Satch was up in the hills, having some early holiday revelry, sounds like I missed a good one, and also sounds like one of the teams could have used the extra bat....Here with the Recap is our own financial guru and stalwart MBC'er Jonathan (JT) Tiemann:
It was a nearly perfect day.
We had a perfect 18 from start to finish, and the teams initially looked
like they were matched pretty well. The
day was cool and overcast, though the sun broke through at times. The game started with a couple of southpaws
working, Brian on the bump for the homers and Sean for the visitors. Bob, leading the game off, hit a shot to
right center, but Jay ran it down for the first out. That pretty much set the tone for the first
part of the game, as Brian shut down the visitors in order, and Sean returned
the favor in the bottom of the frame.
The visitors scratched out a run in the second as Sean reached on a
solid hit and worked his way around with aggressive baserunning and another
hit.
Sean kept dealing, and Brian worked out of a two-on, no-out
jam in the third. After three, we still
stood at 1-0.
The visitors added single
runs in the fourth and fifth, and when we went into the field for the bottom of
the fifth, the visitors led 3-0 and Sean (with some fine fielding help,
especially from Mitch in center and Lattig at second) had yet to allow a
baserunner. But Tony Rojas wore Sean out
in an epic at-bat (must've been 25 pitches), finally taking the walk the third
time ball four came around. Some slick
baserunning and the home side's first base hit of the game produced their first
run.
Then came the sixth.
Duane, who had been complaining about being in a slump, led off by
launching a triple over Jay's head, and the visitors' bats came alive. We batted around, plating five and expanding
the lead to
8-1.
On the other side, Sean
kept mowing them down, finishing with 7 IP, 1 ER, a walk, 6 or 7 strikeouts,
and only two hits allowed. Tony pitched
a couple of strong innings for the home side, and Dennis mopped up for them in
the ninth (I can't resist saying I smoked a line drive into right against him,
but my legs were so dead by then that it only went for a single). Will and Greg (New Greg, that is, who looks
likely to be New Greg for maybe 10 or 15 years) each pitched a frame for the
visitors, and once they closed it out, the final tally was 11-3. It was a little chilly and we're close to the
shortest day of the year, so we left it there.
Highlights:
· * Lattig was a machine at second base, fielding
all the grounders, easy and hard, and making two great catches - one on a foul
popup behind first and one going back into shallow right.
· * Mitch was Mitch in center, but he added a little
flair with a fine sliding catch on a sinking line drive in the ninth
· * Sean was nearly unhittable, recording the
aforementioned two-hit, seven-inning gem.
· * I miraculously escaped channeling Juan Uribe and
spoiling the into-the-fifth perfecto with an error
· * Nick and Duane both sparkled at first, as usual
· * Duane is officially out of his slump, with a
triple and a double
· * Yes, Bob had his HPB.
· * Dennis had a bunt single in the 9th, pushing the
ball to Bob, who was playing third. The
only way the play could possibly have developed more slowly would've been if I
had been involved.
* * Speaking of which, I
won't mention my idiotic baserunning mistake.
Nice peg, Johnny.
* After he finished pitching, Brian went out to center and
promptly made a great running over-the-shoulder catch on a ball Sean hit. I don't think it actually went 450 feet, but
it seemed like it. A very loud out.
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