Two is the One

It's not enough to induce the easy fly ball - your outfield has to CATCH them. 

The visitors dropped three easy fly balls that should have been three outs and could have been four outs. These misplays led directly to three home-team runs in a game the home boys won 4 to 2.

Nonetheless is was a good, tight contest; the visitors loaded the bases after two were out in the top of the ninth. Hansoo came to bat to face Andy... and struck out to end the day.

Adrian, Hansoo, Matt, Peter, Eric Z. - 2 runs, 17 hits
Andy, Bob, Kurt, Mark - 4 runs, 20 hits

HR: none

Monday Morning Wiffle, Live From Budget Field

So there was this:

So Peter had to do this:

Which had the side benefit of allowing us to do this:

Bob got a single on that pitch, by the way. Welcome to Budget Field!

Fred, Matt, Mark, Ryan, Hansoo - 5 runs, 18 hits
Bob, JD, Kurt, Peter - 2 runs, 14 hits

HR: Ha (4)

Commish Walks 'Em Off

Quite a day on the asphalt. Eight were there and seven played; eight were witness to something seldom seen in sport.

First to the game. The home team of Bob, Kurt and Peter took a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. It really looked like it would be more but Adrian turned the timeliest, clutchiest double play to squelch the rally. That 4-0 score stood pat until the top of the eighth inning.

In that 8th inning, Peter was pitching for his third turn on the bump. Anonymous sources insinuated that Peter had drawn the pitching rubber a little further back today - to goose the offense. IF so, it came back to bite Peter himself as he allowed 6 runs to the visiting Adrian, Andy, Eric K., and JD. JD contributed 5 of those 6 rbis in that inning. Heck of a day.

So, to the moment. Bottom of the ninth, Adrian on the mound for HIS third turn with the ball. A merry-go-round of singles and a couple of outs has us with a 6-6 tie, two outs and teh bases loaded. Who's at the plate?

Peter.

The long AB (and the game) ends with a bouncing single to the first base side of the pitcher. Walk off, 7-6 win for the home team.

Know this: no other team game is played in a way that would allow one player to be goat and hero in one game. Not even modern baseball, the way it's played today. Volleyball maybe? Heck of a day. And eight were there to see it.

Adrian, Andy, Eric K., JD - 6 runs, 15 hits
Bob, Kurt, Peter - 7 runs, 17 hits

HR: none

BREAKING NEWS

In a surprise development that caught the Oakwood wiffle community completely off guard, Commissioner Peter Berwald announced an immediate end to the 2017 OW&AC Season. "Considering the constant heat, global warming and how it is only late spring, I came to the undeniably sound conclusion that the season should end now," Berwald said in an emotional statement, holding back the understandable tears. "Effective today, June 17, 2017, all games and stats... are final," he added, solemnly.

While the news came as a shock to wifflers of all stripes, the league's players, young and old unified to support Berwald, lovingly known as "Commish."

"I postulate that Peter did the right thing," said Dr. Kurt Mosser, "since he decided it and he said it, it must be good."

A spokesperson for Brent Mackintosh gave conditional approval of the move adding, "Brent assumes theory sessions will still be scheduled, at least in air conditioned facilities."

Dewey Darden and Mark White were seen simply saluting and beginning their off-season routines.

A downtrodden Eric Zamonski added, "Elizabeth Montgomery was hot."

Lindsay turned heads with his 8-for-10, 5 RBI day.

Matt "Stats" Lindsay, now permanently atop the batting charts for 2017, declined to comment.

FINAL:

Dewey, JD, Peter - 0 runs, 11 hits
Bob, Eric Z., Kurt, Matt - 11 runs, 24 hits.

HR: None

No such thing as Wenis

The blog was going to be glorious this week. Embellished with wenis facts, trivia and lore. Not to mention tons of wenis word play: your puns, your malapropisms.

Much of this would likely been made at the expense of the visitors (Dewey, Andy and Peter) who were out played by an 8-wenis margin. See what I did there?

It would have been a tremendously funny blog entry. But there is no such thing as a wenis. Urban legend, based off an episode of Friends, apparently.

Andy, Dewey, Peter - 3 runs, 13 hits
JD, Kurt, Matt - 11 runs, 22 hits

HR: none

Fantasy Wiffle

The weather and the community conspired against the OW&AC today. Cold and wet, plus the annual Oakwood Bike Safety Rodeo made it impossible to play wiffle. Oh, Well.

NOT!

Because of these unfortunate circumstances, Andy, Bob, Pete did NOT face off against Adrian, JD, and Kurt. These gentlemen did NOT play to a 2-2 tie. Kurt definitely did NOT go 8-for-15 with 2 RBI. Andy certainly did NOT earn the season's first base on balls.

These feats, though they could NOT possibly have occurred, are reflected in the stats, because I am a gullible mensch.

Andy, Bob, Pete - 2 runs, 18 hits
Adrian, JD, Kurt - 2 runs, 18 hits

HR: none (this I believe)

Thumpin'

Mother Nature drenched the field on Saturday, so the league was reduced to the impious players on Sunday, again.

The visitors (Dewey, Hansoo, and Stats) brought out the thunder sticks and the lightning arms for the game, as it turned out. They produced 10 runs using a 26-hit attack from the first inning to the ninth. All the while surrendering zero runs and only 12 hits to the homestanding Adrian, Eric (!), Kurt and Pete.

Dewey's 10-for-18 (plus 4 RBI) led the winners and earns him a blog mention, though average-wise Pete's 6-for-9 in a losing cause was the best of the day. Hansoo (7-for-18, 4 RBI) hit the game's only dinger and was just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle. Ironic, as this was a game that featured four different players hitting triples.

Just not Hansoo.

Indeed, Pete and Matt (9-for-18, 2 RBI) were both just a homer shy of the cycle. For Matt, that's the same as saying he was a Unicorn shy of the cycle.

Nothing says it better about the pitching than saying "9-inning shutout." Matt threw three shutdown innings following top halves where his team scored. As the game wore on this seemed less and less an achievement, since everyone was pitching shutouts.

Dewey, Hansoo, Matt - 10 runs, 26 hits
Adrian, Eric, Kurt, Peter - 0 runs, 12 hits

HR: Ha (1)