Practice Makes Not Quite Perfect, Diablos over Lasers 19-7

So, OK, we weren't perfect on defense two weeks in a row. We didn't have to be, because, after all, it was the Lasers, and they were shorthanded to boot.

Instead we did it with our bats, hitting .788 as a team! I can't remember a team average that high in a game. Everyone, all sixteen in the lineup, had at least one hit, and most only batted twice. Brian started us off with a bomb, and Jim K matched him in the third with a two run blast. Jim K, Greg, the two Bobs, Don, Heffe, and Willie were all 2-2. Howard, power hitter extraordinaire, had the only triple, aided by a proxy runner after he split the outfielders.

On defense, we weren't at our sharpest as we built an insurmountable 19-2 lead after five innings. In the sixth, we had a combination of bad hops and fluke hits and a few bobbles, and gave up five but it was way too late for the Lasers as we flip flopped early and shut them out in the seventh. The game was shortened as one of the double headers in the new schedule.

However, Mark, who has been aching all season to make an incredible play in left center field, made not one (early on that could have made it a game as it was the third out and I believe bases were loaded), not two, but three great running catches. For this and everything he contributed (2-3 himself), he got the game ball.

A winning streak! Two in a row and three of four and we should have won the other one. The Diablos are coming for you, TriCity. Starting with Team Gray at Rudgear next week.