GRUESOME? NOPE, STILL THE SAME SIZE.

Game # 10– June 22th, 2023

Hurtin' Units vs. The Gruesome Devils

Hurtin' Units lose 16-12

Team Record –2-7-1

Keogh Park- The weather for this game is perfect for baseball. The temperature was in the mid-20s and there was medium breeze, a sun/cloud mix and that was perfect for tonight's game. We could not ask for a better. The official start time was 8:20pm, start your stopwatch.

At game time, the Units were down 2 players, Tom H. and Jamie were missing for this game.

So in my last Hurtin' Units post, I asked the question: Is it no new innings after 1 hour and 5 minutes, 1 hour and 15 minutes or 55 minutes? Just after I posted, Roman messaged me and told me it was 1 hour and 15 minutes, I mentioned the executive said it was 1 hour and 5 minutes, and he wrote back to me and confirmed it's no new innings after 1 hour and 5 minutes. So we got that cleared up. Last night against the Gruesome, the umpire told me that it's no new innings after 1 hour and 5 minutes (sounds right), but if you start a new inning, before an hour and 5 minutes and it goes past the 1 hour 15 minutes, the game abruptly ends and we go back to the previous inning to end the game. What???? This is what I was told. I say just play the full 7 innings and be done with it. Holy Crap this time thing is frustrating this season.

Units' vs Grusome.

This season has been a bit of a struggle and I think it's safe to say that the Hurtin' Units are probably not going to win the regular season. Coming into this game, the Units record was 2-6-1 with a 5-game winless streak, we're not really rippin' the cover off the ball and we have gotten off to a really different kind of start than in previous years. We seem to have that one bad inning in every game and it leads to the Units seemingly coming from behind in every game.

The Units were the visiting team in this game and for only the 4^th time this season (10 games played), we are at Keogh Park. I counted the number of times we play at Keogh Park this season, on the schedule, the Units only play 7 games at Keogh all season and 17 at Coventry. This is probably due to the +55 division using Keogh on Wednesday nights. I prefer to play at Keogh, but this season we don't have that luxury. We have 6 games in a row at Coventry coming up, For the entire month of July we play Coventry every Tuesday night. I'm not complaining, the scheduler has a very tough job ( I wouldn't want to do it), but it just feels (this season) like things are a little out of sorts. Pete likes playing Coventry Park, but I prefer Keogh, it's too much packing up the wagon and trekking throughout the park for my liking.

Game Time: In the top of the first inning, the Units scored 2 runs, but also left 2 runners stranded on base. In the bottom of the first, the Gruesome scored 5 runs, 3 off a monstrous homerun by Tiny over the left field fence. In the top of the 2^nd Units went down 1, 2, 3, the nice thing was the Gruesome went down quickly also, 4 batters, 3 out. The Units would score 3 more runs in the third, the Gruesome would counter with 6 more runs, and the score after 3 innings was 11- 5 for the Gruesomes.

In the 4^th inning, the Units went down quickly 4 batters up, 3 outs. The Gruesomes would tack on 2 more runs. In the 5^th inning, the Units bats came alive and when the diamond dust settled the Units had scored 6 runs, the Gruesome Devils would come back with 3 runs of their own. The score after 5 complete innings was 16-11. The Units would score a single run in the 6^th inning (open), but the home team, didn't bat. Final score 16-12.

The Hurtin' Units are back on the field on June 27 vs. The Inglorious Batsters.