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05/06/2004 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News: All Star Game Brake"
By Carlos Fragoso
ALL STAR BREAK STANDINGS:
Today May 6th, the Mexican League All Star Game is on, closing the pennant race with relevant changes in the standings, making the odds come thorugh, as Mexico City Devils, maybe the strongest team at least in paper, have taken the lead in the South Division.Puebla is the South Division and league´s leader with 33 wins.
They Played against, last week end in Mexico City, and Devils beat Tigers in the series, to get that leading position.
Geting back to the All Star game, a list of pitchers were released by the league, ans is as follows:
NORTH DIVISION
Armando Valdez (PUE)
Miguel Duarte (SAL)
Pablo Ortega (PUE)
Riugo Loya (MTY)
Bryan Ward (MVA)
Isabel Girón (TOR)
Enrique Quintanilla (TIJ)
Máximo de la Rosa (MVA)
Hipólito Pichardo (SAL)
Miguel Rubio (MTY)
SOUTH DIVISION
Angel Moreno (VER)
Rafael Roque (TIG)
Jesús Ríos (TAB)
Oswaldo Mairena (MEX)
Pedro Cámara (YUC)
Santos Hernández (TIG)
Greg Hansell (MEX)
Sixto Báez (VER)
Isidro Márquez (CAM)
Angel Tovar (CCN)
Probables Starting pitchers are Frank Campos and Veteran LHP Angel Moreno
INDIVIDUAL STATS:
Batting:
Miguel Flores Monterrey .403 154 41
Scott Bullett Monterrey .399 178 35
Darrell Sherman Puebla .394 165 41
Demond Smith Monterrey .377 167 40
Manny Martinez Tigres .375 184 36
Hr´s: Izzy Alcantara 14, Pat O´Sullivan 13, Morgan Burkhart, Guillermo Garcia , Eduardo Jiménez 12 , Bubba Smith, Eduardo Rios, Roberto Saucedo 11
RBI´s: RobertoSaucedo 57, Morgan Burkhart 47, Bubba Smith, Izzy Alcantara 45,
Pitching: W L AVG ERA
Ignacio Flores Saltillo 5 0 1.000 2.08
Roberto Ramirez Mexico 7 1 .875 3.22
Rigoberto Loya Monterrey 6 1 .857 2.24
Carlos Elizalde Oaxaca 5 1 .833 4.01
Azael Alvarez Puebla 4 1 .800 3.92
K´s : Frank Campos 44, Shutouts, Edgar Perez of Cancún 2
Milestones.
Panamian, reliever Santos Hernandez (Tigers), hast tied the league record in most consecutives saves with 15, and by the same token got his 150th save of his carreer, Luis Carlos Garcia (Diamondbacks), after struggling a little bit and while readadpting again to this pitching, hast taken his way up and is red hot, yesterday, he hit his 6th HR , 4 in one week.
Pete Rose Jr, in a DH role with the Railraodmen, is hitting .345, in 13 games played.
Replies: 2 comments
All time record for saves is 200 hold by Isidro " Sid" Marquez,former White Sox reliever, and most saves in a season record is 41, shared by Luis Ayala, current Expos closer, and Jose Juan Lopez set in 1999 and 2001 respectively.
Posted by Fragoso @ 05/07/2004 12:40 PM EST
On Santos Hernandez, saves record, he had his 16th save in a row , to brake the Leagues record, a 31 years old RHP, with 7 seasons in Mexican Legaue and some experience in A, AA and AAA ball in USA,mainly with Giants organization, had some stint trying to get the majors with Devil Rays, appearing in spring training games,is in his best shape,I would add , he is sharpened, to deserve another opportunity, as closer.
His weapon , a low 90 sinking fastball, and a cutter, make him almost unbeatable, he mastered these pitches, to become a nasty relief pitcher to batters.
Posted by Fragoso @ 05/06/2004 04:48 PM EST
