Game #15 - July 20, 2010
Hurtin' Units win 15-10
Team Record 13-1-1
Coventry Park- It was a beautiful evening for baseball. The storm clouds that were around earlier in the evening had pushed through and the skies were almost clear. At game time, the clouds were gone , but now the sun was shining into the faces of the players. Thankfully, we were on diamond # 3 and the tree line, on the west side of the diamond shielded most of us as the game progressed...
At game time, we had 9 players, I knew Tom, Chris N. and Chris R. were all going to be away, so I arranged for a sub. We picked up Wilf Roblin as a sub...The Grisslies only had 8 players at the start of the game, and after the first half of the inning we traded our sub Wilf to the Grisslies for a first round draft pick and a player to be named Later... I've never personally met anyone named Later, so as chances of seeing a player in this transaction are quite slim...
We were the home team again tonight. In the top of the first inning we had a difficult time with the hitting of the Grisslies. The Griswolds came out swinging, spraying the ball all around the field and when the half had ended, the Gris had scored 6 runs. The Units first at bat saw the team only score a single run... 6-1 Grisslies at the end of one...
In the second inning the Units defense tightened up and shut down the Grisslies. In the bottom of the second the Units scored 4 more runs and made the score 6-5 after two innings. The Units also left the bases loaded in the second.
The third inning saw the Gris score a single run and the Units countered with 7 big, juicy runs... Somehow this just sounds wrong, not the 7, but the big, juicy runs, sounds more something you do when you have the flu.. doesn't it? In the forth inning neither team could score. In the fifth inning the Units scored 3 more runs and shut down the side defensively...
The sixth inning was the open inning due to time restraints, and the Grisslies rallied to score 3 more runs, but in the end it would not be enough and the Units would go on to victory by a 15-10 score.
Boxscore:
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th Total
Hurtin' Units 1 4 7 0 3 X X 15
Grisslies 6 0 1 0 0 3 X 10
With the exception of the 1st inning the defense was solid again, in fact we were good in the first inning, but the Grisslies managed some good, timely hitting to score their first inning runs. We continue, as a team, to make smart decisions on the field, and stay out of trouble by not throwing the ball away, our communication on the diamond is great and our batting lineup can get us back into most games... Units United!!
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