Yes I heard it as we were coming off the field: Break Up the Red!
Our Creaker game was a little closer than that. Red did win 23-20, and only a late top of the ninth rally made it close, but we had a steady lead after about the 5th.
We are learning to play defense. Our new MO is only give up the unearned runs in the first inning to put ourselves in a hole, and and save a few for the ninth to give the opponent a thought that they have a chance to catch us. It worked to perfection today. Red Defense bled 4 unearned runs in the first. Moral victory to keep it at 4.
The Red bats woke up in the 2nd and 3rd. Brian Black had a couple of hustle doubles. Pete D'Alonzo had a huge two out two run triple in the 2nd, and we got to watch him hobble all the way to third. Mel Burman got the big hit in the 3rd, a two run double, and Howard Davis put the exclamation point in it with what would have been a triple or home run had the 5th run not scored on it. In our second 5 run inning in the 5th, Steve Alvarez had a clutch two run double. And in the 8th the leadoff hitter got a big two out two run single to give us the 8 run cushion we needed going into the 9th.
The early defense included nice running catches by outfielders Hank McDermott and Steve Alvarez, who each had 4 hits, and the Heffinator.
However, the difference in this game was that we turned some killer defensive gems in the middle to late innings that killed Gray rallies. The biggest was on a grounder to D'Alonzo playing first with Murray Herriman on first and one out in the fifth. We know Murray runs like a deer. From the outfield when Pete fielded the grounder, it looked like he didn't know where to go. But he had the idea all along. It was Murray that was the deer in the headlights, and Peter niftily tagged him and then got the batter by stepping on first.
The next inning Bob Eddy, who also had 4 hits, fielded a ball backhanded that was by him. I mean he got down on it, and whirled and threw first to nail the runner. He looked 27 years old...well ok...47...well you know what I mean.
And the killer was in the 8th when Gray had closed to 17-15, and had the tying runs on base. Mike Fragoso, Eddy and D'Alonzo turned a 6-4-3 DP to kill the last real hope for the Grays.
Our Creaker game was a little closer than that. Red did win 23-20, and only a late top of the ninth rally made it close, but we had a steady lead after about the 5th.
We are learning to play defense. Our new MO is only give up the unearned runs in the first inning to put ourselves in a hole, and and save a few for the ninth to give the opponent a thought that they have a chance to catch us. It worked to perfection today. Red Defense bled 4 unearned runs in the first. Moral victory to keep it at 4.
The Red bats woke up in the 2nd and 3rd. Brian Black had a couple of hustle doubles. Pete D'Alonzo had a huge two out two run triple in the 2nd, and we got to watch him hobble all the way to third. Mel Burman got the big hit in the 3rd, a two run double, and Howard Davis put the exclamation point in it with what would have been a triple or home run had the 5th run not scored on it. In our second 5 run inning in the 5th, Steve Alvarez had a clutch two run double. And in the 8th the leadoff hitter got a big two out two run single to give us the 8 run cushion we needed going into the 9th.
The early defense included nice running catches by outfielders Hank McDermott and Steve Alvarez, who each had 4 hits, and the Heffinator.
However, the difference in this game was that we turned some killer defensive gems in the middle to late innings that killed Gray rallies. The biggest was on a grounder to D'Alonzo playing first with Murray Herriman on first and one out in the fifth. We know Murray runs like a deer. From the outfield when Pete fielded the grounder, it looked like he didn't know where to go. But he had the idea all along. It was Murray that was the deer in the headlights, and Peter niftily tagged him and then got the batter by stepping on first.
The next inning Bob Eddy, who also had 4 hits, fielded a ball backhanded that was by him. I mean he got down on it, and whirled and threw first to nail the runner. He looked 27 years old...well ok...47...well you know what I mean.
And the killer was in the 8th when Gray had closed to 17-15, and had the tying runs on base. Mike Fragoso, Eddy and D'Alonzo turned a 6-4-3 DP to kill the last real hope for the Grays.
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