It was brought to my attention that last week, I did not mention every single player in White's great win over Vegas Gold. My bad. Not that there's any ego in Creaker Ball.
After all softball is a team game, and everyone contributes something. So here goes:
Barry Gronenberg, Dave Siegel, Mike Guerrero, Mike Saindon, Howard Davis, David Partridge, Dave Rose, Helen Kostoff, Paul Lisi, Vince Franceschi, Bruce Spencer, Rich Brown, and Jeff Kravin. And for good measure, Neil Henry, Clay Kallam, and Charlie Uhlman, who missed this game.
There. Never let it be said that I didn't give equal coverage.
In fact, everyone did contribute to our win over Green, 16-15, which is important in a one run game.
The game started out with lots of offense, with both teams scoring four in the first, and White putting up five in our second. The biggest blow was a blast off Spencer's bat. It landed almost all the way to field 5, and Green's outfielders kind of just let it go. Bruce couldn't believe it, and ran from base to base as though he thought the throw would come in any moment. We had to urge him forward ("Run, Bruce, Run!"). Wish I had a stopwatch - it had to be the slowest home run in Creaker history.
The top of the lineup produced the first rally, and the bottom the second. As I said, everyone contributes to White. But then with a 10-4 lead, we played a little sloppy D, and let Green back in the game. They closed it to 12-12 after five and actually took a lead 15-14 after six. But Gronenberg came back in to pitch the last few innings and his pitching combined with our usual solid defense to shut them out over the last three frames.
In the meantime, our offense woke up just enough to take a precarious one run lead going into the ninth. The big blow was a gap triple by Lisi, which brought us within one, and then he scored the tying run on a Guerrero single. Siegel knocked in the game winner an inning later.
It stood up because of an outstanding defensive ninth. Spencer sprung out of the catcher's box to nab a foul ball for the first out. Then Guerrero made two spectacular plays at second base. On the first he knocked down a ball headed to right field, right to Davis playing rover. He caught it and released it in one motion to nail the runner in a bang bang play. Then on another ball ticketed to right, Guerrero lunged to his left, fielded the hot one hopper, and spun and threw to first, game over.
Guerrero had a total game - he also went 4-4 with four RBIs to lead the team. Lisi was a pest - besides the triple, he had a single and two walks and scored in all four plate appearances. Brown, Partridge, Rose, Gronenberg, and Siegel all had three hits. Gronenberg had one of his patented slicers past first base for a thing of beauty. And he duplicated Spencer's effort in his one inning behind the plate, retiring a Green hitter on a pop to the catcher.
The other outstanding defensive plays included Partridge gunning down a runner trying to go first to third on a single, where Kostoff stretched high to corral the throw, and a Willie Mays type basket catch by Spencer in his one inning in right center.
After all softball is a team game, and everyone contributes something. So here goes:
Barry Gronenberg, Dave Siegel, Mike Guerrero, Mike Saindon, Howard Davis, David Partridge, Dave Rose, Helen Kostoff, Paul Lisi, Vince Franceschi, Bruce Spencer, Rich Brown, and Jeff Kravin. And for good measure, Neil Henry, Clay Kallam, and Charlie Uhlman, who missed this game.
There. Never let it be said that I didn't give equal coverage.
In fact, everyone did contribute to our win over Green, 16-15, which is important in a one run game.
The game started out with lots of offense, with both teams scoring four in the first, and White putting up five in our second. The biggest blow was a blast off Spencer's bat. It landed almost all the way to field 5, and Green's outfielders kind of just let it go. Bruce couldn't believe it, and ran from base to base as though he thought the throw would come in any moment. We had to urge him forward ("Run, Bruce, Run!"). Wish I had a stopwatch - it had to be the slowest home run in Creaker history.
The top of the lineup produced the first rally, and the bottom the second. As I said, everyone contributes to White. But then with a 10-4 lead, we played a little sloppy D, and let Green back in the game. They closed it to 12-12 after five and actually took a lead 15-14 after six. But Gronenberg came back in to pitch the last few innings and his pitching combined with our usual solid defense to shut them out over the last three frames.
In the meantime, our offense woke up just enough to take a precarious one run lead going into the ninth. The big blow was a gap triple by Lisi, which brought us within one, and then he scored the tying run on a Guerrero single. Siegel knocked in the game winner an inning later.
It stood up because of an outstanding defensive ninth. Spencer sprung out of the catcher's box to nab a foul ball for the first out. Then Guerrero made two spectacular plays at second base. On the first he knocked down a ball headed to right field, right to Davis playing rover. He caught it and released it in one motion to nail the runner in a bang bang play. Then on another ball ticketed to right, Guerrero lunged to his left, fielded the hot one hopper, and spun and threw to first, game over.
Guerrero had a total game - he also went 4-4 with four RBIs to lead the team. Lisi was a pest - besides the triple, he had a single and two walks and scored in all four plate appearances. Brown, Partridge, Rose, Gronenberg, and Siegel all had three hits. Gronenberg had one of his patented slicers past first base for a thing of beauty. And he duplicated Spencer's effort in his one inning behind the plate, retiring a Green hitter on a pop to the catcher.
The other outstanding defensive plays included Partridge gunning down a runner trying to go first to third on a single, where Kostoff stretched high to corral the throw, and a Willie Mays type basket catch by Spencer in his one inning in right center.
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