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07/03/2005 Archived Entry: "Mexican League News : Highlights, Milestones and More"
By Carlos Fragoso
Tijuana Colts keep their pace in leading the second half, and looks like as to be a sure shot to finished in first place of the overall season scoring the most points of all teams.
Despite of the fact that, losing two of their most powerful weapons in the likes of Randall Simon who signed a big contract with Orix Buffaloes in Japanese League, and Venezuelan clutch hitter Luis Landaeta who apparently suffered a serious injury, that forced him to leave the team, made some others players like George Arias, who slumped a little bit at the beginning of his season, but now is one of the most serious hitting threats, reaching 17 home runs as of today.
Also, second baseman Carlos Valencia who has 28 home runs, one short of the league´s record for a 2B set in 1963 by Moises "Moi" Camacho while playing for Puebla Parrots.
43 Years veteran OF Ricardo Saenz plaing for Monclova, set three leagues record ,last week hitting 5 consecutive home runs in 2 games a record, 4 of them in one game, tying Derek Bryant a manager in Saltillo who did it in 1985, Roy Johnson in 1991 and current San Diego Padre catcher Miguel Ojeda who accomplished that in 2000 , Luis Carlos Garcia in 2005,while also driving 11 runs in, tying Lonnie Sommers record, established in 1949.
In 1957, Williampsort little leagues series suddenly found themselves having an unusual champion, not talking about american teams or far east ones who have dominated this contest, but a humble latin american team representing Mexico, the so called Sultancitos de Monterrey, led by Angel Macias pitching and hitting and Hector Torres who the becomes a major league SS, won the title that year, and repeated in 1958.
Among this team there was an infielder by the name of Jose Maiz, who later become the owner of the Monterrey Sultans professional franchise, and today Williampsort honored his performance and enthroning him into their Hall of Fame, made him the first mexican player to receive this honor.
June 28th was the league´s deadline for trades, and some big names come in and some also come out, like dominican Izzy Alcantara who is now playing for Veracruz Eagles, repalcing Lino Connel.
Cancun Lobstermen in a surprising movement lend manager Juan Jose Pacho to Veracruz for the rest of this season, and cuban Carlos az is taking over as Cancun skipper.
Monclova Steelers activated former major leaguer Jose Alberro, replacing Eddy Ramos, meanwhile
Aguascalientes signed Ben Rivera who was in Laguna.Saltillo activated Hector Almonte and released Eric Owens.
Tijuana signed pitcher Andy Shibilo and slugger Eddy Pearson right before the deadline in replacement of Randall Simon and Luis Landaeta.
Mexican league celebrated their 80th birthday last week honoring, those former greats players.
STANDING (As of July 3rd.)
NORTH
TEAM W L PCT GB Home Away L 10 Streak
Tijuana 22 10 .688 - 11-4 11-7 6-4 L1
Mexico 17 14 .548 4.5 8-9 10-5 6-4 W1
Monterrey 16 14 .533 5.0 9-8 7-6 6-4 W1
Saltillo 16 15 .516 5.5 9-6 7-9 5-5 W1
Aguascalientes 15 16 .484 6.5 8-8 7-8 5-5 W3
San Luis Potosi 14 16 .467 7.0 7-8 7-8 4-6 L2
Monclova 14 18 .438 8.0 5-10 9-8 6-4 L1
Laguna 11 20 .355 10.5 5-11 6-9 2-8 L3
SOUTH
TEAM W L PCT GB Home Away L 10 Streak
Angelopolis 20 9 .690 - 12-3 8-6 4-4 L2
Tabasco 17 12 .586 3.0 10-6 7-6 5-4 L1
Oaxaca 18 14 .563 3.5 10-7 8-7 6-4 W4
Campeche 16 13 .552 4.0 8-4 8-9 6-4 W1
Puebla 15 17 .469 6.5 11-7 5-10 7-3 W3
Yucatan 14 16 .467 6.5 7-9 7-7 5-5 W3
Veracruz 11 18 .379 9.0 7-6 4-13 1-9 L8
Cancun 8 22 .267 12.5 7-6 1-16 3-6 L6
INDIVIDUAL STATS
BATTING
Name Team P G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI TB BB SO SB CS OBP SLG AVG
Carlos Alberto Gastelum TIG SS 83 377 90 148 22 4 6 43 196 14 24 20 6 .423 .520 .393
Javier Robles TIG IF 81 316 79 122 20 2 18 82 200 39 35 10 3 .459 .633 .386
Guillermo Velazquez TIG 1B 76 247 44 95 15 0 15 69 155 48 48 0 4 .480 .628 .385
Derrick White TIJ 88 350 77 132 24 0 21 82 219 47 63 3 2 .455 .626 .377
Willis Otanez VRA 87 326 61 122 12 0 24 94 206 50 60 2 1 .454 .632 .374
Jorge Alberto Vazquez TIG C 61 243 54 91 16 0 27 80 188 12 42 1 2 .410 .774 .374
Mario Valenzuela SLT RF 74 293 60 109 14 1 22 79 191 14 54 1 1 .409 .652 .372
Willie Romero YUC OF 84 316 52 117 26 3 12 67 185 39 42 13 5 .433 .585 .370
Felix Jose OAX RF 86 298 72 110 19 0 21 92 192 76 52 3 2 .497 .644 .369
Rontrez Johnson AGU RF 79 298 77 110 17 4 7 44 156 56 34 28 9 .484 .523 .
HOME RUNS
Name Team
Robert Saucedo MXO 28
Carlos Valencia TIJ IF 28
Jorge Alberto Vazquez TIG C 27
Eduardo Rios AGU 3B 27
Julian Yan TAB IF 27
RBI
Name Team
Eduardo Rios AGU 3B 95
Willis Otanez VRA 94
Felix Jose OAX RF 92
Robert Saucedo MXO C 90
Guillermo Garcia MVA 89
Bill Selby CAM 3B 82
PITCHING STATS
Name Team W
Eric Knott PUE 12
Alejandro Armenta TIG 12
Roberto Ramirez MXO 10
Rigo Beltran SLT 10
Claudio Moreno MXO 9
Jesus Olague TIG 9
Alfredo Aceves YUC 8
Francisco Campos CAM 8
Juan Jesus Alvarez CAM 8
Juan Manuel Palafox YUC 8
ERA
Name Team
Francisco Campos CAM 3.00
Alonso Beltran TIJ 3.01
Steve Bourgeois SLT 3.04
Eric Knott PUE 3.20
Juan Jesus Alvarez CAM 3.31
Juan Delgadillo TAB 3.60
Isabel Giron MTY 3.61
STRIKEOUTS
Name Team
Francisco Campos CAM 131
Alonso Beltran TIJ 100
Alfredo Aceves YUC 83
Pasqual Coco VRA 75
Oscar Rivera YUC 74
SAVES
Name Team
Maximo De La Rosa MTY 22
Isidro Marquez CAM 21
Jose Silva MXO 17
Bill Simas MVA 16
Sixto Baez VRA 16
Ben Rivera AGU 14
Santos Hernandez PUE 14
Lino Urdaneta CAN 13
