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OBI plays Thursday nights at Victory Lane Sports Park in Glendale, AZ. Earlier 2013 blog postings can be found at onebadinningaz.blogspot.com

Thursday, July 2, 2015

June is Vacation Time, Split City takes the Week Off...

5-7 OBI held off bitter rival Murphy's Law twice in glorious fashion this week. Two close wins, 9-6 and 10-8, were on tap with essential 2-out hits and ever-present consistent defense. And of course,,, the infamous doubled up back-to-back Sac Flies...

OBI opened Game 1 with a 4 run outburst in the Top of the 1st,,, all scoring with 2 outs. After Matt's lead off single and then Out #2, a John Backwards-K, hits by Spillane, Michael, Nuta, Jakob, and Jayse made it happen. John redeemed himself with his own 2-out hit in the second to make the score 5-1 after the Top of the 2nd.

After a quiet 3rd, 4th, and 5th innnings,, bases were loaded after scoring a run to make the score 6-1 when Matt and Paul both hit Sac Flys, back-to-back fashion. John followed with another two out hit and the score was 9-1 going to the bottom of the 6th. Murphy's Law made it close by scoring 3 and then a pair in the bottom of the 7th.

Murphy's Law continued their hot hitting and scored 4 in the top of the first in Game 2. OBI answered back with 3 of their own,,, again, all scoring on 2 out hits after Matt and Paul singled when John and Spillane drove them in.

The game was taken over as 4 then 3 were scored in the bottom of the 2nd and 3rd innings, respectively. Nuta, Jakob, Jayse, and J.R. started the 2nd with hits and Matt finished off the inning run scoring with another hit.

The lead was then stretched to 10-4 as John and Spillane singled, followed by a Michael Walk and Nuta single. Topping off the inning were Back-to-Back Sac Flys by Jakob and Jayse.

The OBI offense could be counted on for NoMoRuns and the defense was again steady enough to hold off Murphy's Law late comeback bid,,, which ended up to low and they did not win the auction,,, so to speak.

The 10 runs in the second game were pushed across by only 15 hits. Game 1's 9 runs were courtesy of 20 hits.  Hopefully, the offense can continue the consistent output as we head into Week 7 of Season 3 contest against Midlife Crisis on field 2... 815/915 Games,,, ooohhh yyyaaaaaa

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