Homeruns & Lack of Intense Heat causes Strategy Fail

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!