It just gets so boring, those sixteen run innings. Last inning, second inning. it's so last week and the week before.
This time we had to make it interesting. The Big Bad Kahunas only showed up with nine players. Easy right? The way our team has been hitting? Gap here, gap there, here a gap there a gap.
Only you have to play the game on the field. So we spotted them a 9-1 lead. They had a new right fielder and he robbed D in the first, and they held us to a single run. They slowly built that lead as we struggled in the second and third.
But that is no lead at all for this team. The heart of the order came up in the fourth, and this time RBIs by RB, Hama and Heavy D would not be denied as he hit a two run hobble double. Chopper brought him in with a towering triple, and when he scored suddenly we had a game at 9-7.
The Kahunas got two in the fifth, and what they didn't know is that Tom and the defense would shut them down from there out. We came up in the bottom of the inning, the top of the order was up again. Jason, Timmy and Cage produced a run, and up stepped RB, and you knew what he wanted. He blasted one over the right center fence and we were within one. Hama and D came up with the tying run., Hama with his second double in two innings, and D hit the ball so hard this time right at the right fielder he was frozen in his tracks. Only this time the laser beam rose and rose until it hit half way up the fence. Someone should check to see if there are broken links in that fence.
After we held them one last time, up came Ramsay who had had a tough night. He took advantage of the spacious outfield finally and doubled down the left field line. It was all but over. Jason followed with a single, and then Timmy muscled up and sent the ball over the center fielder's head - and he wasn't even really drawn in very far to try to get Rams out on a shallow fly. Walk off, game over, 12-11, we're 5-0, and take a seat Kahuna-meat.
Bout time the top of the order did something. The bottom has been carrying us for weeks.
Those big hits notwithstanding, the best moment was Jason after his last hit. It was a sinking line drive, so Rams had to hold up, playing it conservative with no outs, and he didn't score. Jason wailed, "I can't ever get a game winning hit."
Well Jas all I can say is without you there was no game winner at that time. In the top of the seventh, he made one of the great catches of the season on a blooper to left, over the shoulder, blind, just beautiful. Kept the Kahunas off the board and thus we only needed the one run to win.
Great season, we have now run the table for the first half, I think for the first time in this team's history. Magic number is unofficially 3. Let's do it in three games.
Milestones:
Timmy 500 h (#4)
Jas 30 2b (#12)
Rams 150 ab (#23)
This time we had to make it interesting. The Big Bad Kahunas only showed up with nine players. Easy right? The way our team has been hitting? Gap here, gap there, here a gap there a gap.
Only you have to play the game on the field. So we spotted them a 9-1 lead. They had a new right fielder and he robbed D in the first, and they held us to a single run. They slowly built that lead as we struggled in the second and third.
But that is no lead at all for this team. The heart of the order came up in the fourth, and this time RBIs by RB, Hama and Heavy D would not be denied as he hit a two run hobble double. Chopper brought him in with a towering triple, and when he scored suddenly we had a game at 9-7.
The Kahunas got two in the fifth, and what they didn't know is that Tom and the defense would shut them down from there out. We came up in the bottom of the inning, the top of the order was up again. Jason, Timmy and Cage produced a run, and up stepped RB, and you knew what he wanted. He blasted one over the right center fence and we were within one. Hama and D came up with the tying run., Hama with his second double in two innings, and D hit the ball so hard this time right at the right fielder he was frozen in his tracks. Only this time the laser beam rose and rose until it hit half way up the fence. Someone should check to see if there are broken links in that fence.
After we held them one last time, up came Ramsay who had had a tough night. He took advantage of the spacious outfield finally and doubled down the left field line. It was all but over. Jason followed with a single, and then Timmy muscled up and sent the ball over the center fielder's head - and he wasn't even really drawn in very far to try to get Rams out on a shallow fly. Walk off, game over, 12-11, we're 5-0, and take a seat Kahuna-meat.
Bout time the top of the order did something. The bottom has been carrying us for weeks.
Those big hits notwithstanding, the best moment was Jason after his last hit. It was a sinking line drive, so Rams had to hold up, playing it conservative with no outs, and he didn't score. Jason wailed, "I can't ever get a game winning hit."
Well Jas all I can say is without you there was no game winner at that time. In the top of the seventh, he made one of the great catches of the season on a blooper to left, over the shoulder, blind, just beautiful. Kept the Kahunas off the board and thus we only needed the one run to win.
Great season, we have now run the table for the first half, I think for the first time in this team's history. Magic number is unofficially 3. Let's do it in three games.
Milestones:
Timmy 500 h (#4)
Jas 30 2b (#12)
Rams 150 ab (#23)
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