Wiffle World Series - Game 1

We've been fortunate all year with good summer weather that extended into the third weekend of October. But when the WWW (Wiffle World Series) came around, fall was in full force. Late fall at that.

38 degrees, overcast. The lights were on at Nance Bradds Field.

Believe it or not this picture is showing you that the lights were on.

Tense wiffle ensued despite the cold. The visiting Andy-Bob-Tim trio took an early 4-0 lead, and then the home-standing Adrian-Matt-Peter slowly chipped away.

A little too slowly, as it turned out, as the nine-inning game ended with the tying aboard in the bottom of the ninth. Bob's farting shoes nearly blew the save but did not.

It was the kind of day where pitches floating through the strike zone were topped for weak grounders. With runner on.  The kind of day where every parent at DLM lets their kid push the shopping cart. In other words: frustrating.

Andy, Bob, Tim - 4 runs, 14 hits
Adrian, Matt, Peter - 3 runs, 19 hits

HR: Lindsay (1)

"They Always Clean Their Plate!"

Ha Ha!!

Don't ya just love it when they give away the punch line BEFORE the joke? Who is that worse for? The dope who ruined the joke, or the one who has to watch and listen to the dope's sense-of-humor-as-train-wreck? Who can say? It's two minutes no one ever gets back. NO ONE!

Like a milk shake with stuff in it - like chocolate chips or crushed candy bars? NO ONE likes that!! Stop making them. You can't get it to come up a straw. It ruins the shake. You end up having to eat it with a spoon, which is like eating ice cream and if I wanted ice cream I would have ASKED for ice cream and it's not like eating ice cream because it's all melted ANYWAY!!!!!

GAH!!!!

Like a wiffle game where the first batter hits the fifth pitch of the game off Matt for a home run (according to the outfielders) and then NO ONE scores for the rest of the nine innings!!! Who is that worse for? The pitcher who lost the game on the fifth pitch or the batters who futilely played another 2 hours of wiffle FAILING to SCORE? I ask you.

GAH-GAH!!!!

"Why are Umpires so fat?"

Andy, Bob, Kurt - 1 run, 8 hits
Hansoo, Matt, Peter - 0 runs, 9 hits

HR: Evans (4)

A Game of Inches

5 heroic Halens ultimately failed to defend against the 4 victorious Vans today in a game that felt a lot more symmetrical than it looked on paper.  Each team had their untouchable ace---Hansoo vs Andy---but each team also had plenty of hits and plenty of missed chances.  Both teams failed to score with 'em loaded at least once (twice both?), yet both teams also made brilliant defensive grabs that saved runs.  Kurt caught a lined tomahawk smash from Eric right at his ankles;  Eric returned the improbable favor by gloving a low one straight back to the mound;  and Matt bolted off the mound to spear a fast grounder that just didn't look playable.  (He also cleanly fielded Kurt's batt deep into tripleland.)

The top of the 3rd was where all the scoring happened:  JD got into trouble early and with two on Eric clubbed a gapper double to break the seal for his lone ribbie.  Then The Big Unit took the plate and walloped a waist-high laserbeam triple that scored three more and that's where it would remain.   

Other noteworthy symmetries included:  both Matt and Adrian served each other weird high rpm balls that neither could quite manage to smother.  And both Eric and Hansoo had ABs that went: perfect pitch/Strike 1, swing-and-a-miss/Strike 2, hard low smash right to LF's feet, miraculously caught inches off the ground/Out.  

Andy, Dewey, Eric, Matt - 4

Adrian, Hansoo, JD, Kurt, Mark - 0

Home Runs - None