Split City Times 3

5-3 Split City has consistently battled hard week in and week out to the point where we are also a model of consistency within each week. Winning a close game 1 and losing an exciting game 2 has almost become the new mantra. 

This week, we helped 2-6 No Glove No Love to their second victory of the season in just this fashion. Game 1 was a lower scoring affair 10-8 and we held off the love with the tying run on second and lead run on 1st (whew)...  In fact, the score was 8-2 in the top of the 5th when Love's fill in SS hit a one-hopper off the yellow border of the CF fence for a Grand Salami, bam, 8-6...

Game 2 was a barn burner and 15-16 loss. With the score going back and forth then tied at 11 going in the fifth and final inning, Split City seemed to put the game away with a 4 spot in the top half. However, the Love was with the home team this game as NGNL was able to score five with one out and take the win back...

Due to the 6:15 start time and injury (Matt's knee/heel and Michael's other hamstring this time),, a few adjustments were made to facilitate a steady defense,,, annnd the batting order was a little out of sync. The hitting was consistent throughout the lineup with Jakob and Juan each 3-3 while Jayse, Nuta and Spillane each collected 2 hits. Juan, Spillane, and Clint bat in that order and each had 2 RBIs. John, Jakob, and Jingleheimer Schmidt,,, sorry, sorry,,, my fingers just got a little crazy,,, i meant Spillane each doubled.

On Defense, the play of the night was turned in by Jayse with his full layout dive and catch of a line drive to CF. Overall, very good defense was turned in by our squad especially considering several folks were empowered to play positions other than the norm. Thanks...

NGNL was very giving in Game 1 and we returned the favor in Game 2. Physical mistakes are bound to happen and what is more important than making allll the plays is how you respond once these "mistakes" occur. And am proud to say that OBI is the type of team that knows how to take a punch, get up off the canvas and never give up.

NGNL took the hammer and ran with it building leads of 5-1 and 9-2 after two innings. A 5 spot pulled OBI back into the game and well, I have already written about what happened after the 11-11 tie after the 4th. Let's see how we respond to that against Shock Therapy this week...

JR led the way from the number 2 hole in this game by going 4-4 (and 5-5 for the night). Spillane, Clint and Nuta each had 3 hits while we got 2 each from Paul, Matt, Jayse, Juan, and Larry. Your RBI leaders for the game were Clint 4, JR 3 and Jayse with 2...

Spillane and JR each had 2 extra base hits. A double and triple for Spillane and JR,,, 2 doubles.

Matt will miss this week due to sickness,,, and Michael is still a week away from returning to the field. But I see good things ahead in the final 3 weeks of the regular season as we begin to show our true stripes as our tie for 4th place right now finds us pitted against the top 4 teams in the division over this time frame... Gooooo OBI,,, or at least Split City,,, LOL....