We needed a rematch, after the crushing defeat we suffered at the last game. And while technically not a win, we managed to comport ourselves with dignity and grace, and walk out with our heads high.
We got in remarkably quick, and the game started on the parched dry field. In unusual style, we scored three runs in the first inning, with Coney Island James torching a double to put up a crooked number. Of course, our lead was short lived, and by the end of the 1st, it was tied at 3.
Sean started for us, and had a rough first inning, but settled down after that, and only allowed 2 more runs over four innings, with 6 K's! He struck out the side in the first, which gives you an idea of our ineptitude to get an out at the beginning of the game. Our team had a serious case of the dropsies the entire game, I think we would have walked away with the win, if we had managed to squeeze the ball. Oh well, what can you do?
In the 5th, Satch came in and had the same first inning that Sean had expereinced, and by the end of it, the score had gone up to 8-4. By professional standards, a long margin, by MBC standards, no problem. We chipped away, and with a very quick 6th inning, helped by a great doubling off play, we ran the score back to tied in the top of the seventh. More importantly, we managed to get to a 7th inning in a mid-week game!
Gaston came in to preserve the tie, and had to do it his own way, by walking the bases loaded before getting the third out, on a line drive to 1st, that of course was dropped, but thankfully picked up and the out and the tie were in the books.
Highlights:
* Chris played a great SS and scored a run
* James was the hit machine, and beleaguered left fielder, watching the ball rattle around the yard fences
* Gaston made a great pickoff and it turned into a rundown play, where the entire team began to converge on the pickle
* Greg continued to hit with confidence....but only when at SQ
* In the picture, the point of holding that bat is that the team wouldn't let me bring in one of my bats. To which I claimed that chances were very high that I would break a bat. And I did. Can't say I didn't warn ya. I had threatened to break Elvin's bat since he mouthed off about my bats, but chose the high road. Contrary to popular opinion, I did not break the bat purposefully. I am not a sicko, just a freak.
* SQ lead off executed a perfect bunt.
* Gaston decided his prison nickname should be Shotgun. Then he picked some kumquats off of a tree in the SQ parking lot. I suggested that Prison Fruit might be a better nickname. Which one do you think the team decided on?
* Gaston also made new friends immediately by hanging out in the shade of the right field fence, yakking it up with the fans.
* Elvin got the tying run RBI (by taking a pitch and then letting the catcher throw it away), Ed gets the assist for stealing 2nd and inducing.
* Nick, James, and Gaston first game.
* Ed and Elvin both made some great plays at 2nd
* Backing up and hustling actually made a difference in the game.
* Sean appears to be selling hot dogs in the team photo. Classy move.
S. Paige
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