Poolside at Gardner Memorial, I bask in a sun as strong as the afterglow of my (selective) memory of today's wiffle game. I am writing this post on my phone. I am literally mailing it in!
EL. OH. EL.
Only four for today's contest, including Kurt and da Commish who both played Saturday as well. They joined forces again, against Dave (R-OH) and Stats. It seemed that Peter and Kurt REALLY wanted to hit off Matt. But the hits were not as common as all would have liked, and the 14 hits on the day were rarely bunched together in a productive way.
The exception came in the top of the 4th when Peter worked 2 singles and a homer off Matt between Kurt's 3 outs. Kurt finally lived his dream and the old timers had a 3 run lead. Peter re-took the league lead in RBI. Matt had a small measure of unsatisfying revenge with a sixth inning solo homer, his first of the season, to end the scoring for the day. An outfielder got a hand or two on both home runs but were unable to secure the catches.
That dinger was the last of Matt's 5 hits on the game - all of the extra base variety (3 doubles, a triple and a homer). Stats' bat really heats up late in games when the pitchers' arms tire; all of his hits were in the 3rd inning or later. Only a single shy of hitting for the cycle, Matt now leads the league in extra base hits with 11.
Kurt and Dave both managed to pitch 3 scoreless innings. Dave scattered 3 hits, Kurt 2. Neither was ever in serious trouble. Peter gave up the one run while closing out the game, and Matt faced one over the minimum (other than that one bad inning) in his two other scoreless innings.
Kurt, Peter - 3
Dave, Matt - 1
W: Mosser
L: Lindsay
S: Berwald
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clank
ReplyDeleteI neglected to mention the official scorer today was Emma Lindsay. She did a great job, paid attention for the whole game, keeping score for bith teams.
ReplyDeleteYou cannot imagine how it felt when Emma told us she wanted her own scorebook for her birthday.
emma rocks!
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