Orange Slush loses to Purple 17-6

The game could be summed up in one at bat - our nominally best hitter, Greg Wilson took a called third strike his last time up.

Team Orange had finally started a too little too late rally in the ninth, scoring four, but that K did us in.

No one knows the mystery of why teams can slump as a whole at times. If you do, please get in touch. The Orange Crush-turned-Slush has just collectively forgotten how to hit and it has turned as viral as the Covid Delta variant.

Lost three, won six of seven, and now lost five. No we're not streaky.
Purple was kind enough to keep us in the game. After streaking to a 10-2 lead after two, we kept them from scoring for three straight innings. But since we didn't take advantage offensively, and then they turned it back on and put the game away with a five run eighth.
At least we had some defensive highlights. Howard Davis was a one man wrecking crew at Rover, and turned two 11U-3 double plays. Mark Narciso swiveled around at the mound and snared a hot shot to start a 1-11-3 double play. Jay Chafetz made tough catches on a couple of bombs to left. Ron Schwab scooped up a few hard grounders and turned them into outs. The first baseman took a hit away from Mark Pitzlin, snagging a nasty one hopper and getting the led runner at second.
Wilson and Heffe led the team with three hits, Mike Saindon and Schwab hit gappers for triples, and that's about all there is to tell about our offense.
I will say that as confused as we are at the plate, we still are having fun out there. Maybe we will even win another game sometime.