An exciting one at NBF this morning as Visitors Adrian, Jeff, and Tom locked horns with Home Team Eric, Hans, Pete and Zach. This week's theme: fielding matters. Especially when, on paper at least, the offensive numbers appeared pretty equally split. But a number of key catches at critical points led the HTHs to a 6-2 victory, including the game-ending final sprinting grab by Zamonski to ice it. Special thanks to Zach for not running into me there, OR a few innings before when *he* made the great running grab. Two other sweet ones were Hansoo's dead-running grab on a shallow popup (Hans woulda caught that...oh wait, he did) and Zamonski's One-Hand-Of-God two finger snag which to be honest I'm still not sure how I pulled that off.
The other interesting note is that Zach and Jeff entered today's game, which could possibly be the season's last, in a virtual tie for the batting title, Zach just a nick ahead. With Jeff going 6-for-12 and Zach going 4-for-10 that might have switched leads, we'll have to wait for Matt to update the stats.
Then there was Adrian: while the rest of us were thinking about home runs and crazy catches and what color of habanero is the hottest, Adrian quietly yoinked five singles off of a very strong pitching lineup. Which hitwise put him second only to teammate Jeff's six. Plus, his own pitching was amazing today with sick location. Nice game, gato.
Adrian, Jeff, Tom - 2 runs, 13 hits
Eric, Hansoo, Pete, Zach - 6 runs, 11 hits
HR - Jeff (2), Hansoo, Zach
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