Homers 0 0 4 0 3 1 2 10
Voodoo Dog Shit 1 2 0 2 7 4 x 16
The Homers played tough against a team that played well. The Offensive player
of the game award goes to Laurie for going 3 for 3 with an RBI in the top of
the fifth, when the Homers built a two-run lead before falling apart in the
bottom half of the inning. After that single, Laurie made the base running
play of the game on Russ's pop-up that dropped for a hit. Laurie went halfway
to second, headed back to first, realized the ball was going to fall and went
to second, took off for third on the overthrow, and then took off for home on
the second overthrow, all the while screaming with limbs flying at odd angles.
In the 6th, Richard got his only hit of the day, a little league home run that
should have been caught, but the next battter Don made up for it by turning a
triple into an out at home (to be fair, Don got no help from his teammates).
Russ lined one right back up the middle and off the pitcher's leg, bringing
tears to many Homer eyes.Defensively, yikes! The Homers gave up the big inning in the 5th and didn't do much better in the 6th. Beth stopped everything hit her way, and the outfielders made a few nice catches, but those were probably more than canceled out by at least three dropped fly balls. Richard made a double play (hit by the Voodoo manager) in the third but blew a similar play in the ill-fated 5th that would have ended the inning two outs earlier. Tim, at shortstop, almost nailed the Voodoo manager at the plate in the sixth, but the run was counted due to a desire to shut the nailee's whining up.
Next week we have a bye, but we will have a (as always) voluntary practice on Wednesday at John Muir High School. Let's plan to practice at the field we usually play at there since no other teams seem to use it. The rest of the schedule is out.
Tuesday, July 13, Deep Space Cadets, John Muir 1
Monday, July 19, Wild Turkeys, JM1
Monday, July 26, @Maulers, Pasadena HS
Tuesday, Aug 3, Delta Stars, PHS
Wednesday, Aug 11, @Roving Marauders, JM1
Wednesday, Aug 18, Space Punks, PHS
Tuesday, Aug 24, @Crawdads, JM1
week of Aug 30, choose a team
Any requests for the last game? Previously, each team scheduled its own games
for the entire month, but this year it's just the last game.Oh, Sam Dolinar, one of the C league mucky-mucks, sez that there's no rule for or against sliding. It's simply incumbent on the runner to avoid contact. But then he hedged and said that if the defender is obviously in the way (e.g. covering the entire base), then the runner should be ruled safe.