WMSPL Tournament: Game 1 - Storm Starts Strong

There are a lot of new things being tried out in the tourney. Wooden bats, white balls, new rules. Some things don’t change, though. In the top of the 1^st inning, Duran, who claims his leg hasn’t healed, scored from second on a sac fly to the outfield. That helped get Storm up 2 runs.

Jeff took the mound and decided he’d try out the new pitcher hit by the ball rule, by getting hit in the chest by a hard grounder. The verdict was that the ball still hurts even if the batter’s out.

Storm’s offense didn’t really take off. The white ball doesn’t carry as well and needs to be squared up to travel hard or far, but Storm consistently put up runs in every inning, while the defense was solid keeping the A’s off the board in four out of seven innings. Craig tried his best in the 3^rd to prove home runs could be hit with the white ball, hitting a ball home run distance that was foul. Then in the 5^th he kept it fair and hit a homer. That, of course, caused Joey to say, “anything you can do, I can do better,” and in the 6^th Joey launched a grand slam to cap off a 6 run inning that put the game out of reach. The game ended just before the skies opened up.

HR's: Craig, Joey

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	2	1	1	1	2	6	3	16
A’s	0	0	2	0	1	0	1	4