April 26th. That was the last time Emerald Green sampled the taste of Victory Beer after a game. That's right, 0 for May, 0 for June and 0 for July until today.
Today's battle against Scarlet was a tale of three games - we won the first three innings 11-3, Scarlet roared back and took the middle innings 12-3 to take a lead, but then we took momentum, and the game back with a five run eighth and won that last third 11-4 for a final score of 25-19.
It was a complete team win. We hit .702 as a team, with everyone getting at least one hit We had but three extra base hits, but with that many dingers, we didn't need the power. We had many lucky bloopers and a few Scarlet wrapped gifts, but that evened out between both teams, and the difference was the late runs to win the game.
Greg Wilson and Ray Gerungan were 5-5, Angie Rizzato, Lamont Thompson and Mark Narciso each had four knocks, and Tim Orr, Darren Bobrosky, Tony Gorgone, and Paul Lisi each had three. Thompson and Narciso each had booming doubles. LT's was probably the hit of the day, as it provided two important insurance runs in the ninth. The measure of how balanced the lineup was, was that no one had more than three RBIs, and 10 of the 13 batters brought in two or three runs.
On defense there was one outstanding inning, the second. Kevin Fisher made a great running shoestring catch for one out. The first baseman robbed Clay Kallum on a hard liner rising and moving to his left. And for the final out Narciso, got two strikes on the hitter, and then made a brutal pitch tailing away, and all the hitter could manage was a weak one hopper back to the mound. Later in the game we turned a double play - Gorgone stopped a hard smash at third, and started a round the horn DP with Rover Rizzato the pivot man.
Ah, if only we played this way in the middle of the season. Oh well - there are the playoffs coming up, and everyone has a chance in that 'season',
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