Retro Heads

The Coneheads took a page out of past history, playing excellent defense to overcome a sluggish offense and beat the Masterbatters 5-1. On a night when (in our league) the losing team scored three or fewer and two won with five runs including us, we held the line at the fewest, one.

The game's defensive highlight was a sharp grounder to Randy, who tagged a runner going from second to third and flipped the ball to Skip covering second for a double play. I was begging Skip to send it my way at first base to try for the triple play, but he decided to play it safe. Other highlights included Randy going out for a shallow outfield pop up, and in the 5th, Gene, Sting and Lefty took turns making good catches to retire the side.

We incrementally built a massive 5-0 lead, and even though the Masterbatters got one to avoid the shutout, we were never under any serious threat.

Ol' G was hot, going 3-3 and a bunch of us had a pair of hits. But we left two on in five of the six innings, and that kept us from blowing them away. Still, a win is a win.

I realized I have neglected to send out the milestones this season, so here we go:

3/31:
None

4/7:
Heffe        60 bb (#1)

4/14:
None

5/5:
Joe            150 r (#6)
Bruce        150 ab (#19)

6/2:
Chopper    250 h (#6)
Sting         201 h  (#10)
Sting         350 ab (#11)
Johnny      50 rbi (#18)
Bruce        50 g (#20)

6/9 Game 1:
Chuck       400 h  (#1)
Chopper   200 rbi  (#3)
Ol' G        450 ab (#7)

6/9 Game 2:

Joe            40 bb (#6)

Haze         40 bb (#7)

Sting         10 bb (#15)

Chris         50 ab (#25)

6/16:

Heffe             350 h (#2)

Haze              500 ab (#5)

Haze              150 rbi (#7)

D                   10 3b (#9)

Haze             20 2b (#13)

Chauncey     50 ab (#26)

6/23:

Lefty             350 h (#3)

Ol' G             250 h (#7)

Randy           150 r (#9)