Who's the Best? Team BS Pulls One Out, 24-22

Ok so.

Dan May hit a right center gapper all the way to the fence for a solo home run. Drove in a run every at bat to lead the team with five RBIs.

Brian Black hit a three run blast in the third that finished our first five run inning.

Rob Moody was 5-5, drove in four, started the game saving RC-SS Sam Dhinga-3B Rob Katzer second out in the ninth inning.

Art Miner had an off game for him only 3-5, but he threw out a runner at second base and made a great sliding catch.

Tim Orr had four hits and he made playing left field with that terrible sun look like a walk in the park.

Dhinga joined Orr, Black and May with four hits and made every play at SS.

But let's face it, the highlight of the game was my bases loaded 20 foot single that died between home and the mound, which triggered two guys falling down, and overthrows and Katzer just running all the way around the infield. A three run double! And it will take a while for me to forgive Dave Peterson for prematurely calling time since I had a triple as no one was within 50 feet of covering third base!

Great game, Team BS!

When a Loss Is Better Than a Tie, Hornets 20-19 Over the Crows

Those badass Hornets with all their new and returning triple major plus plus plus tournament players dominated the Crows for five innings. They five runned us (is that a verb?) three times while we had nine hits as they built a 15-3 lead.

Then a funny thing happened - we held them to one run in the sixth and none in the seventh. In the bottom of the sixth, with two outs and no one on, Clay Leche, Charlie Pastor, Joe Silva, and Bob Gatehouse singled and then Dave Balfour, who has been hot all season, hit the right center gap and everyone just kept running until we had five runs - grand slam! That lit the torch, and in the bottom of the eighth we did even better - again with two outs and no one on, we had eight hits sandwiched around a walk as we closed it to 19-16. Pastor hit a triple and Al Banisch a double in the rally, then Tom Wagenseller and Dan May closed out the scoring with two RBI hits, a single and a double, respectively.

Unfortunately, the Hornets pushed one run across in the top of the ninth before right fielder Lew Altman made a diving game saving shoestring catch to save a big inning.

In our half, again with two outs Silva hit a three run home run to close to within a run, but unfortunately it ended after that with a flyout.

But here's the thing. In forty plus years of softball I've never seen this - we scored every single run with two outs in all the six innings we scored runs. I double and triple checked the scorebook. That is some clutch hitting!

We can play with anyone in the league, and maybe the guy batting last won't go o-fer next time and that will push us over the top!