WHAT A COMEBACK!
Tonight the Demons attempted to end a three-game losing skid by taking on Style It 2 at Upper Moorman. We played perhaps our worst game of the year a week ago in a loss to the dreaded Uncle Bob's Bar, and for much of tonight's game we seemed to be in trouble.
We actually had a lead going into the top of the fifth when Style It scored 14 runs. The Weamster walked six batters, Marky Mark dropped a popup, the shortstop bobbled a ball and Style It smacked it around. By the end of the top of the fifth, we trailed 19-10.
We got six runs back in the bottom of the fifth, led by Mark Mark's two-run single. The geeky shortstop broke out of an 0-June and July slump by hitting one just shy of the fence, and we held Style It to one run in the top of the sixth.
We had our last at-bat in the sixth (time limit was in effect) and by then we were really tired of the drunk second baseman for Style It, who kept inanely screaming the entire game. Even his own teammates were a little embarassed by him - "He was hammered before he even got here," one of them told me. Making matters worse was Weamster walking him two times in a row when he could hardly get the bat off his shoulder because he was so hammered.
In the bottom of the sixth, the shortstop (new nickname, "Chadster") finally unloaded and hit a two-run bomb for his first homer since, oh, the Nixon Administration. With two out, St. Nick started a rally with a base hit, followed by clutch hits from Big John Studd, Marky Mark and Shawn "Fantastic Mid-Season Pickup" Altgilbers. One of the hits was a blooper right at the second baseman, but he couldn't figure out which of the three balls was hit to him and it dropped for a single.
With the game tied, Speed Demon Eric ended the game with a smash up the middle, scoring Marky Mark with the winning run.
The Style It second baseman was devastated, dropping to one knee and shedding a tear. Quietly, thank goodness. Meanwhile, the Demons celebrated a huge come from behind victory and vowed to keep the streak going next week against hapless U.S. Cooler.
The Demons are back!
DOB was on vacation and we missed his smack talk behind the plate. Ed Sprague had to work at the Gems game — and we could have used him because we had only nine players. Kudos to Shawn, Dan and the other lefty in left field, who played very well and kept things from getting out of hand (Shawn made a tremendous catch in center field to rob Style It of a possible bases loaded double).
We invited comments, especially from the H-W Demons themselves, who popped a couple of lemonades to celebrate.
rh
Tonight the Demons attempted to end a three-game losing skid by taking on Style It 2 at Upper Moorman. We played perhaps our worst game of the year a week ago in a loss to the dreaded Uncle Bob's Bar, and for much of tonight's game we seemed to be in trouble.
We actually had a lead going into the top of the fifth when Style It scored 14 runs. The Weamster walked six batters, Marky Mark dropped a popup, the shortstop bobbled a ball and Style It smacked it around. By the end of the top of the fifth, we trailed 19-10.
We got six runs back in the bottom of the fifth, led by Mark Mark's two-run single. The geeky shortstop broke out of an 0-June and July slump by hitting one just shy of the fence, and we held Style It to one run in the top of the sixth.
We had our last at-bat in the sixth (time limit was in effect) and by then we were really tired of the drunk second baseman for Style It, who kept inanely screaming the entire game. Even his own teammates were a little embarassed by him - "He was hammered before he even got here," one of them told me. Making matters worse was Weamster walking him two times in a row when he could hardly get the bat off his shoulder because he was so hammered.
In the bottom of the sixth, the shortstop (new nickname, "Chadster") finally unloaded and hit a two-run bomb for his first homer since, oh, the Nixon Administration. With two out, St. Nick started a rally with a base hit, followed by clutch hits from Big John Studd, Marky Mark and Shawn "Fantastic Mid-Season Pickup" Altgilbers. One of the hits was a blooper right at the second baseman, but he couldn't figure out which of the three balls was hit to him and it dropped for a single.
With the game tied, Speed Demon Eric ended the game with a smash up the middle, scoring Marky Mark with the winning run.
The Style It second baseman was devastated, dropping to one knee and shedding a tear. Quietly, thank goodness. Meanwhile, the Demons celebrated a huge come from behind victory and vowed to keep the streak going next week against hapless U.S. Cooler.
The Demons are back!
DOB was on vacation and we missed his smack talk behind the plate. Ed Sprague had to work at the Gems game — and we could have used him because we had only nine players. Kudos to Shawn, Dan and the other lefty in left field, who played very well and kept things from getting out of hand (Shawn made a tremendous catch in center field to rob Style It of a possible bases loaded double).
We invited comments, especially from the H-W Demons themselves, who popped a couple of lemonades to celebrate.
rh
posted by Rodney Hart at 11:21 PM
3 Comments:
Can't believe you guys won without me. If you lose to the Cooler chumps, we should disband. Good luck this week. I'll be thinking of you all at Busch!
somebody who goes 3/5 with a couple of doubles and a triple and captain Keith says he is dropping him in the line up...whats up with that?
I think DOB probably would have talked smack to the drunk 2B guy and we would have had a brawl on our hands.
Somebody should mention to Captain Keith that walking six batters in one inning, including the drunk guy who could hardly stand at the plate, may mean a demotion to the minors.
Wait a second. We ARE the minors .... and we can't go any lower ....
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