Zero

On the one hand - eight hits total (Pope 2-2!).

On the other hand - no extra base hits.

On the other hand - we didn't even get Joe up twice.

I'm running out of hands.

I got all excited - I thought .296 had to be a team low in batting average, time to hit the archives!

Then I saw last fall, in our playoff tune-up, we hit .269 in a game. No wonder we didn't win the fall league.

What happens to us at times like these? We are too good to have clunkers like this, yet we seem to do it at least once a season, lately. Already we had it in the early part of the Walnut Creek season, losing to the Polar Bears 4-2 . Is it as simple as that game Sunday in 107 degree WC heat took it out of us? Is the Waitlisters' Chris that good a pitcher? I doubt it and I doubt it.

It remains a mystery, but the result was a 12-2 loss to the Waitlisters, the team we love to hate.

In other news, Sting is back and looked fine in his first at bat, slashing a single up the middle and generally being a dugout pest. We need you Reg!

That's all I got this week, nothing more to say. Except this Monday's game against 12 Angry *deleted expletive* looms larger than before.

Milestones:

Seriously?