If those dresses are one of their schticks, they're missing a major opportunity for a Power Rangers tie-in.
2009
(3 votes, average: 7.00 out of 10)
Loading... LARA 6, MARGARITA 2 IN LARA
With the score tied 2-2, Lara scored four runs in the eighth, getting an error, a walk, and three singles, to win the game. Nestor Molina pitched 5.2 innings for Lara, giving up two runs on seven hits and two walks with four strikeouts. Luis Valbuena was 3-for-4 with a walk for Lara, scoring once and driving in two.
Lara wins the best-of-seven series, 4-3.
GIGANTES 7, LICEY 0 IN LICEY
Garabez Rosa hit a three-run double in a four-run first that provided all the runs the Gigantes needed. Nik Turley started for Licey and lasted two-thirds of an inning, allowing four runs on three hits and two walks. Moises Sierra hit a home run for the Gigantes, who used seven pitchers to shut out Licey.
ESCOGIDO 5, AGUILAS 2 IN AT AGUILAS
Escogido scored three in the second and two in the third to take control of the game. Jorge Polanco was 1-for-5 with a run for Escogido. Danny Santana was 0-for-4 for the Aguilas. Irwin Delgado pitched six innings for Escogido, giving up one run on two hits and three walks with five strikeouts. Chesny Young was 3-for-5 with a run and an RBI for Escogido. Rafael Bautista was 3-for-5 for Escogido.
STANDINGS
Aguilas, 9-2
Licey, 5-6
Gigantes, 4-6
Escogido, 4-8
CAGUAS 2, MAYAGUEZ 1 IN MAYAGUEZ
Ruben Gotay's RBI single in the ninth broke a 1-1 tie and gave Caguas the win. Eddie Rosario was 1-for-3 with a home run and a walk for Mayaguez. Kennys Vargas was 2-for-4 for Mayaguez. Benji Gonzalez was 1-for-3 for Mayaguez. Dereck Rodriguez pitched two shutout innings for Mayaguez, giving up no hits and one walk with one strikeout. Jose De La Torre struck out four in 4.1 innings, giving up one run on five hits and one walk.
Caguas leads the best-of-seven series 3-2.
SANTURCE 2, CAROLINA 1 IN SANTURCE
Ivan De Jesus, Jr. hit a two-run homer in the fourth and Santurce made it stand up. Santurce used six pitchers to hold Carolina to one run.
Santurce wins the best-of-seven series 4-1.
No games scheduled. In the semi-final round, Culiacan will play Los Mochis and Hermosillo will play Mexicali. Even though Culiacan lost in the first round, they won more games than any other losing team, so they advance anyway.
No games scheduled.
Date: Sunday, July 26.
Batting stars: Kirby Puckett was 2-for-3 with a home run (his sixteenth) and a hit-by-pitch. Steve Lombardozzi was 1-for-3 with a double and a run. Dan Gladden was 1-for-4 with an RBI.
Pitching star: Bert Blyleven struck out twelve in a complete game, giving up four runs (three earned) on nine hits and three walks.
Opposition stars: Jimmy Key pitched 8.2 innings, giving up two runs on four hits and no walks with five strikeouts. George Bell was 4-for-4 with a double and a stolen base (his fifth), scoring once and driving in one. Lloyd Moseby was 1-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base (his twenty-second), scoring once.
The game: Puckett homered in the first to give the Twins a 1-0 lead. An error tied the score in the second, but the Twins regained the lead in the third on Lombardozzi's double and Gladden's RBI single. Bell's run-scoring single tied it in the fifth. It stayed 2-2 until the ninth. Bell led off with a double and Ernie Whitt drew a one-out walk. A fly ball moved runners to first and third with two down. A wild pitch brought home the go-ahead run and a Garth Iorg double brought in an insurance run.
Of note: Mark Davidson was again in center field, with Puckett at DH. Since this is two games in a row, one assumes Puckett had a minor injury of some sort. Davidson again batted second...It should be noted that, for the second game in a row, Blyleven did not leave any pitches up. This was the only time all year that would happen...Had the Blue Jays not removed Key with two out and a man on first in the ninth, there would have been no substitutions of any kind in the game by either team. I don't know how often that happens, but I don't think it's very often...Of course, it would be quite unusual in today's game for the starter to be left in a tie game after giving up a leadoff double in the eighth.
Record: The Twins were 54-46, in first place, two games ahead of Oakland.
Sorry, but due to personal time constraints, there will be no player profiles for the next few days.
I remember how to drive in the snow, but I haven't really driven in it since 2008 and the last real terrible winter I drove in was late 2006. If you're crossing an intersection on foot and you see me in a car, maybe wait for me to come to a complete stop before you start walking.
Everybody loves Coldplay, right?? They're just so earnest...
(2 votes, average: 6.50 out of 10)Loading... George Pinkney (1859)
Silver King (1868)
Elmer Flick (1876)
Max Carey (1890)
George Trautman (1890)
General Crowder (1899)
Schoolboy Rowe (1910)
Don Mossi (1929)
Gene Cook (1932)
Jim McAndrew (1944)
Jack Zduriencik (1951)
Rocket Wheeler (1955)
Lloyd McClendon (1959)
Donn Pall (1962)
Warren Morris (1974)
George Trautman was the president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs from 1947 until his death in 1963.
Gene Cook was the general manager of the Toledo Mud Hens from 1978-1998. He is credited with convincing Jamie Farr to wear a Mud Hens cap on M*A*S*H.
Jack Zduriencik was the general manager of the Seattle Mariners from 2008-2015.
Rocket Wheeler has been a manager in the low minors for twenty-four seasons. He was the manager of the Carolina Mudcats in the Atlanta organization in 2016.
LARA 3, MARGARITA 0 IN LARA
It was scoreless until the seventh, when Carlos Rivero hit a two-run homer. Lara added an insurance run in the eighth. Jorge Martinez pitched 6.1 scoreless innings for Lara, giving up ten hits but no walks while striking out five. Margarita out-hit Lara 10-4.
The best-of-seven series is tied 3-3.
ANZOATEGUI 18, LA GUAIRA 4 IN ANZOATEGUI
Trailing 2-0, Anzoategui scored six runs in the third to take control of the game. They got a three-run homer from Denis Phipps and a solo homer by Luis Jimenez in the inning. Jhoulys Chacin struck out six in five innings for Anzoategui, giving up two runs on five hits and four walks. Phipps was 3-for-4 with two homers, a double, and two walks, scoring four times and driving in four. Rene Reyes was 3-for-4 with a double and two walks for Anzoategui, scoring four times and driving in one. Tomas Telis was 3-for-4 with a double and a walk for Anzoategui, scoring once and driving in four.
Anzoategui wins the series 4-2.
LICEY 6, ESCOGIDO 2 IN ESCOGIDO
Logan Moore hit a two-run homer in the second and another in the sixth to lead Licey to victory. Jorge Polanco was 0-for-4 for Escogido. Evan MacLane pitched seven innings for Licey, giving up two runs on seven hits and no walks with three strikeouts. Moore was 3-for-4 and drove in five runs. Sergio Alcantara was 3-for-4 for Licey. Hanley Ramirez hit a home run for Licey.
GIGANTES AT AGUILAS
Rained out.
STANDINGS
Aguilas, 9-1
Licey, 5-5
Gigantes, 3-6
Escogido, 3-8
No games scheduled.
HERMOSILLO 6, CULIACAN 3 IN CULIACAN
O'Koyea Dickson's two-run double in the first put Hermosillo in the lead to stay. Fernando Perez added a two-run homer in the seventh to give Hermosillo a 5-1 lead. Juan Pablo Oramas pitched four innings for Hermosillo, giving up one run on two hits and one walk with two strikeouts. Perez was 3-for-5 with three RBIs. Jason Bourgeois was 3-for-4 with a double and a walk for Hermosillo, scoring twice.
Hermosillo wins the series 4-3.
No games scheduled.
I hit my two highest "confidence" winners (Minnesota and Clemson) in the 8th annual Cards on Cards Contest and still wrapped up last place. Again.
Date: Saturday, July 25.
Batting stars: Gary Gaetti was 2-for-4 with a home run (his nineteenth), a walk, and a stolen base (his sixth), scoring twice and driving in four. Gene Larkin was 2-for-4 with a home run (his third) and a walk, scoring twice and driving in three. Greg Gagne was 2-for-4 with a double, a walk, and a stolen base (his sixth), scoring once and driving in two.
Pitching stars: Joe Niekro pitched 1.1 scoreless innings of relief, giving up one hit while striking out one. Jeff Reardon pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit.
Opposition stars: Tony Fernandez was 3-for-4 with a double and two walks, scoring once and driving in one. Garth Iorg was 2-for-5 with a two-run homer (his fifth) and double, scoring twice. Jesse Barfield was 2-for-4 with a double and a walk, scoring once and driving in one.
The game: Toronto scored four in the third, three of them coming on a home run by Fred McGriff, but the Twins tied it with four of their own in the fourth, three of them coming on a home run by Gaetti. Toronto got the lead back in the bottom of the fourth, getting RBI doubles by Fernandez and Rance Mulliniks. The Twins answered with seven in the sixth. Larkin led off with a home run, but for the rest of the inning the single was their weapon of choice, as they got five of them. A couple of walks and an error didn't hurt, either. The lead was cut to 11-9 in the seventh, as Iorg hit a two-run homer and Kelly Gruber hit a solo shot. The Twins got single runs in the eighth and ninth to take control of the game again.
Of note: Kirby Puckett was 2-for-5 with a triple and two runs and was batting .325...Steve Lombardozzi was 2-for-5 with a double and a stolen base (his third), scoring twice and driving in one...Mark Davidson started in center field and batted second, with Puckett at DH...Larkin started at first, with Kent Hrbek out of the lineup...The Twins stole bases. In addition to the ones mentioned above, Davidson stole his seventh and Randy Bush, who entered the game as a pinch-hitter for Davidson in the sixth, stole his sixth...Les Straker pitched only three innings, allowing six runs on six hits and four walks with one strikeout...Toronto starter John Cerutti didn't last much longer, going 3.1 innings and allowing four runs on two hits and four walks with two strikeouts.
Record: The Twins were 54-45, in first place, two games ahead of Oakland.
Player profile: Garth Iorg had a longer career than you may remember. An eighth-round draft choice of the Yankees in 1973, he had played in AA in 1976 and was left unprotected in the expansion draft. He batted .294 in AAA in 1977 and on the strength of that was on the Blue Jays' opening day roster in 1978. He didn't stay long, as he batted .163 in 49 at-bats and was back in AAA by May. He never did get on track in 1978, but he produced good AAA batting averages, although with no power, in 1979, and the start of 1980, getting to the big leagues to stay in late May of the latter year. He was a part-time player for the Blue Jays from then through 1987, playing mostly second and third. He was never quite an everyday player, but he would play in 120-140 games a season and get 250-400 at-bats. His only really good season was 1985, when he batted .313/.358/.469 in 288 at-bats. He had a couple of other years when he had a good batting average, but he drew so few walks and had so little power that he still wasn't much of an offensive contributor. He stayed in baseball as a minor league coach and manager and as a major league coach through 2014. For his career he batted .258/.292/.347. Still, he played in 931 big league games and had 2450 at-bats, and that's a pretty decent career.
Actually, I've been there for multiple days, but I don't think I was ever alone in Kyoto. Been alone in lots of other place in Japan. Especially Tokyo for some reason.
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14 Apr 2007
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