I love Orange Juice. Especially when the team is slashing line drives all over the field, and when not doing that, dropping in bloop singles.
For the third week in a row, Team Orange took it out on the opposition, this time avenging our opening game loss to Green, 22-15.
It was a good sign (for us) when Ike Garcia retired the first three batters for a one-two-three first. And then we put up five, two of them on a monster shot by Greg Wilson over the right center fielder's head. In the second, two picks by the first baseman kept Green from tying it up, but in the top of the third our defense got a little too relaxed and allowed Green to get things even at 8-8. It was as close as they got to a lead in the whole game.
Mark Narciso came in to pitch the middle innings. Steve Sloat made a nice catch on a popup behind second that was whistling in the breeze. Garcia, in his time off the mound, went out to play second base for an inning in the fifth. Immediately the ball found him and he made a two nice plays to keep Green off the board.
In the bottom half we got five straight hits to open the inning, and after a sac fly, Gabe Tanaka plated the last run with a bomb to right center field. He was bummed it wasn't a home run (I suspect it was him that secretly snuck up and filled in his square on the scorecard), which it would have been had not the fifth run been on first.
That gave us a 20-9 lead and we kind of went on cruise control until the end. There were some nice catches in the outfield along the way by Sloat, Brian Black and Mark Edelstone.
The whole lineup hit well, but we were led by Wilson, Ron Schwab, and Garcia, who were all 4-4, and Mike Saindon, Tanaka, Bob Carver, Art Oller, and the coach who all had three knocks. Garcia led the way with 4 RBIs.
It was a long road but Team Orange got to .500 with the win.
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