Storm stifled in seventh

Storm found itself in the midst of a tight game Wednesday night as Sports Illustrated Play played very well.

Storm had some good pitching and some quality defense early. Duran made a great catch on a line drive and doubled a runner off. Sports Illustrated managed get some timely and well-placed hits to take a seven run lead into the seventh inning. Storm started the comeback with six of the first seven batters in the seventh reaching safely scoring four runs, before a double-play ended all hopes of a comeback.

There were some ups and downs for the team throughout the game, and particularly for Duran. The baseball gods smiled on him in an early at-bat. After a foul ball and swing and miss, Duran popped up toward the first base line. The wind kept it fair and the first basemen generously dropped the ball (possibly thinking Joey had batted!?). Later, however, the baseball gods (and WMSPL rules) took their revenge as Duran drilled a ball to deep centre field with the bases loaded. Unfortunately, the ball carried over the fence and Storm was already plus 2, so it ended up being an inning ending grand slam out. Of note is the solo homerun earlier that inning. Of course, this would be a lot more amusing if the difference in the game was not the runs that would have scored on that grand slam.

HR's: Joey (1), Kevin (1)

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	2	0	0	7	1	1	4	14
Sports Ill Play	0	3	0	5	4	5	x	17