Purple's hitters executed a relentless barrage of grounders in the holes and down the lines and little flares just beyond our desperate infielders but well in front of the cones, and that was the story of the game as Purple stomped Orange 20-13.
They broke out with five in the first and a 10-3 lead through three, but Orange battled back to close to 13-12 after six and a half. When they answered with four in the bottom half of that inning, it really was mostly over.
This, when we had two double plays in the first four innings, so it could have been worse. Helen Kostoff took a hard grounder up the middle, stepped on second and fired to first in the second to shut off the faucet. It seems she does this at least once a game. In the fourth Nick Lauria grabbed a hot shot one hopper into his belly, and quickly pivoted and fired to SS Tony Gorgone, who made a quick turn to first. Jeff Waters made a couple of nice stops to get outs in the later innings and outfielders Mike Callahan and Leo Kay made some good running catches. But the play of the game came in the bottom of the seventh, when RF Dan Halyard ranged far to his right for a sinking liner and reached down backhanded and snagged the ball. It kept the purple lead at 18-13 after seven and gave us hope, but sadly we never scored again.
Lauria had the hit of the day, slashing a line drive down the left field line that found that dirt strip (field four) with the bases loaded in the fourth, and soon (well, relatively soon) they were not and Lauria stood on third base. Callahan went 4-4, and Gorgone, Steve Rousso, Waters, and Rich Sanders added three hits. Purple pitchers walked me three times, I have no idea why they were afraid of me the way I've been hitting lately, maybe someone on the team had a nightmare of me actually getting an extra base hit.
Tip of the cap to the Purple hitters up and down their lineup for finding the holes. I guess they have been doing it all season.
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