Playing shorthanded and with a lot of power missing, the Coneheads took care of business with great defense and pitching and relentless and timely line drive hitting and beat the hated Waitlisters 15-7. The official score was 16-7 as even the umpire generously gave us an extra run.
The Waitlisters may have been a player or two short, but we were missing Derek, Chopper, Sting, and Charlie and that's a lot of power. The rest just stepped up, and the game was not even as close in the end as the score.
We shut down the top of their order in the first. Bruce made one of his patented over the shoulder catches on a deep ball to left center. The other dugout couldn't believe it but I just had to laugh because we are so used to it. Then after an ahem, error at first, David made a great diving stop of a hard grounder up the middle and flipped it to G for the final out.
Then we answered by scoring four in the bottom half, stringing together a bunch of hits. The inning could have gone longer but Skip got forced at second on a 'single' to right by Haze; she shouldn'ta oughtn'ta done that, because Karma got him when the same thing happened to him twice later in the game.
Nonetheless, we built an 8-1 lead by the fourth. The Waitlister finally answered in the top of the fifth with three to make it a game and then shut us down in our half. Again the top of the lineup came up (actually 2-3-4 hitters) and Larry got them to make three easy outs, a comebacker and a couple of easy flies.
In the bottom of the sixth, we put them away. Lefty led off with a gapper homer. After we scored a couple of times, Larry came up with the bases loaded and hit a two run single. But the next hit was the killer - Chauncey gapped them with two on and lumbered all the way to third on his surgically repaired knee. It made it 15 or 16-4 and that turned out the lights. The three they got in the top of the seventh were of no consequence.
Ol' G was relentless: 4-4 with an RBI each time he batted. Gene, installed in the two spot, was a menace and also 4-4 with three runs scored. Bruce had three hits and even drove in a run on his nineteen hop fielder's choice with the bases loaded. Chauncey and Haze also had three knocks.
All in all a great win against the very solid and much hated Waitlisters. They've been waitlisted until the playoffs.
Milestones:
Gene 500 r (#6)
Lefty 350 h (#17)
The Waitlisters may have been a player or two short, but we were missing Derek, Chopper, Sting, and Charlie and that's a lot of power. The rest just stepped up, and the game was not even as close in the end as the score.
We shut down the top of their order in the first. Bruce made one of his patented over the shoulder catches on a deep ball to left center. The other dugout couldn't believe it but I just had to laugh because we are so used to it. Then after an ahem, error at first, David made a great diving stop of a hard grounder up the middle and flipped it to G for the final out.
Then we answered by scoring four in the bottom half, stringing together a bunch of hits. The inning could have gone longer but Skip got forced at second on a 'single' to right by Haze; she shouldn'ta oughtn'ta done that, because Karma got him when the same thing happened to him twice later in the game.
Nonetheless, we built an 8-1 lead by the fourth. The Waitlister finally answered in the top of the fifth with three to make it a game and then shut us down in our half. Again the top of the lineup came up (actually 2-3-4 hitters) and Larry got them to make three easy outs, a comebacker and a couple of easy flies.
In the bottom of the sixth, we put them away. Lefty led off with a gapper homer. After we scored a couple of times, Larry came up with the bases loaded and hit a two run single. But the next hit was the killer - Chauncey gapped them with two on and lumbered all the way to third on his surgically repaired knee. It made it 15 or 16-4 and that turned out the lights. The three they got in the top of the seventh were of no consequence.
Ol' G was relentless: 4-4 with an RBI each time he batted. Gene, installed in the two spot, was a menace and also 4-4 with three runs scored. Bruce had three hits and even drove in a run on his nineteen hop fielder's choice with the bases loaded. Chauncey and Haze also had three knocks.
All in all a great win against the very solid and much hated Waitlisters. They've been waitlisted until the playoffs.
Milestones:
Gene 500 r (#6)
Lefty 350 h (#17)
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