The fun running continued in the 2nd. Mills being late meant he was running behind Brian. To help things out, Storm courtesied with… Brad. But Brad ran just fine. It was Duran and Lance who decided to attempt to run Storm out of the inning. After saying he was trying to break the doubles record, Duran decided to try to push for a triple only to discover Lance was still at third. They threw behind Duran, who then went towards third. When they threw to third he turned around. When they threw back to second, Lance decided to try to score, which was a good idea in theory, but Duran got out quickly and they threw home for the 7-4-5-6-2 double play.
It wasn’t all bad. There was some good defense. In the top of the 5th, Brad made some nice "scoops" at 2nd base to record a couple of outs.
In the bottom of the inning, though, the running was interesting again. Brad ran past 2nd and they threw behind him to get him out. He apparently wasn't paying attention to the earlier Duran debacle.
Running wasn’t just an issue on offence, in the top of the 6th it became an issue on defence as well. Jeff ran into Al charging in to field a ground ball. He lived up to the nickname tank engine by knocking Al over. Both players got up, but Jeff played the rest of the game as a reverse Zoolander.
In the bottom of the 6th,. Duran wanted to avoid any more baserunning blunders by hitting a solo home run.
The top of the 7th featured some eye-rony, as Brad, who had made some scoops the previous inning with one contact lens missed a grounder after the delivery of the second. It didn't matter, however, as Storm was able to shut the door and hold onto the victory.
It wasn’t always pretty, but it was a win and that’s what matters!
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Storm 11 - Isotopes 5
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Boxscore |
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1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
Total |
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Isotopes |
1 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
5 |
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Storm |
3 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
x |
11 |
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