Scarlet showed a lot of patience and turned 15 walks and solid hitting in between into a 31-19 win on Field 5 today over Maroon.
The game was closer than the scored suggests; Maroon gave themselves the curse of the first by scoring five, and as late as the fifth inning trailed only 17-18. But Scarlet scored relentlessly, putting up the maximum in the second through the fifth and again in the bottom of the eighth.
Scarlet gave up a few bases on defense but for the most part just made all the routine plays. In fact, until Gerry Dasey jumped up to snare a line shot up the middle by Mark Pitzlin sometime around the sixth inning, there were no defensive highlights. I think GD even got about a foot off the ground. It's good to have a tall infielder sometimes. He had a fine defensive day - on a few other plays he grabbed low liners and hard grounders from his rover spot by great scouting and positioning.
On offense, on the other hand, there were plenty of heroes for the Red Menace. Lots of clutch singles and the aforementioned walks, but there were three or four rockets to fill up the highlight reel. Paul Lisi got the first big hit in the second, clearing the bases with a triple to give us our first lead at 7-5.
In the fifth, Art Miner hit a booming opposite field shot over the right fielder's head to plate our last two runs in that inning. In the eighth, when we created our final insurmountable lead, Gary Namanny hit a gapper double to right center to score our first run of the frame, and later the other Gary (Booth) cleaned the bases with a bases loaded triple. Booth led the team with six RBIs total, and his hit kind of closed the deal.
The rest was spread around: Raul Delgado was 4-4 plus a walk, Dasey was 3-3 with two walks, Bob Shipway was perfect with 2-2 and three walks, and Roc Lumley (who had our other extra base hit) and Kravin were each 2-2 with two walks. Chip Sharpe (who pitched a fine game), Mike Nichols, Lisi, Dasey, and Booth all had three hits. Extra thanks to Namanny for pitching the ninth without warning (0 runs!) since our other pitcher regular pitcher was unexpectedly out.
The game was closer than the scored suggests; Maroon gave themselves the curse of the first by scoring five, and as late as the fifth inning trailed only 17-18. But Scarlet scored relentlessly, putting up the maximum in the second through the fifth and again in the bottom of the eighth.
Scarlet gave up a few bases on defense but for the most part just made all the routine plays. In fact, until Gerry Dasey jumped up to snare a line shot up the middle by Mark Pitzlin sometime around the sixth inning, there were no defensive highlights. I think GD even got about a foot off the ground. It's good to have a tall infielder sometimes. He had a fine defensive day - on a few other plays he grabbed low liners and hard grounders from his rover spot by great scouting and positioning.
On offense, on the other hand, there were plenty of heroes for the Red Menace. Lots of clutch singles and the aforementioned walks, but there were three or four rockets to fill up the highlight reel. Paul Lisi got the first big hit in the second, clearing the bases with a triple to give us our first lead at 7-5.
In the fifth, Art Miner hit a booming opposite field shot over the right fielder's head to plate our last two runs in that inning. In the eighth, when we created our final insurmountable lead, Gary Namanny hit a gapper double to right center to score our first run of the frame, and later the other Gary (Booth) cleaned the bases with a bases loaded triple. Booth led the team with six RBIs total, and his hit kind of closed the deal.
The rest was spread around: Raul Delgado was 4-4 plus a walk, Dasey was 3-3 with two walks, Bob Shipway was perfect with 2-2 and three walks, and Roc Lumley (who had our other extra base hit) and Kravin were each 2-2 with two walks. Chip Sharpe (who pitched a fine game), Mike Nichols, Lisi, Dasey, and Booth all had three hits. Extra thanks to Namanny for pitching the ninth without warning (0 runs!) since our other pitcher regular pitcher was unexpectedly out.
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