After Matt made the final out with the tying run on base in a close 9-10 loss to 2-0 Rimmer Construction to end the Season 3 opener on Field 3 (aka The Launching Pad), he calmly stepped up to the plate in the nightcap's home half of the 7th versus 0-2 Midlife Crisis and delivered a walk-off single to plate the winning run in Split City's 12-11 victory.
Run-on sentences aside, May 21st was a step forward for our OBI squad. Consistency at the plate was evident in greater fashion than in the first two seasons of 2015. Both games would have been walks in the park sans for our hitting into 2 Double Plays in Game 1 and leaving, ohhh, just shy of a Billion Runners on Base. The positive sign is that we actually were able to generate threats nearly every inning during both games.
Rimmer Construction has moved from Monday league play at Victory to Thursday. They are a solid ball club and OBI battled well in our close loss. With the score tied at 7 in the top of the 5th, OBI left the bases loaded after loading them with one out. RC scored 3 in the bottom of that inning for the winning margin.
Defensively, play was as consistent as ever,,, even with players in different positions. Nuta teamed up with Matt on a Line Drive to SS to 1B double play. And Jakob picked up 2 OF Assists as Michael collected the ball at the plate and threw behind a runner at 3B and 2B to cut short RC rallies.
Newcomers Travis and Lucas both played and hit well. Lucas discovered his softball swing and is quickly becoming an OF regular. Travis gives us the luxury of an additional infielder/pitcher combo. Besides these two, Nuta, Paul, and the aforementioned Matt were tops at the plate in Game 1.
Game 2 had a brutal start to go with Matt's late inning heroics. Midlife Crisis scored 10 in the top of the first and held 10-0 lead going to the bottom of the 2nd. Travis, Larry, and Lucas singled setting up an RBI Walk by Matt. This was followed up by RBI hitters Jakob, Michael and Spillane. Jayse singled in front of Nuta driving in the 6th run of the inning.
The score remained 10-6 MC until the bottom of the 6th inning when OBI pushed across 3 runs on a Michael Double and Spillane single. MC scored one to push their lead to 2 at 11-9 going to the bottom of the 7th,,, totally setting up Split City for:
-- 3 consecutive singles by Nuta, Travis, and Paul.
-- Bases Loaded Sac Fly by Larry cut the lead to 1.
-- With one out, Lucas singled in the tying run.
-- With Paul on third and Lucas on first, Matt did his thing driving in the winning run.
'Nuff Said, SPLIT CITY it is then !!!
Stats will be available with Week 2 posting that will be made later this afternoon.
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