Daily Roundup: Games of Thu, 11/22/07
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:18 pm[size=24:54140f55b9][b:54140f55b9]GIVE THANKS FOR KEN PHELPS[/b:54140f55b9][/size:54140f55b9]
[size=18:54140f55b9]Bespectacled, Moustachioed Slugger's HR Helps Seattle End Losing Streak[/size:54140f55b9]
<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/ken_phelps_1_150x216.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="216" style="margin-right: 10px;" /> If there's a bright spot in the Mariners' dreary 1986 season so far, it's been designated hitter Ken Phelps, who, despite looking like your old high-school math teacher, hit his 7th homerun of the year in [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=194]Seattle's 2-1 win over the A's[/url] on Thursday night, breaking their streak of 9 straight losses. The homerun ties Phelps with the Angels' Wally Joyner for the Major League lead.
[b:54140f55b9]Over in the NL:[/b:54140f55b9] The Cubs gave the Expos a figurative atomic wedgie, hanging them from their locker by their underwear and ripping up their copy of [i:54140f55b9]The Fantastic Four #232[/i:54140f55b9], in a [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=189]17-0 humiliation[/url] that dropped Montreal from [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/stats/team.php?league=ML&order_by_p=era+ASC]1st in the Majors in team ERA to [i:54140f55b9]11th[/i:54140f55b9][/url].
[i:54140f55b9]photo: SN Archives[/i:54140f55b9]
[size=18:54140f55b9]Bespectacled, Moustachioed Slugger's HR Helps Seattle End Losing Streak[/size:54140f55b9]
<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/ken_phelps_1_150x216.jpg" align="left" border="1" width="150" height="216" style="margin-right: 10px;" /> If there's a bright spot in the Mariners' dreary 1986 season so far, it's been designated hitter Ken Phelps, who, despite looking like your old high-school math teacher, hit his 7th homerun of the year in [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=194]Seattle's 2-1 win over the A's[/url] on Thursday night, breaking their streak of 9 straight losses. The homerun ties Phelps with the Angels' Wally Joyner for the Major League lead.
[b:54140f55b9]Over in the NL:[/b:54140f55b9] The Cubs gave the Expos a figurative atomic wedgie, hanging them from their locker by their underwear and ripping up their copy of [i:54140f55b9]The Fantastic Four #232[/i:54140f55b9], in a [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=189]17-0 humiliation[/url] that dropped Montreal from [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/stats/team.php?league=ML&order_by_p=era+ASC]1st in the Majors in team ERA to [i:54140f55b9]11th[/i:54140f55b9][/url].
[i:54140f55b9]photo: SN Archives[/i:54140f55b9]