DESPERATELY SEEKING SOLUTION.

HURTIN' UNITS VS. THE BREW JAYS. 

Game # 6- June 10, 2014

Hurtin' Units lose 20-7 

Team Record 0-6-0

Coventry Park- I have found even more evidence that the Units have been thrust in to Bizzaro World. On Monday evening, I looked at the T.O.T standings and wasn't difficult to find the Hurtin' Units; there we were sitting at the very bottom with a 0-5-0 record. No team in the league has a worse record. This is another first for the Units...Bizzare! 

Why is it that the new teams in the league always seem to do well? Last season new captains Chuck and Stike (Draft Kings) powered there way to the top of the standings and rode that wave to win the league and T.O.T championship. 

When the Tap Masters and the Gruesome Devils came in, they both did well. This season the Sliders and Son of Pitches are both hovering around the top of the standings; mind you it is early in the season.

The Hurtin' Units and the Brew Jays came in to the league in the same year. That season the two rookie teams would battle, all season long, for the league title. The Hurtin' Units would prevail in the final week of season with a 19-5-2 record. Things sure have taken a 180 degree turn, for the Units, since that season... or have we somehow been thrown in to Bizzaro World.

Since that first season, the Brew Jays and Hurtin' Units have become pretty good rivals, with some great battles on the playing field.  

As recently as last year's playoffs, the Units and Brew Jays squared off in a game that saw a total of 45 runs scored. 

I remember standing on second base and the Brew Jay's shortstop, Rod D., asked me if there was going to be enough ink in the scorekeepers pen to finish the game...LOL. The Units went on to win that game with the final score 24-21.

The weather for this game (June 10) was perfect; the temperature was around 22 degrees, there was a slight breeze and the sunset that was giving us problems last week, was shrouded by a thick haze in the western sky. 

The Hurtin' Units had 10 guys in the lineup; Art strolled in a little bit late, but still made his first at bat. This was a 7:00pm game, we were the visitors and the umpire was Donny S.

Nothing like a good rivalry.

 This game against the Brew Jays was not as offensively charged for the Units as the last back in the playoffs, but the Jays still can bring it. 

The Units scored 2 runs in the top of the first inning and we were feeling good. The Jays scored a 7 in the bottom, without an out, and we drooped a little. The Jays were doing the same thing all the other teams, this season, have been doing, hitting the ball everywhere on the playing surface except to a Hurtin' Unit player. 

I started Bill C. at pitcher tonight, looking to change things up, but nothing changed defensively on the field, we were still watching the ball drop in all around us. The Jays scored 2 seven run innings on their way to a 20-7 win. 

I came in to pitch in the 4th inning and we managed to stop the bleeding, we had 2 stellar defensive innings, topped off with 3 straight hits to Bill at 3rd base, throw to second for a force out. It was like groundhog day, 3 times in a row. 

The Units would rally a little in the later innings, but it would be too little too late. The Units would go on to lose their 6th straight game to start the season. Our next game is Thursday evening vs. the Dogcatchers...Could this be the night for the Units first win? 

Walk Watch- G-0, S-2