HURTIN' UNITS HAD UPPER HAND WITH MASTER BATTERS.

HURTIN' UNITS VS. MASTER BATTERS.

Game # 13- July  8th, 2015

Mid Point in the Season. 

Hurtin' Units win 4-3 

Team Record- 8-5-0

Keogh Park- This game was supposed to be game # 15 on the original schedule. Over the last two weeks the Hurtin' Units, as well as a bunch of other teams, have been rained out and our games postponed. Tuesday night, the game before this one, the Units were to play the Draft Kings, the team that won the HTKP tournament, but because of the amount of rain we got on Tuesday the game was canceled. Maybe, it was a good thing that we didn't play them, when they were just coming of the high of winning the tourney. 

The funny thing is, that in this game, we get the other team that played in the finals against the Draft Kings. Yup, the Master Batters went up against the Draft Kings and it was a very close game, the final score ending at 10-9 for the Kings in the bottom of the 7th inning. The Master Batters had actually had taken a lead in the top of the inning by a score of 9-8, but just couldn't hold off the Kings. 

Draft Kings and Master Batters

Either way, the Hurtin' Units were in a tough situation this week. The one comfort may have been that the two opponents had played so much, that they were so sore and achy that they were unable to move and swing the bat. 

Collector's card.

The weather for this game was great for playing a ball game. The temperature was at 23 degrees (feeling like 26), a slight breeze, clear skies and the humidity that had been hanging around for the last couple of days was still lingering around. 

At game time we had 9 Hurtin' Unit players looking to put last weekend's batting woes behind us. (I still can't figure out how a whole team can go in to a batting slump). At game time we were missing Bill, Dave and Scott. We picked up Stef K. for this game. Thanks Stef, good game.

I was perusing the Tottenham Oldtimers website this morning and the Master Batters are the #1 in the standings with a record of 9-3-1 with 19 points. The Hurtin' Units sit in 6th position, in the standings, with a record of 7-5-0 with 14 points. The thing that really stood out was the Units have 217 runs scored, tops in the league, with the next closest team (Dodge City Rounders) at 206 runs. This game isn't going to help our runs for stat...LOL.

One thing I like to do, after a game, is send out an e-mail, to the guys on the Hurtin' Units that were unable to make the game, letting them know how we did on the night. So when I got home last night I sent an e-mail to Scott, Dave and Bill. I could just use the e-mail to describe this game on the field.

Here's the e-mail I sent:

Hi Guys,

Our bats were still ice cold as we went in to this game, but our defense was solid all night long. The Units scored 3 runs in the first inning, the Batters scored 2. The Units would score another run in the sixth inning and the Batters would also score a run. The final score 4-3  for the Hurtin' Units.

See ya next Monday.

Jimmer.

That is really the scoring in the game. There were no walks in the game, I don't think there were any strike outs or foul out on third strikes. I do recall numerous first pitch swings by both teams. 

Defensively both teams were catching everything (almost everything), Cookie made 2 foul tip catches in to his glove (didn't use his bare hand), Bo made an amazing catch running out on to the grass, playing second, in shallow right field to end an inning. Our outfield was steadily busy all night long.

Offensively, Todd has almost found his swing again, hitting a ball off the top of the LF fence driving in 2 RBIs. Most of the Units hit the ball well, but the gloves of the Batters always seemed to be there for the catches. I guess the Batters could say the same. 

This game took 48-49 minutes to play. We started a 7pm and we were done at 7:49pm. The teams for the next game were probably thinking the 7:00pm game got canceled. Roman enjoyed the pace of this game; there was a run of batters, 4 or 5 guys, that had swung at the first pitch, I came up and said I'm going to let the first pitch go, it was too good, I swung at the pitch, flied out to LCF, next batter... There was one inning I threw 5 pitches. 

To somebody looking at the score, this probably looked like a boring game, but it really wasn't. This was a well played, well pitched and a solid defensively played game. There was a certain feel in the game, like nobody wanted to make a mistake, that one bad inning would decide this game and as the innings rolled on, the intensity increased, right down to the last out. Great game by both teams, good win for the Units, fun for everyone who played in the game and I get the feeling Roman enjoyed it too!!  UNITS UNDENIABLE!!