Nice, huh?
We had 20, we had fans, we had Fathers with iron clad excuses to play ball, we had perfect to almost really hot weather, and we had baseball.
Satch and Johnny squared off in a duel to begin, and the warm weather was working. As was the change up. Had a few K's. Johnny had a few K's.
The game got into the scoring business early, and the visitors took a strong lead into the middle of the game, somewhere in the 7-2 range. Then we tacked on a few more, and then it was 10-4, and the heat was growing. Johnny stayed a real trooper on the mound, and threw 9 strong.
Greg came in the 7th and threw the rest for the visitors, in a fashion behooving the deadly mop up man that he is, Noah, the workhorse, came in a did 2 for the homers, and had a couple of K's himself.
We dinked, they blooped, we booted, they scooted. I know I kicked a ground ball, and I wasn't the only one. By the end of the regular game, it was 14-19, and we played two more innings. So by the end of the whole thing, it was either 15-10, or 1-1, depending on if we had wiped it clean.
But the real MVP of the game was the weather, which especially for the West Sunset, was phenomenal.
Highlights:
* Happy Fathers Day! I had Mrs. Paige and the in-laws in from that far off destination Walnut Creek, have you heard of it? I heard they have some good travel packages if you ever want to jet away for a weekend....
* Johnny deserved a better game, but no one does it finer!
* Weird ground balls and skips all day
* Adam managed to psyche Lattig into hitting several opposite field hits, if that was his intention
* Elvin had an amazing barehanded play at third, web gem shit, seriously.
* Duane was denied a triple for the first time since April.
* Noah continued to hit the ball hard
* Jakob came out again, and made a great snatch in left, and had a couple of hits
* Bob showed, nursing an injured side, get well soon! You see what happens when you try to help the youth of today!
* I took one in the side, since Bob was out. Tip my cap to you, Sir.
* Stoner got another 6 hour pass, and was frustrated at the plate most of the day, except for one wallop, however made a couple of great catches in the outfield. You can't always have it all, but its nice to have a little of everything!
* Nice to see Richie out again, who did what Richie does best on the basepaths
* Jason making it two in a row as well, and looking good at all positions and had himself a roundtripper, the hard way
* JT had the unfortunate luck of being the bloop guy in left, but he also made a couple of much needed catches
* Rick was nursing some sort of injury, but played most of the game.
* All my hard hit balls were caught and all my high pop flies were hits, you tell me how to feel about that
* We almost doubled off a runner, but I forgot how many outs there were, and admired that I hadn't been killed by the ball. Noah, much more of a professional, got his double play.
* I have crowned Ed officially an RBI man. He is the guy you want hitting in a tight spot with runners on. Adam has crowned him Eddie Spaghetti
* Fourth of July is coming up.
* John Mcg had a strong hit(s)
* Greg continued his headhunting ways, hitting Adam in the noggin, and coming close with three others. Who knew Greg was such a jerk?
* Thanks to Gaspar, Greg, Ed, Adam, Noah for catching
Don't know where.
S. Paige
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