Pesto!

There is an expression in Whiffle: "One bad inning."  Most applicable to today's whiffle action.  Innings 2 through 5 today were taut affairs, with the home side scoring one run and the visitors scoring none.  But as luck would have it, the game didn't start in the second inning.  No, there was a first.

Stats took the ball to start the game facing a team of Kurt, Commish and a placeholder for Glen if he ever showed.  Glen did not show, so there was no let up in the lineup.  It looked to be another of Stats' "bend-don't-break" kind of innings.  Kurt's 2-out single loaded the bases, following up Peter's single and Kurt's double.  Peter worked a long AB, found one he liked and lined it straight at Dave (R-OH) in the triples area.  The ball found asphalt AFTER finding Dave's right hand AND his left hand.    The three-run triple opened the floodgates as Stats labored through 5 more singles, allowing 3 more runs. 

Not surprisingly, Stats is thinking about adding UN-earned runs to the stats next season.

So, down six before they touched the bat, Dave, Chris (the overgrown boy scout) Anderson, and Matt struggled to make up the deficit.  Dave led off the game with a blast that Kurt caught on the "run" about a foot off the ground well past the HR line.  Dave later created the only run for the day, with a double and a triple off the Commish in the third.  A 1-out bases loaded rally against Kurt in the 4th was snuffed by strikeouts of Chris and Matt. 

So even though they never scored after the first, the visitors were winners:

Kurt, Commish, ______ - 6
Dave, Chris, Stats - 1

All players received a jar of pesto for participating in today's game.  Thank you, Kirsten!

Notes:
Kurt's uncharacteristic hustle to run down Dave's bid for a homer in the first proved quite significant: Dave ended the game only a homer short of the cycle!

Allowing 2 runs on Wednesday raised Dave's ERA to 1.06.  He has been back to his old self and at the close of today's game, his ERA is down to 0.95.