New Westminster got things going on the first pitch Carlos Beltran saw with a home run over the left field wall.
In the 5th Beltran gets on with a single and goes to third on a Ferris Fain single. A sacrifice fly by Martin Dihigo knocks in Beltran. 2 – 0 lead and Jeff Tesreau pitching great.
Top of the 6th and here comes the top of the order.
With one out Rogers Hornsby with his 21st home run. Joey Medwick doubles, McGwire K’s, Berkman walks, it can’t get any worse. Tesreau gets ahead 1 and 2, and grooves one to David Justice, bang 3 run homer. We now have a Jack Street 4 – 2 lead.
Bottom of the 6th and Jack Clark walks, Bozo Concepcion comes into run and steals 2nd. With 2 quick outs Fred Clarke comes up and bangs a double. 4 – 3 now for Jack Street.
Ted Simmons doubles for the Hustlers and gets to 3rd. Hornsby singles and Ted manages to streak into home. 5 – 3, Jack Street manages to move ahead some more from the Bellies.
We manage to get to the bottom of the 8th with no runs. Craig Lefferts is pitching and gives up a single to Jimmie Wynn. After a FC,  Fred Clarke singles to bring home Wynn from 2nd. We have a 5 – 4 ball game.
Top of the ninth, and Eddie Watt facing Hornsby and gets an out. Wow. In comes Ralph Terry, an 18, to face Medwick, that worked. Time for strategy, in comes Ted Abernathy with his smooth 8.44 ERA, and gives up a 2 bagger to Berkman and another run. Sneak up on the Hustlers with Messersmith and his 7.67 ERA against Justice. That almost worked, single, first and third. Now a Billy Pierce walk to JD Drew, bases loaded. Thank god the Bellies are through the monsters. Pierce strikes out Sciosia.
Hustlers 6 – 4 bottom of the ninth
Jeff Brantley pitching for the Hustlers. Ron Hunt gets a single and with 2 out Ferris Fain hits a single to put runners at first and third. Up comes all star SS Martin Dihigo and bangs a double scoring both runners tieing the game at 6 – 6.
Hustlers do it again in the top of the 10th with a run . My favourite line. And here comes SALMONBELLIES manager … again
The top of the Hustlers order is up every inning. Martinez walks, Hornsby single, first and third, Medwick double and RBI, McGwire K, Berkman walks and bases loaded and now Meusel. He pops up to the catcher. 7 – 6 for the Jack Street crew.
Bottom of the 10th, and Wynn walks against Dave Veres. Bassler and Clarke go out and Wynn moves to 2nd. I don’t believe it, Harry Lord knocks a triple.
game tied. In comes Doug Jones and he gets Ron Hunt.
We move to the bottom of the 14th and leadoff batter Joe Kuehl walks. After Dihigo and Mays are both out and Kuehl now at 2nd Johnny Bassler lines a single and Kuehl trys for home and it is a wild throw to the backstop. 8 – 7 victory for the Bellies.

WP: Bill Caudill 3 – 1 LP: Pat Neshek 2 – 1

In the first Salmonbellies Jim Wynn knocks in Johnny Bassler for a one run lead.
In the third knocks in Jim Wynn scores, Johnny Bassler with a bases loaded FC. Jack Clark and Dihigo score on a FC and single and take a 4 – 0 lead.
Top of the fourth and Edgar gets Hustlers first hit of the game, Hornsby reaches on an error Dutch Leonard. McGwire reaches on another error to Leonard to load the bases. Meusel hits SF scoring Edgar and then Ted Simmons promptly hits a double to make the score 4 – 3
Top of the 7th Simmons hits another double and Leonard makes his 3rd error of the game with Hisle bunting and Leonard throwing the ball into RF and Simmons scoring and Hisle going to 2nd. Kent gets a bunt base hit. Bartell then knocks in Hisle to tie the game. Hornsby knocks in a run and Meusel then hits a 3 run home run and the game is over.

Hustlers hang on to win 9 – 4

WP: Sonny Siebert 4 – 8 LP: Dutch Leonard 11 – 5

Top of the second Jeff Kent knocks in Mark McGwire for 1 – 0 lead for Jack Street.
Bottom of the 2nd and Jack Clark scores on a Ferris Fain base hit. The two speed demons have both scored in this game.
Bottom of the 2nd and JD Drew whacks a triple. Hornsby knocks him home. Hornsby tries to go to third on a Medwick single but the Toy Cannon throws Hornsby out. Medwick having moved to 2nd scores on McGwire single. Hustlers now up 3 – 1
Everything moves along nice and calmly until the bottom of the 6th. Time for the Bellies to get a break. Campanella comes into run for Bassler who leads off with a walk. Martin Dihigo comes up and gets the K, no wait, catchers interference. Up comes the walking machine, Jack Clark who walks.
Jim Wynn swings and it is gone over the CF wall.
Waner singles and gets to 2nd on a ground out and Junior Gilliam brings Waner home with a single.
New Westminster takes a 6 – 3 lead.
McGwire leads off the 8th with a home run but the relief core for the Salmonbellies does their job with 6 – 4 victory.

WP: Dwight Gooden 8 – 3 S: Ralph Terry 5 LP: Bill Byrd 6 – 4

Jack Street got HR’s from Medwick, Hornsby, McGwire and Kent. New West had HR’s from Jack Clark and Concepcion. The Salmonbellies go on to win 11 – 5 with 14 hits and 7 walks. Jack Street had 8 hits and 4 walks but had 3 errors in the loss.

WP: Sam Leever 10 – 4 LP: Frank Viola 4 – 3

Whales Coveleski retired only 1-batter while getting roughed up for 7-runs on 5-hits. McBean gave up 7-runs on 5-hits and 4-walks in relief over 2-innings.

FINAL Nine 15 Whales 4

King Felix (8-5, 3.15) allowed 5-runs on 9-hits over 5-innings and suffered the loss. Releiver S.Shield gave up 3-runs over 3-innings and nailed Stan The Man & he’d miss 11-days.

FINAL Whales 8 Nine 4

Chicago out hit Wrigleyville 14-8 but stranded 11. Trout (4), Werth (8) and Cunningham (3) slugged HR’s for the Nine. Omar had a 3-5 game, as did Werth. Nelson (3-0, 2.29) earned win but blew save, allowing 2-runs in 2/3 of an inning.

FINAL Nine 7 Whales 6

Lollar (8) ripped solo homer in Whales loss.

FINAL Nine 6 Whales 3

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Tied 1-1, after 5 innings, Fire Lake’s Joey Votto crushed a 2-run homerun in the 6th to give the home team a 3-1 lead. The Force chased Guidry in the 7th, tieing it up at 3 apiece. The visitors sent Steve Chisek to the mound in the bottom of the 8th. John Roseboro had a pinch hit single. Eric Davis ran for him, stole second base and scored on Barry Larkin’s single. Dave Stewart worked the top of the 9th to record his 2nd Save. Ray Lankford hit homerun #10 for the visitors.

FIRE LAKE 4, FANTOMZ 3

The visitors scored in the top of the 1st, the home team tied it at 1-1 in the 2nd. The visitors took a 2-1 lead in the 4th, the home team tied it 2-2 in the 6th. Matt Morris allowed 2 runs in the top of the 9th and Gary Lucas shut down the Segers in the 9th to earn his 1st Save. Larry Doby hit his 15th homerun for Fantomz, and Choo had two hits.

FANTOMZ 4, FIRE LAKE 2

This was a wild one. The Force led 4-1 after scoring a single run in the 4th, but in the bottom of 4th, Weilman left the game with an injury. Brad Ziegler replaced him and was not up to the challenge, allowing 3 hits and 2 runs in an inning and a third. The game was tied 4-4 through 8 innings. Both teams scored a single run in the 9th, and to extras they went with both bullpens nearly spent. Fire Lake called on Camillo Pascual in the 11th and boy was he up to the challenge, pitching three hitless innings. With one out in the bottom of the 13th, Fire Lake had little choice but to let him hit and Pascual rewarded them with a double. With 2 -out, newly named All-Star Pete Rose walked it off with a single and the home crowd rejoiced. Joe Judge had 3 hits for the Force, Tony Perez and Scott Rolen each had two doubles for the Segers.

FIRE LAKE 6, FANTOMZ 5 (13 INNINGS)

Both clubs sent their respective Aces to the mound in Game 4. And, it showed. Through 5 innings Fantomz had no hits and the Segers had one. In the bottom of the 6th, the wheels fell off the Satchel Paige train as Fire Lake chased him with a 5-run inning. Fantomz’ first hit was a 2-run pinch hit homerun by John Stone in the 8th, to cut the lead to 5-2. After Adam Eaton singled with one out, Don Gullett got Shin-Soo Choo to bounce into a double play to shut down the visitors. For Fire Lake, Jose Cardenal hit his 4th homerun. Paige dropped to (11-7) and McLain improved to (6-7).

FIRE LAKE 6, FANTOMZ 2

For the first time this season Virginia has a pitcher pitch a game that is worthy of Pitcher of the Week. Gomez was outstanding as he went the distance allowing just 3 hits and no runs. He only struck out 5 batters but he had them befuddled otherwise. The only run of the game came in the 6th when F.Robinson led off with a single, stole 2nd and scored on a R.Kiner single to the RF gap.

Another shutout performance by Virginia as they extend Hollywood’s scoreless inning streak to 18. However, this time it was 4 pitchers. B.Turley started and had a 1 hitter through 3.2 innings before he was injured and had to leave the game. He will be lost for the next 5 games. G.Jackson came in and coughed up 3 hits in the next 2.1 innings but no one crossed the plate. R.Betancourt followed with 2 innings of no hit ball and K.Foulke finished it off with a 3-batter save, his 21st. Once again F.Robinson figured in the offense as he drove in D.Murphy who had doubled in the 3rd.

I guess Hollywood had enough. They scored 2 in the first and just kept on rolling, WIth a 5-1 lead in the 6th, Virginia tried to come back when the tallied 2 in the 6th for a 5-3 deficit. But Hollywood was relentless as they put up 3 more in the 7th and 2 in the 9th. In the meantime, Hollywood’s bullpen held Virginia to 1 hit over the last 3.1 innings. M.Tejeda collected almost half of Hollywood’s hits going 4-5. He scorched 2 doubles and buried a fastball for his 4th homer of the season while driving in 7 RBI.

Well so much for Virginia ever getting a player of the week,…Thank you Mr. Johnson. W.Johnson was simply great! CG 2-hitter facing 29 batters. He struck out 6 and was in total command the entire game. Not once did he get into any trouble. V.Guerrero took care of getting runs for Hollywood. His SF in the 2nd put Hollywood up 1-0 and then he launched a 3-run homer in the 7th to give Johnson breathing room.

Both teams did pretty much exactly what they have done all season and go nowhere with a split.