A shit attendance for a pretty good game on a great day.
I know it's still technically summertime but we have had really bad numbers for most of our games for the past 3 months and this game was no different, we had 13 people. I sent an angry email cursing everyone and the first week of NFL football, but that didn't seem to do any good.
The weather was amazing, hot by SF standards, a bit muggy and sometimes overcast, but all in all a great day for some baseball.
We figured out the best way to divide was to do 6 on 7 with 2 outfielders, that way we were still only exchanging 2 players and there was no clear advantage. I started for the visiting team and Nick W for the homers, though Nick took himself out of the game in mid-inning and Bryan Phelps came in, that was different.
I was emboldened by the fact that I had Sean catching for me which was a first that I could remember, it also guaranteed that we were going to see an amazing sweat design appear on Sean's shirt. He is no stranger to excessive perspiration, but today's output was a Hall of Fame day for sure.
The game started out fairly even-handed, but somewhere around the third inning, I lost the ability to get an out—along with the rest of my team: double play balls turned into bases loaded situations, ground balls turned into RBI doubles, and so forth.
The team eventually took pity on the score and made it a soft 9 - 2 with the caveat that if we approached the tying run, the score would be reassessed to what it actually was, Amazingly we ended up coming back and scoring several runs and the home team had to reassess and we entered into the later part of the game with the score 11 - 9.
I came out of the game and Sean came in and really shut down the home team for the rest of the game so once again I proved to be the problem. I also can't seem to hit my way out of a wet paper sack these days. I'm not sure if I'm getting old, losing my baseball skills, in a major slump, or maybe all three.
In any case we roared back and tied the score in the ninth inning at 11-11!
We couldn't believe we had come so far but then we still had to hold the home team and no one was able to do that. They loaded them up and scored the winning run before we had gotten our first out.
Final Score- 12-11, Homers
Highlights
*Thank you to everybody who showed up on a day that we should have had extras
*Two left-handed catchers played in the game Sean and Brian Phelps I don't know if that's a first for the Mission baseball club I feel like we may have had it before but certainly not with Sean attached
* We also had the first ever balk enforced, and then a second balk!
*The one really rough thing about West Sunset #2 is the sun on the left side of the diamond both in the sky and reflecting off the ocean is completely blinding
* I have it on good authority that Dan was on his phone in the outfield, and still managed to make a catch when the ball was hit his way. Not the way we learned how to do it, but effective, I guess
*The home team couldn't help themselves and had several opposite field hits which with 2 outfielders really sucks the second baseman is effectively also the right fielder
*I was a disgusting 1 for 6, but at least the one hit was for 2 RBIs that started our comeback rally
Roll call of the faithful: Anna, Nick W, Nick S, Jack, Greg, Phelps, Chris P, Jacob, Mike N, Sean, Patrick, Dan, Satch,
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