In one of the best games of the season, Team BS wouldn't be denied and rallied back from deficits of 5-1 and 10-5 and ultimately with a six run ninth and good pitching and defense toppled Team Blue 23-21.
There were many heroes. David Peterson thwacked the ball around for four hits, His blast in the first went to never never land in left field in the first but found a misplaced soccer goal so he was held to a ground rule double. After that shot, the other team played him deep so he put three liners into the outfield and drove in three runs.
Fill in Curt Wade also hit four crisp line drive hits. But it was the unlikely pair of Sandy Camp and David Thompson, also each with four hits, that made the difference. Camp had four clean hits, and to top things off, drew a bases loaded walk in the ninth to kick start the winning rally. She also pitched a couple of shutdown innings in the middle of the game to allow us to get back in the game when we were down 10-5.
All Thompson did was drive in six runs on four hits. His bases clearing, bases loaded triple in the fourth brought us back into the game right when Sandy came in to pitch. His two run single in the ninth, again up with the bases loaded, proved to be the game winner as he gave us a 22-20 lead.
Johnny G doled out his usual three hits and made a great falling down catch in left field in the second. Mike Nichols joined him with three hits and followed Johnny's catch with an equally difficult catch in right field for the third out that inning but didn't fall down!
Finally Steve Sloat and Chuck Corich filled in from the Green team and each also contributed three hits. Corich, in six innings minimized the damage done by the potent Blue lineup, getting the good hitters several times on lazy flies and easy grounders. Thanks go to the pair and Wade for helping us out.
Art Minor and Helen Kostoff were on each end of a deep flyout to center to second base double play (with Peterson as the cutoff/pivot in the middle) in the fourth.
Ken Gurgone had a rough day at the plate but came up in the ninth and drove in the last run with a line drive single to end the BS scoring.
And finally, yours truly finally got in some game action (for the first time since December) as I pinch hit in the eighth and played first in the ninth after Thompson's leg stiffened up. You see, I had had a dream the night before that I took BP and just whiffed and whiffed over and over again. I had to prove at least I could make contact! I went 0-1 but at least I hit a hard grounder!
Can't wait til next year. BS forever!
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