Oh man, were we great or what?  Down 8 to 0 after the top of the first,
the Homers came back strongly by scoring 19 runs in the first three
innings.  Final score:  Homers 22, Cosmis Debris 21.  Team enthusiasm
hit a season high as the team sang the traditional 5th inning stretch and
cheered loudly (sounding like a rebel yell) for every hit and every run 
scored.  Starting for the Homers were Raul at pitcher, Alex a catcher,
Chuck at first, Lela at second, Juan at short, Debbie at third, Don in
left, Rob in center, Joe in right, and Mary at rover.  Jeff, Mark, and 
Richard sat out during the excruciating first innning and rotated in 
afterward.  Jerry and Laurie were there for moral support and for dinner
after the game, during which Chuck was heard to say that he wished we had 
let them score one more run so that we could have batted again in the 
bottom of the seventh and pulled it out.  Chuck, you should have been with 
this team during the first seven weeks of this year.  But maybe it is time 
for a new attitude.<p>

Everybody played well yesterday.  Mark got four solid hits in four at bats, 
the biggest being the first inning single with two outs that scored Richard
and kept alive our four run inning.  He also made his best defensive play of
the year on a deep fly ball to right.  Raul hit three, count 'em, three home
runs, one of them being of the little league variety but the other two being 
legitimate Homer-monsters.  Rob and Juan also impressed with home runs of
their own.  The most surprising hit might have been Jeff's, who hit the ball
to right-center field during one of our three big two-out rallies.  Debbie
contributed two solid plays defensively by catching a line drive and throwing
out the batter on a solid ground ball.  Juan at catcher threw to Richard at
first to pick off a runner who had broken the wrong way after the batter
swung and missed.  Joe showed some speed on a couple of ground balls that he
hit.  There must be a lot more things that I'm missing.<p>

Our team record is now 5 wins and 6 losses, but we have won three of our last
four games, the only loss in that period being the ugly game against the ugly
Voodoo Toad Fury.  Our next game is Wednesday against the Foxes and Hounds on
field H6 for the third straight week.  That's the one at the northeast corner 
that doesn't have marked basepaths.<p>

**** CORRECTION to HOMERS REPORT (10):  It seems that I forgot to mention
Juan's home run down the right field line late in the game.  Sorry, Juan.
Juan also played a big part in our first double play of the year.  The
batter hit a hard gound ball to Lela, knocking her onto her butt.  However,
she hung with it and flipped the ball to Juan, the shortstop for the inning,
covering second, who caught it barehanded and immediately threw it to first
for the double play.  Sorry again, Juan.  One last first:  did anyone else 
notice that it was our first win on the day before a solar eclipse?  <p>

Jeff has pointed out that Wednesday's game is on field H3, not field H6.  
H3 is at the southwest corner, where the batter stares into the sun on
pitches thrown just right.