Monday, August 21, 2023

Storm neutralizes Isotopes, but lose Bob in the process

 Storm played an incredibly solid game defensively. The outfield was a vacuum and sucked up everything hit out there. Ground balls found their ways into gloves and throws were solid. Jeff and Al combined for the rare slopitch shutout as Storm won 12-0.

Defensive highlights:
The defensive highlights mostly occurred on plays made at catcher. Lance made a couple of outs against the Isotopes at catcher, but the Isotopes were short players and Lance also made a couple of outs against his own team from catcher. The first was Kevin popping up and Lance made a nice grab. The second was a foul tip lined back at Lance and he caught it. But turnaround is fair play, and when Lance had to leave catcher to bat, Craig jumped at the chance to catch. Sure enough, Lance hit a foul ball that Craig caught.  Call it Karma or the baseball gods, but it was hilarious to everyone watching.

Less hilarious was the injury report:
Greg came up limp and had to sit the last few innings. 

More seriously, Bob broke his ankle sliding into 3rd. There was a loud pop, (See picture) and Bob was unable to continue. Bob has signed out for the remainder of the season as he may require surgery. We all wish Bob a speedy recovery and hope he's good for the start of next season.

Bob got a boo boo

Bob's Broken Ankle

Storm    12   -   Isotopes 0

Boxscore

 

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Total

Storm

2

3

3

0

2

0

2

12

Isotopes

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0



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