Bastille Day Blowout

Wherein we witness the emergence of the new Brent Mackintosh

Our special season of guest wifflers in celebration of the da Commish's Golden Jubilee continued with visits from Stat's long time friends - Dave and Barbara. A long time follower of the blog and the stats, Lt. Col David Guarriello, stationed this summer at Ft. Knox, KY, drew a 48-hour pass and came up to play a little wiff, and catch a Reds-Cardinals game in Cincinnati. Barbara Russo flew in from Washington for a weekend with Dave, and got caught up in the wiffle excitement, too.

Stats, the Poet and our guests took on Brent, Krash and the Commish. Only in the first inning would Brent and his boys fail to score, plating 13 total runs in the second through the sixth.  In contrast, Stats and the newbies only scored in the bottom of the sixth, avoiding the second straight shutout by only a couple of outs.

But let's look closer at Brent's week, shall we? Brent appeared in both the All-Star game on Wednesday and Saturday's drizzly (sometimes rainy) Bastille Day game. All told here are his stat lines:

18-for-31 (0.580), with a double and a triple (slugging: 0.677) and 8 RBI. Two-game OPS of 1.257!!!

Lest you think his pitching line offset these Ruthian numbers, here they are:

4 IP, 12 hits and 4 runs allowed three strikeouts. A two-game ERA of 9.00!!!

If we made player of the week awards (which I am NOT suggesting) I think Brent would win it this week.

Brent, Kurt, Peter - 13 runs, 27 hits

Barbara, Dave, Fred, Matt - 4 runs, 13 hits

W: Mosser

L: Russo

HR: None

I don't always play wiffle, but when I do... I kick butt.