Red took a vote today for game MVP and it was unanimous. Mike Howard won in a vote of 1-0. The rest of my team weren't in my living room.
This wasn't because we scored 33 runs to his Navy's 14 with him pitching most of the game - he pitched pretty well, and we just hit from top to bottom of the lineup.
It is for giving us Mark Pitzlin when we lost our third player to season ending injury, and solidifying our team.
Once again we gifted an early lead, committing a base running gaffe to keep us from scoring in the first inning. After two it was 3-2 to Navy, but we scored five in the third and never looked back. Even though we built a 19-4 lead at one point, Navy didn't quit and it was 20-12 going into the open inning. For the second time in three weeks we busted it open by batting around and then some to score 13 this time in the last frame, led by the bottom of the order: Tony Gorgone, Bob Muegge, Jerry Ginochio, and Coach Larry Rafferty all went 2-2 in the inning.
Big hits in the game included a two out, two run double in the third by Pitzlin; two out hits from Rich Brown, James Del Rio, Pitzlin, and Kravin plated the five runs.
Al Kidwell, Gorgone, Muegge and Ginochio got successive hits in the fifth to ignite a four run rally. Randy Crase, Brown, Del Rio, Pitzlin, and Kravin also had consecutive two out hits in our five run seventh.
In the open inning onslaught, the big blows were a three run homer by Del Rio and a two run triple by Lamont Thompson. In that inning we had eleven straight hits at one point.
The defense was sometimes solid, sometimes iffy. Howard Davis had a good inning in the fourth at rover - he tied a record by getting one assist and two putouts including a step on second, throw to first double play. Kevin Kane, Pitzlin, Del Rio, and Brown all had some nice running catches in the outfield, including robbing Gary Tryhorn one time. Kidwell at rover also turned a run to second, throw to first double play, and also made a great stop on a bad hop grounder up the middle that threatened to send him to the dentist after the game. Unfortunately there was confusion on second base coverage so we didn't reward him with an out.
Ginochio pitched his best game this year, holding a potent Navy lineup to four runs in his four innings as we built the 19-4 lead, even with our usual share of gifts in the field. In his five Muegge fared not quite as well, but had to deal with more errors, and still kept Navy from mounting a serious comeback.
Gorgone was a perfect 5-5. Kane, Brown, Del Rio, Pitzlin (three doubles), Kravin, LT, and Coach Larry all had four hits, as we hit .710 as a team. Hope it continues!
This wasn't because we scored 33 runs to his Navy's 14 with him pitching most of the game - he pitched pretty well, and we just hit from top to bottom of the lineup.
It is for giving us Mark Pitzlin when we lost our third player to season ending injury, and solidifying our team.
Once again we gifted an early lead, committing a base running gaffe to keep us from scoring in the first inning. After two it was 3-2 to Navy, but we scored five in the third and never looked back. Even though we built a 19-4 lead at one point, Navy didn't quit and it was 20-12 going into the open inning. For the second time in three weeks we busted it open by batting around and then some to score 13 this time in the last frame, led by the bottom of the order: Tony Gorgone, Bob Muegge, Jerry Ginochio, and Coach Larry Rafferty all went 2-2 in the inning.
Big hits in the game included a two out, two run double in the third by Pitzlin; two out hits from Rich Brown, James Del Rio, Pitzlin, and Kravin plated the five runs.
Al Kidwell, Gorgone, Muegge and Ginochio got successive hits in the fifth to ignite a four run rally. Randy Crase, Brown, Del Rio, Pitzlin, and Kravin also had consecutive two out hits in our five run seventh.
In the open inning onslaught, the big blows were a three run homer by Del Rio and a two run triple by Lamont Thompson. In that inning we had eleven straight hits at one point.
The defense was sometimes solid, sometimes iffy. Howard Davis had a good inning in the fourth at rover - he tied a record by getting one assist and two putouts including a step on second, throw to first double play. Kevin Kane, Pitzlin, Del Rio, and Brown all had some nice running catches in the outfield, including robbing Gary Tryhorn one time. Kidwell at rover also turned a run to second, throw to first double play, and also made a great stop on a bad hop grounder up the middle that threatened to send him to the dentist after the game. Unfortunately there was confusion on second base coverage so we didn't reward him with an out.
Ginochio pitched his best game this year, holding a potent Navy lineup to four runs in his four innings as we built the 19-4 lead, even with our usual share of gifts in the field. In his five Muegge fared not quite as well, but had to deal with more errors, and still kept Navy from mounting a serious comeback.
Gorgone was a perfect 5-5. Kane, Brown, Del Rio, Pitzlin (three doubles), Kravin, LT, and Coach Larry all had four hits, as we hit .710 as a team. Hope it continues!
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