Game of April 17, 2010

The absence of the Artist was felt by all this week. You see, Glen brings not only a resilient positive attitude and a tremendous NY/NJ accent: Glen usually draws the lines on the pavement. This week the Commish himself drew the lines.

As you may know recent “off the field” (but still on the pavement) scandals have brought the Whiffle and Ale League undesired press coverage. The Commish, looking to distract the fans from these matters, decided to crank up the offense. Mr. Commish made the friendly confines of Nance Bradds Park even friendlier by pulling in the doubles line by approximately 4 to 5 feet.

The game commenced with no notice of the forgiving arrangement. The first realization came from Stats Lindsay’s RBI double in the first off Baker. It was at this point that Ben revealed that he is a keen study of our league stats (NOW UPDATED THROUGH 4/17/10). You see, Ben knew (by poring through the data) that Stats had NEVER before struck an extra base hit, and that this moment just “felt wrong.” Indeed, all agreed that had the field been a Cebulash original – Stat’s hit would have been a single.

Alas, the Commish’s juicing of the field did not result in too great an offensive explosion:
HOME (Brent, Hans, Kim, Stats, Commish) 6
VISITOR (Tim, Laura, Dave (R-OH), Ben, Eric) 2

The Visiting runs were courtesy of a 2 run, opposite field blast by Tim “Home Run” Baker – who has hit or pitched both round trippers hit this season.

TWIW Notes:

New guy: a hearty welcome to Seokhyun (“call me Kim”) Kim – a 2 for 6, 3 RBI debut!

Inside the Stats: In a Goliath v. Goliath match up we had top batter “Home Run” Baker in the box against leading Cy Young candidate Hans Ha. Tim was 1 for 2 (a single) against Hans today, and is 1 for 3 for the season against the fireballer.