Storm Bats start strong!

 Storm and Coulas played a tight three innings to start the regular season. Coulas actually had the lead through those three frames. Storm managed only two runs in the top of the first, and Coulas managed to put up five. Coulas himself hit a hot shot to third. Jeff pulled a Vladdy and had the liner tear the top of his glove. Sam was also getting accustomed to second base, and has clearly been watching other second baseman. A high fly ball that appeared to be headed to the outfield drifted back almost to the infield. By the time Mills caught it (having run about 120 feet to get there), he was standing about a foot behind Sam.

Storm would respond by scoring the max six runs capped off by a two run shot by Duran. Coulas would score four more in the next inning aided by some confusion at second base. Al fielded a ground ball, and looked to throw to second, but both Sam and Joey were there (clearly having a father-son bonding moment) and Al got confused about where to throw the ball and threw it into centre field.

Storm was blanked in the third inning. Sam was yet again having adventures between first and second. He came off a little bit on a pop fly behind second. Mills yelled it’s down from the on-deck circle, (which is pretty far away from where the play was) and Sam bolted for second. The ball was caught and Sam was doubled off. 

Storm truly came alive in the fourth with five more runs with Duran hitting the the first of what will likely be many triples this season and Sam hit a massive grand slam. Coulas scored two in the bottom to keep the score to a tight 13-11.

And then the floodgates opened. Storm scored 10 runs in the fifth and in the sixth they hit so much the rest of the scoresheet looks dark. They hit for so long that time ran out, and the pencil that gave its lead to the scorehseet’s sacrifice was in vain, as the inning reverted. 

Other Highlights:

Mills was immediately up to his old tricks turning singles into doubles, and in one case, a very confusing run down that ended with him safe at second.

Duran hit his first cycle of the season. He actually hit two triples (one for good measure, I guess), and he would have added a couple of extra doubles had the sixth inning not been erased. Still 6RBIs in one night is nothing to sneeze at. 

Storm has started well. They now have plenty of time to recover for their next game six days away. Will they be able to stay on their hot streak? Will Ken break his record for number of games in a season? Time will tell.

Storm    23   -   Coulas 16

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	2	6	0	5	10	x	x	23
Coulas	5	4	0	2	5	x	x	16