Who Were Those Guys?

In no particular order: Helen Kostoff, Brian Black, Frank Coppa, Tony Camillo, Jeff LeBoss, Johnny Gutierrez, Steve Rousso, and David Peterson, were all either sick, working, on vacation and/or winning disk golf tournaments in paradise. That's a lot of firepower at the plate and talent in the field. The last three (the sick ones) (correctly) bowed out on game day.

But the remaining teammates: Tim Orr, Dan May, Art Minor, Darren Bobrosky, Devin Underwood, Dave Rose, Leo Kay, Jeff Kravin, and Sandy Camp (with an assist from fill in Aram Boyd) strepped up to the plate, knocked the ball all over the park, caught everything in sight and toasted Team Gray 25-16. We hit a season high .717 as a team.

Bobrosky pitched all nine, and was 'effectively wild'. He gave up a few walks but when Gray wasn't taking the free passes, with his knuckleball he got them to ground out, mostly weakly. There must have been five plays between first base and the mound, either first base to pitcher or vice versa. And with two strikes on him, Skip Spragens (a very good hitter) at the last second took a swinging bunt swing, and dropped a perfect bunt hit up the third base line. Except Bobrosky pounced on it, wheeled and fired to first with a hard one hop throw off the turf, and Kravin snagged it cleanly.

When Gray hit it hard, it was mostly to shortstop Underwood going to his left for a 6U-3 double play or 6-11-3 through May at rover, and I think we turned five double plays in the first few innings.

May continued his torrid pace - he went 6-6 with one of his patented (two run) triples down the right field line. Boyd made the most of filling in for us, he was 5-5 plus a sac fly in the eighth. They played him so deep, he really wanted to take second on one of his hits (he's not allowed to as a sub), and he made a stab at it on his last hit just to see if he could get away with it. Of course that was the one he would have been thrown out by thirty feet and he wisely turned back to first. Bobrosky also had five hits (5-6) including a triple. Minor had an off game - only 3-5 but they were good for four RBIs. Underwood, Rose, and Kay all had four hits.

But the hit of the game came in the fifth. Gray had closed to 14-10 in the top half. consecutive hits by Bobrosky, Underwood, Boyd, Rose and Kay brought in two runs and loaded the bases. Kravin stepped in and planted a line drive over the right fielder's head to clean up the bases and put us up 19-10. He went 3-4 plus a walk and led the team with five RBIs.

Even though Gray did get four in the seventh to close to within five, we answered with five in our half and it was out of reach, as Bobrosky held them to two runs the rest of the way.

What a great win given the adversity we faced. We are suddenly the hottest team in the league. Undefeated in 2026!

Let's finish strong with just two games left.