AND I GUESS THATS WHY THEY CALL THEM THE BLUES...

HURTIN' UNITS VS. THE BLUES BROTHERS.

Game # 19 - August 6, 2013

Hurtin' Units lose 15-12

Team Record 9-9-1

Coventry Park- Back on June 7th, at Keogh Park the Blues Brothers and the Hurtin' Units battled for the first time this season. It was the game for the 100th blog, Ricky Bobby had got his forgotten cleats back, it was a cool night (13 degrees), at times the rain sprinkled us with drops and it was a night that the Units won by a score of 11-7. It was also the night Phil was MIA. 

Back on that night, it was game # 6 and this game is game # 19...Where did the season go? We only have 5 games remaining on the season. Looking at the standings, before this game, the Hurtin' Units were sitting in 7th place. There is no way to catch the Draft Kings and let's face it we all know that the first place team rarely wins the championship. In fact the Beer Bros. (last year's champions) finished in 7th place, so we got that going for us.

This game against the Blues Brothers saw some changes in the Hurtin' Units lineup. Mike's replacement (Harold) played in his first game and played well, Darrell was absent for, I believe, the first time all season, Rick L played his second consecutive game and looked great. Missing from this game were Darrell, Richard and Coxy. We picked up Doug Dwyer (ole double D cup) as a sub. Next week will be interesting...we could have a full team, wouldn't that be different. 

The weather was good; temperature was around 22 degrees, but there were a couple rain drops during the game, but nothing to worry about.


This game was a great competitive matchup, but it was overshadowed by an incident in the bottom of the 2nd inning. In the bottom of the second inning, the home team Units batting, Phil hit a line drive up the middle of the diamond that hit Brother's pitcher Dave Argue in the right side of the head.

Dave had little opportunity to protect himself from the hit, barely getting his glove up and turning away. The shot dropped Dave to the ground and caused a large cut. Dave left the game, went to the hospital and was treated receiving 6 staples to close the cut. Last time I heard Dave was in good spirits and doing well.

When the game resumed, the Unit's bats came alive and the game was close throughout. The boxscore tells a pretty good story of this game, so I don't have to bore you with details. 

"Ricky L. was like a machine out there." 

There were some great plays in the game, by both teams, and Rick Lyon was Mr. Awesome in the field with several excellent plays.

We also received a new team bat.