Happy Zombie Jesus Day everyone! I sent out an email querying if there was enough interest in a game, since I don't know how many people would be stuck at Easter egg hunts, or ham luncheons. Turns out, enough sinners out there to mostly fill a baseball field. In hindsight, maybe I should have stayed home.
I started for the homers, and from the jump I remarked that the opposite team did not have any holes in their lineup. I was poo pooed once again, but this time, I think I was on pretty solid ground:
Mitch, Adam, Mike N, Tony, HR, Sean, Arson, and Dave. Not much in the way of weakness there, in fact, this is the kind of lineup that would give the SQ guys a run for their money. But I digress, I don't mean to disparage my own team, but it was a little lopsided. The best out of nowhere player of the game was Rick Kvoriak, who appeared as though it hadn't been 9 years, and was right back into it.
We struck first in the first with a sac fly for the first run, and that was about all we did for the day. The visitors came back and added a run to go ahead, and they never looked back. I felt like I was throwing alright, and I had a few low pitch innings in the beginning of the game. Then came the 4th, and I think it might have taken 40 minutes to get 3 outs. I don't know how many times the lineup batted, but it was a lot. Our defense crumbled, the visitors had about 7 dinks just beyond the grasp of the players, and then someone would hammer the fuck out of the ball and we would start over. We did not have an out the first time through the lineup that inning. Ouch.
A cap tip to Arson, who after 2 at bats hitting the ball higher than anyone ever has, he leveled it a little and took me to deep deep center. The bases were loaded at the time, so a grand salami for the kid. The distance combined with his young legs, he could have cartwheeled into home and still made it easily. By my reckoning, this is about accurate.
We had the bases loaded at one point, and we hit into a 5-2-3 double play. So that was our strategy.
We only played 7 innings, I stayed in to eat the whole thing, which seemed like the right thing to do. Sean left early, HR and Mike came in to get their innings, we fared no better, and the game was mercifully over at a soft 10-1.
Highlights:
* Arson was deadly with the bat, but also behind the dish, catching a great game.
* Thank you to everyone that made it out to make it a game
* Thanks to HR and his mob of fans, for extolling his game record, and highlights throughout. Always great when I can hear of my failings in real time. Oh, and the baby is cute too.
* We did manage a force out at home to save a run.
* The visitors were so fat in talent they had Mitch playing right field, and he managed to catch one of the few hits I got, which was a dying quail to right that no one else would have been able to get....
* While on the topic, we had several players on our team that refused to play right because... it wasn't exciting enough, I guess...which when we are trading defenses makes it a lot harder to do. Remember, sometimes we all have to give a little, for the good of the game.
* Rick shook off the rust to play first base, and stopped several balls with every part of his body except his glove hand.
* Chris Powell rage hit a ball deep, trying to hit a 9 run homer
* The field was in really good shape, so that is something
* I hit Dave twice, nothing personal
* Gaspar and Bob did great behind the dish for us.
* Mitch had an amazing bunt that started the never ending 4th inning
* I had to warn Tony that he was getting one in the back if the runner tried to steal with the score as lopsided as it was. He said he had already warned his team about that, but they were not having it. Luckily I didn't have to do it.
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