Storm gets squashed

Game 1 - In which the ball is apparently very hard to see

The Falcons had a lot of solid singles and some well-timed homers against Storm in game 1 of the doubleheader. They definitely deserved the victory. But Storm also helped the Falcons out a little. There were a number of miscues.

Joey was out in right centre field and early in the game a fly ball went up in that direction. Joey charged hard for it as if he was heading for the ball and then stopped. The ball then landed behind Brad in right field. Apparently neither of them had ever seen the ball.

Brad had a few more adventures in the outfield. He seemed to be tracking a line drive perfectly, but when he raised his glove, the ball didn’t go in. He also tracked a ball to the right field line, but then didn’t catch it. Thankfully, it was foul. He himself quipped that, “he was without his dog and couldn’t see a thing.”

Sight wasn’t as big an issue in the infield as communication. A fly ball went up slightly to the right of second. Rene said, “you got it?” to Duran, who then promptly stopped tracking the ball because all he heard was, “Got it.”

That pretty much summed up the game for Storm, who fell 17-12.

Notable Boxscores: 

Duran - 2 for 3, two solo home runs, which were Jeff’s fault for getting out

Rene - 4 for 4, 3 doubles, 4 runs

Craig - 3 for 3, HR, 3 RBI, 2 runs

Cycle Watch: Craig missed the single, and was really regretting the first inning walk.

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Falcons	3	4	2	0	2	0	6	17
Storm	2	1	3	0	3	0	3	12

Game 2 - In which Storm forgets how to hit for the first half of the game, and how to field in the second half of the game

The second game started a little better defensively. Brian turned a double play by himself. Storm didn’t hit, scoring a grand total of two runs in the first three innings.  They finally started to hit in the final three innings, scoring six in each of the fourth and fifth, and five more in the sixth. They actually climbed back to tie the game at one point, but in the fifth and sixth they just couldn’t get outs. At all. The Falcons scored nine in the fifth, and then ran out the clock scoring thirteen runs in the sixth inning. Near the beginning of that inning, one of their players quipped that they could end the game right there by hitting until the game ended. One of their other players said, “you think we can hit for almost half an hour?” As it turns out, they could.

Notable Boxscores:

Duran - 4 for 4, 2 HR (thankfully Jeff was on base for both of them; you know you’re slumping when the team cheers because you were finally on base for Duran’s homer!), 6 RBI, 4 runs

Rene - 3 for 4, 4 RBI, 4 runs

‘Joey - 3 for 4, 3 runs, RBI

Craig - 3 for 4, 3 runs, RBI

Jeff - 2 for 3, 3 runs, 

Al - 3 for 4, run, RBI

Cycle Watch: Duran missed the triple, but hit 2 HRs!

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	2	0	0	6	6	5	X	19
Falcons	3	3	2	2	9	13	X	32