HOMER SWEET HOMER.

HURTIN' UNITS VS. THE DOGCATCHERS.

Game # 6 - May 31, 2016

Hurtin' Units win 23-7

Team Record- 2-4-0

Coventry Park- The Hurtin' Units are finally home after the five game road trip to start the season. A road trip that saw the Units only win a single game and four losses. A road trip that was almost entire month of May. 

Hurtin' Units fans are happy the team is back. 

Jimmer was quoted as saying " it's great to be back home, sleep in our own beds, eat a home cooked meal and see our great fans". Yes, the stands should be full for the home opener on Tuesday evening when the Hurtin' Units take on the reigning 2015 T.O.T championship Dogcatchers. 

Last season the Units played the Dogcatchers 3 times; twice in the regular season and once in the round robin portion of the playoffs. In the regular season, the high powered Dogcatchers beat the Hurtin' Units in both games and in the playoffs the Dogcatchers kicked the crap out of the Units. 

Hurtin' Units fans tailgating, exited about the team.

In game # 18, the Dogcatchers beat the Units by a score of 10-8, in game #22 the Dogcatchers beat the Units 24-21...two close games. In the playoffs, the Dogcatchers beat the Units by a score of 20-6. I remember that we could not do anything to slow this team down...awesome power!! The Dogcatchers only lost 1 game in the 2015 playoffs and that game was against the league championship team, the Master Batters, by a score of 13-11. That was then this is now.

"Put a glove on that dog" - Roman D. 

The 2016 Dogcatchers are off to a slow start, but I was perusing their roster and they are still going to be a tough team.  

Game Time.

Last Thursday night we played the Dusty Cleats. Leading up to this game, we had had a nine-day layoff and as a result, we got off to a slow start batting and we could not recover. In the game against the Cleats, I changed the lineup a little, I moved Jon to the 3 spot and Ted in to the lead off position (I joked with Jon, in the Dogcatchers game, he was just too fast and I didn't want him chasing me around the bases). In the Cleats game it took once through the order before we started to get the bats clicking, but there were signs that the order could work. 

Going in to the Dogcatcher game, I did not change anything in the lineup/position sheet from the Cleats game (okay, I did change the name of the team we were playing and I put Home Opener on the sheet, but nothing else) and this time it seemed to work. The home team Units would shut down the Dogcatchers in the top of the first inning and in the bottom of the inning, the HU bats were smokin'. The Units would go through the entire lineup and score 7 runs, all with only one out. The Dogcatchers would score 2 runs in the top of the second inning and the Units scored nothing in the bottom of the inning. In the top of the third inning, the Dogcatchers would score 3 more runs. The score after 2 1/2 innings was 7-4 for the Units.

In the bottom of the 3rd inning, the Units would go back in to hit mode, would score 7 more runs and would not look back. 

This game was the Unit's best offensive output this season. The Unit's defense was also Stellar holding a good hitting team only to only seven runs in total.

Inside the Game.

• John would hit for a ground rule double into center field to score 2 runs.
• Little Timmy Sullivan would take a tumble over first base while running a hit out. 
• Ingo and Jimmer would collide, on a pop fly, both going down to the ground, Jimmer made the catch. 
• Jon and Peter spent extra time throwing and practising in warm-up. Great to see. 
• Jimmer made a play on a short hit ball down the first baseline by Bob C., catching and throwing to first to get the runner. 
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The Hurtin' Units next game is June 2, 2016 vs. the Hottub Woodys.