The game started off as a tightly contested affair as each team scored three in the first inning. The Falcons put up three in the top of the first. Storm had the answer, though. Big Daddy D flexed his muscles and started the game with a solo blast that took him the rest of the half inning to find. Lancer Beam hit a two run shot to round out the scoring for Storm.
Storm started pulling away in the second. The Falcons scored two. Storm would score five led by a Joey two run blast and a Mills triple. In the top of the 3rd, the Falcons hit a solo home run for one run. Jeff led off the top of the 3rd for the Storm and used some of the extra weight he put on from the cruise to give him that extra umph to lead off with a solo home run. That marked Jeff’s first home run since the pandemic started. Of course, the home run was problematic, because it put Storm pluis two and Lancer beam batted with the bases loaded, but without the ability to knock it out, he grounded out.
Storm got their momentum back in the fourth as they scored four more and Big daddy D tripled in two runs. Storm would add one in the fifth and score a big six runs in the bottom of the sixth. It seemed like it might have been adding on,as they went into the inning up 14-7, but it turns out they would need more of those runs than was comfortable. This inning was also special because it marked an interesting scoring dilemma. Big daddy D hit a single, which was all he needed for the cycle, and then rounded first and when he saw the throw go home, he ran for second making it easily. This left the scorers with a dilemma. Was it a single and an advance on a throw? In real baseball, absolutely. But with Storm scoring? In the end it was decided that Big Daddy D had hit a single and nobly advanced to try to help the team. It was the first cycle of the season for Storm. The inning then ended with the Saskatchewan Muskie hitting a home run out (which also would not have been an out if not for Jeff’s selfish solo).
Storm was pretty relaxed as they headed out onto the field for the top of the seventh. So relaxed that nobody seemed to know the score. They knew they were winning, but nobody really knew by how much. A lot was all anybody knew. What they didn’t know, was that Batting Practice Thomas was going to revert to BP form and the Falcons started hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting, and hitting. And suddenly it became very important that Storm learn the score. So they asked the opposing score keeper. They were still winning, but by much less than when the inning had begun. As a matter of fact, the tying run was standing in the on deck circle. Where was Captain Underpants when you need him? Storm managed to hold on by the skin of their teeth (for those on the team who still have all their teeth), and won 20-16. But it was tighter than it should have been.
Check out the Podcast of the game as reported by;
Scoops Jockovitch
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Boxscore |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Total |
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Falcons |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
9 |
16 |
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Storm |
3 |
5 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
6 |
x |
20 |
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