Weekly Report: July 7, 1930

The NPL began its inaugural season on Tuesday with an afternoon game in Carver.

Both leagues held their first-year drafts this weekend. The new league comes along just in time to help make room for new players as enrollment in the draft has nearly doubled since 1928. UA teams got first crack at the draft pool on Saturday, although a handful of top prospects let it be known that they would prefer an NPL contract and would hold out if necessary. Is the new league already gaining on the UA, or is it just a lot of fleeting hype around the novelty of it all?

Voting continues for the 3rd UA All-Star Game. Vote at a UA stadium or at participating picture houses.

News:

• White Sox RF Curt Sawyer hits his league-leading 14th home run. Trail Blazers RF Dan Watson goes 4 for 6 with 2 doubles and a home run, but the White Sox win at Prissley in 11 innings, 7-6. Deerborn sweeps the series and remains in first place in the East. (6/30)
• RHP Noa Dutertre gives up only 3 hits and 1 earned run in 8 innings as the Rivals beat the Stags, 5-1. (6/30)
• The Brothers beat the Bears, 8-7, to avoid the sweep in Platte. Salvation remains 6 games behind the Bears in the West. (6/30)
• Redwood LF Ambroise Forestier hits his 10th and 11th home runs in the Owls’ 12-3 thumping of the Guardians. Northsouth RF Brad Bailey injures his shoulder making a throw from the outfield. He will be day-to-day for a week or so. (6/30)
• RHP Mark Lia Yorino strikes out 11 in 8 innings for the Rivals as they beat the Chargers, 6-1. (7/1)
• Guardians RHP Jaime Ruiz strikes out 8 in 5 innings as Northsouth beats Deerborn, 4-2. (7/1)
• Miners SS Lorenzo Adom hits 3 doubles, but the Herders beat the Miners, 4-1. (7/1)
• Owls CF Carlos Teakowa is 4 for 4 with 2 doubles and 2 HR as the Owls crush first-place Platte, 12-3. (7/1)
• 35-year old Owls RF Jorge Akil wins UA June Batter of the Month after missing 1929 with a broken elbow. He hit .348 with 12 HR and 25 RBI in the first month of the season. (7/1)
• Guardians LHP Justin Morris wins UA Pitcher of the Month for June. He was 6-1 with a 2.48 ERA and 38 Ks in 36.1 innings. Opposing team shit just .156 against him during the month. (7/1)
• Prissley C Jose Konzalez’s grand slam in the 13th inning sinks the Stags, 13-9. Trail Blazers 1B Bob Gunther also hit 2 HR in the game. (7/2)
• Rivals 2B Alex Mujer will miss 3 weeks with a high ankle sprain after a collision on the base paths in Railey’s 6-2 win over Taawa. (7/2)
• Owls RF Jorge Akil hits his 13th HR, but the Bears beat the Owls, 9-2. (7/2)
• Starter Jorge Takato goes 8 scoreless innings in the White Sox’ 4-0 win against the Guardians. Deerborn RF Curt Sawyer hits his 16th HR of the season. (7/3)
• Stars LHP Kevin Leroux strikes out 8 in 7.1 IP as Delle beats Salvation, 2-0. They take 2 of 3 from the Brothers in the series and improve to 16-15 on the year. (7/3)
• Bears RF Gurr Gurr hits 2 HR in Platte’s 8-4 victory over the Owls. (7/3)
• Rivals 1B Pedro Kopano hits a pair of home runs as Railey beats Taawa, 9-2. The Chargers are struggling mightily again this year. They’ve lost their 8th in a row and have the worst record in the league at 5-26. (7/3)
• Delle superstar RF Antonio Teakowa hits a home run in his first game back after missing nearly a month with a torn hamstring. The Stars beat the Herders in front of a packed house, 5-3. (7/4)
• Deerborn SP Mathew Huertata gives up just 1 run in 8 innings as the White Sox beat the Bears in Platte, 4-1, in the first of a 3-game series between the two division leaders. (7/4)
• The Miners offense goes off for 13 runs against Railey, but Lia Kompos loses 3B Hichem Colle for 1-2 weeks with a herniated disc in his back. Final: LK 13, RAI 3. (7/4)
• Roland scores 5 in the top of the 11th and Stags RF Albert Pentana, 1929’s UA MVP, hits his 11th and 12th home runs. Final: ROL 10, NOR 5. (7/4)
• They sell 10,320 tickets, but only around 3,500 fans show up to Sapfoot Stadium to watch Taawa lose to Prissley in a battle of UA bottom feeders. The Trail Blazers win in 12 innings, 4-2. (7/4)
• Lefty outfielder Myles “Wonder Boy” Williams is selected by the Chargers as the first pick in the 2023 UA First-Year Player Draft. (7/5)
• RHP Alfredo Hernankez strikes out 8 in 8.2 innings in Railey’s 8-2 win over Lia Kompos. It was Hernankez’s first game back since June 21 with biceps tendinitis. Rivals LF Julio Kastro hit 3 doubles in the game. (7/5)
• Rivals RHP Noa Dutertre strikes out 8 in 7 innings. The Rivals beat the Miners, 5-3, to take 2 of 3 in Lia Kompos. The Rivals are just 3 games behind the White Sox in the East. (7/6)
• Bears RHP Adam Evans records 11 strikeouts in 7 innings. Platte beats Deerborn, 4-2, and takes 2 of 3 games in the series between the two division leaders. White Sox 3B Rygh Ogg hits 2 home runs in the loss. The Bears retain the league’s best record at 27-7. (7/6)
• Stags RF Albert Pentana hits his 13th HR, but Northsouth beats Roland, 4-3, taking 2 of 3 games in the series. (7/6)
• 2B Jorge Terawaa hits a triple and 2 HR for 6 RBI, and 3B Jose Sankez goes 4 for 4 with a HR and scores 4 times, as Taawa beats Prissley, 11-4, to break their latest 10-game losing streak. (7/6)
• Deerborn RP Joao Thery will miss 6 more weeks with extreme elbow inflammation. He has been out since June 7. (7/7)

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NPL Watch:

• Right-handed reliever Ron Waldman signs with Elderwood for 2 years. He was released in mid-June after a disappointing start to the year with the Bears. (7/1)
• The Carver Canaries beat the Trimble Toppers, 2-0, at Carver Municipal Stadium in the NPL’s first official game. SP Tim Coffman goes 7.1 scoreless innings for Carver. (7/1)
• Carver 1B Bob Jones is 3 for 5 with 2 HR and 4 RBI in the Canaries’ 10-7 win over Trimble. (7/2)
• Bob Jones homers for the third straight game to start his NPL career. (7/3)
• The Kings choose Miguel Fifi, 21-year old left-handed outfielder from Demetria, number one in the NPL First-Year Player Draft. (7/6)
• Reapers 3B Walter Abbot hits a double and 2 home runs, including the 2-run walk-off in the 10th, in Plains City’s 5-4 win over the Kings. (7/6)

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