It was with a very short if non-existent bench that the Stormies faced off with, gosh darn it, the most funnest bunch of lagerheads in the WMSPL the Crew that Brews. What do they Brew you ask? A darn good time, I say!
The Cloudy Boyz infield was like my second honeymoon …people in being put into positions they are not comfortable with.
With outfielders at short and Second and second on third it was an Abbot and Costello routine if Abbot and Costello were middle aged out of shape white guys…oh wait! They were.
With their entertaining musical ways the Yeastie Boys fought for their right to score zero in the 1st whilst, the Orangemen scored a thumbless hand with Big Poppa D leading off only to be forced out at second by a weak infield hit by the Missing Link. Luckily the Lancerbeam, The Grand Kevin , Captain Underpants all got hits with Young Southie going DEEEP- Score after 1 4-0 storm
The Draftsmen pulled a single pint in the 2nd while the Occluded Front began to struggle going 3 up 3 down on 4 pitches in the second - 4-1 Storm
Norm Petersons favourite team was equally blanked in their part of the third by the pinpoint accuracy or the darts being thrown by Captain Underpants.
Having been forced out in the 1st inning Big Daddy D made it his mission to have the Missing Link perform his least favourite thing ( other than bathe) and that is to lead off innings. However, through pure sacrificial virginal goat luck he ( like me on a Thursday night swiping right) started off a streak of 5 singles in a row, all ( unlike me on a Thursday night) scored. With BDD ending the inning to torture the poor ML once again. - End of 3 - Storm up 9-2
The 4th would see the BC get some hops and plate 2 despite some sparkling D by the hodge podge Storm D. Young Southie made a highlite reel catch over his shoulder in shallow left and Millz ( the Z stand s for Zoom!) made the first of two shoestring catches in right right centre ( because he can)
Offensively the 4th was pretty offensive with The Hommes d’Orange deciding to see how short their pop-ups could be. To the catcher, to the pitcher… known here to fore as a Pulling a Cowboy. Luckily the star of 127 Days hit a solid 2 bagger and score with a Captain Underpants single - Storm leading by a Smoky and the Bandit 10-4
The Opening innings beckoned as the Men of the Amber Nectar added another 3 to their tally spanking shots down the third baseline nearly waking up the Storm 3rd basemen, luckily he remained happily slumbering away.
Stormies plated 6 despite the Lancerbeams league leading out by HR due to Big Daddy D growing weary of torturing the Link with a lead off satellite.
Going into the 6 the the Pylons had (one would think) a commanding lead of 16-5
Anyone smell foreshadowing or is that fresh bread doctor?
The defensive monkey started his usual dance in the top of the 6th with the Young Southie proving there are 2 sides to even coin by playing some soccer with a softball. The comatose 3rd baseman somehow decided to do a Mike Palmetter impression having a kick save and a beauty to stop a ball. Millz used his shoestrings again and almost doubled up the runner at first if not for the mysterious hole filled glove of The Chimney. All this to be capped of by some more footie at second base by the wonderful dance duo of YS and the Beam.
The AleHeads scored another 3 while shutting out the Storm going into the 7th - Storm up 16-8
This score led the Captain to state that he had never finished an 8pm game before nightfall.
Cue the Jinx!
The Crew of Brew tapped into something special for their half of the 7th scoring a Dick van Patten 8 to tie the score at 16. What would the Storm do? Could they pull defeat out from the jaws of victory? Would they become just another victim of The Cowboy? Is their 3rd baseman even breathing?
These questions were answered by the man who always comes in hard to third leading off with a single, only to be followed up by 2 quick outs. Luckily the Shoestring man can also hit as he punched a double to the gap causing the second oldest man on the Storm to score from first!
After the use of a defibrillator and some really unnecessary mouth to mouth the lads we love scraped victory out 17-16.
*** On a side note - this game scored more runs that the last Storm game and yet was finished faster? It reAlly mAkes you think whAt could be the cAuse of the some of these slow pAced gAmes?
This is Scoops Jockovitch intrepid sports reporter
Check out the Podcast of the game as reported by;
Scoops Jockovitch and or Chip Merriweather
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Boxscore |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Total |
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The Crew |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
8 |
16 |
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Storm |
4 |
0 |
5 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
1 |
17 |
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