On a long and lonesome highway, east of Blythe, C.A.
You can feel the eyes upon you,
As your vette spins outa control...
Well, something like that anyways... Larry survived the trip to San Clemente on Thursday night, however harrowing the spin and backwards trip across the desert transpired. And so did OBI !!!
After scoring 4 runs in the 5 inning Game 1 effort on a mere 9 hits, OBI went all Split City on Old Glory to win game 2 14-9. The evening was fun on the Launching Pad (aka Field 3) as OBI welcomed back KC for a visit and he collected 4 hits on the night including a Big Fly. DC topped that with 2 HRs of his own on the night including a Grand Slam.
Game 1 was all about being quietly offensive. Tom was the only player to collect 2 hits. Same number of Sac Flies that Matt had in the game. It was all about first inning defense as well with Old Glory hitting well and posting an opening 10 spot...
DC's 2nd inning lead off Home Run was our first run. Matt followed in the 3rd with his first Sac Fly. Down 15-2 going to the top of the 5th, with the bases loaded, Clint and Matt hit productive Sac Fly outs and the game was over one batter later.
Game 2 started with a two-out 2 spot by Split City (errrr, OBI) as Mike Doubled (first of three in the game) in a run and JR singled following to score him. In the second inning, Tom and Clint started with singles and were pushed across by Spillane and KC's singles (the latter with 2 outs).
Old Glory scored 3 to pull within one run but Mike's second Double was followed by Kyle's Double pushing the lead to two runs.
In the next two innings both Defense and Offense shone. With two outs in the top of the 4th, Michael ran down a deep drive in RF making an over the shoulder catch to end a scoring threat. Topping that in the top of the 5th, the infamous 6-8-5 putout on a ball that would have loaded the bases work out well as DC ran down the popup, Tom fielded the deflected ball and threw to Clint at 3B for an important force out. Old Glory scored no runs in either inning.
Meanwhile, on offense, DC connected for a satisfying lead extending Grand Slam with one out in the 4th inning to score 4 including Spillane, Jakob and KC. Then in the 5th, KC hammered one out to LF scoring Spillane and Jakob. With Matt scoring in front of those 3, the lead extended to 13-3.
Game should have been over there but the Umpire thought it was only the 4th inning. Game On !! And Old Glory put up a 4 spot to answer back in the 6th. OBI pushed across one and it could have been more but for a Double Play that included a tag out at the plate.
After a less painful top of the 7th, the split was in and folks were happy once again in the city...
The blog is back for a week, maybe more...
Stats for this season are being calculated and are anticipated to be posted on Monday evening!
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