SHOOTOUT AT COVENTRY PARK.

Game # 5 – June 2nd, 2026

Hurtin' Units vs. Dodge City

Hurtin' Units win 17-10

Team Record – 2-3-0

Tottenham- I was sitting outside on Wednesday morning, and in the distance I could hear the loud, piercing sound of the train whistle coming into town. This meant that the train from Dodge City had arrived, and the Dodge City team was about to disembark at the station. I'm glad we were the home team in our game that night. Every time the Units go to Dodge City, there's a trouble a brewin'. But just because we were the home team didn't mean that the Dodgers were going to be on their best behaviour, no, I don't think these boys know how to stay out of trouble. Plus, they just had a long train ride, and they was gonna be ornery.

When I arrived at the Coventry Corral, I realized I had forgotten my book for scorin', I was gonna have to ask the biggest, meanest captain in the league to borrow a page from his scorebook. I approached Captain Beechy, my hand near my holster, and asked for him for a page for scorin', to my surprise, he obliged, but not before a 10-second stare down and a promise of a whiskey later following the game (I'll be avoiding that saloon tonight). I turned and hightailed my way back to the Hurtin' Units bench.

The weather for this game was nice, really nice, warm and dry enough to have tumble weeds roll across the outfield, not that we saw any. At game time, the Units were down to 10 gunslingers (players), Andrew was still out with a bullet wound or maybe a wrist injury(can't remember which), Lorne D (one of our best shooters) was in a posse, taken care of business in the town of Alliston. Dodge City had only 10 slingers, so we was evened up.

In the top of the first inning, Dodge came out firing bullets (baseballs) around the diamond, 7 batters later, the crack of bat on balls, had stopped, and Dodge had an early 2-run lead. In the bottom, the Units didn't back down, we sent 9 batters up, sprayed balls around the outfield and scored 4 runs. In the top of the second inning, Beechy's band of merry men laid a beatin' on the Units; they went through the order, and when the smell of crushed balls had settled, the Dodgers had scored another 6 runs. The Units were a little shell-shocked, and in the bottom went down 1,2,3.

The third inning saw the ornery Dodge City team come out firin' again, 10 batters, 3 more runs and a
few more stare downs. In the bottom, the Units would not be intimidated, we pulled out the big guns and started firing. Pete started off with a triple, Kevin with a single, Franco with a single, Marco with a single, and Johnny G with a single. 8 batters in total, 3 big runs scored. In the fourth, the Units held ground and stopped the Dodgers without a run. In the bottom, with opportunity knocking, the Units top gunslingers were coming up, Corey would fly out, but Mike hit a double, Peter would single, Kevin would get out (2 outs now) Keith would hit a huge, monstrous in the park home-run clearing the bases for 3 runs, Franco would single, Marco would do the same, but unfortunately Dave would fly out to end the inning. The score after 4 complete innings was 11-10 for Dodge.

In the top of the fifth, Dodge would send 6 batters to the plate, after 3 singles and 3 outs, they had scored another single run. In the bottom (Units down by 2 runs), John would get out, Jimmer would also tap out (2 out now), then the top guns would start spraying balls around the diamond again. Corey hit a single, Mike C hit a double, and Pete hit a double. Kevin hit a single, Keith a single, followed by a Franco out. All those hits resulted in a 3-run inning, and the Units took the lead by a score of 13-12.

In the sixth inning, Dodge only sent 4 batters to the plate, 3 outs, no runs. In the bottom, Marco led off with a single, Dave D with a double (triple Ds), Johnny flied out, Jimmer blooped in a single. The Units were back to the top of the order (1 out), Corey, Mike, and Pete would all single, Kevin would be out, Franco would also single, and that would be 7 seven runs on ye ole scoresheet.

In the open inning, Dodge had their top coming up, Mark would get out, Wayon would single, Beechy would get out, Todd would single, and Bo would be the final out for the Dodgers. The Units were leading and did not bat in the seventh. The final score 20-12 for the Units.

I haven't looked closely at the schedule to see if the Units will be headed to Dodge City this season, but if we do, you know those Dodge boys will be lookin' for some kind of revenge. Elbows Up, Boys!!

Highlights:

Corey went 4 for 5, 3 runs- Corey also brought his family out to the game, good luck charms?

Mikey C. went 4 for 5, 3 runs.

Peter (superstar) went 5 for 5, 5 runs scored.

Keith Dell in the park homerun.

Marco went 5 for 5, with a jammed thumb.

Franco went 3 for 4.

Todd Mc. (Dodge) went 5 for 5.

Rob Jordan (Dodge) went 4 for 4.

The Hurtin' Units' next game is June 9th, 8:00pm vs. The Brew Birds.