Today's game was about the Ladies in waiting, on team draft. At the outfield corners, at second, and at the plate. The ladies were demur and distracting just like a female Praying Mantis.
Hitting the ball to them results in a quick death of that play. Good defense kept today's game a low scoring event.
TPP got 4 runs in the top of the 1st. Draft answered with 3 of our own. 2 more for the Draft in the third gave us a small lead. One more in the 5th. Now we are +2. TPP woke up the bats 5 runs in the 6th. We are now down 9-6. 2 more runs in the Eight down 1. Good bats at the bottom of the order in the bottom of the 9th. 10 - 9 final score.
Our star was Gary McBride who was 4/4 with a home run and 4 RBI's, Dave Hempy was 4/4. Jimmie was 3/4 as was Tom Winterbourne.
For TPP Mike Endleman was 3/3 as was Gene Lachimia. Gene also hit a home run and got 4 RBI's. Remind me to not throw Him that Pitch again.
Draft defense was so good TPP only scored in 2 innings.
Many thanks to Big AL for umpiring, a stellar performance as usual.
Two teams fighting for first place early in the season put on quite a show in a well-played close game at Alga today. Each team had only one five-run inning and the score was never more than three runs apart as good pitching by Gary Soper for PG and Bob Baptista for WW were backed by both team's solid defenses resulting in a 13 to 11 victory for PG. The final result was not settled until the final inning. PG had a three-run lead going into the top of the ninth and with the top of the order coming up looked to open up a little cushion. WW had other ideas and stopped PG three up, three down. In the bottom of the ninth the middle of the WW order got hits and scored one run and had runners on first and third when the PG defense stiffened and got the final outs, preserving the win.
There were no home runs and only a few extra base hits for either team, but everyone on PG's team had at least one hit. They were led by leadoff batter Cathy McDonald's 4 for 5 day, 4 for 4 and three RBIs for Leo McFall, and 3 for 4 with 4 RBIs for Gary Soper. Pat Driscoll also chipped in a 3 for 4 day in addition to catching every fly ball hit anywhere near him. Michiko Lischen contributed two hits to set up the top of the order. PG thanks Rich Berkeley for subbing.
WW was led at the plate by Bob Buscher's 3 for 3 day and David Hartzog and Cord Cameron each driving in three of the team's ten runs. WW thanks Dennis O'Hern and Phil Kay for subbing for them
What a game this was today! PPB jumped out to a 10-1 lead after 4 innings, but CBI out score PPB 10-0 during the next 3 innings to take the lead, but then PPB won the last 2 innings 8-0 to win the game.
CBI came back with 3 back to back homers by Dale Miller (Grand Slam), Gene Smith and Randy Agadoni, who also hit a triple & a double. Rod Johnson and CBI’s defense shut down PPB 5 innings.
PPB was lead by Rich Reynolds 5/5, David Ward, Rich Lavacot & Teddy Badillo (3 RBIs) were 4/5, Craig Wheatcroft (2 doubles), Mark Lehman, Ken McGehee (3 RBIs) and Ed Silva (Triple) all had 3 hits. John Symanski and Super Sub Dave Grull (3 RBI’s) had 2 hits. Brenda Lehman pitch a great game.
Much thanks to Jim Goertzen, who umpire a perfect game.
Byes: Hennessey's
Nucci's
Village Pie Shoppe and Gaspar convened at Calavera Hills on Tuesday morning to find a freshly plowed field that looked like it was ready to be sown with alfalfa (only guessing here, I’m an engineer - GL). Fortunately, both teams and the Carlsbad landscaping people combined forces in a herculean effort to get the field ready for the game. The game started just a few minutes after 10:00, and everything was back to normal.
And when we say “back to normal”, we mean it. Gaspar promptly gave up five runs in the first inning for the fourth time in six games. In the other two games, they “only” gave up four runs. Gaspar rallied with five in the bottom of the first, but after four and a half innings, VPS lead 11-8. Gaspar scored five in the fifth to go up 13-11, and held this lead until the seventh inning when VPS scored twice to tie the game. Gaspar finally took a semblance of control scoring five in the eighth to lead 18-13, but VPS was not done, and scored three runs before finally going out on a hard grounder to pitcher to get the third out in the top of the ninth.
The win seemed improbable at best, with Gaspar only scoring in four innings, and with a defense that at times seemed to be phoned in (with one bar of service). And VPS played valiantly throughout.
Laurie Mills led VPS going 5 for 5 and Bill Mead was 4 for 4. Donato Domaguin, Delta Farrington, and Dan Smith contributed significantly at 4 for 5. Joe Uribe and Johnnie Martinez subbed to help out the heavily depleted VPS roster.
For Gaspar, Ken Thompson was 4 for 4 and Dave Ash was 3 for 3 plus a sacrifice fly. Joe Dimambro, Skip Moyer, Brian Turner, and Leigh Peterson were all 3 for 4, and Leigh also reached base on a walk.
Thanks to Roney Lewis for umpiring a more-or-less mellow game.
At Pine
At Alga 2
At Alga 3
Byes: Plotkin Group
Village Pie Shop
At Calavera 2
Standings are posted after all scores have been received (in a timely manner)
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