It used to be that we geared up for Advance Construction. Before my time in the league (and Pinky's), word is that we traded off every year with JFT the champions in the odd years, and Advance in the even (or was it the other way around?). As recently as last year they actually ended the regular season in first place. Then something happened - in the playoffs we and Pinky's drubbed them by a combined score of 40-10 (it was the highlight of our season when we smothered them 26-4, taking out all our Pinky frustration on them).
Steve who runs the league either has a sick sense of humor or is from another planet (I lean to the latter, I wonder what his birth certificate says). He rewards poor Advance by giving them three games against the undefeated Pink's and two against us. After Sunday there is no doubt that they will go 0-5 in those games. And, in Steve's Advanced Senility, he predetermined that Advance is one of the top three teams and so gets to face us and/or Pinky's again in the playoffs - no matter where they end up in the standings. And at the moment they are tied for sixth.
And let's face it we have their number now as we showed Sunday with another 14-5 rout.
We did it with the usual assortment of good defense and pitching and a couple of our patented long innings, and saved the great play for the last inning to stomp them out.
In the first we spotted them four runs, but answered with four to match. The fuel was Lefty's two run double, which accounted for half of his game high four RBIs. The next inning the bottom of the order produced two more and even though it remained close until the bottom of the fifth, there was never any doubt after that. But Advance hung in there until we batted around starting with our leadoff man Chico. Lefty had another two run hit and Ol' G hit a gapper for a two run double.
And to top it all off we turned a patented sharp 6-11-3 double play to snuff out any hopes of a rally in the top of the last inning. Chuck and Greg and I are getting to be quite the habit, and it's a good habit. The two of them work together like no other combo up the middle in the league.
Besides Lefty, Greg was the hitting star - he had four hits and two of them were laser drives down the left field line. Chopper had his usual 3-3 but no Goose that night, all singles. Too hard to go inside the park with the fence on field three. A bunch of us had two hits and Dizzy D combined them with two walks since they really didn't want to pitch to him, for a perfect night.
Now we have to make it through three games that should be ho-hum before we end up against Corona's and Pinky's to finish the season long quest to upend Pinky's out of first place. But one thing we know - we will probably face Advance Construction again in the playoffs, and there will be no fear in Creekville.
Milestones:
Chico 400 ab (#1)
Timmy 50 rbi (#12)
Steve who runs the league either has a sick sense of humor or is from another planet (I lean to the latter, I wonder what his birth certificate says). He rewards poor Advance by giving them three games against the undefeated Pink's and two against us. After Sunday there is no doubt that they will go 0-5 in those games. And, in Steve's Advanced Senility, he predetermined that Advance is one of the top three teams and so gets to face us and/or Pinky's again in the playoffs - no matter where they end up in the standings. And at the moment they are tied for sixth.
And let's face it we have their number now as we showed Sunday with another 14-5 rout.
We did it with the usual assortment of good defense and pitching and a couple of our patented long innings, and saved the great play for the last inning to stomp them out.
In the first we spotted them four runs, but answered with four to match. The fuel was Lefty's two run double, which accounted for half of his game high four RBIs. The next inning the bottom of the order produced two more and even though it remained close until the bottom of the fifth, there was never any doubt after that. But Advance hung in there until we batted around starting with our leadoff man Chico. Lefty had another two run hit and Ol' G hit a gapper for a two run double.
And to top it all off we turned a patented sharp 6-11-3 double play to snuff out any hopes of a rally in the top of the last inning. Chuck and Greg and I are getting to be quite the habit, and it's a good habit. The two of them work together like no other combo up the middle in the league.
Besides Lefty, Greg was the hitting star - he had four hits and two of them were laser drives down the left field line. Chopper had his usual 3-3 but no Goose that night, all singles. Too hard to go inside the park with the fence on field three. A bunch of us had two hits and Dizzy D combined them with two walks since they really didn't want to pitch to him, for a perfect night.
Now we have to make it through three games that should be ho-hum before we end up against Corona's and Pinky's to finish the season long quest to upend Pinky's out of first place. But one thing we know - we will probably face Advance Construction again in the playoffs, and there will be no fear in Creekville.
Milestones:
Chico 400 ab (#1)
Heffe 350 ab (#3)
Lefty 200 h (#4)
Sting 150 h (#6)
Sting 250 ab (#10)Lefty 200 h (#4)
Sting 150 h (#6)
Timmy 50 rbi (#12)
Dizzy D 10 bb (#12)
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