Red Roasted

After our latest shellacking, this time to the Black by a count of 24-12, I was told that I should do a roast of the Red team in the blog.

I am not sure I need to, Black already took care of that, in the first hot day this Creaker year.

But let me just say, that even though I am not the PORC (President of the Red Creakers), I was not at the Correspondents' Dinner, I preferred to go to the Red Rally (MARGA - Make American Red Great Again) - so no such Red roasting will occur. At least this week.

As is our want, we spotted the opponent a 13-3 lead after 3+ innings, via generally poor fielding, lack of clutch hitting, and bad base running and coaching. Give it up to Black, they played the fundamentals and got some timely hits. In the middle innings we made a little move and were one big inning from making it a closer game, but Black's five spot in the 7th basically put it away.

Along the way there were a few fine plays. LT at rover scooped up a grounder to his left and made a throw to nip the runner at first in the second. Tony scooped a low throw at first in the top of the fourth. Al made a great running catch to a sinking liner in the fifth. And Howard snared a hot shot on him at the mound in the sixth. His heart is still beating fast.

On offense not much to say when you only score 12. LT hit a monster shot to deep right for a triple for our first run in the first. Randy jump started our one big(gish) rally in the fourth (four runs!) with another triple. Muegge made the most of his two hits, leading the team with three RBIs.

We can still dream - has any Creaker team gone a whole year without a win? Someday our turn will come.