Hurtin' Units lose 11- 1
Team Record 7-9-1
Coventry Park...Again. - We find ourselves back in Coventry Park for the forth week in a row and we still have two more weeks to go in this park. Six weeks in a row playing a game at Coventry Park. We do have a couple of games at Keogh mixed in, but this really seems excessive. I went through the schedule and counted the number of games we will play at Coventry this season. We will play 10 scheduled games at Coventry during the regular season. I don't want to dwell on this topic, it's the way the schedule worked out and when talking to some guys, they think the more we play at Coventry the better acquainted we will become with the park, for the playoffs.
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| Something seams to be wrong here... Mr. Tightie Whitey check your pants. |
So we're up against the Rusty Rebels for the second time this season. This team, for some reason is positioned 13th in the standings with a record of 5-9-2. This team has some talent, with the likes of Kahuna, Mooner, Hughie, and Don. This team should be watched closely going in to the playoffs. This team can probably light it up on any given night.
The first 2012 meeting between the Rusty Rebels and the Hurtin' Units took place on May 22, 2012. The final score was 12-11 for the Rebels and this was our third loss in a row to start the season. This loss was one of those four losses, by a single run, we experienced early in the season.
The Hurtin' Units were playing some decent ball back at the start and we took our sweet time getting things rolling, but of late our play has been really good and that's always worth a mention.
In the early afternoon on game day, the weather was scary; there were dark black clouds, heavy rain, lightening and thunder and it didn't look very promising that we would be playing. Later in the afternoon the weather broke and the skies cleared enough to get the games in on Tuesday evening.
At game time we had 9 Hurtin' Unit players, Clayton, Gord and Dave K were all away. We recruited Bob P. as a sub.
Hurtin' Units Enforcer Gone for the Season.
On Tuesday morning (July 31), the entire Hurtin' Units team received an e-mail from Dave Kidd (Kidder) informing us that his season was finished. Kidder had been dealing with some nagging injuries all season had been told by his surgeon to stop playing ball for the remainder of the season.
Dave is a real trooper; even with all the injuries, aches and pains and having to wear 4 support braces, he came out and played the best he could. A man with a lot of heart. I'm personally going to miss the big lug, he always brought a smile to my face when he was in the lineup...a character guy to be sure. Best wishes Dave.
The Hyding Game.
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| Wusty Webels game sheet |
When I wook at the weally, wespectable Wusty Webels
woster I wonder why they haven't had a better season. The top batters are just that, top batters and the defense seems to be tight, at least in this game.
The Hurtin' Units could not generate any kind of offense in this game. Any time we had guys on base, we got ourselves out shortly after. I went to the game sheet to see how many times we flied or popped out in to a Rebels glove. Take a guess...13 outs of a possible 21 outs were of the flied out, lined out or popped out variety.
This was definitely one of those Mr. Hyde nights for the Hurtin' Units, we have had them on occasion throughout the entire season, but he was definitely here for this one. Not to make to many excuses, but the field conditions were not great. The rain earlier in the day left it's mark... the right handed batter's box was deep and full of mud and there was a pond behind 2nd base that was a safety hazard.
The Rebels had some left handed batters in their lineup, maybe this was an advantage with these conditions.
This was our lowest runs for game in the history of the Hurtin' Units and it can only get better from here...or can it?
Gord R. and Clayton not being in the lineup certainly takes away some offensive punch from the Units and if the Rebels had been missing their #2 and #4 rated players also, this could have been a different game. Looking forward to seeing Dr. Jekyll in the near future.
Notes:
Al Hayward had a great defensive night playing most of the infield positions.
Rob was hitting the ball hard, once a line drive in to Hughie's glove.
This was a fast game... 15 minutes and 22 seconds. Okay, it was a little longer, but it definitely went quick.
Anicete scored our only run.
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| Next week the big, bad Brew Jays. |
On a more positive note, our defense was really solid again, despite giving up 11 runs. Next week we have 2 games; On Tuesday we play the number one team in the standings, the Brew Jays and on Thursday evening we play the Banshees for the first time this season.
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