The only interesting thing about the Danville league this summer is the battle for third place. I mean who cares about games between the Titans of the League, those Hornets and the Team that Tony Built to Take down the Hornets. Ho Hum.
No, the real battles are the games between Winn/Kia and the Crows. Pretty good players on both sides and evenly matched. The season series was tied 2-2 going into Wednesday's game.
We shut them out in the first inning with their best hitters up. It was almost like we didn't know what to do after that, so we couldn't score in the first (after opening with two walks) or the second. In the mean time W/K built a 9-2 lead and it was like "here we go again".
But then the fire was lit under us. It actually started in the third when our newest rookie Joe Silva hit a two out two run double to get us on the board. Then in the fourth we loaded the bases and Dave Balfour smacked the ball to right field and by the time he motored around the bases, the lead was down to 9-6, and the floodgates had opened up. We scored thirteen runs in the next three innings and took control on the way to a 20-14 win.
Included was five straight two out run scoring hits in the fifth (Mark Diaz, Silva, Clay LeChe, Randy Cobb, and Chili Hernandez), and a similar inning in the seventh.
The hitting was spread out, three hits by Cobb, Mark Childress, Balfour, and Don Devencenzi, and a pair from another six. Balfour led the way with four RBIs in one at bat, and Silva and LeChe contributed three. Not a lot of notes were taken by the recorder but Childress did make a great running catch on a pop up from his shortstop position in the seventh to keep W/K from scoring.
Hornets? Outlaws? Bah. These were the real teams.
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