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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, August 31, 2017

Split City is a No-Show!!!

But just barely...

7-1 BFF-inc. is in first place this season. 3-5 OBI is not, but there is still hope for the playoffs...

13-15 & 10-11 losses to BFF definitely showed that we are competitive this seasons front runner. Now it is up to us to keep Split City at arms length,,, and win out if we want a third consecutive chance at the postseason tourney...

We start tonight versus one of our long time rivals, MidLife Crisis. I think this a great place to begin a run, mainly since we are here now and we need to go on a run and win out or this season will not end with much more than a 8th week double header against another team that did not perform as well as it thought it would in week 1 although they may have actually played well in that first weeks two games and possibly faded over time or just sucked from the get go, though i doubt they would have started slow then picked up a few wins the sucked again at the end, but it is not out of the question. 

And no, i totally had no point in that long ass run-on sentence/ paragraph. Oh hell, I am doing it again........ 

Now, where should I be, oh ya...  In Game 1 last week, BFF rolled to a 12 run lead before we even came to bat. If only we had convinced the umpire to start the game in the bottom of the first,, we would have won 12-3. Nice!

Offensively, it was all about consistency, as we scored in all 5 innings (3,2,1,4,3). Stand outs were abundant as follows:
-- Tom collects 2 hits, scores 2 and had 2 RBIs
-- Jayse collects 2 hits, scores 1
-- Spillane had a Double and 2 RBIs
-- Brian collects 2 hits, scores 2 and had 2 RBIs
-- DC collects 2 hits including a Han Solo HR
-- John collects 3 hits, scores once
-- Matt singled and had a Sac Fly
-- Clint singled and scored
-- Jakob scored twice and had 3 hits
-- Michael had 2 hits, scores once and had an RBI
-- JR singled and had a Sac Fly
-- Larry had 2 hits, scores once 

The second game was much the same but 2 scoreless innings in the 6th and 7th sent us to our doom as BFF eeked out the 1 run victory.

Brians 3-run Tater in the 3rd put us up 6-3. Then after a 4 run outburst in the 5th to take the lead again by 3 runs,,, we were done.

So, another opportunity is in front of us tonight... Goooo OBI,,, Stay Home SPLIT CITY,,, give me a Broom so I can clear a path towards .500... then we can think playoffs lol...

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