What would have been bad is if Johhny's Gang had forfeited on Monday as they threatened when we got to the field.
We needed a laugher in the worst way. Two game losing streak, so unConehead like. The brutal loss by JFT Sunday night.
And there they were: the perfect patsies, Johnny's 1-9 Gang with 9 players, and no one that could stop balls in the gap (of course the only play they made all night was the third baseman on my liner in the first, I have never seen anyone leap that high on a ball I hit).
We were just that close to setting a team record for the number of players hitting for the cycle, but no one could quite do it in the end. Sting was a double short, Chuck, Markley, and Lefty a homer, and Ol' G a triple. So it goes in a 31-4 win. Everyone had at least two hits (even late D), everyone scored and everyone drove in a run. Ol' G broke out of his slump in a big way, sealing it with a home run his last time up. Sting hit line drives and a monster shot, and played second base in that last flip flop inning like he was 22 again. D took out his frustration from the night before on the ball - it must have been flattened after his blast. Lefty just hit a beautiful opposite field line drive on the left field line. Heffe hit the ball hard every time. Chuck was a nuisance, only making an out on a sac fly, Gene was the only one with two doubles, Markley had the only perfect game at 4-4 line shots all to right, Larry slicing the ball this way and that, and Greg and Joe and Don were steady as well. And Don! I don't think you missed Joe once on the mound!
I'm not going to tell you that Cal Bronco lost to the Old Scouts and we are in a virtual tie for first. We don't know how to handle success. So pretend I didn't. We play better when we don't know or don't care.
The mood in the annual birthday pizza-at-the-field night was downright jovial, even hilarious. Probably a good thing we were a little light on the beer - we might just still be there.
Can't keep a good Conehead down (in some cases it takes an implanted rod). Aereolas next, Thursday.
Milestones:
Don 40 sf (#2)
Larry 650 h (#5)
Gene 80 2b (#5)
Don 350 r (#8)
Sting 300 rbi (#12)
Gerry 50 2b (#13)
Sting 600 ab (#13)
Sting 150 g (#14)
We needed a laugher in the worst way. Two game losing streak, so unConehead like. The brutal loss by JFT Sunday night.
And there they were: the perfect patsies, Johnny's 1-9 Gang with 9 players, and no one that could stop balls in the gap (of course the only play they made all night was the third baseman on my liner in the first, I have never seen anyone leap that high on a ball I hit).
We were just that close to setting a team record for the number of players hitting for the cycle, but no one could quite do it in the end. Sting was a double short, Chuck, Markley, and Lefty a homer, and Ol' G a triple. So it goes in a 31-4 win. Everyone had at least two hits (even late D), everyone scored and everyone drove in a run. Ol' G broke out of his slump in a big way, sealing it with a home run his last time up. Sting hit line drives and a monster shot, and played second base in that last flip flop inning like he was 22 again. D took out his frustration from the night before on the ball - it must have been flattened after his blast. Lefty just hit a beautiful opposite field line drive on the left field line. Heffe hit the ball hard every time. Chuck was a nuisance, only making an out on a sac fly, Gene was the only one with two doubles, Markley had the only perfect game at 4-4 line shots all to right, Larry slicing the ball this way and that, and Greg and Joe and Don were steady as well. And Don! I don't think you missed Joe once on the mound!
I'm not going to tell you that Cal Bronco lost to the Old Scouts and we are in a virtual tie for first. We don't know how to handle success. So pretend I didn't. We play better when we don't know or don't care.
The mood in the annual birthday pizza-at-the-field night was downright jovial, even hilarious. Probably a good thing we were a little light on the beer - we might just still be there.
Can't keep a good Conehead down (in some cases it takes an implanted rod). Aereolas next, Thursday.
Milestones:
Don 40 sf (#2)
Larry 650 h (#5)
Gene 80 2b (#5)
Don 350 r (#8)
Sting 300 rbi (#12)
Gerry 50 2b (#13)
Sting 600 ab (#13)
Sting 150 g (#14)
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