Storm Exposes weaknesses and wins

Storm played another good game that was mostly solid all around. They blanked the Exp0s in the top of the first. Ken, playing his first game made a great play at second that made it seem he was in midseason form. Storm then exploded for five runs in the bottom of the inning. Jeff led off with a double off the wall which set up Duran for a home run. He had promised his son he would hit one, and was going to hit one no matter what, so it’s good there was a runner on. Rene and Joey both walked and Lance launched a three run homer. Momentum was Kompletely Killed when Brad MaKDougall strucK out for the second time this season. He made a liar of himself as he had previously proclaimed that his striKeout in an earlier game was his “strikeout for the season.” 

The second inning was more of the same. Storm blanked the Exp0s again and scored five again. Duran tripled to get the hard half of the cycle out of the way by the second inning on a play where Duran chased Jeff who chased Greg trying to get everyone where they needed (or in Duran’s case wanted) to be. 

The top of the 3rd was the first stumble for Storm. The Expos exposed some shaky defence as the infield sprung a leak when a few balls bounced off fielder’s and calliope music could be heard from over the hill as a monkey gathered its cymbals and started towards the diamond. Storm was mercied and it was a game again. 

Storm’s bats would quiet down a bit scoring only eight runs across the next four innings, but the Exp0s put up zeroes in the next three frames. The defensive highlight was a pop fly that fell between Brian and Al as neither of them really moved, but the ball bounced directly toward Brian who quickly tagged the runner who was tagging up figuring someone was actually going to move and catch the ball. Then Brian stepped on first to complete the unassisted double play. 

Just when it seemed the game was going to be a blowout, the Expos remembered it’s more fun when you score and scored more runs in the final frame than they had in the previous six. But they were so far behind by then it wasn’t enough, and Storm held on to win 18-13. 

Expos    13   -    Storm 18

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Expos	0	0	6	0	0	0	7	13
Storm	5	5	3	2	0	3	0	18

Cycle watch: Duran got the hard ones on his first two at bats and then… nothing

Notable Boxscores:

Rene - 3 for 3, 4 runs, RBI

Lance 2 for 3, 5RBI, HR, 2 runs

Jeff - 2 for 3, 2 runs, RBI, double

Joey - 2 for 3, 2 runs RBI, double

Sam 2 for 3, 2 runs, RBI

Greg - 2 for 3, 2 runs, RBI