The Commander Is Happy, the Commander Rests

Well, you know that if I go 3-3 with a limping double and an RBI every time up, I am going to go straight home to do stats. I have not been hitting on Wednesdays, and I was due. It just felt good to contribute to the more or less easy win over the 

hapless Lasers, as we scored 23 runs in six innings and came away with the 23-17 win despite the Lasers making a comeback in the last couple of innings.

I was by far not the best player on the field. We started out the gate on fire. Dan Roach, who had the mini-cycle in backward order (3B, 2B, 1B) sauntered around the bases to save energy in the heat on his lead off gapper and stopped at third. Ed Hendrickson followed wth another triple (thanks to Bob Carver's running), Jim Krochka with a double, and then singles by Mark Childress and Tom Caldwell set up Jimbo Wilcox to clean it up with a two run double. Six batters, five runs.

And to prove there is no such thing as the curse of the first, the bottom of the order scored two in the second, and the top produced four more in the third, highighted by a Krochka two run bomb.

Some fine Diablo defense kept the Lasers pretty much off the board in the meantime. Caldwell made a nice running catch in LF in the first. In the second, Krochka picked a ball at SS just off the ground cleanly, and threw out a wayward runner for an inning ending double play. Roach made the first of two highlight catches to keep the L's scoreless in the third. The second one ended the game after the bad guys threatened in the last flip flop inning.

So it was 13-4 after four, and we tacked on five in the fifth on RBI hits by Caldwell, Wilcox (a second two run double) and a two run single by Brian Goldufsky. And in the sixth, the lefties Carver and Hobbling Heffe hit doubles around a walk to Don Devencenzi and singles by Willie Hollis and Mike Daley to set up the bases loaded no out at bat by the sometimes Superman, Howard Davis. He planted a line shot into left center to clear the bases, and we had our last five and prompted the no doubt flip flop as that made it 23-11. For that and pitching five innings in the heat, Superman got the game ball. And the Commander rested, and all was good.

We gave up some questionable plays to the bottom of the Lasers order as they desperately tried to come back in the now top of the seventh, but after scoring six to just start getting us nervous, Roach ran down that last sinking liner in RC and the game was over.

We hit .769 as a team! We didn't even have four at bats apiece, yet all but two had multiple hit games.

3-3: Roach (2B, 3B), Hendrickson (3B), Caldwell, Wilcox (2 2B, Team High 5 RBI), Kravin (2B, 3 RBI)

2-2+BB: Childress, Devencenzi

2-3: Krochka (2B, HR, 3 RBI), Goldufsky, Carver (2 2B), Daley, Davis (3B, 4 RBI)

Quite impressive. The rock keeps rolling along! Or is it the roll keeps rocking along? And all that Jazz.