THE WILD HOWLING AT THE MOONER...

HURTIN' UNITS VS. THE WILD...

Game # 18- July 25, 2011

Hurtin' Units win 22-14

Team Record- 7-10-1

5:00AM Game Day: For those who were up and about at 5:00am on game day, we were treated to an amazing lightening show, accompanied by loud cracks of thunder and heavy rain. I'm really surprised with all the heat and humidity, we have had over the last week, that we haven't seen more of this type of activity. I'm happy to see the rain, it will certainly help the diamonds, at least this was my thinking until we got on the field...When we got on the field it was rough, the field had not been graded and the rain hardened the surface, a rough and hard surface leads to many strange bounces... Yikes!!

I think we need a baseball video in this edition, click here to go to video.

We are at game number 18 on the schedule, where has the season gone, we only have 6 games remaining and then the playoffs...

At 9:00pm on game night the temperature was a comfortable 23 degrees with much less humidity than our last game. The conditions were almost perfect for a good hitting night.

At game time we had 10 players for the game, I had called for a sub earlier in the day, but he wasn't needed and he went to the legion with his team instead. They had been playing the 8:15 game...

The Wild currently hold down 2nd place in the T.O.T league standings with a record of 10-4-0. They are a solid team defensively and offensively. I have subbed for them twice this season, they won both the games...

This game was the second of our two scheduled 9:30pm games, we played the first on June 15 against the Dusty Cleats and lost 20-19. We also had a make-up game at 9:30 against the Dislocated Joints and won 17-11... We seem to play quite well in the 9:30 games with a record of 2-1-0.

Our game was the third game played on the Keogh Park diamond this evening and the infield playing surface was awful, ground balls were skippin' and a jumpin' and going wild all over the place.

In our game we had to do some shifting around with our players. Cal S was nursing a sore leg, so he went to catch/first, we were also missing Cal and Richard, so Mike and Mooner played in the outfield...

We were the home team in this game  and in the top of the first inning the Wild came out swingin', scoring 5 runs and making it look like it might be another long night for the Units. In the bottom of  the first the Units sent 9 batters to the plate and 3 came around to score.

In the top of the second inning the Wild scored another 2 runs, but the Units rallied in the bottom of the inning to score 7 runs. The Wild were shut out in the third inning and the Units added another 4 runs, highlighted by a grand slam homerun, over the center field fence, by Mooner to make the score 14-7 for the Units after 3 innings....

In the forth inning, neither team scored. In the fifth inning the Wild tagged the ball around the park scoring 7 runs, but the Units answered with 7 runs in the bottom. In the sixth inning the Units defense would shut down the Wild and in the bottom the Units would tack on an additional run to make the score 22-14 Units after 6 innings... In the seventh inning the Units would again shut down the Wild, the bottom was not needed, Hurtin' Units win 22-14. UNITS UNDERESTIMATED!!

Boxscore:       1    2    3    4    5     6    7         Total   


Hurtin' Units   3    7    4   0     7     1    X          22    


The Wild         5    2     0   0    7     0     0          14   

JIMBITS:

• This was a great team effort again, fueled by little Sammy Buca... We love ya Sammy!
• It was great to see Bill J. (Billy the Kid) back in the lineup after missing the last three games with an upper body injury...
• The ball was traveling well in this game, everyone was hitting well, especially Mooner and Mikey Boy. They were crushing the ball!
• Mooner went 5 for 5, Mikey went 4 for 5, Jimmer went 4 for 4, Bob went 4 for 5, etc. refer to the game sheet if ya want to more, it's at the bottom of this blog....We were hitting really well...
• Chris L made two nice grabs at third base and two tosses to first, one that Roman remarked " pull the pin" because it was so soft it was like tossing a hand grenade...
• Paul E went perfect in right field and hit really well.
• The Wild had zero lefthanded batters in the lineup for this game.
• Mooner was a offensive machine- went 5 for 5, scored 5 times, hit a grand slam homerun and later crushed a ball foul in to a tree in the lawn bowling courts ( that poor tree didn't even see it coming).
• This win moved us up in the standings by 4 or 5 positions (according to the posted standings).



Hurtin' Units game sheet

  Our next game is Wednesday August 3, 2011 vs. The Grisslies at 8:15pm. The Hurtin' Units and the Grisslies are having a fan appreciation night at this game. We encourage players to invite family and friends to come out and watch our game...
More information to come regarding this evening....