Saturday, October 31, 2020

Depends on what you mean by "Good Day"

As the days get colder, the shadows longer, and the sun shines DIRECTLY IN THE BATTERS EYES off the windows an astute wiffler knows the season is winding down to a winter hibernation. With no championship on the line, what's left to play for is your stats. To be sure it's still good to win a game as well. But with every game now, you know in the back of your head this could be it for the season. Under these circumstances, what makes a good day on the asphalt? Well, it depends an what you mean by "good day." 

Two case studies: Mark and Dewey.

First, the Dewey. Dewey brought two new players, which is a good day. This is really Dewey's thing, ya know? He's the reason Zach is blasting homers and striking out batters in this league. Today Dewey brought his son-in-law Markiel and fireballer Bob B. Dewey got to play a full game of wiffle on a brisk, sunny fall day with his family and friends. It was a good day... until he surrendered 6 runs in the 8th inning to put his team in a 7-6 hole on the scoreboard. Dewey had a good day at the plate: 5-for-11 with a homer and 3 RBI... until he struck out to end the game with the winning runs aboard.

Mark also had a good day. At the plate: a very Dewey-like 5-for-11 with a Grand Slam and 4 RBI. The key figure in that line is the "eleven." I looked it up: eleven is less than fifteen, so you can trust me on this. Mark needed 15 ABs to qualify for the batting title, but he fell 4 short. 15-11=4. Mark's team won (which is good) basically because he hit that Grand Slam (off Dewey, btw, which is good). It was a good day. But if there are no more days this year, he will fall 4 ABs short of a batting title, and might make this seem like less of a good day.

So who had a good day and Nance Bradds Field today? Limit your answer to 750 words, and defend your argument using either mathematics or philosophy (but not both - that would be pretentious or prehensile).

Adrian, Mark, Matt, Pete - 7 runs, 18 hits
Bob B., Dewey, Markiel, Zach - 6 runs, 19 hits

HR: Darden (4); White (4)

Saturday, October 17, 2020

Spank You For Your Service


Today the OWAC was proud to honor it's veteran members---by herding them all onto the same team and mercilessly shelling them.  The Civilian Contractors struck early and often, all behind Artillery Commander Jeff who had a gigantic day at the plate with five homers and a ridiculous 14 RBIs.  The Veteran Vans did mount a valiant hit parade in later innings by peppering The Commish with meatballs, but it was insufficient to overcome the longball onslaught and they ultimately succumbed in regulation.  Float like a butterfly, sting like gonorrhea.  

Kudos to Zack for batting for the cycle, and a collective group honor to everyone for setting what must be a new OWAC record of roofing FOUR balls on the day, including two in the first inning alone.   Looks like Commish'll be heading into Woolworth's this week for resupply and maybe a vanilla phosphate.  

Adjustment to the Tree Rule:  this morning the Office of Commissioner issued a rule change regarding fly balls that hit the tree.  From now on, a fielder may catch a ball off the tree for an out, assuming of course he has some part of at least one foot in fair territory as usual.  (ie, tree contact does not override the usual fielding rules which apply at the HR line.)

Adrian, Dewey, J. D., Mark  -  9
Eric, Jeff, Peter, Zack  -  21

HR  -  Jeff (5), Zack








Saturday, October 3, 2020

Wifftober Perfection


Calm sunny skies made the welcoming confines of Nance Bradds feel ten degrees warmer than it was as six stalwarts matched wits & witticisms for a nicely-played postseason Fall Classic.  The Halens struck early to go up dos, and the Vamping Vans answered by doubling that up the next set.  But the Home Team Homies broke the piƱata wide open in later innings with a parading onslaught of singles that even "special assistance" by a daydreaming Bandit forgetting to unshift was insuffish to overcome.  Final score 10 to 6.  

Jeff had the day's only triple and drew a walk, Zack had the only longball.  Adrian clinched this week's "Screw yer shift I'll hit it anywhere I damn well want" award with uncatchably confounding hits one centimeter inside each foul line.  Meanwhile Eric took his batting up to a whole new level (so ground floor I guess?) by going an uncanny 9-for-13.  

Adrian, Jeff, Pete  -  6
Matt, Zack, Bandito  -  10

HR  -  Zack