Sorry, I missed another game that should have been written up. It was a close one at least.
This Sunday was an amazing game, as usual, our B2B fears were unrealized, you would never have known there was anything going on except for the occasional drunk guy in a zebra costume. We had 20 players out, sun shining, teams evenly split.
Sean and the homers vs. Mitch and the visitors to start. Sean ended up going the distance, which was awesome. Mitch took the starter role and threw five great innings of work. He kept them off balance and most of his defense was working. I unfortunately, clanged a fly ball off the thumb of my glove in left to keep a inning going, and then Sean hit a homerun. 3 runs scored.
That sucked.
Sean would add a triple his next at bat, and was all in on the cycle.
Round about the 4th inning, we finally got things going, helped by Anna, who was killing the ball to the tune of a couple of hits, runs scored, and she made some dynamic plays at 1st! We entered the 5th, tied at 5's. 5-5-5.
We went up in the 6th inning, with Mitch still the pitcher of record, and never looked back. Satch came in for the long save and was efficient to the end. I think I ended up with about 55 pitches over 4 innings, not too shabby. I was mixing up the fast and the slow, and even got some suckers to swing at the knuckleball.
Sean stayed in, and took the bruises.
We entered the 9th frame up 10-7, mindful that no lead is safe in the MBC, but the homers went down 1-2-3, and the game was somewhat anti-climatically over.
Final: 10-7, visitors.
Highlights:
* Sean killed it all day, but just not enough
* Thanks to Santos and Ernesto for coming late to give us an extra player each
* Anna, sweet hits, sweet scoops
* Bob had a double, that could have been a triple. Still was fucking great
* John Carey also had a big day with the bat, and another triple
* Mike N, made a Brooks Robinson-ian play at 3rd, back hand and a perfect throw, it was awesome
* I had 3 singles, and 3RBIs
* There was a lot of hustle out there!
* I could not throw anywhere but the inside part of the plate, luckily I didn't hit anyone
* New guy Matt made a great catch in left
* New guy Jesse looks like a legitimate threat, and has a cannon for an arm
* Kenball was tough all day
* I stopped Sean's march towards the cycle at least.
* John McG was a wall behind the dish
* Everyone seemed to be ripping the ball
* My first AB, John got on 1st and I told Bob that I was going to just wait for him to get to 3rd before I did anything. Pass ball-2nd, pass ball-3rd, fly ball to center, first run scored. Nice.
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