Storm sweeps thru Broadway

Game 1 – In which our intrepid reporter returns (late) and misses anything interesting.

It’s true! It’s me! Your intrepid reporter Scoops Jockovitch returns. To quote the legendary author and under appreciated shortstop Mark Twain “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. So, what’s been happening the last year? Anything new and interesting going on around the world? No? Ok then, onto Whitby Men's Slo-Pitch.

After a dreadful start to this season, filled with errors and poor ball handling (which reminds me of my honeymoon) the Storm seem to be back to their usual ways. Facing the strong ensemble from Broadway the Storm were in a tight battle for 2nd in the division. All the usual leads for Broadway were there plus an understudy that was called up for his time in the limelight. And that understudy wanted that limelight, he made his presence known, his attention to the minute details and intricacies of the game are quickly making him a fan favorite.
Unfortunately, this reporter arrived a little late and a lot hungover so the early innings are a blur. Based upon the scoresheet supplied I can say that the Storm had 2 coloured diamonds but lost the game of tic tac toe to the X’s.

The next two innings were like a good night at the local bar for me, as the Storm took home a pair of 6’s.
In the 4th the bottom of the order delivered a powerful message to Broadway by doing their best personification of what this writer thinks is Sir Vin Diesels best movie, XXX.
The Storm D kept the Broadway show from opening to a larger audience, limiting them to just one more run than my shop teacher has fingers. Like their name’s sake the Stormy’s opened it up wide in the 6th by plating 10.

With a final score of 27-5 the stage was set for a repeat performance in the back half of the doubleheader.

Notable Boxscores:

Duran - 6 for 6, HR, 7 RBI, 5 runs

Craig - 5 for 6, 2 HR's, , 5 RBI, 5 runs

Joey - 5 for 5, HR, 4 RBI, 4 runs, 2 doubles

Lance - 4 for 5, 3 RBI

Cycle Watch: Duran & Joey both missed the triple

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Broadway	0	0	1	0	3	0	1	5
Storm	2	6	6	0	3	10	x	27

Game 2 – In which your intrepid reporter can’t differentiate the events between Game 1 and Game 2

Greeting all! Your intrepid reporter Scoops Jockovitch here with another scintillating report about everyone’s favorite group of slightly in shape males with an average age of 47.9.

It was the Second show of the night, and the Storm were Broadway bound!

The Stormies stayed strong out of the gate after game 1 scoring once again just enough NOT to invoke the mercy rule ( isn’t that thoughtful of them) Now in truth they actually thought that they had invoked the mercy rule…HOWEVER, that keen little understudy who is everyone’s favorite rule-meiser ( when it suits his team) noticed that though the 6th run had crossed the plate the runner on first had NOT touched 2nd base to “complete” the play. The “Out” was registered on second and the run was denied. None of this is problem at all as we welcome one and all to our Professional Baseball league!

Not to be outdone in the 1st inning the boys in orange plated another finsky (once again NOT showing mercy)

It was into the 3rd when mercy was shown as the bats came alive down the order to score what I’ve been told is me on a good day…a 6.

The question of Home Run counts then came into play. Once again, an issue raised by everyone’s favorite Broadway understudy and all-around scamp. This information was so important that he needed to check the Storms scorebook while all the Storm were out in the field. Now that’s tenacity and a work ethic I think we all can admire.

The Homerun count settled, and our bags checked for any missing items, it was back to the game.

Into the 5th and Craig (the artist formerly known as Kraig) blasted a 3 run Homerun (make sure its counted!) over the fence for the only orange scoring of the inning.

The scoring continued into the 5th with a matching number of runs highlighted by a blast from the man whose heart is really in the game “The Big D”!

Now in the 6th some of the most amazing things this reporter has ever seen on a ball diamond took place. Things that I can’t and shouldn’t describe because you won’t believe them. And since the 6th ran long and wasn’t counted, I won’t.

Final tally 

Storm 24-17

Notable Boxscores:

Duran - 5 for 5, 2 HR's, 4 RBI, 5 runs

Lance - 4 for 5, HR, Double, 4 RBI, 3 runs,

Craig - 4 for 5, HR, 4 RBI, 4 runs

Joey - 4 for 5, HR, 5 RBI, 4 runs

Bob - 4 for 5, Triple, Double, 4 runs

Cycle Watch: Bob missed the HR, Lance & Joey both missed the triple

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	5	5	6	3	5	x	x	24
Broadway	6	4	0	5	2	x	x	17