Sometimes it happens. You score 9 runs in the first, and subconsciously you coast the rest of the game. You don't mean to, but it happens. So after the 9-2 lead after the first, Transdyn never added on enough to make BASBHAT think they had no chance. It was surprising the way we had hit in just about every inning until last night, but we then went 3 innings without scoring. They crept back to 9-6, then 11-9, 12-11, and by the bottom of the seventh it seemed the walk off hit was inevitable, as Transdyn finished with a 15-14 loss.
The top of the first is what we will focus on, because I am all about the good play and not the failures. Ten straight hits to open the game. The Load, in his first AB of the season, hits a towering shot for a two run homer to right center. Mario, as usual complaining about his back pain, crushed one for 3 runs to right. The two of them knocked in 7 or our 14 runs.
There were some breaks that went the wrong way. Cage's scorcher down the line less than an inch foul. RB hit a ball that I swear cleared the trees beyond right field, and it was so far out that the ump just couldn't tell where it was. After the game he admitted to one of our players he missed that one. A number of times their outfielders ran to try and catch a gapper, and stuck out their glove at the last second. Every time it hit and stuck. You have to give them credit; they made the plays. We say they were lucky; if we had done it we would have said great skill!
The highlights on defense were Woody gunning a runner down at second base that dared to test his arm, and Gabe in a rare return to second base playing a tough popup in shallow right like an outfielder, into an out. Both key plays.
Still a 3-1 start is pretty good, and next time we will have the hammer when we play them. The one good thing about this game was that I doubt they had any doctored bats, there is no bad blood. But there is still time to develop that.
Milestones:
Load 200 h (#11)
D 100 h (#19)
D 150 ab (#22)
The top of the first is what we will focus on, because I am all about the good play and not the failures. Ten straight hits to open the game. The Load, in his first AB of the season, hits a towering shot for a two run homer to right center. Mario, as usual complaining about his back pain, crushed one for 3 runs to right. The two of them knocked in 7 or our 14 runs.
There were some breaks that went the wrong way. Cage's scorcher down the line less than an inch foul. RB hit a ball that I swear cleared the trees beyond right field, and it was so far out that the ump just couldn't tell where it was. After the game he admitted to one of our players he missed that one. A number of times their outfielders ran to try and catch a gapper, and stuck out their glove at the last second. Every time it hit and stuck. You have to give them credit; they made the plays. We say they were lucky; if we had done it we would have said great skill!
The highlights on defense were Woody gunning a runner down at second base that dared to test his arm, and Gabe in a rare return to second base playing a tough popup in shallow right like an outfielder, into an out. Both key plays.
Still a 3-1 start is pretty good, and next time we will have the hammer when we play them. The one good thing about this game was that I doubt they had any doctored bats, there is no bad blood. But there is still time to develop that.
Milestones:
Load 200 h (#11)
D 100 h (#19)
D 150 ab (#22)
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