The Orinda Summer league started out topsy turvy, well sort of. At least for three of the dominant teams from the last several years - the Coneheads, Old Scouts, and Bay Alarm. We lost our first two, the Scouts are 1-3!
And Bay Alarm? Who the hell are they?
Of course you know that they were once the runner up Pennini's late of last year's finals. I just looked up last year's results - actually the Waitlisters and St. Mo's hot starts are no fluke - they ended up last season making the Elite Four (Coneheads, Pennini's, Old Scouts and Cal Bronco) into the Big 6 with records of 9-5 and 10-4 respectively. Pennini's dominated the regular season at 13-0-1, the only blemish a tie with Cal Bronco. The Waitlisters eliminated both Cal Bronco and the Old Scouts last year and you know what we did to Pennini's.
But Pennini's - they are no more. The funniest thing that happened at the Managers' meeting was that the manager of the returning Wrecking Crew said they had Bay Alarm as a sponsor. Does this mean that Pennini's stole the sponsorship? They at least stole the name.
Ah but Karma will get you...Bay Alarm seems to be a shell of their former selves, and we beat them badly 15-1 Monday.
We started off well enough. Four straight hits, and before you knew it, it was 3-0. And then we shut down. One run in the next four innings. Where did you hide the Coneheads? It didn't matter as Joe had the Alarms reaching and popping up and grounding out. Our defense was steady, a great play here by Chuck and Heffe actually got off the ground to make a leaping catch on a high throw, and managed to come down on the base in time. The only threat Pen..er Bay Alarm had was the fabulous Mark Hayes, and Joe pitched him outside and the results were can of corn to Sting in LC, and a grounder to Chuck as SS. He did get a triple but was stranded at third.
And so it came to the top of the sixth, we were only up 4-1 and Joe was nervous. But we finally, finally put together a Conehead inning - Six straight hits including a gapper by Dizzy D, and then six more hits with two outs to bring in the last six runs. If Knight hadn't gotten greedy and got thrown out at the plate, we might still be batting.
Bay Alarm had no answer, just slunk off into the night, and we finally had a meaningful win. Don't count us out just yet.
Sting led the way with four sharp hits, D had two doubles out of three hits, and Knight, Joe (who burned the drawn in outfield) and Heffe also notched three. Knight and Joe led the game with three RBIs.
Milestones:
Chuck 120 bb (#1)
Heffe 1300 ab (#2)
Joe 700 h (#4)
Don 300 g (#5)
D 40 2b (#15)
Knight 100 rbi (#21)
And Bay Alarm? Who the hell are they?
Of course you know that they were once the runner up Pennini's late of last year's finals. I just looked up last year's results - actually the Waitlisters and St. Mo's hot starts are no fluke - they ended up last season making the Elite Four (Coneheads, Pennini's, Old Scouts and Cal Bronco) into the Big 6 with records of 9-5 and 10-4 respectively. Pennini's dominated the regular season at 13-0-1, the only blemish a tie with Cal Bronco. The Waitlisters eliminated both Cal Bronco and the Old Scouts last year and you know what we did to Pennini's.
But Pennini's - they are no more. The funniest thing that happened at the Managers' meeting was that the manager of the returning Wrecking Crew said they had Bay Alarm as a sponsor. Does this mean that Pennini's stole the sponsorship? They at least stole the name.
Ah but Karma will get you...Bay Alarm seems to be a shell of their former selves, and we beat them badly 15-1 Monday.
We started off well enough. Four straight hits, and before you knew it, it was 3-0. And then we shut down. One run in the next four innings. Where did you hide the Coneheads? It didn't matter as Joe had the Alarms reaching and popping up and grounding out. Our defense was steady, a great play here by Chuck and Heffe actually got off the ground to make a leaping catch on a high throw, and managed to come down on the base in time. The only threat Pen..er Bay Alarm had was the fabulous Mark Hayes, and Joe pitched him outside and the results were can of corn to Sting in LC, and a grounder to Chuck as SS. He did get a triple but was stranded at third.
And so it came to the top of the sixth, we were only up 4-1 and Joe was nervous. But we finally, finally put together a Conehead inning - Six straight hits including a gapper by Dizzy D, and then six more hits with two outs to bring in the last six runs. If Knight hadn't gotten greedy and got thrown out at the plate, we might still be batting.
Bay Alarm had no answer, just slunk off into the night, and we finally had a meaningful win. Don't count us out just yet.
Sting led the way with four sharp hits, D had two doubles out of three hits, and Knight, Joe (who burned the drawn in outfield) and Heffe also notched three. Knight and Joe led the game with three RBIs.
Milestones:
Chuck 120 bb (#1)
Heffe 1300 ab (#2)
Joe 700 h (#4)
Don 300 g (#5)
D 40 2b (#15)
Knight 100 rbi (#21)
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