LAST GAME RESULTS:
29TH ST 29ERS
3
DALY CITY BRIANS
2
Gonna keep this one kinda brief which is sorta an insult to this game but I need to get down to Rolph for practice so I'm gonna breeze it.
RECAP: So you all know we were down some of our guys and had only nine for the whole game (which was actually really fun). They scored in the first on a blown call that should have been the third out but Woods or somebody said Pat had pulled his foot off the first base bag and so it goes . . . We actually tied it in the bottom of the first when their catcher EJ pulled his own foot off of home plate so there was some cosmic justice of sorts.
Essentially it remained like that, a heated pitcher's duel with neither side budging, until the 8th, when we went ahead on Louie's bases-loaded RBI FC placed perfectly to the right side. Of course I'm forgetting Zack's mammoth blast to lead off the seventh and we couldn't score him. That I'm okay forgetting about, actually. If we didn't win that game that's the sort of stuff that can haunt you.
Just to add a little more drama, the Brians tied it in the top of the ninth with two outs. And we nearly had a double play to end the damn thing too.
Leading off the bottom of 9, I took a walk against a brand new pitcher who couldn't find the zone. Craig hit a ground ball to third and they tried to get me at second but I slid in safe, again someone pulling his foot off the bag. Pat walked to load the bases with no outs.
Up comes Brandon who had worked a quick 2-0 count. We all mumbled collectively because no one wanted to win on a walk-off bases loaded walk, that's just icky. Brandon sees a 2-1 fastball and drives it cleanly into centerfield, past the all-the-way-in infield. Walk off. Sure, we gloated a little, but we fucking EARNED that one.
PLAYER OF THE GAME: For the second time this season, Zack is taking the honors. A CG battle and he never wavered, just kinda quietly determined to outlast Brian Woods. Never let the pressure get to him, only walking four while striking out 10 and giving up only 6 hits (which were ugh, almost ALL bleeders between the infield dirt and the mound) and 2 runs. He also hit a triple, only the second 29ER triple of the year.
PLAY OF THE GAME: Craig playing a surehanded third base and coming almost all the way in the home dugout to catch a pop up in the later innings. I'm not sure anyone thought he could stay with it when it came off the bat but he fucking GOT THERE and caught that thing.
DRIVE OF THE GAME: Uhhhh, think I already mentioned Zack's triple, which absolutely was a MONSTER, so let's go with Brandon's shot up-the-middle to end it and send us all home happy. Lunchbox has been a consistent and steady force at the plate all season and doesn't look like he's slowing down any time soon.
STATS
Next Game:
Saturday 20 July
vs
Da Beers
BALBOA 2PM
i go get drunk now :(
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