A Grand Day for Wiffle

When a game features not one, not two, but three DIFFERENT KINDS of Grand Slams - that's pretty much what the blog needs to be about. Wouldn't you agree?

So first, in the top of the third, there was Eric Zamonski's first homerun since 2017:

This was just the beginning. Photo credit: Berwald

Yes, it was THAT kind of Grand Slam, surrendered by Stats. This was the first lead off grand slam in RECORDED HUMAN HISTORY.

Jeff would later hit two granders - one off Mark and one off Matt (on to the left-field roof) - with ACTUAL runners on base, which accounted for all 8 of his RBI for the day. Teammate Zach never saw clear to surrender a grand slam of his own.

A run here, a run there, but the home team never really made it a game after the Hoop-la. 14-4 was your final.

Adrian, Eric, Jeff, Peter - 14 runs, 18 hits

Mark, Matt, Zach - 4 runs, 16 hits

HR: Zamonski (1); Rhodes 2 (23)

Ties Suck

A 13-13 tie is no way to end a ball game, but is was after 11, and the park was getting crowded on what may be the last, best, beautiful Saturday of the year.

This particular tie particularly sucks for J.D. and Matt. For J.D. because he took the mound in the top of the last inning with a 1 run lead and gave up that 13th run. For Matt because after two hits earlier in that inning he struck out with the bases loaded to end that inning, failing to plate a go-ahead 14th.

Adrian, Jeff, Matt - 13 runs, 24 hits
Eric, JD, Peter, Zach - 13 runs, 21 hits

HR: Jeff - 2 (21), Zach - 2 (14)