL. 9/17 DET @ PHI: WIN 5-3 Corky Stell (17-11, 3.02) gave up 3R in 8IP for the win & POG. Tad Zonkas gave up 5R in a CG loss. Top A's hitters were C Hershell Lee (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & CF Todd Walker (2 for 4). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 2, 2R, 2BB. Corky Stell went 1 for 2, 2RBI, 1DBL. 9/18 DET @ PHI: loss 1-4 Don Vonkitzing (3-4, 4.06) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Terry Mart (6-7, 3.16) only gave up 1R in a CG win for POG. Top A's hitters were CF Todd Walker (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR), RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB) & 3B Bud Ayers (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Dave Castaneda went 1 for 2, 1BB. We were held to 3 hits. 9/20 CHI @ DET: WIN 5-2 Hal Andrew (23-13, 3.99) struck out 10 and only allowed 2R in 8IP for the win and POG. Oswald Adkins pitched a scoreless 9th for his 5th save. Gene Masarech (12-11, 3.46) gave up 5R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1DBL) & 2B Tony Seats (1 for 3, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 9/21 CHI @ DET: loss 4-6 Bud Ulrich (17-11, 3.94) gave up 6R in 6.1IP for the loss. On a positive note, Bud Ulrich set a career high with 10Ks. Moonshine Allen (13-18, 3.19) got the win giving up 4R in 8.1IP. POG went to Sox 3B Don Medart (2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR). 1B Lonnie Arrendale (2 for 5, 1HR), SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 4, 2R, 1BB) & C Cecil Marziani (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL) also hit well. For us, Top hitter was Isaac Mitchell going 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. Dave Castandea went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 9/22 CHI @ DET: loss 5-10 Roy Wolfe (17-17, 4.64) gave up 8R (6ER) in 7.2IP. Jack Craze (13-12, 4.90) got the CG win giving up 5R. Top Sox hitters were C Cecil Marziani (3 for 5, 1R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, POG), LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR), 1B Lonnie Arrendale (3 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB), CF Homer Jewell (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB, 1DBL) & Donald Medart (2 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 1RBI. 9/23 PHI @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (17-12, 3.06) got the loss giving up 3R in 6IP. Terry Mart (7-7, 3.04) got the win and POG giving up only 4H & 2R in 8IP. Top A's hitter was CF Todd Walker (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. 9/24 PHI @ DET: loss 1-16 This has to be the absolute worst game we played all season... actually the worst game I remember since 1945. We were out hit 18-3 and we committed 6 errors to their none. Even Kress committed an error for his 2nd of the season. Don Vonkitzing (3-5, 5.02) who had a nice season going saw his decent RBI blown up giving up 8R in 2IP. Bob Stevens struck out 8 and only gave up 1R in a CG win for POG. Everyone hit well for the A's. For us, only Rollin Fish played well going 2 for 4 and 0 errors. My momma said there will be days like this. 9/25 PHI @ DET: WIN 6-5 Hal Andrew gave up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. The win went to Oswald Adkins (2-1, 3.74) pitching a scoreless 9th. Ellis Weeks had allowed 4R in 7IP but the loss went to ex-Tiger Billy Crowell (10-6, 4.36) who blew another save against us. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (5 for 5, 2RBI, 1DBL), LF Hershell Cooley (3 for 5, 2R, 1RBI, 2DBL, 1SB) & Peaches Badeau (2 for 5, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress got POG going 3 for 4, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR, 1SB. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 3, 1R. BAD NEWS -Finishing 2nd overall will mean another bad draft position in '52 -Our "ace" Hal Andrew finished strong, but had his second consecutive 4.00+ era season due to an inconsistent first half of the season. -There were no league or team records for us this season. GOOD NEWS -Ray Kress missed the official triple crown by a few RBIs after last years Quadruple Crown. However, he's a triple crown winner in my mind as he lead the league in AVG, HR & R. He jumped on the career league leader board finishing the season tied at #24 (.329) with our new manager Kid Fite & #18 in HR with 261. Barring any injuries, he should make it into the top 10 in HR by the end of next year. He is our team MVP again this year and is a favorite for Batter of the Year and MVP. -Smokey Meacham was awesome in his first year in the league hitting .332. We knew he'd be good, but we had no idea he'd be that good. -John Dirtbag Degal's .198 average doesn't represent how much he's improve this season. We expect respectable power numbers from him next year. -Corky Stell was a nice pickup for us although I hated to give up on Boe. His 3.06 ERA was the lowest for him since 1945 and the best out of all our starters. Hopefully he'll be able to give us another couple of years as we don't have much depth anymore at SP. -We were lucky to stay so healthy. There were almost no major injuries to our active roster and none of our SP missed a game this year. -We were #1 in the league in HR, #3 in walks, #5 in AVG. -After a pathetic start to the season, we finished #4 in team ERA and #2 in opponent AVG. FINAL AL STANDINGS Code: Team W L PCT GB L10 Code: Philadelphia 99 55 .643 - 5-5 Detroit 90 64 .584 9.0 5-5 Boston 89 65 .578 10.0 8-2 Cleveland 72 82 .468 27.0 7-3 Washington 71 83 .461 28.0 2-8 Chicago 70 84 .455 29.0 3-7 New York 67 87 .435 32.0 5-5 St. Louis 58 96 .377 41.0 5-5 TIGERS AL LEADERS Code: AVG - Ray Kress #1 SLG - Ray Kress #1, Luther Ormiston #6, Matt Perly #8 HIT - Ray Kress & Dennis Kitterman tied #5 3B - Dennis Kitterman #6 HR - Ray Kress #1, Luther Ormiston #3, Matt Perly #5 RBI - Ray Kress #2, Luther Ormiston #3, Matt Perly #5 RUN - Ray Kress #1, Dennis Kitterman #3, Luther Ormiston #9 SB - Ray Kress, Dennis Kitterman & Rollin Fish tied #7 BB - Ray Kress #2, Luther Ormiston #5, Dave Castaneda #10 (woohoo, go Dave) WIN - Hal Andrew #1, Corky Stell & Roy Wolfe tied #7 SVs - Lloyd Wyman #5, Don Vonkitzing #10 Ks - Hal Andrew #3, Bud Ulrich #9 ERA - Corky Stell #4 FINAL BATTING STATS Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG Code: R. Kress 151 519 177 17 3 44 127 132 114 57 .341 .457 .640 J. Meacham 89 190 63 9 1 10 40 27 18 23 .332 .389 .547 D. Kitterman 149 589 177 19 8 12 70 102 63 55 .301 .372 .421 C. Darling 59 82 24 3 2 2 12 13 8 14 .293 .348 .451 D. Castaneda 145 547 157 13 5 2 31 84 85 79 .287 .386 .340 C. Sandoz 117 368 104 12 5 2 39 41 19 26 .283 .315 .359 M. Perly 149 505 140 24 3 27 104 82 75 90 .277 .369 .497 I. Mitchell 107 298 80 11 3 3 30 21 11 17 .268 .293 .356 R. Fish 142 500 132 21 2 17 82 63 58 41 .264 .337 .416 P. Short 50 98 25 8 2 1 9 8 3 12 .255 .275 .408 L. Ormiston 143 506 129 27 5 32 115 93 92 55 .255 .366 .518 H. Andrew 40 104 21 2 0 1 6 14 9 21 .202 .265 .250 J. Degal 118 384 76 10 0 9 44 40 32 47 .198 .260 .294 G. Young 24 53 10 1 0 3 10 5 2 4 .189 .218 .377 B. Ulrich 37 97 17 3 0 1 4 9 6 21 .175 .231 .237 G. Adams 5 12 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 .167 .231 .167 M. Ferron 41 84 14 3 0 0 4 8 6 9 .167 .222 .202 S. Zucal 60 71 10 0 1 0 1 12 15 5 .141 .299 .169 C. Stell 38 102 14 5 0 0 10 10 4 19 .137 .167 .186 R. Wolfe 37 98 12 3 0 0 2 10 8 18 .122 .189 .153 D. Vonkitzing 41 13 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 .077 .077 .077 A. Paule 43 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 .000 .167 .000 L. Wyman 49 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 S. Brown 18 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 O. Adkins 34 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 S. Leveck 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 FINAL PITCHING STATS Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K Code: H. Andrew 38 38 23 13 0 4.01 291.2 253 142 130 104 203 B. Ulrich 37 37 17 11 0 3.94 267.1 240 130 117 110 150 R. Wolfe 37 37 17 17 0 4.64 277.2 314 160 143 86 148 C. Stell 38 38 17 12 0 3.06 268.0 241 104 91 73 114 L. Wyman 49 0 7 5 16 4.14 54.1 47 25 25 25 38 A. Paule 43 0 4 1 1 3.88 60.1 54 29 26 27 23 D. Vonkitzing 41 5 3 5 11 5.02 66.1 78 42 37 26 21 O. Adkins 34 0 2 1 5 3.74 33.2 34 16 14 19 13 S. Brown 18 0 1 0 1 2.05 26.1 24 7 6 8 6 S. Leveck 6 0 0 0 0 5.14 7.0 8 7 4 4 0 E. Roberts 19 0 0 0 0 7.08 20.1 27 18 16 14 10 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-13-2005, 06:17 PM	#234
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1951 AWARDS: AL Batter of the Year: Ray Kress (his second in a row & his 4th in the last 6 seasons) AL Shortstop Gold Glove: David Castaneda, DET (his 4th in the last 5 seasons) __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963 Last edited by m0ng00se; 02-14-2005 at 07:27 PM.

02-13-2005, 09:28 PM	#235
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1952 Coaching Staff Manager - Kid Fite (2/16/1904) Pitching Coach / Assistant Manager - Bob Guilderson (12/4/1910) 3B Coach / Hitting Coach - Troy Kinnear (8/21/1900) 1B Coach / Hitting Coach - Quenton Misisca (10/15/1900) Bench Coach - Nick Graves (3/21/1899) Most of these guys were members of the Tiger's 1928 World Champion team. I know some people will feel we are going the nostalgia route here, but I see this as a group of guys who figured out how to work together to win the big one. The Tigers need to learn out to play together as a team and develop some consistency. Hopefully this new staff will take us to the next level. Sometimes I get a bit busy and just barely have time to handle the day2day tasks so we'd like to thank JDW Consulting Inc. for helping us fill out our coaching staff for our active roster. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963 Last edited by m0ng00se; 02-14-2005 at 07:27 PM.

02-14-2005, 07:15 PM	#236
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	>>>Most of these guys were members of the Tiger's 1928 World Champion team<<< Shame on me for forgetting that Arden Killbreath was also part of that '28 team. Oh well, baring injuries or extreme talent dumps, I think we should improve upon last year which actually a good year win/loss-wise. I definitely have high hopes for this team in '52. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-21-2005, 08:02 PM	#237
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1952 Preseason Changes TRADE -Gin Allen was traded to the Cardinals for SP/MR Sam Cole. As much as we liked Gin Allen's power hitting potential from CF or RF, we felt that we needed to upgrade our active roster after finishing a disappointed 2nd place again last year. Sam Cole gives us a solid pitcher to fill the setup role and also provides us with a legitimate backup starter. Vonkitzing didn't grow into the pitcher we had hoped. So, Sam steps in to fill his shoes. ROLE CHANGES -Backup 3B goes to Mitch Ferron. Mitch Ferron has gold glove potential at 3B. But, Clinton Darling had been getting the sub starts at 3B because he was so much better at the plate. But Clinton's slide at the plate has made Mitch's glove too hard to keep on the bench. Clinton will still be one of the first PH bats against lefties. But Mitch moves into the backup spot at 3B while remaining the primary backup at SS. Mitch will also be called in as a defensive sub at 3B when needed. DRAFT #1-2B Mike Kreitenburg has the potential to be an excellent contact hitting 2B. We believe he has the talent similar to Dennis Kitterman if he develops like we expect. He is a faster base runner and could ended up being a solid #2 or even a solid leadoff player at some point. He has an adequate glove at 2B. He could also backup SS, but his range is somewhat lacking there. He should jump to Williamsport-AA after a brief look at Durham-A. #2-MR John Patterson is a lefty with good control and an excellent ability to hold runners. I had hoped to pick up a starter at the #2 spot, but there was a run on starters right before our pick. With some over achieving, he could turn into a real nice setup guy some day. Other wise, I see him as just a solid MR / mopup pitcher. He's only 18 so he will have to prove himself at the setup spot for Durham-A. #3-C Lonnie Jolly is a solid defensive catcher with a good throwing arm. If catchers didn't bat, then I'd start him over Smokey and Dirtbag in a heartbeat. His potential with a bat isn't overly impressive and he is slow. He is consistent and has the potential to be a decent gap hitter, but other than that, I just see him as strictly a backup. Gale Adams is also decent defensively and looks to have more HR potential, so Lonnie may have a hard time beating out Adams for that backup to our backup roll. He'll start at catcher for Durham-A but will hopefully earn a promotion to Williamsport before the end of the year. #4-SP Rich Foss is another lefty who can hold runners. He also has excellent endurance and decent movement on his pitches. I'm not sure he will ever have enough control or pure stuff to make it to our rotation. But, he was definitely worth a peek given that he was one of the last players available in the draft. He should get starts right away in Williamsport-AA. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963 Last edited by m0ng00se; 02-21-2005 at 08:07 PM.

02-22-2005, 02:23 AM	#238
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1952, APRIL 4/5 CHI @ DET: WIN 3-2 Corky Stell got POG giving up just 2R in 8.1IP. Alan Paule (1-0, 0.00) got the win in the 13th giving up 0R in 2IP. Moonshine Allen gave up 2R in 8IP but the loss went to Tim Knapp who gave up the 1R in the 13th. Top Sox hitter was CF Homer Jewell (3 for 5). For us, Mitch Ferron went 2 for 2, 1RBI filling in late in the game at 3B. Matt Perly went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 4/6 CHI @ DET: WIN 7-0 Hal Andrew (1-0, 0.00) threw 8.2 shutout innings for the win and POG. Johnny Gordley (0-1, 8.10) gave up 6R in 6.2IP for the loss. Top Sox hitter was 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 5, 2R, 3RBI, 2HR. John Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2HR. Hal Andrew went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 4/7 CHI @ DET: loss 4-7 Bud Ulrich gave up 4R (2ER) in 8IP. The loss went to Alan Paule (1-1, 8.10) who gave up a 3R HR to Rex Seelinger (POG) in the 12th. Adam Sardina gave up 4R in 9IP. The win went to Tim Knapp (1-1, 0.00) who pitched a scorless 1.2 final innings. Our top hitters were Carl Sandoz 2 for 3, 4RBI, 2DBL & Dave Castaneda 2 for 4. 4/8 DET @ WSH: WIN 3-1 Roy Wolfe got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman showed off his fastball striking out all three in the 9th for the first save of the season. Raul Velazquez (0-1, 4.26) gave up 3R in 6.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dean Parente (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB) & LF Delmar Yordy (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1R. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL. Rollin Fish went 1 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1HR, 1SB. 4/9 DET @ WSH: WIN 5-1 Corky Stell (1-0, 1.76) got the win giving up 1R in 7IP. Joe Homic (0-2, 6.46) gave up 5R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top WSH batters were 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4) & 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 2, 1R, 1RBI, 3BB, 1SB. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1TRPL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1TRPL. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 2BB, 1HR. 4/10 DET @ WSH: WIN 5-3 Hal Andrew (2-0, 1.62) got the win giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for his 2nd save. Van Melbourn (0-1, 3.18) got the CG loss giving up 5R. Top WSH hitters were CF Bill Hall (3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 2HR, POG) & 1B Chris Anderson (2 for 4). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. 4/11 StL @ DET: WIN 6-2 Bud Ulrich got the CG win and POG striking out 8 and giving up only 4H & 2R. Buster Davis (0-2, 5.40) gave up 6R in 7IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were 2B Dale Thompson (2 for 4) & RF Guss Brown (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1BB, 2HR. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 4/12 StL @ DET: WIN 18-2 Roy Wolfe (2-0, 1.59) got the CG win giving up 2R. Neil Clare (0-2, 9.64) only lasted 1.1IP as he gave up 8R. Top StL hitter was C Tom Kruyt (3 for 4, 1R). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 6, 2R, 2RBI. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR, POG. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 4R, 2RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR. Pete Short filled in at CF and went 2 for 5, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell hit a PH grandslam on his only at bat. 4/13 StL @ DET: WIN 6-4 Corky Stell gave up 4R in 8IP. The win went to Sam Cole (1-0, 0.00) who pitched a scoreless 9th. Eugene Sprecher (0-3, 6.00) got the CG loss giving up 6R. Top StL hitters were Al Mugford (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI), 1B Vince Chipple (2 for 4, 1RBI) & Speedy Perly (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 2BB, 1HR). Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3. 4/14 day off 4/15 DET @ CHI: loss 3-4 Hal Andrew (2-1, 2.55) got the CG loss giving up 4R. Johnny Gordley (1-2, 4.98) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Sox hitters were LF Chester Munch (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR), SS Rex Seelinger (2 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL) & 2B Tony Seats (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 5, 1RBI, 1DBL. 4/16 DET @ CHI: WIN 7-1 Bud Ulrich (2-0, 1.88) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 7IP. Adam Sardina (0-2, 5.82) lost giving up 6R in 4.2IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rex Seelinger (3 for 4, 1DB) & 3B Don Medart (2 for 4). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 1R, 1RBI. 4/17 DET @ CHI: loss 0-2 Roy Wolfe (2-1, 1.80) got the CG loss giving up only 2R. Max Matamoros (2-1, 3.91) pitched a 6H CG shut out for the win and POG. Top Sox hitter was 2B Tony Seats (2 for 3, 1BB). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 2. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3. 4/18 day off 4/19 WSH @ DET: WIN 7-3 Corky Stell (2-0, 2.51) got the CG win giving up 3R (2ER) for POG. Van Melbourn (0-3, 5.86) gave up 7R in 7.1IP for the loss. Top WSH hitters were RF Ernest Greenbush (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & C John Fine (1 for 1, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 3, 1R. Ray Kress hit his first HR of the season (1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1HR). Matt Perly subbed in at CF late in the game and went 1 for 1, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 4/20 WSH @ DET: WIN 3-2 Hal Andrew (3-1, 2.41) got the CG win and POG giving up 2R. Eric Slater gave up 2R in 8.2IP. The loss went to Cecil Frye (0-1, 4.77) who gave up an HR to Matt Perly in the 9th. Top WSH hitter was 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. We were out hit 5-4. 4/21 WSH @ DET: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich gave up 3R (2ER) in 6IP. The win went to Sam Cole (2-0, 0.00) who gave up no runs in the final 2 innings. Raul Velazquez gave up 2R in 8IP. Cecil Frye (0-2, 7.11) gave up 2R in the 9th for the loss. Top WSH hitters were C John Fine (2 for 4, 1R) & 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB, 2DB). For us, Dirtbag Degal got POG going 2 for 3, 2RBI. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL. 4/22 DET @ StL: WIN 8-5 Roy Wolfe (3-1, 2.45) got the win despite giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Sam Cole got the first save of his career pitching a scoreless 9th. Eugene Sprecher (0-5, 6.55) lost again gving up 8R in 5.1IP. Top StL hitters were 1B Vince Chipple (3 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL) & C Tom Kruyt (2 for 4, 1R). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 3 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. 4/23 DET @ StL: WIN 3-1 Corky Stell (3-0, 2.29) got the win giving up 1R in 7IP. Lloyd Wyman got his 3rd save pitching a scoreless 9th. Don Allen (1-4, 5.00) got the CG loss giving up 3R. StL was held to 4H & 0 BB. For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB. 4/24 DET @ StL: loss 1-2 Hal Andrew (3-2, 2.34) had a 2H shutout going until the 9th but then he gave up 2R for the CG loss. Buster Davis (2-3, 4.35) gave up only 1R for the CG win & POG. Top StL hitter was C Tom Kruyt (1 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 1R, 1BB. 4/25 BOS @ DET: WIN 6-5 Bud Ulrich (3-0, 2.61) got the win giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 4th save. Sonny Faulkner (3-1, 2.13) gave up 6R in 5.1IP. Top Sox hitters were SS Rusky Lutske (3 for 5, 1R, 1DBL) & 2B Skeeter Schaldemose (2 for 4, 2R, 1BB). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 4. 4/26 BOS @ DET: WIN 8-6 Roy Wolfe (4-1, 2.85) got the win giving up 5R (4ER) in 8IP. Sam Cole allowed 1R (0ER) in the 9th for a save. Ox Lutske gave up 4R in 6.1IP, but the loss went to Tim Bice (0-1, 4.91) giving up 2R in the next 1.1IP. Top Sox hitters were C Don Lock (3 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL), RF Buster Myer (1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR) & LF Grady Fisher (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 1 for 4, 1R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1grand slam. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2R, 3RBI, 3BB, 1HR. Ray Kress finally had a good game going 3 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 3 for 4, 1R, 1BB. 4/27 BOS @ DET: loss 2-3 Corky Stell (3-1, 2.31) gave up 3R (2ER) in 7.1IP for the loss. Matt Jackson (3-2, 5.80) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitter was 3B Darrell Thomas (1 for 2, 2RBI, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1RBI, 1TRPL. Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 1R 1BB. We out hit them 9-4. 4/28 BOS @ DET: loss 2-3 Hal Andrew (3-3, 2.47) got the loss giving up 3R in 8.2IP. Cort Nagel (3-2, 3.56) got the win and POG giving up 2R in 8IP. Top Sox hitters were C Don Lock (2 for 3, 1BB), SP Cort Nagel (2 for 3) & 1B Bob Johnson (1 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 1 for 2, 1R, 2BB, 1TRPL. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 1HR. 4/29 DET @ PHI: loss 1-5 Bud Ulrich (3-1, 3.25) lost giving up 5R in 6.1IP. Ellis Weeks (4-0, 3.02) got the CG win and POG giving up only 1R. Top A's hitters were C Hershell Lee (2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL) & RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3, 1BB. Clinton Darling hit a PH solo HR with his only at bat. 4/30 DET @ PHI: loss 4-6 Roy Wolfe (4-2, 3.49) gave up 6R in a CG loss. Tad Zonkas (4-2, 4.15) got the win giving up 4R in 8.2IP. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 4, 2R, 2SB), RF Peaches Badeau (2 for 4, 2R, 3RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR) & C Hershell Lee (1 for 4, 1R 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1HR, Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2RBI. STANDINGS 16-8, tied for 1st in the AL BAD NEWS -Ray Kress hit .266 and only 2HR all month, Dennis Kitterman is hitting a pathetic .216 and neither of our catchers is hitting above .154. GOOD NEWS -With the exception of a couple of games, our starting pitching has been awesome. -Sam Cole and Lloyd Wyman have been nearly perfect in the setup and closer spots. They combine for a 2-0, 6SVs, 0.00era in 17.2IP. -Matt Perly was named AL batter of the month hitting .342, 7HR, 24RBI, is #1 in RBI and tied for #1 in HR. -Luther Ormiston is tied with Matt Perly and BOS Rusky Lutske with the AL lead in HRs with 7. -Despite Ray Kress' low BA, he leads the league in BB. BATTING Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG Code: C. Sandoz 16 49 20 5 0 1 14 5 6 3 .408 .473 .571 I. Mitchell 16 38 15 0 1 1 7 3 1 0 .395 .390 .526 P. Short 8 13 5 1 1 1 1 3 0 1 .385 .385 .846 M. Perly 23 79 27 3 0 7 24 13 16 12 .342 .453 .646 C. Darling 12 13 4 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 .308 .357 .538 B. Ulrich 6 14 4 0 0 0 1 2 0 5 .286 .333 .286 D. Castaneda 23 96 27 1 1 0 8 12 14 9 .281 .373 .313 L. Ormiston 24 81 22 6 1 7 16 22 21 16 .272 .423 .630 R. Kress 24 79 21 3 2 2 11 19 29 12 .266 .463 .430 D. Kitterman 23 97 21 4 1 0 5 7 8 9 .216 .283 .278 H. Andrew 7 19 4 1 1 0 1 2 1 6 .211 .250 .368 R. Fish 23 78 16 0 0 2 13 7 10 9 .205 .295 .282 M. Ferron 6 10 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 .200 .200 .200 J. Degal 15 52 8 0 0 3 7 5 4 5 .154 .211 .327 S. Zucal 10 7 1 0 0 0 0 4 1 1 .143 .250 .143 J. Meacham 17 41 5 1 0 0 0 6 5 5 .122 .217 .146 G. Young 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 PITCHING Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K Code: R. Wolfe 6 6 4 2 0 3.49 49.0 55 21 19 8 21 B. Ulrich 6 6 3 1 0 3.25 44.1 36 20 16 19 37 H. Andrew 6 6 3 3 0 2.47 51.0 43 14 14 11 30 C. Stell 6 6 3 1 0 2.31 46.2 30 14 12 9 28 S. Cole 11 0 2 0 2 0.00 10.2 9 1 0 0 7 A. Paule 3 0 1 1 0 6.23 4.1 3 3 3 4 1 S. Leveck 1 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.0 2 0 0 0 0 L. Wyman 7 0 0 0 4 0.00 7.0 4 0 0 0 9 D. Vonkitzing 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 S. Brown 2 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-22-2005, 07:12 PM	#239
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1952, 5/1 THRU 5/15 5/1 DET @ PHI: WIN 4-0 Corky Stell (4-1, 1.94) pitched a 2H CG shutout for the win and POG. Bob Stevens (4-3, 4.83) got the loss giving up 4R in 7IP. Top A's hitter was 2B Ace Habermehl (1 for 3, 1BB). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 1 for 2, 2RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. 5/2 DET @ WSH: loss 3-5 Hal Andrew (3-4, 2.44) got the CG loss giving up 5R (2ER). Hal was a victim of his own error. Van Melbourn (2-4, 4.47) got the win and POG giving up 3R in 8IP. Top WSH hitters were SS Blake Crocitto (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL, 1SB) & 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI). For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1SB. 5/3 DET @ WSH: WIN 2-1 Bud Ulrich (4-1, 2.92) got the win and POG giving up 1R in 8IP. Sam Cole pitched a hitless 9th for his 3rd save. Chris Frays (1-2, 3.12) lost giving up only 2R in 7IP. Top WSH hitters were 3B Jim Dunkel (2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL) & C John Fine (2 for 3, 1DBL). For us, Mitch Ferron started at 3B and went 2 for 2, 1BB. Matt Perly went 1 for 3, 1HR. 5/4 DET @ WSH: loss 3-4 Roy Wolfe gave up 3R (2ER) in 8IP, but Lloyd Wyman (0-1, 1.00) was unable to hold in the 11th. Raul Velazquez gave up 3R in 7IP. The win went to Salvatore King (2-2, 13.50) who pitched a hitless 11th. Top WSH hitters were CF Bill Hall (3 for 6, 1SB), 3B Jim Dunkel (3 for 4, 2R, 1DBL) & RF Ernest Greenbush (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Matt Perly went 3 for 5, 1R, 1SB. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 3, 2R, 2RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Mitch Ferron started at SS and went 2 for 4, 1RBI. 5/5 day off 5/6 NYY @ DET: WIN 3-1 Corky Stell gave up 1R in 7.1IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (1-1, 0.84) who allowed no hits for the remainder of the game. Carpenter Erickson (4-3, 3.12) gave up 3R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitter was CF Charles Gillis (1 for 3, 1R, 1DBL). For us, Matt Perly went 1 for 2, 1BB, 1DBL. Both teams were held to 5 hits. 5/7 NYY @ DET: loss 5-6 Hal Andrew had been pitching an awesome game before having to leave with a blister. He had giving up no hits in 4.1 shutout innings. The loss went to Steve Brown (0-1, 3.00) for giving up 2R (1ER) late in the game. Tom Zonneveld (3-3, 5.40) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank hitters were LF Turk Baker (2 for 4, 2R), C Rich Curtis (2 for 3, 1R, 1BB) & 1B Arnie Stewart (1 for 2, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1DBL, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1HR. 5/8 NYY @ DET: loss 0-3 Bud Ulrich pitched 7 shutout innings. Unfortunately, Sam Cole (2-1, 2.13) was unable to hold in the 8th. Eric Williams (6-2, 3.57) got the win and POG pitching 7.1 shutout innings. Top Yank hitter was C Rich Curtis (2 for 4). For us, Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3. 5/9 day off 5/10 DET @ CLE: WIN 4-0 Roy Wolfe (5-2, 2.86) pitched a 6H CG shutout for the win and POG. Lex Tjeenk-Willink (2-5, 4.74) got the loss giving up 4R in 7IP. Top CLE hitter was C Alton Kee (3 for 3, 1BB, 1DBL). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1R, 1DBL. George Young filled in at 1B and went 2 for 4, 1R. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. 5/11 DET @ CLE: loss 4-6 Corky Stell (4-2, 2.50) gave up 6R in 5.1IP for the loss. Howie Leosh (3-2, 4.94) gave up 4R (2ER) in 7.1IP. Top CLE hitters were 1B Jerry Tuggle (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG), C Alton Kee (2 for 4, 2RBI) & 3B Owen Shankster (2 for 3, 1R). For us, Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 2RBI. Steven Zucal filled in at 2B and went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 1BB. 5/12 DET @ CLE: WIN 5-4 Hal Andrew gave up 3R in 8IP. The win went to Alan Paule (2-1, 3.00) who pitched a scoreless 11th. Houston Boler gave up 4R in 8IP but the loss went to Charley Nagel (0-2, 9.53) who gave up 1R in the final 1.2IP. Top CLE hitters were RF Frank Winsett (2 for 4, 1HR) & CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB). For us, Ray Kress finally got a POG going 2 for 6, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1R, 3BB. Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 5, 1HR. 5/13 CHI @ DET: WIN 4-1 Bud Ulrich (5-1, 2.41) got the win and POG giving up only 1R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman pitched a scoreless 9th for this 5th save. Johnny Gordley (2-7, 3.99) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top Sox hitter was RF Stu Cripps (2 for 4, 1RBI). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI. Dirtbag Degal went 2 for 4, 1R. Bud Ulrich went 2 for 3, 1R and his hitting a respectable .286. Smokey Meacham hit a PH 3R HR on his only at bat. 5/14 CHI @ DET: WIN 10-1 Roy Wolfe strained a tricep muscle and had to leave the game. He gave up 1R in 3.2IP. Roy is expected to be day to day for about 6 weeks. The win went to Stan Leveck (1-0, 1.42) who allowed 0R in the next 3IP. Adam Sardina (1-7, 6.02) got the loss giving up 6R in 6.2IP. Top Sox hitter was RF Stu Cripps (1 for 3, 1RBI, 1TRPL). They were held to 6 hits. For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 4, 3R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB. 5/15 CHI @ DET: WIN 3-2 Corky Stell gave up 2R in 8IP for POG. Alan Paule (3-1, 2.70) got the win pitching a scoreless 10th. Jake Craze gave up 2R in 7IP. The loss went to their closer Goose Baum (1-1, 1.80) who was unable to hold in the 10th. Top Sox hitter was 1B Ed Monchak (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). They were held to 3 hits. For us, Rollin Fish went 2 for 3. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4. STANDINGS 24-13, tied for 1st in the AL, 8-5 in the last two weeks BAD NEWS -The injury to Wolfe makes me nervous. Having a starter listed as day2day for more than a month is no fun. If he struggles in the second half of the month, we may swap Roy with Sam Cole until Roy is health again. -Ray Kress still hasn't awaken. He hit .231 with only 1HR in the last two weeks. -Dennis Kitterman was a little better this month, but not by much. -Some of our hitters are hitting well, but we aren't bringing home the runs so despite our starters pitching well, they've been finding wins hard to come by at times. GOOD NEWS -Still tied for #1 in the AL. After falling behind big time early in the season for the last couple of seasons, this is a promising start. -Castaneda and Perly have been real hot. If they can stay hot and Kitterman/Kress wake up, we'll be rollin. __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963

02-23-2005, 05:18 PM	#240
m0ng00se Major Leagues Join Date: May 2004 Location: Oregon USA Posts: 383	1952, 5/16 THRU 5/31 5/16 day off 5/17 DET @ NYY: WIN 18-1 Hal Andrew (4-4, 2.24) gave up only 1R in 1 CG win. Tom Zonneveld (3-5, 5.13) got pulled after one inning after the Yanks he gave up 11R... 3R earned. No one hit well for the Yanks as they were held to 6 hits. For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 3 for 6, 2R, 4RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 2, 4R 3RBI, 4BB, 1DBL, 1HR. Carl Sandoz went 3 for 4, 2R, 1BB. Dennis Kitterman went 3 for 6, 3R, 4RBI, 1TRPL. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 6, 2R, 2RBI, 1HR. 5/18 DET @ NYY: WIN 4-0 Bud Ulrich (6-1, 2.13) pitched 8.2 shutout innings for the win and POG. Don Vonkitzing completed the shutout. Eric Williams (6-3, 3.36) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top Yank hitter was 3B Tim Dilworth (2 for 4). For us, Smokey Meacham was 4 for 4, 2HR. Ray Kress went 4 for 5, 1HR. Bud Ulrich went 3 for 4, 1R, 1DBL and is currently hitting .360. 5/19 DET @ NYY: loss 4-5 Roy Wolfe (5-3, 3.01) got the CG loss giving up 5R (4ER). Maury Baum (4-4, 3.86) got the win giving up 4R in 8IP. Top Yank batters were LF Turk Baker (2 for 3, 2R, 4RBI, 1BB, 1 grand slam, POG) & C Rich Curtis (3 for 3, 1DBL). For us, Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 1R, 1RBI, 1DBL. 5/20 PHI @ DET: loss 1-9 Corky Stell (4-3, 2.80) struggled on a rainy day giving up 4R in 4IP for the loss. Danny Mau (6-2, 2.73) got the win & POG pitching 5 shutout innings. Top A's hitter was LF Matt Praks (2 for 4, 1R, 2RBI). For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB, 1DBL. 5/21 PHI @ DET: WIN 2-1 Hal Andrew (5-4, 2.13) got the win and POg giving up 1R in 8.1IP. Lloyd Wyman close out the 9th for his 6th save. Ellis Weeks (6-2, 2.84) gave up 2R in a CG loss. Top A's hitter was 3B Bud Ayers (1 for 4, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1BB. John Dirtbag Degal went 1 for 3, 1HR. We barely out hit the A's 6 to 4. 5/22 PHI @ DET: WIN 5-4 Bud Ulrich gave up just 2R in 8IP. Unfortunately Lloyd Wyman blew a save so the game went into extra innings. Stan Leveck (2-0, 1.23) pitched a hitless 15th inning and got the win compliments of a Luther Ormiston solo HR. Tad Zonkas gave up 3R in 8IP. The loss went to Ken Malia (0-1, 4.00) as he's the guy who gave up that game winning shot by Luther. We ended up using every reliever we had in this game. Top A's hitters were 2B Ace Habermehl (3 for 6, 2R, 1RBI, 2BB) & RF Peaches Badeau (4 for 8, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR, POG). For us, Dave Castaneda went 3 for 5, 1R. Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 3RBI, 2BB, 1DBL, 1SB before being pulled in favor of Pete Short. Must have been a pinch run situation as I see no other explanation for pulling one of the most clutch bats in the league in a close game. 5/23 CLE @ DET: WIN 8-4 Roy Wolfe (6-3, 3.12) gave our bull pen the day off by getting the CG win giving up 4R. Howie Leosh (3-4, 5.83) gave up 7R in 3.1IP for the loss. POG was CLE CF Honus Dietrich (5 for 5, 2R, 2RBI, 1TRPL, 1HR). For us, Ray Kress went 2 for 3, 1R, 1RBI, 2BB, 1DBL. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB. Smokey Meacham went 2 for 4. Matt Perly went 1 for 4, 1R, 3RBI, 1BB, 1HR. 5/24 CLE @ DET: WIN 10-2 Corky Stell (5-3, 2.58) got the win and POG allowing only 1H and pitching 7 shutout innings. Houston Boler (4-5, 4.32) gave up 8R in 4.2IP for the loss. Top CLE hitter was again CF Honus Dietrich (2 for 4). Jerry Tuggle hit a PH solo HR for them with his only at bat. For us, Dave Castaneda went 2 for 4, 4R, 1RBI, 2BB. George Young filled in at 1B and went 2 for 2, 2BB. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 2BB. Rollin Fish went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 4, 1R. 5/25 CLE @ DET: WIN 7-6 Hal Andrew (6-4, 2.51) got the win giving up 6R in 8IP. Alan Paule pitched a scoreless 9th for his first save of the season. George Kauffman (5-4, 4.43) got the loss giving up 7R in 4.1IP. Top CLE hitter was RF Frank Winsett (2 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1HR). For us, Luther Ormiston got POG going 2 for 3, 2R, 5RBI, 1BB, 2HR. Dennis Kitterman and Matt Perly both hit solo HRs with their only hits. 5/26 day off 5/27 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-3 Bud Ulrich (7-1, 2.25) got the win and POG giving up 3R in 8IP. Lloyd Wyman closed out the 9th for his 7th save. Joe Homic (5-6, 3.93) gave up 4R in a CG loss. Top WSH hitter was 1B Chris Anderson (1 for 3, 1R, 2RBI, 1BB, 1HR). For us, Bud Ulrich went 2 for 2, 1R, 2RBI. Luther Ormiston went 2 for 3, 1R, 1BB. Matt Perly went 2 for 4, 1R. 5/28 DET @ WSH: WIN 4-2 Roy Wolfe (7-3, 3.04) gave up only 2R in 8IP for the win and POG. Lloyd Wyman pitched a hitless 9th for his 8th save. Van Melbourn (2-9, 4.67) gave up 4R in 8.2IP for the loss. No one hit well for WSH as they were held to 5 hits. For us, Isaac Mitchell went 2 for 3, 2R, 1RBI, 1BB, 1HR. Ray Kress went 2 for 5, 2DBL. Dennis Kitterman went 2 for 4, 2RBI, 1BB. Dave Castaneda went 2 for 3, 1RBI, 2BB. 5/29 DET @ WSH: WIN 7-2 Corky Stell (6-3, 2.57) gave up only 2R in 7.1IP for the win. Chris Frays (3-5, 3.31) gave up 4R in 7Ip for the loss. Top WSH hitter was SS Hitman Crocitto (2 for 4). Once again we held WSH to 5 hits. For us, Isaac Mitchell got POG going 3 for 5, 3R, 3RBI, 1DBL, 1HR. Rollin Fish went 2 for 4, 1R, 1BB, 2DBL. Ray Kress went 2 for 4, 1RBI, 1BB. 5/30 day off 5/31 DET @ StL: WIN 6-5 Hal Andrew gave up 5R (4ER) in 7.2IP. The win went to Lloyd Wyman (2-1, 2.05) who gave up 0R in the next 1.1IP. Alan Paule closed out the 10th for his 2nd save. Alter Sennelnekoff gave up 5R in 8.2IP. The loss went to Bob Jeakins (0-1, 2.50) who gave up 1R in the 10th. Top StL hitter was CF Jessie Witt (3 for 5, 1R). For us, Matt Perly got POG going 3 for 5, 1R, 1RBI. Luther Ormiston went 3 for 3, 1R, 2BB. Carl Sandoz went 2 for 3, 1RBI. STANDINGS 35-15, #1 in the AL, 0.5 games ahead of Boston, 11-2 in the last two weeks. BAD NEWS -Rollin Fish hasn't found his groove this year currently hitting only .204 -Only 5 HR for Ray Kress in 2 months... he's giving the rest of the AL a heck of a head start this year in the HR race. I expected to see him make the top 10 on the career leaderboard in HRs, but he's not making it easy on himself. -We've had a ton of injuries, but most of them are in the minors and to non-critical prospects. GOOD NEWS -We are on a 9 game win streak and were 11-2 in the last two weeks but we can't get cocky as we didn't face Boston during that time. -All of our starters and nearly our entire bull pen are pitching very well... even Wolfe has been gutting out his tricep injury about as good as we can expect. Time to give Bob Guilderson a raise. -Bud Ulrich was named AL Pitcher of the Month on 6/1. He had a record of 4-0, 1.32 in 6GS. -Luther Ormiston was named AL Batter of the Month on 6/1 for hitting .345, 7HR, 27RBI, 20BB. -Ray Kress is hitting better and has quickly gotten his average up to .304. -Isaac Mitchell and Carl Sandoz have gotten off to another hot start this year platooning in RF. If Kitterman doesn't start hitting with some consitancy, he's going to lose his #2 spot to these two. DEVELOPMENT OBSERVATIONS -John Dirtbag Degal's swing is starting to look better from the right side of the plate. -Bud Ulrich is finally starting to pitch like a potential ace. But, he's had hot starts before so only time will tell if he's really got the stuff. He's also leading out team with a .379 batting AVG at the moment. -Lloyd Wyman was reported to have lost some velocity this year in spring training, but he's throwing triple digit fastballs now and looking sharp as our closer. He's moved up to the #17 spot on the career saves leaderboard and could make it into the top 10 this year if he stays healthy and consistant. -Mike Kreitenberg's stay in AA may have to be cut short. He's got a better swing than some of the guys on our active roster now so I need to think about moving him to ToledoAAA sooner than I expected. We are going to have a serious log jam in our middle IF if he keeps improving. -ToledoAAA coach is telling me I need to promote Sam Cheney at some point, but we don't have room for him at the moment and he still hasn't gotten his control back to the point where I'd be comfortable starting him anywhere above AAA. HITTING THRU 5/31 Code: Name G AB H 2B 3B HR RBI R BB K AVG OBP SLG Code: B. Ulrich 12 29 11 1 0 0 3 5 0 8 .379 .400 .414 I. Mitchell 35 95 34 2 1 3 13 15 2 6 .358 .370 .495 C. Sandoz 33 106 36 5 0 1 16 11 10 8 .340 .393 .415 D. Castaneda 47 184 58 5 1 0 16 28 31 16 .315 .414 .353 L. Ormiston 49 168 52 13 1 14 43 39 41 27 .310 .445 .649 R. Kress 48 161 49 11 2 5 28 32 51 24 .304 .472 .491 M. Perly 48 174 52 7 0 11 36 24 27 26 .299 .396 .529 M. Ferron 19 39 10 1 0 0 4 4 3 1 .256 .302 .282 G. Young 9 20 5 0 0 0 0 1 4 1 .250 .400 .250 D. Kitterman 47 196 48 6 3 1 20 20 15 17 .245 .308 .321 J. Meacham 37 90 21 3 0 5 11 16 12 11 .233 .324 .433 C. Darling 25 22 5 0 0 1 2 4 3 1 .227 .320 .364 H. Andrew 14 40 9 1 1 0 1 7 1 10 .225 .262 .300 R. Fish 49 162 33 6 0 4 23 16 23 17 .204 .298 .315 J. Degal 32 107 21 2 0 5 16 12 7 7 .196 .248 .355 S. Zucal 20 16 3 0 0 0 1 5 3 1 .188 .316 .188 P. Short 19 31 5 1 1 1 1 3 1 4 .161 .188 .355 PITCHING THRU 5/31 Code: Name G GS W L SV ERA IP HA R ER BB K Code: B. Ulrich 12 12 7 1 0 2.25 92.0 65 27 23 34 60 R. Wolfe 12 12 7 3 0 3.04 94.2 93 36 32 22 42 H. Andrew 13 13 6 4 0 2.67 104.1 79 35 31 31 61 C. Stell 13 13 6 3 0 2.57 94.2 61 29 27 22 48 A. Paule 13 0 3 1 2 1.84 14.2 9 4 3 7 4 S. Leveck 4 0 2 0 0 1.23 7.1 7 1 1 2 5 S. Cole 23 0 2 1 3 1.50 18.0 13 4 3 3 9 L. Wyman 19 0 2 1 8 2.05 22.0 16 5 5 4 20 D. Vonkitzing 6 0 0 0 0 10.80 5.0 10 6 6 1 1 S. Brown 6 0 0 1 0 3.12 8.2 9 4 3 1 2 __________________ Michael AKA m0ng00se - Former TWB Detroit Tigers GM (1946-1964) Pennants: 1948, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1962, 1963, 1964 -- Titles: 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1963