A little known fact is that there is an 11th commandment. It goes like this: God gave us gloves; now use them.
Red discovered that we could use our gloves to get outs today and the result was a relatively low scoring victory over Gold 21-14. There were nice plays all over the field; by Howard Davis, Bob Eddy, Bob Muegge, Bill Dewlaney and Herb Moessing on the infield, and great catches by Geo Sayatavich and Steve Alvarez in the outfield, and even a basket catch by 'Willie Mays' Kravin in shallow right field.
It was a tight game between two pretty evenly matched teams for the first seven innings. If Gold scored 4 as in the first, we scored 5. They were shut down in the second; so were we. In the third 3 and 4, and so on.
The game turned on some big hits, and while Red got them, Gold could not. Trailing 14-12 in the bottom of the 8th, Bruce Baily singled and Sayatavich walked. Up strode last week's hero Moessing. The outfield came in to try to cut down the odds of the tying runs advancing, and our hero promptly planted it over Tom Occhiogrosso's head in left center for a double, and Geo did not stop running from first until he crossed with the tying run. After a hit and an out, the lead run scored on a would be double play ball that Hank McDermott beat out. With two outs we loaded the bases again and the capper was Mel Burman coming through in the clutch with a two run single to get our 5. In the bottom of the 8th, similarly Davis came through for a two run hit with runners in scoring position.
In the mean time, Baily shut down a pretty good hitting Gold team and held them scoreless in the eighth. Muegge came in to get his own save in the ninth with no further runs.
Next week I will tell you the 12th commandment.
Red discovered that we could use our gloves to get outs today and the result was a relatively low scoring victory over Gold 21-14. There were nice plays all over the field; by Howard Davis, Bob Eddy, Bob Muegge, Bill Dewlaney and Herb Moessing on the infield, and great catches by Geo Sayatavich and Steve Alvarez in the outfield, and even a basket catch by 'Willie Mays' Kravin in shallow right field.
It was a tight game between two pretty evenly matched teams for the first seven innings. If Gold scored 4 as in the first, we scored 5. They were shut down in the second; so were we. In the third 3 and 4, and so on.
The game turned on some big hits, and while Red got them, Gold could not. Trailing 14-12 in the bottom of the 8th, Bruce Baily singled and Sayatavich walked. Up strode last week's hero Moessing. The outfield came in to try to cut down the odds of the tying runs advancing, and our hero promptly planted it over Tom Occhiogrosso's head in left center for a double, and Geo did not stop running from first until he crossed with the tying run. After a hit and an out, the lead run scored on a would be double play ball that Hank McDermott beat out. With two outs we loaded the bases again and the capper was Mel Burman coming through in the clutch with a two run single to get our 5. In the bottom of the 8th, similarly Davis came through for a two run hit with runners in scoring position.
In the mean time, Baily shut down a pretty good hitting Gold team and held them scoreless in the eighth. Muegge came in to get his own save in the ninth with no further runs.
Next week I will tell you the 12th commandment.
I can only hope we'll both be 6 and 1 when we meet, week after next........either way, it'll be my first 'big game' in a fortnight, or two!
ReplyDeleteOops, read the schedule wrong, well, maybe 7 and 1?? That's the kind of spacey day I'm having. I was invovled in some crazy plays today....................
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