Gary Booth pretty much summed up our game on Field 1 today, but I had a few things to add.
Not to whine (much), but Green was down to nine almost healthy bodies and two hobbled to start the game. So first of all I want to thank and give credit for Mark Narciso and Phil Tucker for gutting it out and playing today, even though normally they would have taken a week off to heal. And of course the true Gamer Darren Bobrosky - his nose miraculously stayed in place after he was smacked in the face by the line drive from Marty Parenti and he returned after stanching the wound.
Also to Greg Wilson for playing lefty shortstop because we really had no other option - he handled every grounder hit his way.
And to Chris Nielsen - After the first four innings, he shut down the extremely loaded Orange lineup, and gave us an actual chance to grab the victory, if only our bats had come alive as well as our defense. A large part of which were three of his patented stabbing plays up the middle which were probably going to end up in center field. One ended in a double play.
We did have a few hitting highlights - Wilson had another monster game - Steve Sloat is still chasing his bomb to Concord in the fifth. He fell a double short of the cycle after he chased Sloat back on a triple later in the game. Tim Orr and Bobrosky showed why they are 1-2 in the lineup with three hits each.
Hopefully some of our injured will return with our two weeks off, and the other AWOL players will come back. We had a hell of a run when we were complete.
