As Tom noted, Transdyn scored five TDs and a field goal Tuesday. Yes that's right, we won 38-2.
You might think that is record territory, but believe it or not, way back in the early days, the year 2000 to be exact, our first in Pleasanton, this team won two different games in one year by identical 44-3 scores. One in Spring, and one in Fall.
Still, we haven't broken 35 since, and haven't scored 30 since 2012. And this team has had some pretty good vintages recently and in the mid-2000s. Impressive.
It helped that the Rounders are in last place, haven't won a game this season, started with nine players, and can't hit or field the ball. But - we were hitting line drives all over the place.
The game (foot)ball goes to Albert, who was out to prove that you can hit a 275 compression softball (or whatever it is - we lightweights don't really pay attention) over the fence at this late date. He did it twice, and although the two bombs were not quite worth two TDs, he led the team with eight RBIs. Jas and Brian had 11 RBIs between them, and they bat 1-2. Cage was perfect at 5-5 with a walk, and fell a HR short of the cycle. Jas also had five hits, and everyone else had four except Mario and Coop. Mario was 2-3 when he went out with a bad back. Coop had been the hottest hitter in the lineup - he still had three and a sac fly to boot.
Two defensive plays of note, two 55+ year olds turned a line drive double play. One of the few balls hit hard was right at Tom's head on the mound, and he snagged it. Yours truly anticipated it, and ran to first, and Tom threw behind me and I reached back and down to corral it and force out the wayward runner. What was extraordinary was not that the two OG's made the play but that neither of us got hurt in the process.
When the infield was playing in the outfield and vice versa in the last inning, Nick made a great stop playing second, and moving toward second, he was able to step on the bag and toss to first to emphatically end the game. And preserve the narrow margin of victory and keep the Rounders out of the end zone.
Six games - six good wins, half way to the promised land. We better watch out or they will want to move us up again.
Milestones:
Heffe 1300 ab (#2)
Mario 550 ab (#10)
Rene 10 bb (#20)
You might think that is record territory, but believe it or not, way back in the early days, the year 2000 to be exact, our first in Pleasanton, this team won two different games in one year by identical 44-3 scores. One in Spring, and one in Fall.
Still, we haven't broken 35 since, and haven't scored 30 since 2012. And this team has had some pretty good vintages recently and in the mid-2000s. Impressive.
It helped that the Rounders are in last place, haven't won a game this season, started with nine players, and can't hit or field the ball. But - we were hitting line drives all over the place.
The game (foot)ball goes to Albert, who was out to prove that you can hit a 275 compression softball (or whatever it is - we lightweights don't really pay attention) over the fence at this late date. He did it twice, and although the two bombs were not quite worth two TDs, he led the team with eight RBIs. Jas and Brian had 11 RBIs between them, and they bat 1-2. Cage was perfect at 5-5 with a walk, and fell a HR short of the cycle. Jas also had five hits, and everyone else had four except Mario and Coop. Mario was 2-3 when he went out with a bad back. Coop had been the hottest hitter in the lineup - he still had three and a sac fly to boot.
The only sad Transdyn players were Sir Guy (on the DL), who was bummed he couldn't fatten his batting average like everyone else, and D (at his kid's game) who will have to hear it from Albert about how to hit a round ball squarely. Monty must be in Australia or somewhere for work, honing his cricket batting stance.
Two defensive plays of note, two 55+ year olds turned a line drive double play. One of the few balls hit hard was right at Tom's head on the mound, and he snagged it. Yours truly anticipated it, and ran to first, and Tom threw behind me and I reached back and down to corral it and force out the wayward runner. What was extraordinary was not that the two OG's made the play but that neither of us got hurt in the process.
When the infield was playing in the outfield and vice versa in the last inning, Nick made a great stop playing second, and moving toward second, he was able to step on the bag and toss to first to emphatically end the game. And preserve the narrow margin of victory and keep the Rounders out of the end zone.
Six games - six good wins, half way to the promised land. We better watch out or they will want to move us up again.
Milestones:
Heffe 1300 ab (#2)
Mario 550 ab (#10)
Rene 10 bb (#20)
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