After generously giving Orange the Curse of the First, Gold fell behind 12-3 and then 21-9. We were channeling last week's comeback win over Purple. This time nine runs wasn't enough of a challenge for a comeback, let's so make it twelve! Only we failed to score in the sixth. OK, how about sixteen runs? Nope, double play rally killer. And so on. Orange gave us an old fashioned whooping, 31-13. They piled on 19 runs in the last four innings. In the meantime, Gold hit under .500 as a team for the first time all year. We are humbled, and never mind the talk of tanking. No one tanks when there are four teams within a half game in the standings. It's just not the Creaker Way.
A few players had a good game. Tom Gonzales was 4-4 again, and is 11-13 since being placed in the lead off spot while Hugh Vasquez recovers from his sore legs. Bob Fulgham not so quietly went 3-4 with two doubles and a team leading four RBIs. Gary Namanny (triple) and Rob Katzer joined him with three hits. Yours truly had two doubles in three trips to the plate, but that was it for extra base hits on the team. It just wasn't our day.
On defense the only thing of note was Stan Bielecki tied an all time record with three assists in the fourth inning. Not much else to talk about as Orange sprayed the ball all over the place, and when they hit it to us we found a way to drop it.
Next week will be better. It has to be.
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