DS Electrocuted

There's nothing new under the sun.

The headline should read, "Transdyn Wins Cotton!". And while it is good to get the first championship of the year, and 11-1 is a fine regular season, go ask the Warriors. You want to go all the way and this week is playoff crunch time. We will have our hands full (or slightly empty) missing the killer B's, Brian with his defense and speed on the bases, and Bert with his line drive and soaring homers.

And it was a little anticlimactic - we clinched Regular Season Cotton last week anyway with our squeaker over the Sons of Pitches. And, DS Electric, our opponent had scored 36 runs in dispatching the Alabama Tuna Melts last week (What a Melt down! ouch, couldn't help myself)

We were due for a letdown. 

So what did we do? We went out and shocked the Electricians, 21-2.

Didn't help that they were late in arriving for the game. After all, they came in hopelessly out of the playoff race. Doesn't help that at least some of their players, maybe most, are the remnants of the Big Kahuna club, who we just haven't liked over the last few years. Mediocre players with bad attitudes, bad combination.

After they finally arrived just short of the ten minute forfeit grace period, we got to start with two hitting innings before they stepped to the plate, due to one of Pleasanton's cooler rules. Punish the offender but let the game go on. Gotta love that one for both teams.

And by the time they did hit it was 11-0, and all but over. We had just two in the first but batted around plus one in the second. The big blow was a hooking line shot by Albert for a three run homer. That ball was clearly headed foul but Bert hit it so hard, it straightened itself out to go over in fair territory. That was the fifth of six consecutive two out hits, including two run hits by Rene and Rusty.

In the third it was more of the same but we spotted the opponent two outs to start the inning. Then poured out seven straight hits interspersed with two walks to plate six. Rene and Rusty repeated two out two run hits.

Tom did give up a two run homer in the fourth, but that was all DS Electric could muster against him and the defense. Jas made a leaping catch for an out and Rene tracked down two shallow fly balls for defensive highlights.

Rusty and Hama led the way with perfect 4-4 games, with Jas, Rene, and D just behind with three each. Rene, Rusty, D, and Bert all had four RBIs.

One week to go for Cotton II. Missing our B&B, who will step up?

Milestone:

Albert        100 rbi (#18)