Welcome to Moving Day! This is the first BIG day of the playoffs. At the end of Friday everyone will have played half of their round robin games and have a pretty good idea of what they need to do Saturday and whether they can do it on their own or need help.After Friday night each team will have two games remaining and we'll be split into four general groups.
- We'll have a pool of teams that are 2-0 and feeling confident about securing a bye. (that turned out to be one team (well done Brew Jays!)
- We'll have a group of teams that are 1-1 and measuring their remaining games to see if they can sneak into one of the last bye spots. (Currently The Wild, The Dusty Cleats and the Rusty Rebels have that upper hand)
- We'll have a group of teams that are 1-1 and are measuring their remaining games to make sure they make it to elimination (Everyone else)
- We'll have a pool of 0-2 teams that are desperate for a win to avoid an early trip home. (The Hurtin' Units are the only one in that category)
Well, sadly, this is the frst day of the playoffs without having a write up on each game. Still, we don have the scores. Thanks to Karen and Steve for their contributions!
The Wild 14 Vs. The Dusty Cleats 11
STEVE ROSS:
Once again the wind played a big factor for The Wild vs. Dusty Cleats game - both pitchers handled the conditions well and threw a lot strikes. It was a close game the whole way with both teams having lots of opportunities to break it open without success. The Wild prevailed 14-11 on the strength of Craig Cragg's 3/3 performance with 3 home runs and 8 RBIs.
Some great defense by both sides as well, Cleats Captain Chris Pulfer snaring a hard hit ball up the middle and The Wild's Rob Stock with a 3rd-to-home double play to end a bases loaded threat at a key point in the game. The Wild face a daunting Saturday playing the hard hitting Lucky Stiffs and the not-out-of-it Hurtin' Units.
The Red Dogs 23 Vs. The Grisslies 16
DOUG DWYER:
This is another one of those "don't let the score fool you" games.
The Red Dogs came to play tonight, of that there is NO doubt! They had all of their bats in the line up, Mike Candy, Mike Roche, Matt Foerster and they all hit. We expected that. What we didn't expect was Bear Wyatt, Billy Cloutier and Down Town Billy Brown cashing in runners all night.
The Grisslies have had a good run of 12 games of solid defense. If you're gonna break the streak, better to do it on Friday than Sunday.
On a positive Grisslie note, we came up in the bottom of the seventh trailing 23-9 and showed no quit! We rallied for seven runs and came within a hit of taking a +/- of under seven runs. This team has resolve. We'll need it tomorrow as we rally around a couple of injuries. Lots of ball left in the Grisslie tank!
Hot Tub Woody's 13, VS. Dislocated Joints 18
EDITOR:
I don't have a write up on this one nor did I get to see it first hand. A number of people that I spoke with said the game had a back and forth feel to it and there are rumours that Terry Doucet had his a home run. But that's all I've got. The score is right, the rest is just 'what I heard'.
Dodge City Rounders 8, Vs. Dog Catchers 16
KAREN TURNER:
2 trailer park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside....oops, sorry, that was my game....
Ok, it must've been that full red moon tonight, because the Dog Catchers got it, scoring in 5 of 7 innings. Murray "Colonel" Saunders caught the 1st fly hit to him (mostly in fear of being a star of the blog yet again), but unfortunately went down in the 4th hitting 1st base at an angle that no ankle should ever experience...
Highlights included Jim Rouleau snagging an impossible grounder at 2 & getting the 3rd out, as well as a shoelace catch in the 5th for another 3rd out. On the other side Stike had a circus "watch the bouncing ball" moment at 2nd, but still managed to make the 3rd out in the 6th.
The song that came to mind for Dodge City had to be B.o.b./f Hayley Williams "Airplanes"....Can we pretend that fly balls are like line drives over 2nd base, I could really use a hit right now, a hit right now, a hit right now....
1 comment:
Friday night lights could have been called Freaky Friday with the amount of weird things the wind did.
Wild vs Cleats: Chuck Cragg had an MVP performance. Did his doctor give him a little extra "help" when he stitched him up?
Grissles vs Red Dogs: Defence let the Grisslies down but the Red Dogs' bats showed up. The most impressive perforamce was Darryl's pitching.
Hot Tub vs Joints: No woodies here as the Joints spoiled the hot tub party.
Dodge vs Dog Catchers: The Rounders thought they were playing in Margeritville instead of Dodge City. A slow start wasn't enough to overcome the rabies-infested Dog Catchers.
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