Split City -- Team Ownership Meeting to Discuss Name Change

6-4 One Bad Inning continues a blistering consistently inconsistent pace as Season 3 rolls along. This has prompted a cry for a new team name,,, suggestion being Split City ... OBI has not been "Taking Care of Business" against much of anyone this season. In fact, I believe that the rest of the league is happy to see us come their way. Knowing that although they are most likely to get thumped in one game, the other game is pretty much theirs for the taking.

Split City ,,, errrr, OBI has been extremely giving during Season 3. In fact, both Mamma's Boys and Midlife Crisis have 1 win in 10 games played over the first 5 weeks of the season. Both have come against Split City ,,, errrr, One Bad Inning.

OBI did give forth a better team effort this week! Base coaches and courtesy runners were on top of every situation. Productive outs were made. Mental mistakes minimal. We simply won a close game and lost a close game because we did not score enough runs to win both ... The team work tells me that we are heading in the right direction with the Season 3 tournament only 3 weeks away ...

In game 1, OBI answered Mamma's Boys opening 3-run salvo with a 4-spot of their own, capped by KC's first HR of Season 3. Larry broke the tie scoring the first run in the bottom of the second inning a few hitters after legging out a single to RC field (whew). DC pushed the lead back to 4 with his 3-run Big Fly to finish off the second inning scoring.

OBI scored in each of the five innings, including another 4 run inning in the 4th where all the runs were scored with 2 outs. Matt and Jayse drilled back to back RBI Doubles and J.R. singled the last run home in the inning. DC led the way with a 4-4 performance, while Steve, KC, and Jayse collected 3 hits apiece.

Game 2 started with another 4 run first inning by the OBI crew. With 2 out, 2 on, and no one in,,, Steven, Clint, and Michael went triple, double, single, respectively,,, to drive in the four runs. This would be the only runs the top of the order would push across this game (sad face) ...

And, in true Split City giving nature,,, Mamma's Boys were allowed to hit and hustle their way to a 6-run spot of their own to take a 6-4 lead after one. The score could have been worse if not for two fine running catches by Paul in RF and Michael on a looping liner in shallow right.

KC, Spillane, and Matt continued to rake the ball well and led the bottom half of the order. Michael hit his first HR since Season 1 2013 and earned this weeks Han Solo title,,, only to have it taken from him two batters later by a hard-swinging, cursing (eh, give or take) KC ... Just what the doctor ordered for Mamma's Boys as DC homered for an out to end the game (ugh, sucks being 6'4", 280 lbs. with a swing that,,, well, I think we all get the picture) ...

Anyways, I would be remiss if I did not point out a new OBI Single Season record (stats dating back to late 2012) set after only 5 weeks of the season,,, Steven took a pass four times this week to bring his season total of Base on Balls to 13. At this rate, the record may reach into the 20s. Or possibly even into the teens... Yes, technically 13 is a teen, however,,, most high rise buildings do not even recognize 13 as a number / floor,,, therefore,,, we challenge Steven to continue his assault on this category in order to boost sales,,, errr,, run production ...


Way to lead by example! In another note, 4 other players also walked this week. A few of those didn't even give a courtesy swing, bravo to all ye' late game, non-courtesy swinging animals.