May 21 vs.
Deep Space Cadets
Who played on the grass: Karen, Scott,
Andy, Jeff (guesting from the Homers), Gretchen, Joe (also guesting from
the Homers), Andrew, Bob, Shaunna, Charlie (making a sacrificial
dispensation appearance from the TOADs), Mark, Renaud, and
Kent
Who played in the dirt: Claire, Toto
Who ended
up at Crown City: Scott, Joe, Jeff, Renaud, Charlie,
Karen
Box Score:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Total
Cadets 3 0 2 4 8 6 10 33
Bruisers 1 11
6 6 3 0 5 32
On a beautiful (non-rainy, at least!)
day when Bruiser ranks were depleted by, well, almost anything but
softball, enough begging was initiated to give us ten to start the game.
Things looked good after an awesome second inning when the Bruisers batted
around, mercied the Deep Space Cadets, and held them there for innings 2-5.
The mercy ruled came and went several times during the game until defense
tired in the sixth inning, and the Cadets started to catch up. With
darkness favoring the Cadets (they insisted on playing the seventh inning;
quoth Cadet Doug Strain "Why stop? We can catch up!"), they took the lead
in the top of the seventh, Bruiser offense couldn't bring us all the way
back, and we lost by one run. We did make several really good plays, with
our main defensive highlight being a multi-player relay in one of the
middle innings involving Scott, Bob and half the infield to get an out at
home plate (protested by the Cadet's third base coach who sent the runner
in).
Hitting was awesome, with every Bruiser and pseudo-Bruiser
getting at least one hit (most getting at least two). Big hitters were Bob
(2) and Mark with home runs, and Karen and Scott with back-to
back triples.
Runs were knocked in by Karen (3 or 4), Scott, Andy (2), Jeff, Gretchen
(2), Joe, Andrew, Bob (5), Shaunna (3 or 4), Charlie (2), and Mark (4). I
know that doesn't add up to 32, but scorekeeping got confusing when the
women had to be juggled through the lineup in innings 4-7 and not all RBIs
were marked in.
Our next game is Wednesday May 27 against the
Homers. They're already planning to kick our butts (see their game report
from Wednesday 5/20 on their web page; you can get there via the C League
page from the Bruiser's page). We won't be getting any personnel
assistance from them (including Scott), so we need to be able to field a
whole team of Bruisers all by ourselves (minimum ten players with at least
three women). Please let me know whether or not you can make it to the
game.
See you Wednesday!
Karen
:)