Solid Defense, Timely Hitting, and Close Calls lead to Storm Victory

For the 2^nd time in as many games, Storm played a one-run game. This time, however, Storm came out on top.

Storm started slowly. Storm was unable to score any runs in the first two innings. Thankfully, the defense was solid, and they held Hanet to only two runs across the first two innings. Then, in the 3^rd, Storm started to roll scoring eight runs including a three-run homer by Bob and a two-run blast by Lance. These well-timed hits helped Storm to jump out to an 8-2 lead. In the bottom of the 3^rd, Hanet responded quickly scoring three.

The bottom of the order started things again for Storm with back-to-back doubles in the 4^th. Storm was able to put up 3 more runs and take an 11-5 lead. Storm bats stopped bringing the thunder in the 5^th and 6^th. In the bottom of the 5^th ,  Hanet scored 4 bringing the score to 11-9 and the bottom of the 6^th made it 11-10.

In the top of the 7^th, Jeff, who had been held hitless so far in the game led off with a solo home run. It bounced off the left field foul pole, then, unfortunately off the Hanet left fielder’s head. He would be okay and the game would resume. Storm would be unable to add any more runs, and would carry a two-run lead into the bottom of the 7^th.

Hanet started things off well with a couple of hits. They scored a run to bring the score to within one, but a couple of groundball fielder’s choices ended the game.

Storm played solid defense throughout the game, and got three timely home runs. They also got three close plays called in their favour. A force play at 3^rd and a tag play at 3^rd were both close and could have gone either way. They both went to Storm. There was also a line-drive to LCF that Bob dove and “caught”. There was some discrepancy about whether the ball was caught or trapped, and this time the call was a catch.

Sometimes things go your way, and on this day, things went well for Storm.

HR's: Lance, Bob, Jeff

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	0	0	8	3	0	0	1	12
Hanet	2	0	3	0	4	1	1	11