Beautiful day, we had 19 people show up, Mrs. Paige and the kids came in with me, and played at the playground for 2.5 hours, it was just an all around good day.
Except of course, for the problem my team had with scoring runs and catching the ball, other than that though..... It actually was a great game, and I can't knock my team too much, since they did make a legit double play, helped by Greg's almost complete surrender about 10 feet up the basepath, and then the realization that he had to at least try. In fact, there were quite a few give up early's and then something happened plays. That's why we run out every ball people.
Greg started for the homers and Satch for the visitors. Greg's knee appeared to not bother him much, but for whatever reason, his usual game of bust them inside, became, throw at their head and trunk. Seriously, for a guy who didn't technically hit anyone all game, he averaged about 3 near misses per batter.
I was throwing pretty good, had a few Ks, the change up was definitely on point, which always makes it easier to pitch, when your go to is real easy on the arm. Defensively, we just were out of position some of the time, dropped some balls, didn't get to some balls, and then the homers also hit the crap out of the few balls. Typical MBC stuff, really. Mitch came in to mop up in the 8th, and threw a good inning.
The sad thing was that going into the middle innings, we were down 4-0, which is pretty rare to have in a Mission game. No lead is usually safe, but seriously, not even a run? Our downfall was hitting the ball to Chris P continuously, which is never a good strategy. We got a runner into scoring position more than once, but just couldn't capitalize. When we finally did score a run, I think it was the 6th inning, and I think we were lucky to get it.
The bats finally came alive in the 9th, but we had idled away too much time, and while we did mount a comeback, we fell short with a final 6-4 loss.
Highlights:
* Greg pitched well, when he wasn't trying to hit anyone
* Chris also did well in relief, and ironically, is the only one who did hit someone.
* The sun in left field was not fun
* In catching news, Ed caught two foul pop flies and Bob hung on to a foul tip for strike three, best defensive catching of the year, I say.
* I got Loren to swing at knuckleballs twice for pop ups
* It got a little convoluted, but I had to make a point of James, Chris, and Mitch not being on the same team. That is three big hitters with guaranteed base stealing ability.
* For all of my bad mouthing, my defense also got a runner at home, on a non-force play, corners in. It was awesome.
* On the other hand, our defense showed it's lack of understanding went into a serious lefty shift against Lattig, only to be corrected by Lattig that is was not a sound strategy, which is very true, he is capable of hitting to any part of the field
* Mitch had a couple of throws from the outfield that saved more runs from being scored
* John McG came late, and opted to go on to the winning team, although he had his opportunity to join us underdogs
* I was trying to old-school a run by bunting with Mitch on first in the 2nd to try and get on the board, but apparently, you are not supposed to sacrifice outs for potential runs anymore. What I was supposed to do was hit a long double. And if a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his ass a'hoppin'.
* I got caught in left trying to catch a hit from Powell, chances are I wouldn't have gotten to it, but my first step was in, and it definitely should have been back
* Urano played a solid game, he needed to exploit his youth a bit more though
* Dennis tried to turn a double play with no one on first, the SS relayed the ball, but the batter was safe at first. Always know where the runners are, people!
* I caught a infield pop fly, and called off the third baseman by staring into the sky and saying, and I quote,"Oh shit. I think I got that."
* We almost had a second double play!
* At one point, my best pitch was a fat, straight fastball down the middle.
* Bob tried to cheer up our team by singing the Dr. Demento classic Dead Puppies Aren't much Fun
Dead puppies
Dead puppies
Dead puppies aren't much fun
They don't come when you call
They don't chase squirrels at all
Dead puppies aren't much fun
My puppy died late last fall
He's still rotting in the hall
Dead puppies aren't much fun
Mom says puppy's days are through
She's gonna throw him in the stew
Dead puppies aren't much fun
Dead puppies
Dead puppies
Dead puppies aren't much fun
1 comment:
Also, in other mike shift news, While playing second with Gaspar at the plate, I moved to directly behind the base and told Urano to move further to the left. The very next pitch after I yelled to Urano that Gaspar would never hit a ball to my right, Gaspar lined a solid single right to where a regular 2b position is.
Ed
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