On a day that the Purple People Eaters were missing some of their best players, Scarlet played just good enough to overcome a close early tight game to pull away at the end with timely hitting and good defense late to win 18-13.
The defensive play of the day came on the last out. Roc Lumley leapt up for a pop up foul ball and batted it into the air, caught it temporarily with his chest and then let it settle in his glove. Game over. Earlier in the inning Raymond Aguilera made two stellar catches in right field, and Purple could have no ninth inning heroics.
The infielders starred for Scarlet. Tony Gorgone and Raul Delgado both made back handed grabs on hot shots for force outs. Gerry Dasey, in his one inning at the hot corner, fielded two smashes for outs. Scarlet also turned a crisp double play in the first - Delgado to rover Garry Booth to Dasey.
We took a curse of the first lead at 5-2. Does the curse count if it's the home team that plates five in the first? If so, we broke the curse. We let Purple into the game with a five run fifth, and they had leads of 11-9 after that frame and 13-11 after 6 1/2. But a four run two out rally in the bottom of the seventh iced the game as closer Chip Sharpe shut down the opposition with no runs in the eighth and ninth. The clutch two out RBI hits came from Paul Lisi, Art Miner, Delgado, and Gary Namanny.
Miner lead the way with a 4-4 day. Sharpe, Namanny, Dasey, Gorgone, and Mike Nichols contributed three hit games. The latter may have pulled up with a quad injury as he beat out a run scoring dribbler up the third base line with great hustle.
We didn't hit any bombs but we got triples from Namanny, Booth and Nichols, and two baggers from Lisi, Miner and Delgado. We did have a strikeout looking; I won't mention any names, but if he reads this far he will know who is bringing refreshments next week!
The defensive play of the day came on the last out. Roc Lumley leapt up for a pop up foul ball and batted it into the air, caught it temporarily with his chest and then let it settle in his glove. Game over. Earlier in the inning Raymond Aguilera made two stellar catches in right field, and Purple could have no ninth inning heroics.
The infielders starred for Scarlet. Tony Gorgone and Raul Delgado both made back handed grabs on hot shots for force outs. Gerry Dasey, in his one inning at the hot corner, fielded two smashes for outs. Scarlet also turned a crisp double play in the first - Delgado to rover Garry Booth to Dasey.
We took a curse of the first lead at 5-2. Does the curse count if it's the home team that plates five in the first? If so, we broke the curse. We let Purple into the game with a five run fifth, and they had leads of 11-9 after that frame and 13-11 after 6 1/2. But a four run two out rally in the bottom of the seventh iced the game as closer Chip Sharpe shut down the opposition with no runs in the eighth and ninth. The clutch two out RBI hits came from Paul Lisi, Art Miner, Delgado, and Gary Namanny.
Miner lead the way with a 4-4 day. Sharpe, Namanny, Dasey, Gorgone, and Mike Nichols contributed three hit games. The latter may have pulled up with a quad injury as he beat out a run scoring dribbler up the third base line with great hustle.
We didn't hit any bombs but we got triples from Namanny, Booth and Nichols, and two baggers from Lisi, Miner and Delgado. We did have a strikeout looking; I won't mention any names, but if he reads this far he will know who is bringing refreshments next week!
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