Season 6 Ends With a Bang !!!

It happened again ... A long, long time ago in a southern land far, far away,,, we have all heard tell of the Lights that went out in Georgia and the depravity, vile acts, and general mayhem that occurred as a result. Well, none of that repeated itself on the field this past Thursday except that the lights did go out. Then, Team Wear It walked out. And, well, then, OBI had Earned a DH Sweep !!!

OBI finished Season 6 at 7-8-1 with 3 of the Wins by Forfeit. After a spirited discussion with the new Victory Lane League Manager about my lack of desire to umpire, Billy agreed to move us down to D2 for 2016 Season 1. Welcome back to the land of the giving as the teams in D2 definitely are all about that...

Game 1 this past week was close all 4 innings that the coin-operated lights allowed us to play (we prolly should have saved some batting cage tokens for the game is all I am saying). OBI started hot with singles by Clint and Juan being followed by a 2-run Michael Double. Mando's RBI Double capped the first inning scoring.

After TWI put up 6 in the bottom of the 1st, OBI batted around for 5 of their own. Not an incredible feat as we only had 9 players on the field at the time, but I digest (just ate). With one out, following Matt's Double, there was the first loud pop of the night. It was a clanging of a softball hitting the Foul Pole in LF of the bat of,,, wait for it,,, yes, it was Clint hitting the Big Fly that started the rally that killed TWI... Impressively, Clint was running out the shot heard round the park and had to be reeled back in from second base (whew)...

Jayse, Juan, and Michael followed with Doubles and then singles topped off the inning by Mando and Larry. TWI tied it at 8 after 2 innings... OBI went quietly into that good night in the top of the 3rd and TWI took an 11-8 lead.

For the second time in the game, OBI batted around (this time with 10 players batting, which is actually a reach as the added play struck out for out #2 in the inning)... Down by 3, Juan singled and Michael and Mando each Doubled. No stopping us now as Larry, J.R. (double), and Gary followed with hits of their own. Then, with 2 down, Matt, Clint and Jayse finished off the scoring with hits.

Now up 14-11, the OBI defense took over and held TWI to 2 runs. Then, with the lead at 14-13 in the top of the 5th inning, the lights went out,,, and so did TWI.. And that is the way it wuz...

Here are the 2016 Season 6 stats.  Full 2016 Stats will be posted this weekend !!!