The good news: The losing streak is over (five games) Yay!
The bad news: there is no winning streak, as we blew a 12-4 lead and tied Royal 12-12.
So I guess I should be happy and learn to love the tie.
Why is it the team that comes back from a large deficit to tie a game rejoices and the team that blows a lead feels like they were sledge hammered to death?
But a tie is a tie. We started off really well, with a five spot in the top of the first (Oh that was it, the Curse of the First!)
All singles, line drives here and there, a balanced attack - just what you want. Royal scored in each of the first five innings but when we put up four more in the top of the fourth, it was looking good at 12-4. Big hits included a triple to right by Tony Gorgone, doubles by Phil Tucker (2 RBIs) and Greg Wilson in the fourth.
But then the magic of Bill Eppinga shut us down in the next three frames. We only managed to get two runners in scoring position in the last three innings. In the mean time, Royal was creeping, and creeping back, but we were still looking pretty good at 12-7 or 8 going into the agreed upon last inning, the seventh.
We then gave it away, spotting Royal five outs (including one egregious error by yours truly) and a free pass, thus giving up the lead. We were lucky to get away with a tie as the bases were left loaded by the Royalty.
Our hitting wasn't too bad - Tim Orr, Kevin Fisher, Mike Nagy, and David Partridge all had three hits, Wilson had two doubles. and five others had a couple of hits. Just not enough in the late innings.
There was no joy in Greenville, to blatantly mix cliched metaphors.
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