Here's the new Red MO: Give the opponent false hope by giving away runs in the first few innings, then *surprise* learn to play defense just when the bats wake up.
Ideal game: Errors by inning; 6,5,4,3,2,1,0,0,0
Runs by inning: 0,1,2,3,4,5,5,5,15
While we didn't quite live up to the ideal today, I think you get the point.
What we did was give Burnt Orange five or six outs in each of the first four innings. It started when Mark Pitzlin popped off that we wanted to give BO the 'curse of the first' - so we handed them five runs. Happy to oblige. Bah-Da-Bing! You're welcome. Five zip. We were down 9-2 after two, but got lucky in the third when they could not capitalize on two errors in their half. This allowed us to get seven runs in 'catch-up' mode and tie the score. We again gave it up for four runs in the fourth, but we answered with five and the race was on.
At that point (after four innings) it was 14-13 Red. In the next five innings we tightened up and held Orange to one run, and the final score was 20-14 Red.
While the top of the order produced the key seven run catch-up third, the two five run innings were put up by (primarily) the bottom of the order. Bill Marthinsen, Howard Davis, Bob Muegge, Jerry Ginochio,and Coach Larry Rafferty accounted for most of our runs in the fourth and sixth inning five spots. Davis in particular - he had run scoring doubles in two innings and he and Marthinsen and Muegge kick-started three different rallies with back to back to back singles.
The catchup third featured clutch doubles by Lamont Thompson and James Del Rio and the fourth inning rally was highlighted by a key two out, two run single for our fourth and fifth runs by Pitzlin.
Overall Davis and Marthinsen were 4-4, Rich Brown was 3-4 as a temporary leadoff batter and Muegge and Pitzlin each had three hits. Del Rio led the way with four RBIs.
On defense, Larry Fogli made a nice grab in right in the ninth for that all important first out when you have a lead. Brown and Del Rio and Pitzlin had good running catches. Randy Crase and LT had some great stops in the late innings, and Kravin scooped a low throw to save an out.
Ideal game: Errors by inning; 6,5,4,3,2,1,0,0,0
Runs by inning: 0,1,2,3,4,5,5,5,15
While we didn't quite live up to the ideal today, I think you get the point.
What we did was give Burnt Orange five or six outs in each of the first four innings. It started when Mark Pitzlin popped off that we wanted to give BO the 'curse of the first' - so we handed them five runs. Happy to oblige. Bah-Da-Bing! You're welcome. Five zip. We were down 9-2 after two, but got lucky in the third when they could not capitalize on two errors in their half. This allowed us to get seven runs in 'catch-up' mode and tie the score. We again gave it up for four runs in the fourth, but we answered with five and the race was on.
At that point (after four innings) it was 14-13 Red. In the next five innings we tightened up and held Orange to one run, and the final score was 20-14 Red.
While the top of the order produced the key seven run catch-up third, the two five run innings were put up by (primarily) the bottom of the order. Bill Marthinsen, Howard Davis, Bob Muegge, Jerry Ginochio,and Coach Larry Rafferty accounted for most of our runs in the fourth and sixth inning five spots. Davis in particular - he had run scoring doubles in two innings and he and Marthinsen and Muegge kick-started three different rallies with back to back to back singles.
The catchup third featured clutch doubles by Lamont Thompson and James Del Rio and the fourth inning rally was highlighted by a key two out, two run single for our fourth and fifth runs by Pitzlin.
Overall Davis and Marthinsen were 4-4, Rich Brown was 3-4 as a temporary leadoff batter and Muegge and Pitzlin each had three hits. Del Rio led the way with four RBIs.
On defense, Larry Fogli made a nice grab in right in the ninth for that all important first out when you have a lead. Brown and Del Rio and Pitzlin had good running catches. Randy Crase and LT had some great stops in the late innings, and Kravin scooped a low throw to save an out.
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