Bringin' the Heat

Wednesday Night Whiffle brought fans a tense pitching duel highlighted by sweet hitting early in innings and timely put outs at the ends of innings.  And, it must be noted, Glen played.

A heat advisory day with "real Feel" temps around 100, made for some toasty asphalt as the game began.  Heat rises, but it did not carry any hits over the homerun line on this night.  Five whifflers (including Glen) produced nary a run during this game.  Good for the ERAs, but only a purist, such as Glen (who was there), would appreciate 95 minutes of scoreless whiffleball.  So let us detail the pitching performances on this day.

Everyone had their "Bend, don't break" moments.  Peter and Matt (home team) had hits in every inning, and multiple hits in 4 of the six.  But the Visitors found those needed outs to keep them from denting the plate.  Tim, a teammate of Glen's, had a particularly nice inning, turning a ground ball double play after giving up a lead off double, followed by a can o' corn fly out.  Kurt, also one of Glen's teammates, allowed two hits in each of two innings pitched, then brought the heat to close out those innings, scoreless.  Glen, a crafty righty, pitched best overall on his team allowing only two hits total in his two innings, mixing weirdly moving slow stuff with respectable fastballs to keep batters off balance.

Home pitchers started with similar patterns: couple of hits and timely K's in innings 1 and 2.  Then their pitching turned dominant as Peter and Stats jointly retired 10 of the last 12 batters faced (amongst them? GLEN!!).

GLEN, Kurt, Tim - 0
Matt, Peter - 0

Game Notes:

He didn't know it but when Kurt Mosser came to the plate in the top of the sixth, having gone 4 for 7 on the evening, he was leading the league in batting.  A poor showing that inning though would have dropped him below Dave Eldridge.  Kurt finished the game 5 for 9 and has now taken the lead in BA: .450.

Maybe it was the water.  In the middle of the game, Kurt's better half, Robyn, delivered a cooler full of ice cold bottled water.  Thanks!!

Da Commish reached the 200 AB mark with a double in the bottom of the third; a double off GLEN!!