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!
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