Dark Green shook off pre-holiday messiness, and with a more complete squad today gave Gold a beat down at Pleasant Oaks Four, 24-14.
Green scored five runs in each of the first four innings - a feat last done in the last game against Gold on May 8th. In the first inning, Gold got two quick outs but then Green punched out five straight hits, punctuated by a Robert Douza three run homer that got us our first five. At one point across innings two through four, we batted the entire 13 player lineup with twelve hits around a walk without making an out. We ended up batting .744 as a team.
Douza later hit another home run, and even hobbled by a sore knee, they were good for six RBIs, and he was 3-3. Bill Jeha hit the other home run blast leading off the third, which I believe made it to the infield on Pleasant Oaks Field Two. Frank Coppa hit one to the dirt on Field One in the second, but stopped at second base as John Banker scored the fifth run.
Six players did not make an out, and the bottom half of Banker, Coppa, Jeff Kravin, JD Dills, Mike Howard, and Woody Whitlatch were collectively 12-14 plus four free passes. Jeff Olsen, Jeha, Douza and Whitlatch all contributed three hits.
SS Jeha and 3B-Rover Douza made some nice plays but the defensive player of the game was Dick Stanley, who with his sore rotator may have found a new home at second base. He cut down a number of players who hit the ball hard to the right side.
Dark Green has shown that when we have our whole team in attendance, we can compete with anyone. We hope to prove this the next two weeks against Maroon and Light Blue.
An alarming situation occurred when Gold's Rico Evaristo went down unable to breathe at home after scoring from second on a base hit. He took many minutes before he could get up. He has some health issues, and his fellow Creakers on both sides of the field were plenty worried the rest of the game. Editorial opinion, I am speaking for myself but maybe for others too - with his issues, he should have let his team call 9-1-1 to summon medical personnel to the field to help and diagnose his condition, and get perhaps essential treatment. As it was the game was delayed some 27 minutes and both teams decided to play only seven innings as the temperature was rising rapidly - we didn't need any more players felled by heat stroke.
Team Dark Green wishes Rico good health and recovery going forward from whatever it was.
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