From what I understand, not quite the same affair as last week, but I think we had a good game. The fog was thick, yet it was warm-ish. We had 15 at our high water mark, and there were some excellent plays. Most of which were at home, in an amazing twist. Seriously, I think we set a record for MBC outs at home.
Tony started for the homers, and Nick W. for the visitors. The first 3 innings seemed to take a very long time, but I wouldn't know because I showed up late. After dropping off lil" Satch and lil' Josh Gibson at sleepaway camp, I worked my way home and then raced across the bridge. I was glad I did.
Doc! The old man makes another appearance and umpires most of the game....
Setting up the controversy, what do you do when one team gets the umpire for half an inning, and the other gets their own catcher calling the balls and strikes. Good thing we are all honest people, I suppose.
Double plays! We each had those too, the defense was really locked in for most of the game as well. Fly balls were a little tougher, with the fog and the wind, but ground balls were in good supply. We almost had another double play, but Anna legged it out and beat the throw.
Dan took the ball from Tony, and then I took the ball from Dan. It was nice to play on a field with a mound, and everything was working pretty good. Knuckleball had a little extra mess on it from the moisture, which also helped with the other stuff, what with wet air raising the seams on the ball. John McG came in for 2 and then Mike N after that.
The game had spiraled out of control for our team by that time, and the score was 10-5. We had calculated that the game would be around 18-7 by the end. The visitors were stacked with a real Murderer's Row, every hitter a danger. And they proved it, I saw hard hit balls from everyone: Bob, Anna, Urano, James, Mike N, John McGrath, and Nick W.
We tried for a comeback, and made it about half way, the ending was eventful enough for us to have fun, but we didn't tie the game and force us all to try and finish. We called the 8th inning the 9th, since we were all ready to go, and the game had dragged on into 6pm. The band was out and they played through their whole set about 4 times, much to their credit they sounded awesome, and they waiting a long time to get to the 7th inning stretch. They had also played the Bye Bye Baby song in honor of Urano that has hit an in the parker the inning before.
A great game, in a beautiful setting, with good people.
Highlights:
* The plays at home! Amazing throws from Urano, Nick W., and James.
* James also hit a rocket to the moon in left
* Ed Sidawi in the flesh! Apparently he has a reprieve from shuttling his kid around.
* The Mike L's were a great power back-to-back lefty combination all day
* Greg had a nice poke up the middle and almost got thrown out again by James from deep center field.
* Anna continued her hitting tear
* Doc did a good job of umpiring, though he got overruled by Greg a few times
* A lot of our rally was thanks to throwing errors by the other team, in other words, a real MBC rally.
* I somehow managed to strike out more than a few, and even got Mike N and James on nasty change ups. That felt good.
* There was a pretty good average on pop flies which I thought were usually trouble.
* RBI Ed must be out of practice
* Tony took his bat all the way down the line, and was almost was safe as the ball was bobbled, he eventually tripping over the bat and falling past the base. Luckily he was alright....
* There was another play at home, involving Satch of all people. I had started at first after another droopy single, and that was no place to be scoring from. But Dan scorched the ball and as I came around third, Dan was being waved on (I think) by our team past second. So I had nowhere to go but home. The throw beat me by a wide margin, from James again I think, and John McG was ready for me, except he didn't think I would slide. And so I did, though I thought it was going to end like this:
But I managed to slide at a 45 down angle towards the plate, and got my big ass foot on the plate before John could reach down to tag me. It was a good feeling.
Thanks to all that showed up, it was a great game to be a part of.
S. Paige
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