Days 121-130: McGwire passes Roger Maris!!! PED-Co continues to own the league, Monterrey takes over the Central!

Ped-Co and Monterrey topped all teams this set with 7-3 records.  PED-Co is running away with the West, their lead now up to 12 games.  Still a two-horse race in the Central, as Monterrey now owns a 1.5 game lead over once-mighty Henderson.  Backwoods is now 4 games ahead of Las Vegas in the East



Trevor Hoffman adds five saves to his total this week

Player of the Block honors go to Trevor Hoffman of PED-Co!  As long as I have been doing these replays, I've never seen a reliever get 5 saves in a 10 game stretch!  Hoffman got in 13 innings to rack up those saves, with a 2.07 ERA and 18 strikeouts.  Rocco's Albert Belle hit .326 with 7 HRs, and teammate Mike Bordick hit .370 in 27 at bats.  Jamie Moyer went 2-0 for Monterey, with a 0.56 ERA. 


 

 

 

Day 121  Fort Wayne's Mark McGwire pops homer #60 in a 3-1 loss for the Frosted Tips to the Juicers.  Chan Ho Park recorded his 14th win of the year against just 1 loss.  Goombies get two homers from Roberto Kelly, Tom Glavine of Monterrey throws a four-hit shutout of Replica.  

Day 122  Two fifteen inning games highlight this day's activities.  Jimmy rallies for two in the top of the 15th to edge PED-Co 12-10.  Sammy Sosa hits HR's # 47 and #48. Brooklyn tops Las Vegas 9-8 on a walk-off wild pitch from one Albie Lopez!   In a good old fashioned nine-inning battle,  Dubliners win behind Homer Bush's three hits and 3 RBIs, Aztecs romp over Roadrunners 1-0. 

Day 123  Greg Maddux dominates with a 4 hit shutout  of Dublin.  Bastards rally for two in the top of 9th to give Mike Maddux the win, making the brothers a combined 20-6 this year!  Derek Jeter put up 4 hits in a narrow Getting Jimmy victory.  Barry Larkin drove in 5 for the Aztecs.  Mark Grace had two homers as Brooklyn puts up 14 runs.

Day 124  Monterrey gets two homers and six RBIs from Darin Erstad as they edge Verona 8-7.  Rocco beat Dublin as Andres Galarraga gets two home runs of his own.  Juicers beat Jimmy 2-1 as Kerry Wood accumulates 13 strikeouts.  Tony Gwynn had four hits for the Fremonts, and Tony Womack had four for Midland.  Mike Mussina struck out 14 Bastards in that win for the Goombies.

Day 125  Juan Guzman continued his second half surge with 10 K's in a win over Midland.  Bill Mueller had two hits and two RBIs as Getting Jimmy got by PED-Co.  Kevin Young and Rick Helling led Las Vegas over  Brooklyn. 

Day 126  Mark McGwire does it, cracking home runs #61 and #62 to break Roger Maris' record!!!  And it is only August 3rd, no telling where Big Mac ends up now.  Rocco beat the Bastards 4-1 despite being outhit 11-10.  Kenny Rogers gives the Fremonts a shutout victory.  Dublin gets five hits, two home runsm and five ribbies from Scott Rolen! Getting Jimmy explodes for 5 runs in the top of the ninth to upend the Rickeys. 

Day 127  Scott Rolen follows up with 4 more hits (9 hits in two days!) as Dublin puts 11 runs and 19 hits on the Buttheads.  Henderson gets a walkoff hit from Willie Greene, Curt Schilling goes all nine for his 15th win, Bastards edge the Replicas 7-6, and Monterrey's Bernie Williams hits 2 HRs and gets 5 RBIs against Fort Wayne.   Verona edges Vegas 2-1 when Damion Easley singled in John Olerud in the bottom of the ninth.

Day 128  Willie Greene continues his out-of-nowhere heroics for Henderson, Tim Wakefield gets a win in his Retro League debut with the Juicers,  Brooklyn holds on to top Dublin 6-5, and Backwoods get HR's from Barry Bonds, Juan Gone, Palmeiro, and Nomar to crush Rocco 10-4.   Mark McGwire hit his 63rd homer, but that was it for the Frosted Tips as Monterrey beats them 7-1. 

Day 129  B.J. Surhoff leads the Jimmy offense to a 11-7 win over Henderson.  PED-Co was exceptionally juiced up today, romping over the Goombies 17-5.  Jim Edmonds had three hits, including a grand slam!  Matt Lawton had three hits for Dublin, and Brian Jordan and Mark McGwire homered to lift Fort Wayne over Monterrey.  The Fremonts used three hits from Tony Gwynn to top Verona.  It was a Willnus Brothers matchup, however, that stole the show tonight.  Rocco's Replicas and the Backwoods Bastards were knotted at 7 apiece until the Replicas rallied in the bottom of the 9th.  Mike Bordick singled, and the Big Cat Andres Galarraga doubled him home for the win!

Day 130   PED-Co is now riding a five-game winning streak after dispatching Fort Wayne 8-4.  Rick Helling goes all nine, only allowing one run to put Vegas over Rocco.  Verona Ridge's Chris Carpenter held Dublin to just 1 run and 4 hits.  Midland, down 3-2 to Monterrey in the bottom of the ninth, had Ron Gant single and steal second.  Gary Sheffield followed with a two-run, walkoff homer!