Let's face it, it's been a rough start this year for Transdyn.
First it starts when Transdyn gets bought out by a company called KapschTraffikKom or something. Lot of germanic K's. Never good when there are changes at the top...you never know how that will effect the purse strings, the after game Bibimbap, etc.
Ok, just kidding, it's rec league softball. As long as we have Monty, and he doesn't start speaking German to Sir Guy on the mound, we'll be fine there. And it's KapschTrafficCom, and they are Austrian not German.
But really, we lose Timmy to injury for at least this season to shoulder woes, and then we lose Rene and Coop in the opener, both with severe ankle sprains. Who knows when they will be back. That's 3/5ths of our outfield folks.
Thank god for Jas coming back, allowing Hama to roam the OF or we'd be in deep weeds. Wait it's Jas...we are deep in the weeds.
But I digress. Despite this, we have enough talent to overcome such obstacles, or so I think. We scuffled for a couple of games, and found ourselves looking up in the standings, glad that everyone will be in the playoffs this season.
And then along come the Ballers...they seem to be the antidote for us. We already had hurt them 17-3 the first time around. Last week we had to face them without three of our big boppers, Alberto and D and Chopper, and we had to scramble to get 10 players by game time. Jason brought out a new guy, Mark. A Youth! Can run! Can catch! Can hit!
We did nothing in the first, and gave up two in the second, and then the season finally kicked in...we sent 17 batters to the plate and scored twelve of them, and the game was pretty much over. The young Ballers could just gape open mouthed as guys old enough to be not only their fathers but even grandpas showed them how it is done. We only had one run in, when there were two outs - then starting with Jas at the top of the lineup, the next eleven batters hit safely - that's one more than batting around with two outs. Mostly it was singles, with a little Baller defensive help - or lack of same - and then strode up our new kid, with the bases loaded, and he promptly cleared them with a shot over the left fielder's head for a triple. He scored for the last run of the inning, and it was pretty much over except waiting out the clock to the fifth inning.
We put up six more in the third - Pauly hit one of his two bombs to the fence, this one for a double, the other for a triple in the fourth. In the mean time the Ballers were doing nothing against Sir Guy and our defense. The Kid had a nice running catch on a potential gapper for one highlight, and Jas dove to his left a couple of times for our defensive highlights.
Other heroes were Heffe with a perfect 4-4 night, Tom the super sub 3-4 and Sir Guy 2-2 plus a sac fly. Mario and Jason broke out of their mini-slumps with a couple of knocks each.
Yes we are in the playoffs, but we can still go 9-3 and we are already in second due to tiebreakers, and the Blue Dots did us a favor by giving the Ringers their first loss. All is well.
Milestones:
4/8
Cage 400 r (#3)
4/15
Sir Guy 400 h (#7)
Cage 750 ab (#7)
Jas 10 sf (#13)
4/22
Jas 350 ab (#12)
D 200 h (#13)
Hama 100 r (#16)
4/29
D 300 ab (#13)
Rams 100 r (#17)
Hama 200 ab (#22)
5/6
Pauly 40 ab (#8)
First it starts when Transdyn gets bought out by a company called KapschTraffikKom or something. Lot of germanic K's. Never good when there are changes at the top...you never know how that will effect the purse strings, the after game Bibimbap, etc.
Ok, just kidding, it's rec league softball. As long as we have Monty, and he doesn't start speaking German to Sir Guy on the mound, we'll be fine there. And it's KapschTrafficCom, and they are Austrian not German.
But really, we lose Timmy to injury for at least this season to shoulder woes, and then we lose Rene and Coop in the opener, both with severe ankle sprains. Who knows when they will be back. That's 3/5ths of our outfield folks.
Thank god for Jas coming back, allowing Hama to roam the OF or we'd be in deep weeds. Wait it's Jas...we are deep in the weeds.
But I digress. Despite this, we have enough talent to overcome such obstacles, or so I think. We scuffled for a couple of games, and found ourselves looking up in the standings, glad that everyone will be in the playoffs this season.
And then along come the Ballers...they seem to be the antidote for us. We already had hurt them 17-3 the first time around. Last week we had to face them without three of our big boppers, Alberto and D and Chopper, and we had to scramble to get 10 players by game time. Jason brought out a new guy, Mark. A Youth! Can run! Can catch! Can hit!
We did nothing in the first, and gave up two in the second, and then the season finally kicked in...we sent 17 batters to the plate and scored twelve of them, and the game was pretty much over. The young Ballers could just gape open mouthed as guys old enough to be not only their fathers but even grandpas showed them how it is done. We only had one run in, when there were two outs - then starting with Jas at the top of the lineup, the next eleven batters hit safely - that's one more than batting around with two outs. Mostly it was singles, with a little Baller defensive help - or lack of same - and then strode up our new kid, with the bases loaded, and he promptly cleared them with a shot over the left fielder's head for a triple. He scored for the last run of the inning, and it was pretty much over except waiting out the clock to the fifth inning.
We put up six more in the third - Pauly hit one of his two bombs to the fence, this one for a double, the other for a triple in the fourth. In the mean time the Ballers were doing nothing against Sir Guy and our defense. The Kid had a nice running catch on a potential gapper for one highlight, and Jas dove to his left a couple of times for our defensive highlights.
Other heroes were Heffe with a perfect 4-4 night, Tom the super sub 3-4 and Sir Guy 2-2 plus a sac fly. Mario and Jason broke out of their mini-slumps with a couple of knocks each.
Yes we are in the playoffs, but we can still go 9-3 and we are already in second due to tiebreakers, and the Blue Dots did us a favor by giving the Ringers their first loss. All is well.
Milestones:
4/8
Cage 400 r (#3)
4/15
Sir Guy 400 h (#7)
Cage 750 ab (#7)
Jas 10 sf (#13)
4/22
Jas 350 ab (#12)
D 200 h (#13)
Hama 100 r (#16)
4/29
D 300 ab (#13)
Rams 100 r (#17)
Hama 200 ab (#22)
5/6
Pauly 40 ab (#8)
Mario 500 ab (#10)
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