Believe it or not, this game was close until the last inning.
There were six lead changes through the first six innings, and Scarlet was up 17-15. We scored five to take a decent lead and shut down Navy in the bottom of the seventh. So, 22-15. We agreed that the eighth would be the open inning.
And then.
In the eighth, we batted around, TWICE. Eighteen runs. With one out on a fielder's choice, our second run scored. Then we scored sixteen more runs with two outs. And Navy didn't really play bad defense, almost every hit was clean and only a few were pop ups. We were just Scarlet-hot. When the smoke cleared, we were at an even 40 runs in eight innings, and each player had six plate appearances. We hit .779 as a team.
I thought I had a pretty good game. 4-5 with a bases loaded triple (should have been a grand slam, this runner is just too slow), a double and a walk, and five RBIs.
But look at this:
Paul Lisi, 6-6, six runs, five RBIs
Ray Aguilera, 6-6, four RBIs
Gary Namanny, 4-4, two HRs, seven RBIs, two sac flies
Gerry Dasey, 5-6, hit for the CYCLE
Chip Sharpe, 4-6, two doubles and a triple while jetlagged
And it goes on: Art Miner, Charlie Uhlman, Helen Kostoff all 5-6.
Mike Nichols, 4-6, triple
Bob Shipway, 3-6 including a clutch two out two run triple early when it was close
Tony Gorgone was the only player who had a bad (for him) game and he still was 2-5 plus a sac fly. And one of his outs was a line shot right at the left fielder.
I'm still out of breath, so I will leave the defense out this game. We had a few good plays and a few bad ones, as usual.
There were six lead changes through the first six innings, and Scarlet was up 17-15. We scored five to take a decent lead and shut down Navy in the bottom of the seventh. So, 22-15. We agreed that the eighth would be the open inning.
And then.
In the eighth, we batted around, TWICE. Eighteen runs. With one out on a fielder's choice, our second run scored. Then we scored sixteen more runs with two outs. And Navy didn't really play bad defense, almost every hit was clean and only a few were pop ups. We were just Scarlet-hot. When the smoke cleared, we were at an even 40 runs in eight innings, and each player had six plate appearances. We hit .779 as a team.
I thought I had a pretty good game. 4-5 with a bases loaded triple (should have been a grand slam, this runner is just too slow), a double and a walk, and five RBIs.
But look at this:
Paul Lisi, 6-6, six runs, five RBIs
Ray Aguilera, 6-6, four RBIs
Gary Namanny, 4-4, two HRs, seven RBIs, two sac flies
Gerry Dasey, 5-6, hit for the CYCLE
Chip Sharpe, 4-6, two doubles and a triple while jetlagged
And it goes on: Art Miner, Charlie Uhlman, Helen Kostoff all 5-6.
Mike Nichols, 4-6, triple
Bob Shipway, 3-6 including a clutch two out two run triple early when it was close
Tony Gorgone was the only player who had a bad (for him) game and he still was 2-5 plus a sac fly. And one of his outs was a line shot right at the left fielder.
I'm still out of breath, so I will leave the defense out this game. We had a few good plays and a few bad ones, as usual.
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