The Key Moment of the game came with the score I don't know to not sure how many. Art Minor strode to the plate, with maybe someone on base. Maybe not, but there were two outs. Art had crushed the ball to Field 5 his first time up. Barry Gronenberg saw right through that. He had pitched that gopher ball, and he was now playing second base. Who better to know the mind of the power hitter?
Barry intuited that of course with him not on the mound Art would try to go to right field. So what he does is open up the whole right side of the infield and plays him up the middle. Now Art is so intent on going to right, he takes an inside pitch and hits a bounding one hopper to me playing first, and it's an easy end to the inning.
Barry therefore takes credit for the whole win as we stomped Green 28-22.
Apologies to Barry, but that was but one key out we got in the game.
Overall, White put together a complete game today. Our hitting was tremendous, and our defense was nearly as good. With the score 10-9, Dave Siegel relieved Gronenberg in the fourth inning, and held a good hitting Green team to three runs in the next three innings and five over four innings as we built a 28-13 lead through seven. We turned four double plays to help him out, Mike Saindon, Clay Kallam, David Partridge, and Jeff Kravin all taking part. There were scoops at first and the outfield was solid. Even when Green had hits the outfield kept the damage minimal - for example, Paul Lisi cut off one seeming gapper to hold the hitter to a single. Only a late surge by Green made the score a respectable 28-22.
Everyone got into the act at the plate. I have to start with Saindon just because he hit two home runs and drove in six. But the team hit .706 all together so there were a lot of good individual games.
I could see Kallam pounding the ball in practice, and he continued it into the game with 4-4 plus a walk including a home run and was second on the team with five RBIs.
With Rich Brown out, Dave Rose took over at the leadoff spot, and was 4-5 with two doubles, a triple plus a walk.
Partridge, probably the most under the radar player in the league, was merely 5-5 with a home run and three RBIs.
Gronenberg, besides saving the game, had one of his patented chalk raising drives down the right field line, and was 4-5 with a double and a triple.
Lisi was drooling every time he came up because they were giving him so much room in right, where he loves to hit. He nailed it over there three times.
The other highlight of our game was when Bob Muegge struck me out swinging, but I made him pay later with a booming triple down the right field line, among three hits.
Siegel, besides pitching a masterful game, had a couple of hits and got the game winning RBI on a ground out. Helen Kostoff beat the extreme shift for two early hits, and Bruce Spenser, despite an off game still managed a hit and a walk, so every single person on the team was on base at least twice.
We have our adversity with losing the shoe-in Rookie of the Year Tom Meyer, and Brown off for a few weeks, but if we play like we did today I will take our chances against anyone in the league.
Barry intuited that of course with him not on the mound Art would try to go to right field. So what he does is open up the whole right side of the infield and plays him up the middle. Now Art is so intent on going to right, he takes an inside pitch and hits a bounding one hopper to me playing first, and it's an easy end to the inning.
Barry therefore takes credit for the whole win as we stomped Green 28-22.
Apologies to Barry, but that was but one key out we got in the game.
Overall, White put together a complete game today. Our hitting was tremendous, and our defense was nearly as good. With the score 10-9, Dave Siegel relieved Gronenberg in the fourth inning, and held a good hitting Green team to three runs in the next three innings and five over four innings as we built a 28-13 lead through seven. We turned four double plays to help him out, Mike Saindon, Clay Kallam, David Partridge, and Jeff Kravin all taking part. There were scoops at first and the outfield was solid. Even when Green had hits the outfield kept the damage minimal - for example, Paul Lisi cut off one seeming gapper to hold the hitter to a single. Only a late surge by Green made the score a respectable 28-22.
Everyone got into the act at the plate. I have to start with Saindon just because he hit two home runs and drove in six. But the team hit .706 all together so there were a lot of good individual games.
I could see Kallam pounding the ball in practice, and he continued it into the game with 4-4 plus a walk including a home run and was second on the team with five RBIs.
With Rich Brown out, Dave Rose took over at the leadoff spot, and was 4-5 with two doubles, a triple plus a walk.
Partridge, probably the most under the radar player in the league, was merely 5-5 with a home run and three RBIs.
Gronenberg, besides saving the game, had one of his patented chalk raising drives down the right field line, and was 4-5 with a double and a triple.
Lisi was drooling every time he came up because they were giving him so much room in right, where he loves to hit. He nailed it over there three times.
The other highlight of our game was when Bob Muegge struck me out swinging, but I made him pay later with a booming triple down the right field line, among three hits.
Siegel, besides pitching a masterful game, had a couple of hits and got the game winning RBI on a ground out. Helen Kostoff beat the extreme shift for two early hits, and Bruce Spenser, despite an off game still managed a hit and a walk, so every single person on the team was on base at least twice.
We have our adversity with losing the shoe-in Rookie of the Year Tom Meyer, and Brown off for a few weeks, but if we play like we did today I will take our chances against anyone in the league.
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