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Happy Summer Solstice Day everyone! Hopefully, all of your virginal goat sacrifices to the pagan gods went smoothly!
This was the first time that the Stormies had faced the newly formed Triple Play. A team formed out of the merge of other teams ( Think Voltron with cleats and high socks).
It was with a short bench (10) that our Hommes d'Orange took to the diamond. It did not start well.
With our new lead-off man delayed by what we assume was hair preparation, a veteran hitter was promoted to lead off and subsequently sent a monster shot to the catcher, to be quickly followed but a farther, yet similar outcome pop up.
Luckily, the heart of the order all scored, highlighted with a HR by our very own un-retired Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. ( but you can call him Al).
Unfortunately, TP wiped away the Storms lead by scoring a handful of their own to take a 5-4 lead.
The Players Cubed kept the Storm off the sheet in the 2nd with a 1,2,3 inning and then added on a pair of their own to take a 3 run lead ( CONSPIRACY ALERT! - Triple Play- 3 run lead…coincidence? I think not!!)
The game, like my honeymoon included some unintentional physical contact. On a short dying quail hit to left, veteran SS Joseph J Pilkey ranged out for the catch only to meet knee to hip with rookie outfielder Adam “ Hit you so hard the spots you will see will be “ White. Both players went down but Adam graciously helped the old man up.
Adam “ no relation to Walter, so stop asking him for Meth” White also seemed to take his frustrations out on second base, but redeemed himself well with a cat like snag behind the plate.
Ze Sturm tied the score at lucky 7’s in the 3rd by scoring 3 against 3 Play ( CONSPIRACY ALERT! - 3 runs scored in the 3rd inning against Triple Play…coincidence? I think not!!)
Once again TP swiped a handful off the roll to score 5 and take the lead again.
Top of 4, the bats starting connecting for the Orangemen as the bottom of the order all got on, capped off by a base on balls by the wiley lead-off man ,which set the table for the Marathon Man himself to stop up to the deli counter and order a Grand Salami. Scoring 6 in there half the Storm once again took the lead and luckily kept the the Players Cubed at bay to hold a tenuous 13-12 lead going onto the open 5th.
The bottom of the Pylons short bench once again got on base in preparation for a 3 run HR that can only be attributed to a certain player being juiced, and by juiced I mean Prune. To be quickly followed by a deep shot over the fence by everyone's favorite backward hatted SS. The storm score a 6 in the 6 ( Insert your own Conspiracy theory here).
The Triple Players struck back to tie the game @ 18 going into the last inning.
If there had been any fans I’m sure the edges of their seats would have been occupied.
The 7th Started with a blast to the RF fence by “ He’s faster than Tom Brady” but you can call me Al. Which spurred the Storm to score 4 in the top of the inning.
Would they be able to keep the heard hitting TP from leaving a stain on the Storm winning streak? Would this leave a skid mark on the schedule?
Well fans, I can say that the 3Players came close and scored 2 but our lads shut the door defensively to keep the TP from wiping away a Storm victory.
Make the final 22-20
Notable Boxscores:
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Boxscore |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Total |
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Triple Play |
5 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
20 |
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Storm |
4 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
0 |
5 |
4 |
22 |
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