For the Coneheads, the Playoffs started last week. In fact, they really started five weeks ago when we started the season ignominiously 0-3. We couldn't afford to lose more than one game and we didn't.
Last Monday, we completed our push for the Playoffs with a close victory over the Hawks, with the winner going to the playoffs and the loser done for the year. It took grit and determination in yet another game where are bats were mysteriously absent to some degree, but we just hit enough and played enough defense to come out on top.
The defensive highlights as usual featured in no particular order, Chuck's glove, Bruce's arm, and Patrick's legs. Chuck played a terrible hop in the first into an out and helped us keep the Hawks off the board. After that, we took a 3-0 lead in the bottom half and never really looked back or gave up the lead, even though the Hawks were never far behind in the rear view mirror, coming back to 3-2 and 5-3 and 6-4 before falling by the final score of 8-5.
In the third, Bruce gunned out a runner with a fourteen hop but on the mark throw from left, and the runner was still out by a step and a half. After that, the Hawks played a lot more conservative on the bases, so the play had an even greater effect than one out or one run. In the fourth, Chuck fielded a high hopper at third, and would have had a tough play at first. But he saw out of the corner of his eye the runner at third inexplicably take off, and had the presence of mind to throw a strike home to nail him at the plate. That's two runs in a three run game. Finally in the sixth Patrick laid out to grab a sinking liner to kill the Hawks comeback that inning - again when they were close they couldn't score.
On offense, Knight and Heffe were both 3-3 and five others had multiple hit games. Two key blows were Patrick's two run bases loaded single in the first to give us the lead we never gave up, and Lefty's two run double in the third to make it 5-2. Heffe provided two clutch insurance hits with two out RBI singles in the fourth and sixth.
Now we start out 0-0 just like the other playoffs teams. It's up to us to rediscover our bats, and keep up the effort on defense, but even though we are pretty old in the tooth, and banged up injury-wise, we've overcome adversity before and can do it again! Will we play into November?
Milestones:
10/16:
Knight 100 g (#21)
10/23:
None
Last Monday, we completed our push for the Playoffs with a close victory over the Hawks, with the winner going to the playoffs and the loser done for the year. It took grit and determination in yet another game where are bats were mysteriously absent to some degree, but we just hit enough and played enough defense to come out on top.
The defensive highlights as usual featured in no particular order, Chuck's glove, Bruce's arm, and Patrick's legs. Chuck played a terrible hop in the first into an out and helped us keep the Hawks off the board. After that, we took a 3-0 lead in the bottom half and never really looked back or gave up the lead, even though the Hawks were never far behind in the rear view mirror, coming back to 3-2 and 5-3 and 6-4 before falling by the final score of 8-5.
In the third, Bruce gunned out a runner with a fourteen hop but on the mark throw from left, and the runner was still out by a step and a half. After that, the Hawks played a lot more conservative on the bases, so the play had an even greater effect than one out or one run. In the fourth, Chuck fielded a high hopper at third, and would have had a tough play at first. But he saw out of the corner of his eye the runner at third inexplicably take off, and had the presence of mind to throw a strike home to nail him at the plate. That's two runs in a three run game. Finally in the sixth Patrick laid out to grab a sinking liner to kill the Hawks comeback that inning - again when they were close they couldn't score.
On offense, Knight and Heffe were both 3-3 and five others had multiple hit games. Two key blows were Patrick's two run bases loaded single in the first to give us the lead we never gave up, and Lefty's two run double in the third to make it 5-2. Heffe provided two clutch insurance hits with two out RBI singles in the fourth and sixth.
Now we start out 0-0 just like the other playoffs teams. It's up to us to rediscover our bats, and keep up the effort on defense, but even though we are pretty old in the tooth, and banged up injury-wise, we've overcome adversity before and can do it again! Will we play into November?
Milestones:
10/16:
Knight 100 g (#21)
10/23:
None
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