July14-15
Game Highlights - July 14th
~ A battle of first place teams from the Harwell and the Scully takes place in Phoenix as Chicago starts off the second half with a 5-0 shutout of the Miners. Luis Castillo combines with two relievers to hold Phoenix to three hits. The game is much closer than the score appears until Mitch Garver swats a bases clearing double in the ninth inning to give the Runners some breathing room.
~ Detroit's Max Scherzer makes a statement opening his second half of the season, throwing a complete game, four hit, nine K shutout at Grants Pass. The win ties him for the league lead with 12 victories and lowers his ERA to 2.53, third in the league.
Game Highlights - July 15th
~ Lakeview scores a 5-3 victory over Rolla behind Eddie Rosario's go ahead three run homer in the sixth. Trailing 3-2 entering the home side of the sixth, the Rougarou mount a two out rally that culminates in Rosario's homer. Trevor Story singles and Nate Lowe dinks a dribbler just left of the mound setting up the heroics.
~ Windy City puts away AZ, 11-4, behind Aristides Aquino six RBI game. Aquino slugs a two run homer in the 4th, plates two more with a triple in the sixth, and then tops off his big night with a second two run homer in the ninth.
~ Tied 1-1 into the ninth, Roxbury and New York are looking for late game heroics. Avisail Garcia supplies those heroics with a two run, game winning two run homer in the top of the inning. After Liam Hendricks completes a clean 1-2-3 bottom of the inning, the Robots record the 3-1 victory.