I wanted to do it, Pope had the ultimate blog idea: I got a rare triple so the title would be "Triple" and that would be it. No body. That might be fitting Conehead tradition (look at me, look at me!). But it just wouldn't be right when the team just went off tonight. Thirty nine runs on 44 hits. An 11 run Conehead inning in the first (ten with two outs) but we were just warming up. We had TWENTY ONE straight hits to start the fourth inning, and by that time we had scored twenty runs. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I remember a 24 run inning on one of my teams, but never twenty before an out was recorded.
Think I should focus on the defense in this game Chuck? (Although Bruce did make a highlight catch in the first going back on a ball, and Pope did the same later in left, and Lefty made a shoe-top catch in the early going).
Eight through twelve hitters (Bruce, Heffe, Chopper, Buddha, and Gene) were 19-19 plus a walk with four doubles, two triples, and two homers. In front of them Lefty and G were 7-9 and behind them Larry/Joe were 3-4 and then Chuck was also 4-4 (plus a walk).
Someone had to make the outs but no one was worse than 2-4. D was the only 2-4 but he had the sac fly that was the game winner as the fourth batter of the game. And hobbled to second and third on his two hits, plus provided the gallows humor as the courtesy runner for yours truly and Joe in the first.
It goes on and on - big bombs from Pope and D and Bruce, and a slicer on the line by Chopper, and I hit the line in right for the triple. Buddha just slashed and burned them for two doubles.
Don't know what else to say. But the lesson is the other team better not try to come back after a Conehead inning (they had a nine run second to 'narrow' the margin to 18-12) - we truly let the dogs out tonight.
And, for good measure, the team batting average was .815.
And to prove what dogs we are - the biggest laugh of the post-game chatter was "We should get their beer - No WE SHOULD GET THEIR WOMEN"..amen.
Milestones:
Pope 950 ab (#7)
D 30 3b (#8)
D 10 gw (#12)
Chopper 450 ab (#18)
Lefty 350 ab (#20)
Think I should focus on the defense in this game Chuck? (Although Bruce did make a highlight catch in the first going back on a ball, and Pope did the same later in left, and Lefty made a shoe-top catch in the early going).
Eight through twelve hitters (Bruce, Heffe, Chopper, Buddha, and Gene) were 19-19 plus a walk with four doubles, two triples, and two homers. In front of them Lefty and G were 7-9 and behind them Larry/Joe were 3-4 and then Chuck was also 4-4 (plus a walk).
Someone had to make the outs but no one was worse than 2-4. D was the only 2-4 but he had the sac fly that was the game winner as the fourth batter of the game. And hobbled to second and third on his two hits, plus provided the gallows humor as the courtesy runner for yours truly and Joe in the first.
It goes on and on - big bombs from Pope and D and Bruce, and a slicer on the line by Chopper, and I hit the line in right for the triple. Buddha just slashed and burned them for two doubles.
Don't know what else to say. But the lesson is the other team better not try to come back after a Conehead inning (they had a nine run second to 'narrow' the margin to 18-12) - we truly let the dogs out tonight.
And, for good measure, the team batting average was .815.
And to prove what dogs we are - the biggest laugh of the post-game chatter was "We should get their beer - No WE SHOULD GET THEIR WOMEN"..amen.
Milestones:
Pope 950 ab (#7)
D 30 3b (#8)
D 10 gw (#12)
Chopper 450 ab (#18)
Lefty 350 ab (#20)
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