Our always interesting, sometimes annoying, season continued
Wednesday on the bleached plateau of Dairy 2 with a 13-12 loss to the
first-place South Philly Nomads that was decidedly without toppings from our
point of view
We got the tying run in scoring position with no outs in the
seventh inning, but couldn’t push him a step further and, well, that was the
story of the evening – close, but not close enough.
The truth is that we lost the game in the field. A little
too sloppy. Too many extra outs for the other guys. The Nomads scored in every
at-bat, which is too many. We held a 10-8 lead in the fifth inning, but just
couldn’t put up a clean inning in the field and it cost us.
A word about the Nomads, which recently became the Nomads,
having decided that a successful pizza joint is a better sponsorship provider
than the Fleisher Art Memorial. The franchise started in 2011 and was 7-20 in
its first two seasons before leveling out at 9-9 last year.
They spiffed up the roster this time and the Nomads are 9-1,
with their only loss being a one-run decision against longtime league hoodoo
men Catahoula. So, this is a good team, but if we caught the ball better, we
would have won this game. That starts with The Management, who was unable to
pick up a simple ground ball and has not stopped thinking about it.
Anyway, the scorebook, kept ably by a village of poor
scorekeepers, shows that all 12 of our runs were scored by the first five
batters in our order. That’s not altogether unexpected, but a changeup now and
then would have been fine.
Russ Krause had four hits, as did George Miller. Mark Nevins
had three hits, and two each for Chris Yasiejko, Steve Lynch (plus a
sacrifice), and Jon “The Ankle” Snyder. The rest of us kind of blew, but that
happens sometimes.
That’s about it. We play the Collar on Monday and mosey on
towards the postseason. If we have our full roster (keep July 21-22-23 open,
please), we will be a dangerous team. There’s hasn’t been an unbeatable team on
our schedule yet. Unfortunately, including us.
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