I fully admit to being late, just so everyone is clear here. Sorry. Glad I made it though. Sort of. The day was mostly sunny and cloudy, and there was parking in the park, maybe as a byproduct of the Burning Man.
The score was 11-0, when I arrived, and I was placed on the home team, as a salve to hopefully remove some of the pain of the blow out. Mike Lattig had started for the homers, and it sounds like it was hit, error, bloop, bloop, blooop. Chris Powell was on the mound for the visitors, and was pitching effectively to his defense. We tried to work a 9-7 team break down, to give us 2 defensive fielders to "even" the score, but the visitors saw through that chicanery, and we ended up with the more sensible 8-8.
John McG came in after Mike and pitched effectively, though he was the first to admit that when you lose it on the mound, it can be hard to regain. Chris Leavitt replaced Powell, which made it harder for us to rally, since Powell was now back at SS, taking away hits.
We had rallied on the back of a few hits, errors and John Carey's wild arm to bring the score up to 11-7, Urano having a in the parker down the left field line that he scored easily on, but the visitors promptly took two more runs out of us, including a triple from Powell that sounded like a pop fly off the bat, but went really far into the gap in left center.
I took over the mound in the 6th and took it the rest of the way. Other than the 2 runs, it felt good, had a few Ks. Loren came in for the visitors and stomped on our throats for 2 innings just to make sure that we didn't smell victory.
Final- 13-7, visitors
Highlights
* The return of Kenball! This SF native is back amongst his own, the first in what we hope will be the reverse migration of the East Coasters. If you haven't made up your mind yet, hit us up in January when we are still playing ball.
* The visitors had a strong hitting lineup and made the plays.
* A couple of close plays at first made a difference for both teams
* Greg catching a pop foul of Powell's is such a coup for a team looking for momentum
* Urano with the round tripper!
* James made an amazing diving catch to take a hit away from JT, that's doing your homework, people!
* Bob had not one, but two balls hit over 1st base, one that actually hit the base
* I have a lifetime experiment that I am running on not watching while routine fly balls get caught while I am pitching, the odds seems better for outs when I don't look.
* The slumps have hit us hard, I know John McG and myself were both 0-fers
* Word on the street is that Anna could return soon!
* A kid and his dad played an inning with us, hopefully they will be back
* It was great to see John Carey back out, and he even wore his glasses, though he has upgraded from the blue rims since this picture was taken...
* Mike Lattig made the long run in left field to snare a fly ball, we were so happy, we didn't care that it was also a sac fly
* Sure was nice to have enough players so that we could actually sit down and talk from time to time
Don't look back.
S. Paige
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