I missed the first couple of innings, and sat in the stands, suited up, waiting for Mrs. Paige to take over watcher duties for Lil' Satch.
Greg started for the homers, and looked good, considering he hasn't pitched much as of late. The ball was flying off the bats though, lot of pop in the sunny dry air, maybe. In any case, the visitors scored first, with the assistance of some questionable outfield plays and gap drives. Sean was dealing for the visitors, per usual.
The most amazing part of the early innings was two, count them TWO, plays at the plate in one inning, and both of them resulted in outs! MBC norms are to barely get the ball to the plate, much less have a play....but the homers were trying to get something started, and picked the wrong guys to test. There was a great relay play to SS, and Tony got nailed after considering what to do with Bob blocking the plate. He made the right choice. Then we had another play, Noah was trying to get something more out of his two out muscled up double, this one was a throw on the fly from the outfield, into Bob's capable tagging hands. Amazing!
Stoner finally provided the speed we needed to get on the board the next inning, but we never were close to the lead, it was 4-1, 4-2, then 6-2, 7-3. I came into relieve Greg, my first outing since the muscle pull, and it felt good, I tried not to push it too much. Tony took it home, and struggled a bit to find the dish. DJ Greg took over for Sean, and also struggled with his accuracy. His wildness was more effective, my at-bat in point, where he threw three way outside and then one at my head, which in my movement to get out of the way, the ball hit the knob of my bat, rolled fair, and I was thrown out at first before I knew what was happening. Less than stellar.
I wished we could have played more, but it was getting chilly, and we had lost 3 people in mid-game to various other things, so after Loren closed up the 9th, we packed it up and headed out for another week.
Highlights:
* At times the outfield made some great plays, at others, no one seemed to know where the ball was.
* Mitch had the best defensive play, hands down, a over the shoulder running catch in short left field, and it was for the third out!
* Some big flies out there, lotta pop.
* Stoner had a nice diving catch
* Mitch also had a couple great plays at third, with tags or runner checks done in rapid succession with getting the play at first
* Dennis' hit parade continued
* Our team really hit a couple of batters solidly, Bob got one in the back and DJ Greg got one in the spine. Hopefully both were alright, but it was a real 2-2 with hit batsmen. John McG testified that Bob's HBP sounded like "Rocky hitting the beef slabs."
* Nick Smith made some great digs at first, and also almost killed a number of people with his opposite field foul balls
* Stoner was making the most of his hall pass!
* John McG had to leave early, and was scrambling, looking for Aiden's glove. 30 minutes later Aiden shows up, just walking around. After a couple of minutes we realize he isn't there anymore. We looked around, didn't see him. Hopefully he was there to retrieve his glove and then left....or maybe Aiden just walked the 4 miles from his house cuz he wanted to hang around the park, see what kind of trouble he could get into, both scenarios are valid.....
* Duane made a great play on Tony's hit up the middle, he must have anticipated it, I didn't think there was any way that ball wasn't getting through
* Carter and Will came back, and one of them had a tough in/out play in left on a fly ball.
Stay Loose.
S. Paige
*
No comments:
Post a Comment