The first week of April - when all of baseball (and softball) is reborn.The Transdyn Pleasanton team started the season today.
And how. We played a team called Green Lava - complete with neon yellow-green shirts. I expected to see them pull out some lava lamps at any moment. We had played them last year in a rather nondescript game we won 13-7.
The first ball of the game is a line drive that Rams, our starting left fielder on this night, had a bead on. Except he slipped on the hayfield that is the outfield (apparently Pleasanton hasn't started mowing the grass yet), and now I channel John Madden: He made a stumbling, tumbling, fumbling catch as he landed on his backside but he hung onto the ball.
If he drops that ball, they might put up a few runs and the game goes an entirely different way. As it was, we made a couple of errors and gave them one run. And then the deluge began.
It started when their starting pitcher couldn't find the plate. Jason and Rams walked to set up what was really the only hit we needed the whole night. Cage came up and just crushed a ball over the fence and it's 3-0 and the game was pretty much over. We ended up with a couple more walks, a bases loaded two run single by Heffe, and we batted around for a 6-1 lead.
In the second it got ugly. The brought in a lefty who really couldn't find the plate.I can't remember that many balls thrown behind guys. Looking at the scorebook, it amazes me that there were only 5 walks that inning - we already started swinging at anything.
In between, and through the rest of the game, we had some pretty impressive hits. Laser shots by Big D (6 RBIs) and new addition RB, line shots by the Hammer, an opposite field moon shot by Jason, a deep gap shot by Mario, and four straight run scoring hits by Heffe and Woody.
However the awkward swing award goes to Jason. He was determined to get his swings in after walking twice around his triple. The first time he practiced and hit a liner up the middle that the SS somehow snagged for a force out. But the next time, he took an entire step backward to swing at a very deep pitch, and muscled it over the first baseman's head for a single to lead off our last inning. Very impressive, although if we had it on YouTube it would have been so 17 seconds ago.
It was grim for Green Lava - in our 17 run second we put 19 guys on base before an out was recorded. We got generous in the last inning and we let them have a few hits with an...er...modified defense, and the final score settled at 31-7. At least they had some fun.
You couldn't help but think what would have happened if Rams hadn't corralled the ball as he was falling...but I think with our loaded lineup this night, it wouldn't have mattered.
Milestones:
Woody 400 rbi (#1)
Heffe 600 h (#1)
Mario 20 bb (#9)
And how. We played a team called Green Lava - complete with neon yellow-green shirts. I expected to see them pull out some lava lamps at any moment. We had played them last year in a rather nondescript game we won 13-7.
The first ball of the game is a line drive that Rams, our starting left fielder on this night, had a bead on. Except he slipped on the hayfield that is the outfield (apparently Pleasanton hasn't started mowing the grass yet), and now I channel John Madden: He made a stumbling, tumbling, fumbling catch as he landed on his backside but he hung onto the ball.
If he drops that ball, they might put up a few runs and the game goes an entirely different way. As it was, we made a couple of errors and gave them one run. And then the deluge began.
It started when their starting pitcher couldn't find the plate. Jason and Rams walked to set up what was really the only hit we needed the whole night. Cage came up and just crushed a ball over the fence and it's 3-0 and the game was pretty much over. We ended up with a couple more walks, a bases loaded two run single by Heffe, and we batted around for a 6-1 lead.
In the second it got ugly. The brought in a lefty who really couldn't find the plate.I can't remember that many balls thrown behind guys. Looking at the scorebook, it amazes me that there were only 5 walks that inning - we already started swinging at anything.
In between, and through the rest of the game, we had some pretty impressive hits. Laser shots by Big D (6 RBIs) and new addition RB, line shots by the Hammer, an opposite field moon shot by Jason, a deep gap shot by Mario, and four straight run scoring hits by Heffe and Woody.
However the awkward swing award goes to Jason. He was determined to get his swings in after walking twice around his triple. The first time he practiced and hit a liner up the middle that the SS somehow snagged for a force out. But the next time, he took an entire step backward to swing at a very deep pitch, and muscled it over the first baseman's head for a single to lead off our last inning. Very impressive, although if we had it on YouTube it would have been so 17 seconds ago.
It was grim for Green Lava - in our 17 run second we put 19 guys on base before an out was recorded. We got generous in the last inning and we let them have a few hits with an...er...modified defense, and the final score settled at 31-7. At least they had some fun.
You couldn't help but think what would have happened if Rams hadn't corralled the ball as he was falling...but I think with our loaded lineup this night, it wouldn't have mattered.
Milestones:
Woody 400 rbi (#1)
Heffe 600 h (#1)
Mario 20 bb (#9)
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