Nance Bradds Field saw a morning game as ooey-gooey as a Bill's frosted sprinkle in the sun, but it didn't seem to slow down the new guys. OWAC welcomed Rodney to the league and he marked his debut by homering in his first-ever game, which is pretty hard to do against veteran pitching. It would also turn out to be his team's only run. On the Home Team side, Mason, also a freshmen, also klonked a nice longball. Which is exactly one more HR than Zamonski hit today. Or last season. Or the season before that... Speaking of rookies, cameo appearances today included Zack's cute-as-a-button son who, although refusing to cheer on the old man, is showing some early promise as a fielder. Go kid!
Tree Rule Reference: today the tree rule came into play---or almost did, if JD had caught it falling out of the branches. I was sure I remembered we'd altered the rule to allow for falling out of the tree catches to be an out but Commish disagreed and upheld the automatic homerun interpretation. However...while writing this blog I happened to stumble back across a blog writeup from Oct 17, 2020, "Spank You For Your Service", which appears to indicate that then-Pete disagrees with now-Pete. It has been five years after all, plenty of time for a wiffle rule to become urban legend, then regular legend, legend to become myth etc. In any case see what you think, seems at least worth revisiting. Especially if players not named Jeff are gonna be mashing tree shots as well. Who did hit that one today btw?
Eric, JD, Rodney, Zack - 1
Andy, Mason, Walker - 7
HRs: Andy (2), Mason, Walker, Rod Carew Argent King Stewart Dangerfield
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