Piazza, Ramirez, movin on up

New Jersey's Mike Piazza hit his second home run of the season yesterday in Team Buddah's victory over the Mudcats. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but it was Piazza's 386th career homer, which passes Juan Gonzalez for sixth on the all time list. Piazza faces an uphill climb to move much further up the list as all the players above him are active. Arkansas' Barry Bonds, of course, is the leader with 591 career homers (more than 150 over 2nd place Sammy Sosa who is active but most likely won't play in the DMBL again). Also moving up the home run ranks - and more quickly than Piazza - is Sugar Bear Manny Ramirez, the league leader in home runs this season with eight. Ramirez hit his eighth and 380th career homer yesterday against the Iron Fist which moves him just one behind former Sugar Bear Mark McGwire for number eight on the all-time list.

Speaking of New Jersey, the Buddahs completed a sweep against the Mudcats yesterday. Carolina has now lost five or their six games against the two newest teams. Carolina will next face the more familiar Vancouver Iron Fist. Vancouver is also coming off being swept by the Sugar Bears, so something has to give here.

Las Vegas' Anthony Reyes improved to 3-0, but he finally gave up his first runs of the season. Reyes, who had extended his scoreless innings streak to 18 and earned the coveted Guess The Virgin Pitcher of the Week Award last week finally surrendered his first run of the season in the fourth inning against the South Boston Gang. Reyes escaped the game with a win, despite giving up five runs in six innings.