I thought I was done with Walkathons when my kids graduated elementary school. No such luck. Transdyn walked away to a 27-13 victory over Cup Check with sixteen walks gifted to us. We had pitches behind us, flat pitches not being called (perhaps out of sympathy), three pitchers, walks with the bases empty, walks with the bases loaded, you name it. Bubba of Forrest Gump fame didn't have more shrimp recipes than we had walks.
By the way, I won the contest with four walks, tying a career high. Only Pauly failed to walk, but then he was 6-6 (with six RBIs). He swung at everything, which might explain his multiple hits that blooped into empty green spaces.
In between, we tattooed the ball all over the yard. Although Cup Check had five bombs over the fence (the team name maybe should be Bat Check), six of our players hit doubles, and D only failed to get one because he was admiring his hit to the fence that he thought was out (the wind knocked it down, or so the excuse went). We had innings of eight, six and five runs in the rout.
Rusty was perfect with three hits and three walks, Hama and Nick also had three hits, everyone scored a run, and everyone had a hit except me and my four walks.
There were no defensive plays to speak of except a couple of nice catches on shallow popups by B and Hama and Jay, and a double play or two.
The win leaves us in a virtual three way tie for first at 5-1, but we own the tiebreakers on both tied opponents. Win out and cotton is ours. A tall order perhaps but maybe there will be more gifts down the line.
Milestones:
8/8
None
8/15
D 350 h (#11)
D 550 ab (#12)
By the way, I won the contest with four walks, tying a career high. Only Pauly failed to walk, but then he was 6-6 (with six RBIs). He swung at everything, which might explain his multiple hits that blooped into empty green spaces.
In between, we tattooed the ball all over the yard. Although Cup Check had five bombs over the fence (the team name maybe should be Bat Check), six of our players hit doubles, and D only failed to get one because he was admiring his hit to the fence that he thought was out (the wind knocked it down, or so the excuse went). We had innings of eight, six and five runs in the rout.
Rusty was perfect with three hits and three walks, Hama and Nick also had three hits, everyone scored a run, and everyone had a hit except me and my four walks.
There were no defensive plays to speak of except a couple of nice catches on shallow popups by B and Hama and Jay, and a double play or two.
The win leaves us in a virtual three way tie for first at 5-1, but we own the tiebreakers on both tied opponents. Win out and cotton is ours. A tall order perhaps but maybe there will be more gifts down the line.
Milestones:
8/8
None
8/15
D 350 h (#11)
D 550 ab (#12)
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