Hurtin' Units lose 10-3
Team Record - 0-1-0
Coventry Park- The start of the blogging season has begun for me and this season I told myself I was going to scale it back a bit, hopefully I can manage to do it. I think I can get my point across with pictures of game sheets and boxscores. I will probably throw in the odd highlight, but no more long winded, babbling blogs. This post is/was giving me a difficult time; I could not change the font colour, and I could not get all the same size font...very frustrating at times.
The weather for this game was a bit cool, only around 12 degrees at game time, overcast skies and, at times, there were strong wind gusts.
At game time we had 11 Hurtin' Units players dressed in Kelly green (new shirt colour this season), the only missing player, on opening night, was Keith D.
We did have 2 hobbled players for this game, one before, one during. Dave (Stormsy) had a bout of gout and Dion would dislocate his finger while batting during the game.
The season was slated to begin on May 1st, but mother nature had different plans. In week one, the rain came down all week canceling every game and the Town put a hold the league using the diamonds until things dried up. The diamonds were so saturated that the Town would not release the diamonds until the Thursday of week # 2.
The bottom line is the season finally got under way and the Hurtin' Units had a layer of rust on opening night. The defense looked decent for a bunch of guys who had never played together, but the offense was the part of our game that seemed to have the issues.
The Units defense made some good plays, but we had a couple of moments where we threw the ball away. The offense was not hitting well and the Units left numerous base runners on the bags. The game was close and the Units never gave up more than a 2 runs in an inning. If you look at the score sheet, the Cleats scored 2 runs in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th for a total of 10 runs.
I went back and looked up how the Hurtin' Units have done since they came in to the league. We have won more than we have lost, but the last 2 opening day games have started to even it out. This game is the second straight game we have lost on opening day.
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Season Opener
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Result
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Team
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May 16, 2017 |
10-3 Loss
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Dusty Cleats |
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May 4, 2016 |
5-4 Loss
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Grisslies |
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May 5, 2015 |
13-10 Win
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Hottub Woodies |
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May 8,2014 |
10-8 Loss
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Blues Brothers |
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May 8, 2013 |
16-11 Win
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Draft Kings |
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May 2, 2012 |
5-5 Tie
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Dog Catchers |
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May 10, 2011 |
16-11 Win
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Dodge City Rounders |
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May 6, 2010 |
14-19 Win
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Red Dogs |
Last season we lost on opening night, but we still went on to have a better than .500 season. We also finished in 5th place, won the HTKP tournament, won the Beer Cup and went 4-0 in the round robin portion of the 2016 playoffs. We did however lose to the 2016 champions in the quarter finals in the playoffs. So, when it comes down to this opening night, it can probably be chalked up to opening night jitters.
The Hurtin' Units next game is Wednesday May 17th at Keogh Park vs. the Inglorious Batsters. 😞
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