It looked for a while like Storm’s season would start much
like the last. Would the first game be rained out? Washed out? Blown out by the
wind? Blacked out by a lack of electricity? No. The weather toned down in time
for the game to start.
With Al’s car and equipment trapped in a garage closed by
the power outage, and Mike already signed out, Jeff had to step in and pitch.
The wind died down enough for strikes to be thrown, and Storm’s defense was
able to track fly balls as they swirled and soared in the air and the infield
was solid. Storm gave up only two runs in the game.
The offense started off where it left off. Well sort of.
Jeff popped out to the catcher (Brad, who made a fairly heroic effort to get to
the ball catching for Coulas), and then Joey struck out. That’s right. Joey
STRUCK OUT IN HIS FIRST AT BAT OF THE SEASON. After getting past those two
slouches, however, Storm started to roll. The hits found all the gaps and
cracks in Coulas’s defense.
Later in the game, Duran took up Joey’s mantle and hit a
grand slam when the team was already leading by 20 runs. He still ended the
game a double short of the cycle, but is on pace to shatter his own triples
record
.
It was a great start considering Storm had ten players, many
of whom were hobbled by pain, but were able to fight through and play tight
defense and hit well.
HR's: Duran
Boxscore
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Total
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|
Coulas
|
1
|
0
|
1
|
0
|
0
|
0
|
x
|
2
|
1
|
5
|
10
|
11
|
5
|
x
|
x
|
32
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Are the stats going to be available to the public all year long? The rest of the Falcons would never allow me to do that...
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