Bob Muegge brought a smoked salmon lunch to share with the team and other Creaker hangers-on after Red's game today. It was a fine dining experience.
In a prelude to lunch, Muegge shut down a potent Forest lineup for the last three innings, allowing but three runs in his five inning stint and Red won going away 16-8.
It was a tight game until the eighth inning. Forest took their last lead at 5-3 after 3 1/2 innings, but we answered with a five spot in the bottom of the fourth. Seven of the first eight hitters in our lineup got hits and Bill Martinsen hit a line drive to plate the fifth run with one out. James Del Rio's hustle double was the only extra base hit in the frame.
After we traded three run sixth innings (again Del Rio had the biggest blow, a two run triple, and we scored all our runs with two outs), Muegge pitched a scoreless seventh, but the most significant inning was the top of the eighth, when he held the first four Forest hitters to a single hit.
In the bottom, the bottom of our lineup got us the start we wanted. Tony Gorgone (3-3 with a double) and Coach Larry Rafferty set the table for the top of the lineup and Kevin Kane, Rich Brown, Randy Crase, Del Rio, and yours truly finished the five run outburst. While it didn't completely seal the deal with just 16-8 lead going into the ninth, Muegge took care of it from there.
The only home run we hit was by Larry Fogli. It was a gapper to right center and Larry just put his head down and started running. And running. And running. It may have been ill advised but when he tried for third Forest threw wildly and guess what? He just kept running to complete the circuit. Run, Larry, Run!
Along the way to holding the opponent to eight runs there was some very good defense. In the second, a certain weak armed right fielder managed to catch a ball and toss it to Gorgone, who made a strong throw home to complete a double play by a step. In the fifth, LT Thompson ranged (can we use that word with Creakers?) far to his right at 1B for a grounder and raced over to beat the runner to first for the third out. I think he was just showing off his lately discovered speed. In the critical eighth, Crase playing rover made an exceptional play on a hard shot up the middle. Kane made a running catch on a ball that was twisting in the wind for the second out, and Gorgone used his boiler to knock down a ball and throw to first for the third out.
No one was perfect in the batter's box but Kane, Brown, Del Rio (double, triple), Mark Pitzlin (2 doubles), LT (triple), and Gorgone (double) all had three hits, and four others had two.
Wish we didn't have a break next week. We are smoking!
In a prelude to lunch, Muegge shut down a potent Forest lineup for the last three innings, allowing but three runs in his five inning stint and Red won going away 16-8.
It was a tight game until the eighth inning. Forest took their last lead at 5-3 after 3 1/2 innings, but we answered with a five spot in the bottom of the fourth. Seven of the first eight hitters in our lineup got hits and Bill Martinsen hit a line drive to plate the fifth run with one out. James Del Rio's hustle double was the only extra base hit in the frame.
After we traded three run sixth innings (again Del Rio had the biggest blow, a two run triple, and we scored all our runs with two outs), Muegge pitched a scoreless seventh, but the most significant inning was the top of the eighth, when he held the first four Forest hitters to a single hit.
In the bottom, the bottom of our lineup got us the start we wanted. Tony Gorgone (3-3 with a double) and Coach Larry Rafferty set the table for the top of the lineup and Kevin Kane, Rich Brown, Randy Crase, Del Rio, and yours truly finished the five run outburst. While it didn't completely seal the deal with just 16-8 lead going into the ninth, Muegge took care of it from there.
The only home run we hit was by Larry Fogli. It was a gapper to right center and Larry just put his head down and started running. And running. And running. It may have been ill advised but when he tried for third Forest threw wildly and guess what? He just kept running to complete the circuit. Run, Larry, Run!
Along the way to holding the opponent to eight runs there was some very good defense. In the second, a certain weak armed right fielder managed to catch a ball and toss it to Gorgone, who made a strong throw home to complete a double play by a step. In the fifth, LT Thompson ranged (can we use that word with Creakers?) far to his right at 1B for a grounder and raced over to beat the runner to first for the third out. I think he was just showing off his lately discovered speed. In the critical eighth, Crase playing rover made an exceptional play on a hard shot up the middle. Kane made a running catch on a ball that was twisting in the wind for the second out, and Gorgone used his boiler to knock down a ball and throw to first for the third out.
No one was perfect in the batter's box but Kane, Brown, Del Rio (double, triple), Mark Pitzlin (2 doubles), LT (triple), and Gorgone (double) all had three hits, and four others had two.
Wish we didn't have a break next week. We are smoking!
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