Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:41:25 -0700 From: Sue Kientz <blueflame@loop.com>
"What if they gave a Homers game and nobody came??" That nearly seemed the case this past Monday, when Jeff anxiously counted only 7 players once 5:30 rolled around. We played the first inning with no second baseman, a borrowed catcher, and prayers heard from right field. Luckily Martha and Barbara snuck in to better round out the field, and we went on the pinch the tails and bite the heads off the scuttling Crawdads.
Crawdads 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 7
Homers 3 2 3 2 2 1 X 13
The batting order of the Faithful: Jeff (1B), Ron (OF), Sue (OF/2B), Scott
(SS), Bruce (P), Dave (OF), Holly (3B), Martha (OF/3B), and Barbara (C/OF).
Bruce McLemore hit his first Homer home run (a three-run blast). At the
post-game meal at Round Table the Sharks were circling, but allowed us to
join in the feeding frenzy. Present were Richard, Amy, Bruce, Scott, Tim,
Ron, Martha, Jeff, and Sue, as well as Sharks Joe and Dwayne. Richard, Amy,
and Tim had a head start on the pizza since they had played the Shark
B-league game (notice that Richard is gumming up his own post-game meal
contest now).
Besides Bruce's home run, Ron Baalke hit two homers (a two-run and a very strange out-oh-wait-dropped-it solo HR) and Scott Morgan and David Lim each knocked out a solo and two-run HR respectively. Ron had his second consecutive 5 RBI game (and is off to a torrid start, batting .917 (11 for 12) with 5 home runs and 13 RBIs), while Bruce had 4 RBIs. David Lim has 2 home runs already this year, matching his last year's total. Scott and Bruce also hit some triples. And in his quest to hit the outhouse in left field for a home run, Jeff hit a couple of doubles.
Scott played a superb shortstop, turning 3 or 4 double plays. Bruce also played very good defensively at pitcher. At times the Crawdads were just their own worst enemies, though, as when their pitcher slid into and past second on a twisted ankle (as sympathetic Homers around him shouted "Tag him! He's not on the base!"). Not that we didn't try to take them out ourselves: on one double play, Scott threw straight at the runner's head, since he knew somewhere behind it Jeff's glove was waiting, and it was.
Homers are 3-0, their best start ever. The team already has 11 home runs, also their best start, just eclipsing the 10 home run start in the 1994 season. All this without Richard in the lineup (and also without Don). At this point last year, the Homers were 2-1, with only 3 home runs.
Next week's game is on May 16 (Thurs) on field H2 against the LA Radars. The Homers beat them 19-9 last year.
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All detailed and informative stats contributed by Ron Baalke