Red State

Word association: Pennsylvania is now a red state, and it is also known as the Keystone State, and Red played defense like the Keystone Kops, and so became the State of Red. As in the defense bled all over the field into a sea of Scarlet, and we gave up another one, this time 20-11.

Oddly, Red did make a number of good defensive plays: Al Kidwell made a great running catch in left in the 1st. LT Thompson made an over the shoulder catch in shallow right playing first and had the presence of mind to double off the runner who had taken off. Bob Muegge made a nice stop at first for an out in the third, and Roger Vaverka got up for a line smash off the bat of Dave Peterson at SS in the fifth. And Chuck Breese ran down the same Dave as the latter got caught halfway between second and third on a hit to the outfield and a throw home to Chuck at the plate. The bench screamed at him to run straight at Dave and he was an easy out with a toss to Ernie Spencer at third.

But errors on the routine ones killed us in this game, and Scarlet has too much talent not to take advantage. See the ball, catch the ball, throw the ball - these appear to be foreign concepts to our team. We did lead at one point 8-4, and kept it close for a while, and were only down 15-11 through six. But we gave them a five spot in the bottom of the seventh and they never looked back.

On offense, Randy Crase, Al Kidwell, and Larry Rafferty all had multiple hit games that included an extra base hit. Al led the way with a perfect 3-3, and Larry Fogli was also perfect with 2-2 and a walk.

Next week we will not be playing a team that has the same colored uniforms, so maybe we will not throw the ball at the wrong guys. HA! Blame the uniforms!