Storm Splits meaningless double-header

 

Game 1  In which the season standings are already determined, but the home run title is still on the line. 

Storm had one goal for the game. Give the home runs to Craig and Duran and keep Lu on the A's from hitting any. Joey even brought Tinky out of retirement to stop himself from hitting the ball too far. However, things didn't go quite as planned. Duran did knock a home run, but Craig struggled to hit anything other than fly balls in the infield. Then, after coaching Jeff on NOT letting Lu hit a home run, Al served one up that Lu launched over the fence. 

Storm won the game, but lost home run race in game 1

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

Game 2- In which nothing matters.

Storm waited like Godot aftergame 1 for the second game to start. And for what? Nothing. The game didn’t matter for the standings and Lu had likely pulled too far ahead in the home run race to be caught. Nothing that would happen in the game would truly matter. And when you think about it, does anything that happens in a recreational slo-pitch game TRULY matter? For that matter, does anything truly matter? Does anything bring any meaning to life, or are we all just spinning aimlessly on a planet in the middle of a universe so vast that nothing that anyone does here could possibly have any consequence? 

Before I stumble any further down this existential crisis (nihilistic crisis?), here’s what happened (whether it matters or not).

Duran batted with the bases loaded twice. The first time he doubled. The second time he grounded into a fielders’ choice. No home runs. No home run title.

In the third, the September call-up Dave Hobbs stopped two hard shots to first and flipped to the covering pitcher for the outs. 

In the top of the 4th, Joey stopped using Tinky and knocked a solo home run, demonstrating why he needed Tinky. I guess he figured he’d given Duran and Craig six shots each to hit home runs and it was time to pad his own stats.

Al gave up another home run to Lu

And Storm was winning until three consecutive two out errors in the 5th allowed the A’s to score 10 runs. 

Storm lost. Not that it matters.

Notable boxscores:

Is anything truly notable in a recreational slo-pitch game?

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	6	5	2	1	1	3	0	18
A's	4	4	0	0	10	4	x	22