Feelin...Hot Hot Hot

I considered skipping the blog again, or just leaving it at this:

Get on your dancin' cleats.

Olay Olay Olay Olay
Feelin Hot Hot Hot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyaJ4viMg4&feature=related

But instead just open that, and play it while you look at this:

Four games in, 4-0. Too early to talk magic number but if we did it would be 5. Or probably 4. Because -

We beat the temporary second place team last week 22-6 and this week 30-11. Those are gaudy numbers, and it will be tough for either to claim a tie breaker on us, even if they could beat us next time around.

We scored more runs in the second inning than we had players. For the second time in three innings going back to last week's walk off slaughter we scored 16.

The bottom of the order went 12-12 with 12 RBIs. The only outs they made scored runs - a Sir Guy sac fly that very nearly cleared the LC fielder's outreached glove, and another by Mario. For those that don't have the scorebook that is Monty (3-3, 2 BB, 4 RBIs, 3 runs), Sir Guy (4-4, 5 RBIs, 3 runs, GW on the gapper that did fall to score the first two runs), Coop (2-2, 3 BBs, including a bases loaded RBI one, 3 runs), and Mario (3-3, 4 runs).

In Tim's number two spot, we had Ramsay. He merely went 5-5 with 4 RBIs. Timmy, I have bad news - I came up with a new theory. You are a fine hitter but apparently on this team batting second leads to never making an out. So you are out starting next week, and I am in. Ram had his turn. The rest of you - forget it, I am the coach.

And we haven't even talked about our power hitters.

We hit six over the fence - and as we know only two counted as HRs. So it was a race to first two over, then it was take your base. Cage continued his unbelievable season - he hit two out among four hits - the first was a three run job, and really made the statement that we would not be stopped in the second. It made it 8-0. Followed shortly by Hama's blast to round it to ten. But we weren't done. Derek had a lot of anger in his swing from a rough day, and he smashed one of the next pitches over the fence. And he repeated it the next inning, and then his hardest anger hit was his last time up, when he lasered the ball in between the right fielders. Later, Jason joined the party with a line drive shot to RC.

It was some inning, that second. An out, followed by 8 hits plus a couple of walks sprinkled in, followed by a pause for another out, followed by seven more hitters reaching base. We are indeed hot, hot, hot.

I'd say the ball must have been carrying Tuesday night, but thanks to Sir Guy's mixing things up Basbhat certainly didn't match our power or our consistency. They did have one blast for a Slam that produced almost half their runs. In fact for the most part they were so off balance, they hit weak grounders, soft line drives right at people, and lazy fly balls.

And then the kicker, Nick laid out completely to snag the final out of the game on a sinking liner to left center. The batter hadn't even looked as he put his head down to get a head of steam to get to second...when he looked up, and saw everyone starting to walk in, he looked at me and his first base coach incredulously and said "But that was a Gapper!"

Statement: I might be on the ground but U R going DOWN.

We will have to do without the pitching prowess and the hitting of the older half of the hottest father-son team in the Western Hemisphere next week. But I am sure we can pick each other up in Bill's absence.

This is fun...let me rum bum bum bum

Milestones:

Monty      250 r (#6)
Cage        650 ab (#7)
Sir Guy    50 h (#7)

Sir Guy    10 sf (#11)
Hama       50 r (#26)
Rams        50 rbi (#28)