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HURTIN' UNITS VS. THE DISLOCATED JOINTS ii.

Game # 14- July 9, 2013

Hurtin' Units win 15-8

Team Record- 7-7-0

Coventry Park- We finally get back to Coventry Park after an extended stay at Keogh Park where we went 4-5-0. One of the games was a makeup game with the Rebels and one of the 10 game stand was supposed to be against the Dusty Cleats on Monday, but was canceled because of heavy rain and Thunderstorms. 

We had a couple of rough nights at Keogh and one of the teams that kicked us around were these same Dislocated Joints.

No, it was not a fun night back on June 12. The rain was falling at game time, nobody was in a playing mood, players left before we actually finished and the Joints beat us up for our most lopsided defeat of the season. Up until this game, our worst defeat had been by a single run and in fact, we had lost 5 games by a single run up to this point.The final score on June 12th was 15-4 and 3 of our 4 runs came in the 5th inning. It was one of the lowest points in our young season. 

This game (July 9) was the first time we have played a regular season game at Coventry Park since May 21. I say regular season game because we just, this past weekend, played in the HTKP tournament. 

I think the HTKP tournament actually helped our team. Over the course of the weekend we laughed a lot, we drank beer excessively and we played some decent baseball. The game against the Devils was not the most fun, but at the end of the round robin portion we found ourselves with a berth in the semi-finals (3rd) on Sunday.

Playing on the Sunday wasn't that much fun. We played the Dusty Cleats, who were having a good tournament, but would lose to the Rusty Rebels in the finals.The heavy rainfall really put a damper on the semi-final game and our bats must have slept in (along with Darrell). We could only muster up 3 runs in the semis and 3 runs ain't gonna cut it in this league. We still had a good tournament and I really believe weekends like this are great bonding experiences. 

Tournaments and hanging around the diamonds with teammates are great bonding experience, but so are Sambuca shots and wing nights. 

On Monday night, in our regular season game, we were scheduled to play the same Dusty Cleats, but as luck would have it, heavy rain and thunderstorms would have our game scheduled to a future date. 

We had planned to have a wing night after our game against the Cleats and most of the guys showed up even with crappy weather. Mike and I had discussed whether it was going to be wing night or if we should have a Phil Glecoff bobblehead night. We finally decided on a wing night... the Phil G. sample bobblehead was scarier looking than the real thing. Wings win, wings win, winnnnnnngs win.

Mike was organizing the wing night and unfortunately, on Monday evening, he was stuck in heavy traffic in the city. With the game canceled we went to the Legion, Mike placed the wing order on route home and arrived at the Legion 30 minutes later. No game, wings and beer and a some sore bellies from laughing so hard. A fun night at the Legion and there have been numerous ones to say the least. This is definitely a fun team...

A night off was just what we needed. We had played 4 days in a row and were scheduled to play Monday and Tuesday this week, canceling Monday's game probably helped us in our win against the Joints. 

When the 2013 Hurtin' Units score first we seem to play a tighter and smarter brand of baseball. We were the visitors in this game vs. the Joints. We scored first!

The Weather Network had been calling for more thunderstorms and rain on Tuesday night. The storms did not develop and at game time the weather was perfect. The diamond conditions were also really good, I think all the rain from Monday made the diamond conditions better. 

We were down some players in this game and I had to call for a couple of subs. Missing from this game were Ricky L., Jamie M., Gary C., and Mike was not playing, but was at the game to scorekeep and provide support. Our subs were Craig (Dude) Escott and Jerry Muirhead. Thanks guys. 


The boxscore tells a good portion of the story. I want to mention that Darrell (Hags) got the start as pitcher in this game. This was Hags second start of the season, the first was against the Grisslies who won by a score of 8-7. This was Hags first win. Good Show rookie!! It was a little bit of a tough start with 3 walks in the first inning, but I couldn't see another walk on the game sheet. Good show rookie!!  

We played a great game, against a good team, welcome back Dr. Jekyll, and this win puts the Units back at .500 with a record of 7-7-0. Nice game boys...