Don't ever give up your spot in the field. You just might be Wally Pipp'ed.
It took me two weeks to turn two double plays. This doesn't happen very often at first base. You just don't get that many chances, and have to perform when you get the chance.
I moved off first base for two innings today, and Lamont 'LT' Thompson turned the feat twice in his two innings there. The first was a hard grounder and he stepped on the bag and wheeled to second and threw a strike to nab the runner coming from first. The second was even better. He snared a hot shot, and had the presence to tag the runner trying to go to second and then stepped on first base. I may never get back there.
Today Red's hitters may have been somewhat blinded by Monday's eclipse, but our gloves found the ball on defense enough to prevail over Black 17-9. Besides LT's great day, Tony Gorgone was a vacuum cleaner at second base, and Mark Pitzlin made a couple of huge running catches on short bloopers to the middle of the field. Al Kidwell started a nifty 11-4-3 double play in the eighth, and he managed to get a force out on a very bad hop grounder in the second.
The game was close through four, in fact it was 7-7 and had the markings of a battle to the end. We took a 3-1 lead after one, but Black answered in the second with three of their own and when we answered back with three they repeated the feat. So after three full it was tied, and anyone's game.
This is when LT and the defense took over. We only allowed two runs the rest of the game.
The offense sputtered but put up five in the fifth and sixth, and that was the difference in the game. The hitting was spread throughout the lineup - everyone had at least two hits, except Rich "A walk's a hit") Brown, who had a sac fly and an RBI bases loaded walk, and Larry Fogli who did have a clutch RBI single in the no out five run fifth to clean things up. The bottom of the lineup produced eight runs and the top nine - that's how balanced it was.
Kevin Kane was the best of us with four straight singles. Jerry Ginochio was 3-3 and Pitzlin, Bill Marthinsen and yours truly joined them with three hits. Gorgone had the only real power hit of the day, a middle gapper good for a triple.
We might even make the playoffs at this rate!
It took me two weeks to turn two double plays. This doesn't happen very often at first base. You just don't get that many chances, and have to perform when you get the chance.
I moved off first base for two innings today, and Lamont 'LT' Thompson turned the feat twice in his two innings there. The first was a hard grounder and he stepped on the bag and wheeled to second and threw a strike to nab the runner coming from first. The second was even better. He snared a hot shot, and had the presence to tag the runner trying to go to second and then stepped on first base. I may never get back there.
Today Red's hitters may have been somewhat blinded by Monday's eclipse, but our gloves found the ball on defense enough to prevail over Black 17-9. Besides LT's great day, Tony Gorgone was a vacuum cleaner at second base, and Mark Pitzlin made a couple of huge running catches on short bloopers to the middle of the field. Al Kidwell started a nifty 11-4-3 double play in the eighth, and he managed to get a force out on a very bad hop grounder in the second.
The game was close through four, in fact it was 7-7 and had the markings of a battle to the end. We took a 3-1 lead after one, but Black answered in the second with three of their own and when we answered back with three they repeated the feat. So after three full it was tied, and anyone's game.
This is when LT and the defense took over. We only allowed two runs the rest of the game.
The offense sputtered but put up five in the fifth and sixth, and that was the difference in the game. The hitting was spread throughout the lineup - everyone had at least two hits, except Rich "A walk's a hit") Brown, who had a sac fly and an RBI bases loaded walk, and Larry Fogli who did have a clutch RBI single in the no out five run fifth to clean things up. The bottom of the lineup produced eight runs and the top nine - that's how balanced it was.
Kevin Kane was the best of us with four straight singles. Jerry Ginochio was 3-3 and Pitzlin, Bill Marthinsen and yours truly joined them with three hits. Gorgone had the only real power hit of the day, a middle gapper good for a triple.
We might even make the playoffs at this rate!
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