I'm going to try to be generous. The Coneheads' first opponent, the Usual Suspects, has had the misfortune of playing us in the first couple of weeks in most of the recent history between the teams. Last year, we won 40-3 in the second week. The 'Usual' stands for Usually at the bottom of the standings. They have won exactly one game in four straight seasons - before that they won zero. They scored 50 runs the entire season; we once or twice scored that many in one game. I'm not bragging - it's just the Unusual Facts.
From their lineup, it looks as if they went recruiting this off season. And it looks as if they are worse, if anything. It is now the Unusually Suspect team.
The score last Monday was recorded as 40-3 in a repeat of last season's game. Our book shows a mere 38-3 score; that's what we needed, the ump giving us more runs.
We hit well enough all right, but we also may have set a record for Conehead hits. For the uninitiated, errors are counted as hits on the Coneheads, and we call them Conehead Hits. It inflates our averages while eliminating any controversy over whether that was a bad hop or a bad fielder when someone botches a play. We had a bunch this game - I think Bruce may have been initiated into the Conehead hit club last week. It's all good clean fun.
There are too many guys with multi-hit games to single them all out, but there were some really well hit balls as well. Derek was perfect at 6-6 and just crushed several balls; he hit one so far, he hobbled all the way around the bases. Chuck was also a perfect 6-6. The Larrys had great games. Larry C the younger was 4-4 including a blast to dead center that rolled all the way to the far reaches of field one for a home run. Larry S the elder muscled up on a couple of opposite field shots among four hits, and only the fact that he had a slow runner in front of him (ahem) kept them from being more than doubles. Everyone had at least a couple of hits and an RBI and scored a run - that's how it is when you score 38 runs. Or 40 as the case may be. Gene and Chopper rounded out those with dingers.
A good, if expected as Usual start.
Milestones:
Gene 100 2b (#5)
D 60 2b (#11)
D 300 h (#16)
From their lineup, it looks as if they went recruiting this off season. And it looks as if they are worse, if anything. It is now the Unusually Suspect team.
The score last Monday was recorded as 40-3 in a repeat of last season's game. Our book shows a mere 38-3 score; that's what we needed, the ump giving us more runs.
We hit well enough all right, but we also may have set a record for Conehead hits. For the uninitiated, errors are counted as hits on the Coneheads, and we call them Conehead Hits. It inflates our averages while eliminating any controversy over whether that was a bad hop or a bad fielder when someone botches a play. We had a bunch this game - I think Bruce may have been initiated into the Conehead hit club last week. It's all good clean fun.
There are too many guys with multi-hit games to single them all out, but there were some really well hit balls as well. Derek was perfect at 6-6 and just crushed several balls; he hit one so far, he hobbled all the way around the bases. Chuck was also a perfect 6-6. The Larrys had great games. Larry C the younger was 4-4 including a blast to dead center that rolled all the way to the far reaches of field one for a home run. Larry S the elder muscled up on a couple of opposite field shots among four hits, and only the fact that he had a slow runner in front of him (ahem) kept them from being more than doubles. Everyone had at least a couple of hits and an RBI and scored a run - that's how it is when you score 38 runs. Or 40 as the case may be. Gene and Chopper rounded out those with dingers.
A good, if expected as Usual start.
Milestones:
Gene 100 2b (#5)
D 60 2b (#11)
D 300 h (#16)
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