The train keeps rolling along. All aboooooooooooard the Transdyn train.
After one of the weirdest games in recent Transdyn history where we squeaked out a narrow 10-8 win over the upstart Dirtballs last week, we simply crushed the bottom feeding JC's Green Plumbing, 20-2 this week.
Last week was whack. It started with a great traffic jam on 580 east to Pleasanton. Ya put in your time at work and then you're stressed because you left at the right time instead of putting in the expected three hours of overtime and you're gonna get there at game time and instead you get stuck in a traffic jam. I was gonna be late. And Cage and Donnie Softball were stuck in the same traffic jam. But at least I knew they would get there before me, so I wasn't too worried. The lineup had been safely sent electronically ahead, just fill them in as they get there. Besides we had plenty of players. Right? Well, not exactly. I get there as the tenth player and Jason is already hurt from something that happened his first time up which I missed. When he further aggravated his shoulder injury making a play in the bottom of the first, he hopped off the field in agony. Well it's still OK, we will just bring in Monty to catch, and move everyone around...and where is Monty? Oh he is in the dugout just putting on his cleats. Where was he? Oh he had to stay at work late too, in fact he had to go back after the game. What is America coming to that you can't even go to your game on time and do the thing you really love to do?
In the mean time Jason is hopping around trying to keep his shoulder in its socket, not very successfully. The .900 leadoff hitter will be sorely missed by us, and we just hope he can return sooner rather than later. Besides, I know Coop can take over as leadoff hitter but who will take over as biggest head case? (and I don't mean that in a bad way, we love quirky players around here).
But all was not lost; Monty comes in and goes 3-3 in the leadoff spot (I may have to move myself into that spot - apparently you don't make outs there). Coop makes a game saving throw from right field to home to keep the Dirtbags, er Dirtballs scoreless in the bottom of the 5th in a 7-5 game. Timmy takes a bases loaded walk - how weird is that? Pauly has a perfect 2-2 with a walk game.
Clutch hits were Heffe's two run single in the second that started the scoring after going through the whole lineup without scoring, and back to back hits by Donnie Softball and Big D in the last inning to give us the cushion we needed.
And after this week's affair Big D or Heavy D has a new nickname.
This is because in this game he turned that rarest of feats as a lefty playing second base, the 6-4-3 270 degree turn double play. From now on - Dizzy Dee of the Two Seventee. Fed from Hama filling for Jason at SS he looked like a natural turning this way and that and firing to first to complete the double play in the fourth to keep Green Plumbing all stopped up at one run.
Dizzy also crushed a ball or two among his three hits. I have never heard anything so funny in my life after one of my patented bloopers - the pitcher telling the outfield "move in on the lefties." Now seriously - has anyone ever mistaken me and Dizzy D? Twins separated at birth, the coffee momma fed us at an early age stunted my growth and ate all his hair? Really?
Dizzy had six RBIs and it only tied him for the team lead, with our latest pickup Rene Noel. Is that French for a Christmas present in May? Cage brings out his friend right at the Add deadline, a good time since we are a little banged up with Jas gone and Mario catching to rest his gimpy hammy.
So what happens? D turns the 270, Mario makes the short hop catch of the night, and Noel Noel just goes 3-3 with the mini-cycle (that's single double triple for those not in the know) and matches D's six RBIs in his debut. Not bad.
A word on Mario's catch too...I make my softball living by once in a blue moon scooping one out of the dirt at first. But doing it at home plate is a whole other thing. Cage's throw was awesome - a short hop from medium deep left center, and when that kind of throw comes in from that far it has a lot of mustard, and kind of skims the ground. Mario just nonchalantly closed his eyes and closed his glove and the last Green rally stopped at one run. The game was over shortly after that.
Six guys had three hits, Timmy, Cage, D, Hama, Heffe, and Noel Noel. Pauly continued his hot streak with another 2-2 this time with a sac fly and a booming triplle turned into a double by the slow runner in front of him and a conservative coach. Coop had a mini slump for a while in the two games and then hit a couple on a row as he remembered that the leadoff hitter doesn't make outs. Donnie softball had a couple and a walk, and Hama complained that batting behind Dizzy Dee takes away his RBIs. Watch what you are saying - the alternative is being on first when he is up if you bat ahead of him.
We eliminated one team after only seven, and it looks like more to come. Note - we have allowed less than half the runs as any oher team and have scored +23 more than anyone. Hmm there must be a word on Sir Guy's pitching in here somewhere - oh yeah, as he said you have a good feeling when you strike out the leadoff batter of the game - and the word is, 20-2.
On to Richerts next week.
Milestones:
Heffe 650 h (#1)
Cage 40 sf (#1)
Cage 20 gw (#2)
Monty 400 h (#5)
Pauly 20 bb (#10)
After one of the weirdest games in recent Transdyn history where we squeaked out a narrow 10-8 win over the upstart Dirtballs last week, we simply crushed the bottom feeding JC's Green Plumbing, 20-2 this week.
Last week was whack. It started with a great traffic jam on 580 east to Pleasanton. Ya put in your time at work and then you're stressed because you left at the right time instead of putting in the expected three hours of overtime and you're gonna get there at game time and instead you get stuck in a traffic jam. I was gonna be late. And Cage and Donnie Softball were stuck in the same traffic jam. But at least I knew they would get there before me, so I wasn't too worried. The lineup had been safely sent electronically ahead, just fill them in as they get there. Besides we had plenty of players. Right? Well, not exactly. I get there as the tenth player and Jason is already hurt from something that happened his first time up which I missed. When he further aggravated his shoulder injury making a play in the bottom of the first, he hopped off the field in agony. Well it's still OK, we will just bring in Monty to catch, and move everyone around...and where is Monty? Oh he is in the dugout just putting on his cleats. Where was he? Oh he had to stay at work late too, in fact he had to go back after the game. What is America coming to that you can't even go to your game on time and do the thing you really love to do?
In the mean time Jason is hopping around trying to keep his shoulder in its socket, not very successfully. The .900 leadoff hitter will be sorely missed by us, and we just hope he can return sooner rather than later. Besides, I know Coop can take over as leadoff hitter but who will take over as biggest head case? (and I don't mean that in a bad way, we love quirky players around here).
But all was not lost; Monty comes in and goes 3-3 in the leadoff spot (I may have to move myself into that spot - apparently you don't make outs there). Coop makes a game saving throw from right field to home to keep the Dirtbags, er Dirtballs scoreless in the bottom of the 5th in a 7-5 game. Timmy takes a bases loaded walk - how weird is that? Pauly has a perfect 2-2 with a walk game.
Clutch hits were Heffe's two run single in the second that started the scoring after going through the whole lineup without scoring, and back to back hits by Donnie Softball and Big D in the last inning to give us the cushion we needed.
And after this week's affair Big D or Heavy D has a new nickname.
This is because in this game he turned that rarest of feats as a lefty playing second base, the 6-4-3 270 degree turn double play. From now on - Dizzy Dee of the Two Seventee. Fed from Hama filling for Jason at SS he looked like a natural turning this way and that and firing to first to complete the double play in the fourth to keep Green Plumbing all stopped up at one run.
Dizzy also crushed a ball or two among his three hits. I have never heard anything so funny in my life after one of my patented bloopers - the pitcher telling the outfield "move in on the lefties." Now seriously - has anyone ever mistaken me and Dizzy D? Twins separated at birth, the coffee momma fed us at an early age stunted my growth and ate all his hair? Really?
Dizzy had six RBIs and it only tied him for the team lead, with our latest pickup Rene Noel. Is that French for a Christmas present in May? Cage brings out his friend right at the Add deadline, a good time since we are a little banged up with Jas gone and Mario catching to rest his gimpy hammy.
So what happens? D turns the 270, Mario makes the short hop catch of the night, and Noel Noel just goes 3-3 with the mini-cycle (that's single double triple for those not in the know) and matches D's six RBIs in his debut. Not bad.
A word on Mario's catch too...I make my softball living by once in a blue moon scooping one out of the dirt at first. But doing it at home plate is a whole other thing. Cage's throw was awesome - a short hop from medium deep left center, and when that kind of throw comes in from that far it has a lot of mustard, and kind of skims the ground. Mario just nonchalantly closed his eyes and closed his glove and the last Green rally stopped at one run. The game was over shortly after that.
Six guys had three hits, Timmy, Cage, D, Hama, Heffe, and Noel Noel. Pauly continued his hot streak with another 2-2 this time with a sac fly and a booming triplle turned into a double by the slow runner in front of him and a conservative coach. Coop had a mini slump for a while in the two games and then hit a couple on a row as he remembered that the leadoff hitter doesn't make outs. Donnie softball had a couple and a walk, and Hama complained that batting behind Dizzy Dee takes away his RBIs. Watch what you are saying - the alternative is being on first when he is up if you bat ahead of him.
We eliminated one team after only seven, and it looks like more to come. Note - we have allowed less than half the runs as any oher team and have scored +23 more than anyone. Hmm there must be a word on Sir Guy's pitching in here somewhere - oh yeah, as he said you have a good feeling when you strike out the leadoff batter of the game - and the word is, 20-2.
On to Richerts next week.
Milestones:
Heffe 650 h (#1)
Cage 40 sf (#1)
Cage 20 gw (#2)
Monty 400 h (#5)
Pauly 20 bb (#10)
You know what's missing is a creaker story.
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