The International league today named Buffalo Bisons LHP PAT MISCH to the league’s mid-season All-Star Team. Misch will represent the Bisons at the 23rd annual Triple-A All-Star Game on Wednesday, July 14 (7:00 p.m.) at Coca-Cola Park in Lehigh Valley, PA.
The 2010 Triple-A All-Star Game will be broadcast live on the MLB Network. WWKB 1520 AM, the flagship radio home for Bisons Baseball, will also carry the game live on July 14.
Misch, 28, has spent the entire season with the Bisons and is 7-3 with a 3.46ERA in 15 starts. He leads all International League left-handed pitchers with seven wins (T3rd overall) and is 4th in the IL with 96.1 innings pitched. Misch is also one of 10 International League pitchers with a complete-game shutout this season. He allowed four hits and no walks while striking out six in a 4-0 win over Norfolk on May 15.
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Regardless of what they try to tell you, what more than just a handful of NFL players anticipate most during this time of year isn’t the month leading up to training camp. Rather, it’s the official release of the individual ratings for Madden.
Well, the wait is over. The individual rankings are out and were posted Tuesday morning on ESPN.com. As most local gamers feared but also expected, the Buffalo Bills didn’t get a lot of love from the game’s creators.
Only three players received an overall rating of more than 85 and one of them was their punter. Defenders Jairus Byrd and Paul Posluszny received ratings of 87 and 86, respectively.
Here are some of the highlights.
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Junior Steve McQuail was selected to the ABCA/Rawlings All-American Third-Team on Monday. McQuail and senior Ian Choy were also selected to the ABCA-Rawlings Northeast Region First Team.
McQuail, who was selected in the 30th round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft by the Toronto Blue Jays, signed with the organization and is currently playing for the Class-A Auburn Doubledays in the New York Penn League, is the third All-American in program history (Kevin Mailloux and current senior Shane Davis in 2008).
An all-MAAC Second-Team selection, McQuail led Canisius with a .397 batting average, 89 hits, 21 doubles, 20 home runs, 81 RBI and .768 slugging percentage during the 2010 season. McQuail set program records with his 89 hits and 81 RBI, and his 81 RBI also set a MAAC single-season record. Nationally, McQuail ranked in the top 10 in RBI, top 20 in slugging percentage and total bases and top 30 in runs scored (70).
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◊ Buffalo Bills lineman John McCargo has moved from tackle to end and is taking it all in stride, writes Tony Jones of Bills.com.
◊ NFL.com Bills blogger Terry Long recently interviewed “Coach” Sal Cappacio, asking him ten burning questions regarding the team.
◊ Yahoo Sports interviewed C.J. Spiller. It’s a very good read.
◊ As Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News reports, the free agent clock is ticking on Toni Lydman and Henrik Tallinder.
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It may have took him a little over a month but starting pitcher Dillon Gee got his seventh win of the season in a 6-1 Bisons win tonight against the Syracuse Chiefs at Coca-Cola Field. Gee threw a gem, going seven innings while only giving up three hits, allowing one run and striking out six.
The last time Gee took the mound and got a win was on May 28th when the Herd defeated the Toledo Mud Hens, 7-3. Five starts, four losses and 32 days later, Gee had arguably his best outing of the season by shutting down the Chiefs over his seven strong innings of work.
Gee was excellent from the first pitch he threw. Through his first five innings he only gave up one hit coming way of a Chiefs first baseman Chris Duncan double in the third inning.
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