Bat On The Run.

 Bat On The Run.

Captain Jimmer, [briefing all the captains, players, scorekeepers, and all the umpires surrounding him] All right, listen up, ladies and gentlemen, our fugitive bat has been on the run for 24 hours. Average bat speed over uneven ground, barring injuries, is 4 miles per hour. That gives us a radius of six miles. What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Easton Resmondo. Go find him.

Game # 6- June 12, 2024

Hurtin' Units vs. The Tap Masters

Hurtin' Units win 15-14

Team Record – 3-3-0

Keogh Park- For only the second time this season we find ourselves back at Keogh Park, playing in our second game of a back to back week. I mentioned in the Rusty Rebels post that the Hurtin' Units had 2 tough games this week, the Rusty Rebels on Tuesday night at Coventry and then the Tap Masters on Wednesday night at Keogh. These are the league's top two teams, and we played them both tough. In the Rebel game with had them up against the ropes, we just couldn't finish them off. In this game vs. The Tap Masters we got off to a slow start and got better as the game went on.

Bat Shit Crazy:

Okay, it's Thursday morning and I just went to my car to make sure Easton Resmondo is still there and didn't take off over night. He was there, sleeping off last night's hitting performance. For those of you who don't know Resmondo (A.K.A Red Bat) has been running away. He is an adventurous little bat and it seems like every time I turn around he disappears. Two weeks ago he took off and a week later, when we were playing the Draft Kings, he wasn't in our bat bag. The league President sent out an APB and Resmondo was found hanging out in the Tap Masters bag, I picked him up at the diamond the next night. I thought that this was a one time thing and it was out of his system. I was WRONG!!

This week we were at Coventry # 3 for the Rebels game, the game started and we went up to bat. Where's Resmondo all of our lead off batters were asking. “ He's in the bag (not drunk)” I said. Resmondo was MIA again. WTF?? I know he was there, I did some bat maintenance and hit some “ball on a rope” earlier in the day. I remembered putting him back in the bag and in my car.

I stressed about where he was the entire Rebel game? Was he still in my car or at home? The Unit's batters ended up using the Rebels Red Resmondo for the game. After the Rebel game, I looked in my car and then around my house and garage, Resmondo had gone rogue again.

Much to my chagrin, I sent out an e-mail to the captains hoping that Ressy was safe and not being used for other unspeakable acts. The next morning the community of baseball players rallied to bring Ressy home safe. Captains from the other teams commented and gave words of encouragement as the search continued. Kyle even suggested having film crew follow Resmondo in his travels. In the early morning hours on Wednesday morning, I received an e-mail from Mark C letting me know that Ressy had been found safe. Apparently, Resmondo jumped from the wagon and made a run for it. Thankfully Mark was there to stop him.

Last night, just before our game with the Tap Masters, I picked up Resmondo at Mark's house, thanks again Mark for taking care of little Ressy. Resmondo the Adventurous Little Bat. I'm sure this story isn't over... maybe it's just begun.

Game Time.

The weather was actually good for this game, the temperature was around 20 degrees, there was a sun/cloud mix and a soft breeze rustling the trees at Keogh. It was a perfect night for baseball

At game time, the Units had 10 of the regular team players, we were missing Kevin and Brandon. Little Timmy was the scorekeeper and Reagan was the umpire for this 8:15 game at Keogh Park. We played six innings. The Units were the visitors. The Tap Masters picked up Al Frans as a sub.

In the first inning, the Units sent 6 batters to the plate and came away with a short-lived 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the inning, the Tappers sent 8 batters up and came up with 4 runs. I struggled to hit the board and throw strikes, I walked 3 batters for the first time in an inning.

In the second inning, the Units scored another 3 runs, and held the Tappers to only single run scored. In the third inning, the Units hit the ball all around the diamond and with a few Tapper errors, the Units end up scoring 7 more runs. In the bottom of the inning, the Tappers scored another 2 runs. The score after 3 complete innings was 12-7 for the Units.

In the fourth inning, the Units tacked on 2 more runs and in the bottom, the Tappers would go down quickly 4 batters, 3 outs. In the top of the fifth inning, the Units would only send 4 batters to the plate and still come away with a single run. In the bottom of the inning, the Tappers would not go away, they battled back sending 8 batters to the plate, 4 runs would come in to score. The score after 5 complete inning was 15-11 for the Units.

In the top of the sixth inning (open inning), the Units would go down without a fight, 1,2,3 and it was lights out. In the bottom of the inning, Pete had told or trolled us we were up by 3 runs (it was actually 4 runs), Kirk would get out, Matt and Norm would come around to score, Rico would get out, Paul would score on a hit by Glen, Jason would get a double bringing Glen to third. I thought the game was tied and Glen was the winning run (Pete's was trolling us), with first base open I sent Al Frans to first base with an intentional walk, and took my chances with Matt S., he would fly out to LCF and that was the ball game. We had won the game, even through we thought we tied. Units win 15-14.

For the second night in a row, we played a solid game taking on one of the best teams this season. 1 win, 1 loss (that could have been a win) this week, good games Units.

The Hurtin' Units next game is June 18^th vs. The Beer Bros.