A bit of chilly day, but dry enough and many an eager player was waiting to play. Satch worked out a deal to get up early and watch Lil' Satch and then get some time off in the afternoon for baseballing. Nice work if you can get it.
Sean for the visitors and Noah for the homers is how we started, and the score was 1-0 for while. Noah was getting good work out of his heavy ball, and Sean was his usual self. We got out some jams, and killed some rallies on the both sides.
Somehow, me, the guy who hasn't played in a while, and is not the fastest runner by a long shot ended up being the only run scored for the homers for the majority if the game. Good news, I smoked a double off Sean, in my return to the diamond. Bad news, I had to run, take third on a passed ball, slide, get back up and run home (against the wishes of my team) after the ball went passed third, and then slide again. I am glad it worked out, as I was almost out at least three times. My slide into home was more of a collapse on the plate and a reversal of inertia so I wouldn't have a collision with Bob (which Tony states would have shaken the stadium...)
In any case, the visitors had no trouble scoring runs after the first few frames, and the score went, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1 in the middle of the game. We managed to scrape back a run, and then were stuck again while the visitors sought out some insurance, 6-2. Noah bowed out in favor of Tony, who felt good, but ran into trouble getting the third out. DJ Greg and Will finished up the pitching duties for the visitors.
We entered the 9th inning looking beaten already, but Greg, the leader that he is, lasered a hit to the outfield, and we followed his lead by employing every chip, gork, drop and gracious error. And it kept going. Suddenly, it was a one run game, and we were looking strong. Victory was not to be, however, as the Visitors managed to hold off the onslaught long enough for the us to hit into the final out. We played an extra one for fun, but not much happened and it was getting cold, so we packed it in for another week.
Highlights:
* Some real fine defense at times, and real poor at others.
* A tough day for D. Skiles, keep your chin up, remember baseball is great therapy
* Dennis, hot off of his visit to Fantasy Camp and full of advice from retired pros, had a good game at the plate, and in the field.
* Noah and Sean had some big strikeouts
* Jay made a nice sun-blinded catch in the outfield
* Chris Powell had a rare multi-error game at SS, but still managed to get a number of outs and hits in the game
* Bob gunned Greg at second, saving me from having to make the 3rd out, worked out for everybody (but Greg)
* New guy Hank came out and seemed to be a decent fellow, strong bat, and versatile defense
* John McG seemed to get every awkward fly ball in the infield (he caught the majority of them)
* Adam seemed to have to handle an exorbitant number of overthrows at first.
* Dustin's defensive diving gem at third was awesome, sadly we didn't get the runner, but it was worth it for the show
* Liam and Aiden continued their offensive assault, few more years....
* Duane had a great spear of a line drive to end an inning
* Some real confident line drives
* We had a high percentage of people hitting the cutoff, which is nice
I feel like there are more highlights, but I can't remember them, email me if you see any glaring errors
S. Paige.
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