Ownage

In a game that wasn't as close as the score, JFT took down the twice defending champion Pinky's 17-9 last Sunday. At the half way point in the season, we have a two game lead on them, and having played them three times in the first seven weeks, won the season series 2-1 and so own the tiebreaker. We also put them in third place a half game behind the Coronas.

Them's the facts.

Here is the story:

You know it's your night when Randy hits a ball ten feet in front of the plate and the pitcher and catcher look at it assuming like most balls hit that well, it will have back spin on it and will roll foul. But not this night. It settles and everyone is safe, and we score a bunch more runs in our eight run Conehead inning in the fourth to essentially put the game out of reach.

You know it's your night when Lefty hustles into two over the shoulder running catches and makes all three outs in one of our shutdown innings.

You know it's your night when Johnny Steele plasters one over the left fielder's head for a two run homer. Pinky's is the team with the power guys, and Johnny is traditionally not our power hitter, but tradition was damned Sunday night.

The unsung hero was D, with the pressures of: pick your poison: Pitching against his tournament friends and teammates, while mired in a batting slump. Filling in for nominally one of the best softball pitchers in these parts, on vacation in Italy. And we know the Stink Eye can easily cross oceans. He had Pinky's eating out of his hand, and that is the real story. We had them at 17-4 after four innings, and only because we stopped hitting after that did we not slaughter rule them. D mixed up the flat knuckley stuff and some high cheese to keep them off balance the whole game.

The other hero was Bruce, who keeps raising the bar in his performance. He went 3-3 and led the game with four RBIs. Lefty added three slashing line drive hits including the only other extra base hit, a double. Also we had a return of old JFTer Mario, who added a couple of clutch hits..

All this and Reggie surprised us by getting back in town from his Reno tournament in time to play. Really quite a perfect night of softball.

Of course we know that the true test lies ahead in the playoffs, and ownage in this case only counts for that night. But it has a small meaning in that this greatly increases the chance of having the vest seeding for the playoffs, and more importantly, we know we can take these guys down. 

Milestone:

Chuck        200 r (#1)