Homeruns & Lack of Intense Heat causes Strategy Fail
Special Report from the Flying Unicorn (Thanks)
The last ball game in July was a beautiful day, and the
Lords and Ladies looked strong but short-staffed when entering the field to
play against their long-time rivals Balls Deep. Mid-summer vacations and
forced-outage critical path work created havoc with the L & L’s roster, not
to mention Band Camp. Just where exactly do you stick that saxophone during
your band camp ‘games’ Alex?
Being short-handed with only 8 players, and seeing that the
other team had a large cooler of silly-pops, the Lords & Ladies strategy
from the outset was to “Make them run lots when fielding, and dehydrate them so
they consume even more silly-pop”, hopefully with the result that they’ll be
staggering-about in the final few innings. Unfortunately Shawn’s 2 amazing home
run hits went a bit too far going over the fence, thus the Balls Deep fielders
didn’t have to run so much. Come-on Shawn, the hits were great, but you
obviously weren’t paying attention at the pre-game briefing about making the
other team run. What unicorn points you earned for the home-runs are negated
for not sticking with team strategy. Please stop day-dreaming of saxophone
games during pre-game briefings.
By
the end of the third inning we were well-up in score (11-5), but the
short-handed Lords and Ladies began to loose steam while Balls Deep team
powered-on. Too bad the weather was so nice and it wasn’t an overly hot day,
otherwise perhaps their silly-pop consumption rate would have been elevated. In
the third inning Pete showed Shawn how it’s supposed to be done by hitting an
in-the-park homer; way to go Pete, you earned 2 Unicorn Points.
The
combination of Diana’s short-stopping and Kate’s first-basing held the Balls
Deep team to only one run in the bottom of the third, with an amazing
jump-catch by Diana (3 Unicorn Points earned) and some strange comments from
Kate about how she prefers to be on-top when Diana is below her (or was it the
other way around????). Other game highlights include Tim and Diana’s triples,
Shawn’s bang-on pitching, Jeff’s outfield catching, Rob getting a workout by
running all over the place, and Denise almost getting de-ankled, de-capitated,
and de-armed by some close-calls with some wicked-crazy-fast balls towards
short stop.
Unfortunately
in the final few innings Balls Deep’s fielding seemed to get their act
together, and they slowly pulled ahead of the tired Lords & Ladies, for a
final score of 15-14 for Balls Deep. A fun game was had by all, and kudos to
Balls Deep for lending us at catcher.
After
a long weekend and much deserved week-off, the next game is Thursday August 15,
4:30pm at the Kinsmen South field against The Turtles. We’re EXACTLY tied
against the Turtles in the standings, and we’ve beat them before when we played
them in our season opener, so lets do it again! That is unless the Sluggers
& Chuggers looses against the New G-Rads on Tuesday (an event that has
about the same likelyhood as a volcano developing in Pickering in the same
timeframe), in which case it will very-much be in our advantage to not win
Thursday’s game, but let’s not get caught-up on silly details.
See
you Thursday at 4:30!
