Game # 13 - July 5, 2011
Hurtin Units lose 18-4
Team Record- 5-8-0
Dodge City- Maybe a three game road trip is what we need to get back on track. The pressure of playing in front of our home crowd, while on a 5 game losing streak, is probably making us grip the bats too tight and try too hard...Heading to Dodge City could be the tonic that the Hurtin' Units need to get back, get back to where we once belonged. The three game road trip starts with Dodge City and then the Dogcatchers the next night and then finishes up with the Dislocated Joints next Tuesday July 12. In between the Dogcatchers and the Dislocated Joints will have the HTKP Tournament to play, with 4 regulars unable to play we added 4 new players to our roster... I'm looking forward to playing a lot of ball this week...Like to play, what can I say...
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Our game against the Dodge City Rounders has stirred up a lot of interest in Dodge City. The Rounders have had a tough season and sit at the bottom of the T.O.T league standings, with a record of 1-9-0 and with the Units on a five game losing streak something has got to give.The Hurtin' Units played the Dodge City Rounders in our first game of the season(technically it was supposed to be the second,but if you remember the start of the season, our first game was postponed because the playing field was not useable)and we came away with a 16-11 victory...
This game has the folks of Dodge City putting down their pitch forks and baling twine and heading to the ball park to support their team. The Dodge City mayor has even decided to attend this game, the first time ever, although there are rumours on the streets and in the fields that he is a Hurtin' Units fan and he has been quoted saying he likes the Units new shirt logo...
The weather in Dodge City was overcast and around 5:30 pm on game day there were several dark clouds lingering around the ball park.The cloud cover would be welcomed by the players on the field facing west,if not they would have been staring into the sun. The temperature was hovering around 30 degrees celius and there was a chance of late evening thunder storms...
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At game time we had only 9 players in uniform, Bob Mc, Paul E. and Brad were missing. Brad did not make the trip to Dodge City, but will be meeting up with the team on Wednesday night against the Dogcatchers, I'm not sure what happened with Bob and Paul, maybe they went to the saloon and met up with the ladies or maybe they got into a bar fight and spent the night in jail...not sure?
Wherever Bob and Paul E. were it had to be better than diamond #3 at Dodge City Baseball Park, where the Dodge City Rounders took the Hurtin' Units out behind the drive shed and beat the tar out of us...
The Units are really having a difficult time getting hits and scoring runs and when you can't score it makes the opponents look pretty good... I believe Cal R. asked me the question " Do we bring out the best in the other teams?", well the other teams are certainly hitting us around, but our bats looked like they are on summer vacation. The Rounders were the home team and they certainly looked like they were prepared for this game... The Hurtin' Units lead off the game with no runs in the top of the first inning and the Rounders scored a single in the bottom. The Units went down quickly in the top of the second and the Rounders came out attacking, scoring 7 runs in the bottom of the inning,the third didn't get any better for the Units and in the bottom of the inning, the Rounders scored 7 more with Jimmer pitching...The score at the end of 3 innings... Dodge City 15, the Hurtin' Units O...
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The Hurtin' Units were shut out again in the forth inning and the Units actually managed to stop the Rounders in the bottom of the inning. Finally in the fifth inning, the Units scored a single run, but the Rounders scored 2 more runs. In the sixth inning, the Units bats came alive and put up 3 more runs on the scoresheet and held the Rounders to only a single run in the bottom of the inning...The Rounders shut down the Units in the seventh inning and the bottom of the inning would not be needed as the Dodge City Rounders would defeat the Hurtin' Units by a final score of 18-4...And the Dodge City Rounders run us out of Town with another ugly loss...
Boxscore: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Hurtin' Units 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4
Dodge City 1 7 7 0 2 1 X 18
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After the game we were in the parking lot, drowning our sorrows with a whiskey(beer actually), discussing everything, but the game. We saw what happened afterall and it really needed no recall. I asked for suggestions to how we might get out of this slump and nobody really had any real answer... We can't make a trade, we can't sign any free agents and Bill threw out his old cleats,so we
are stuck will the new ones.I think we need a nickname for Bill, what do you guys think?- Wild Bill, The Jonk Man, New Shoe Sue, Billy the Kidder, something that will scare our opponents, I guess New Shoe Sue is not going to work...We are in this thing together and it's up to us to turn it around...We are a much better team than we have displayed in recent weeks, so we decided to have a little fun with the game against the Dogcatchers...We are going to make the lineup in alphabetical order and see if it changes things...We need a little distraction...See ya all at the next game...
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| Mayor - " I like their new logo" |
The weather in Dodge City was overcast and around 5:30 pm on game day there were several dark clouds lingering around the ball park.The cloud cover would be welcomed by the players on the field facing west,if not they would have been staring into the sun. The temperature was hovering around 30 degrees celius and there was a chance of late evening thunder storms...
Wherever Bob and Paul E. were it had to be better than diamond #3 at Dodge City Baseball Park, where the Dodge City Rounders took the Hurtin' Units out behind the drive shed and beat the tar out of us...
The Units are really having a difficult time getting hits and scoring runs and when you can't score it makes the opponents look pretty good... I believe Cal R. asked me the question " Do we bring out the best in the other teams?", well the other teams are certainly hitting us around, but our bats looked like they are on summer vacation. The Rounders were the home team and they certainly looked like they were prepared for this game... The Hurtin' Units lead off the game with no runs in the top of the first inning and the Rounders scored a single in the bottom. The Units went down quickly in the top of the second and the Rounders came out attacking, scoring 7 runs in the bottom of the inning,the third didn't get any better for the Units and in the bottom of the inning, the Rounders scored 7 more with Jimmer pitching...The score at the end of 3 innings... Dodge City 15, the Hurtin' Units O...
Boxscore: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Hurtin' Units 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 4
Dodge City 1 7 7 0 2 1 X 18
are stuck will the new ones.I think we need a nickname for Bill, what do you guys think?- Wild Bill, The Jonk Man, New Shoe Sue, Billy the Kidder, something that will scare our opponents, I guess New Shoe Sue is not going to work...We are in this thing together and it's up to us to turn it around...We are a much better team than we have displayed in recent weeks, so we decided to have a little fun with the game against the Dogcatchers...We are going to make the lineup in alphabetical order and see if it changes things...We need a little distraction...See ya all at the next game...
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