All you've got to do is look at the stats for the summer season opener to know how the game must have gone. What's wrong with this picture? Note that Heffe is leading the team in average and on base percentage (tied in OBP with Ed, who needed three walks to get to .800), and second in slugging percentage (to Barry due to his eighth inning homer). And Don C tied for the team lead in RBIs with three.
Now Don and I had good games, no doubt. But we are usually far down in the pecking order, if others had their usual day, it could have had a different outcome.
Charlie did have a good game, joining Heffe with four hits. And he made the play of the game, leaping high into short left field to snag a hard line drive. Who knew he could get that up! (I am not mentioning his foul ball with two and a half strikes that some may deny actually goes down as a K in the book). Not mentioning.
Dave B saved one inning with a great running catch. And we did turn a double play - rover Lamont stepped on second, and tried to throw the ball into the visitors' dugout, but Heffe snagged it and tagged out the slow runner.
There were silver linings and good news. We rallied in the last two innings with 12 runs to make the score somewhat respectable. And the team never got down. One of the reasons I love this team is you can't really tell if we are winning are losing in the dugout - we are the same clowns all the time.
But no more eating Crow I hope.
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