Somehow the Transdyn team disappeared for a month. I didn't know where it went. I kept looking. Under rocks, on the bay, up mountains and down in the valley. Did anyone else see them from August 11th to September 8th? Not I...however..
We awoke from our slumber, and played three very good games in a row. Back is our solid defense, and our clutch hitting up and down the lineup, and especially, our pitching.
Last week Tom followed up his excellent outing against the Sons of Pitches with a beatdown of another old rival, the Brews Bros. The result was an 18-7 game that was never close. We followed up a three run first with a seven run second and never looked back.
The core of our lineup dominated this game. Cage (who is this season's hottest hitter), D and Berto combined for 11 hits, 10 runs, and 11 RBIs, including a bomb by Alberto. Jas and Brian each had three hits to set the table for the big guys.
This week's game was more of the same. Solid defense. Brian made yet another far ranging play on a popup to shallow center. The best play wasn't an out but deserves mention anyway. It was a deep fly to right that Coop got to cutoff Jason and he threw a strike to me at home. Unfortunately, the Ringer runner didn't even test us since they were down about 19-3 a the time. He would have been out by ten feet.
The game MVP was Derek, as he came out of the weeds to take the mound, with Tom out of town and Sir Guy still really on the DL. He owned the Ringers. That team scored 29 runs one game and 31 in another, just two weeks ago. They couldn't do anything last night but mostly lift easy fly balls to our outfielders. Of course they managed to hit a few up the middle to try to test Big D, but he didn't flinch. It helps that he is still taking his meds. He wanted to go at it with them too. They wouldn't have a chance, except they are very young and fast so they could have easily run away from him.
Back to the game. The wrinkle this week was that the entire lineup was productive. Maybe there is something to the theory that you should only bat ten. We scored at least two every inning. Must say that the Ringers helped - they did not seem very interested in catching the ball - but all but one of us had at least two hits.
D led the way at the plate too - he had four hits in five innings, and the only out he made was a laser in the last plate appearance for our offense - it ended the six run fifth that qualified us to finish the slaughter rule shortened game. It was a seed all the way to the right fielder who was camped at the fence in right.
As I said, Cage also stayed hot. Similar to D, the only unproductive out he made (he also had a sac fly), was a bomb. At least it sounded like it off the bat, but the mush properties of the ball Pleasanton uses knocked it down and the left fielder tracked down his drive at the fence. His hits were line drives mostly, with runners on, as he knocked in four runs. Well, one was a Heffe special, it was a line drive only in the book but that bloop scored two.
There was only one player who didn't make an out - I'll let you guess who that is. Although there is an asterisk on one of his plate appearances - he was helped by one of the Ringers' gifts.
Not going to say too much about how much one player means, just gonna say that we are undefeated when Bert takes the field. And winless without. But then again Mark, out latest super sub, can nearly say the same thing. We are 4-1 with him in the lineup.
Bottom line is that we have to talent to be competitive in this league despite our complaints about being old and being bumped up to the higher level league. The momentum we have built the last three weeks can be leveraged for the rest of the season and the playoffs.
It starts next week with a game vs. Pleasanton Auto Mall. They are by far the worst team in the league, at 1-6. Yet we have our worst record head to head (1-3) against them. We are 3-3 against the Sons of Pitches, 4-4 against the Brew Bros., and 6-5 against the Ringers. So let's get this win, and continue on our way. I love the smell of cotton in the Fall.
Milestones:
9/22
Heffe 1350 ab (#2)
9/29
Coop 400 g (#2)
Jas 500 ab (#11)
We awoke from our slumber, and played three very good games in a row. Back is our solid defense, and our clutch hitting up and down the lineup, and especially, our pitching.
Last week Tom followed up his excellent outing against the Sons of Pitches with a beatdown of another old rival, the Brews Bros. The result was an 18-7 game that was never close. We followed up a three run first with a seven run second and never looked back.
The core of our lineup dominated this game. Cage (who is this season's hottest hitter), D and Berto combined for 11 hits, 10 runs, and 11 RBIs, including a bomb by Alberto. Jas and Brian each had three hits to set the table for the big guys.
This week's game was more of the same. Solid defense. Brian made yet another far ranging play on a popup to shallow center. The best play wasn't an out but deserves mention anyway. It was a deep fly to right that Coop got to cutoff Jason and he threw a strike to me at home. Unfortunately, the Ringer runner didn't even test us since they were down about 19-3 a the time. He would have been out by ten feet.
The game MVP was Derek, as he came out of the weeds to take the mound, with Tom out of town and Sir Guy still really on the DL. He owned the Ringers. That team scored 29 runs one game and 31 in another, just two weeks ago. They couldn't do anything last night but mostly lift easy fly balls to our outfielders. Of course they managed to hit a few up the middle to try to test Big D, but he didn't flinch. It helps that he is still taking his meds. He wanted to go at it with them too. They wouldn't have a chance, except they are very young and fast so they could have easily run away from him.
Back to the game. The wrinkle this week was that the entire lineup was productive. Maybe there is something to the theory that you should only bat ten. We scored at least two every inning. Must say that the Ringers helped - they did not seem very interested in catching the ball - but all but one of us had at least two hits.
D led the way at the plate too - he had four hits in five innings, and the only out he made was a laser in the last plate appearance for our offense - it ended the six run fifth that qualified us to finish the slaughter rule shortened game. It was a seed all the way to the right fielder who was camped at the fence in right.
As I said, Cage also stayed hot. Similar to D, the only unproductive out he made (he also had a sac fly), was a bomb. At least it sounded like it off the bat, but the mush properties of the ball Pleasanton uses knocked it down and the left fielder tracked down his drive at the fence. His hits were line drives mostly, with runners on, as he knocked in four runs. Well, one was a Heffe special, it was a line drive only in the book but that bloop scored two.
There was only one player who didn't make an out - I'll let you guess who that is. Although there is an asterisk on one of his plate appearances - he was helped by one of the Ringers' gifts.
Not going to say too much about how much one player means, just gonna say that we are undefeated when Bert takes the field. And winless without. But then again Mark, out latest super sub, can nearly say the same thing. We are 4-1 with him in the lineup.
Bottom line is that we have to talent to be competitive in this league despite our complaints about being old and being bumped up to the higher level league. The momentum we have built the last three weeks can be leveraged for the rest of the season and the playoffs.
It starts next week with a game vs. Pleasanton Auto Mall. They are by far the worst team in the league, at 1-6. Yet we have our worst record head to head (1-3) against them. We are 3-3 against the Sons of Pitches, 4-4 against the Brew Bros., and 6-5 against the Ringers. So let's get this win, and continue on our way. I love the smell of cotton in the Fall.
Milestones:
9/22
Heffe 1350 ab (#2)
9/29
Coop 400 g (#2)
Jas 500 ab (#11)
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