Falcons over Storm

Storm and the Falcons played a tight game Friday night. The shorthanded Falcons had a call over and a Storm player at catcher. They jumped out to a quick lead in the first. The most notable play might have been a ground ball between short and third. Jeff went deep in the hole to field it, but when he came up throwing to third, he noticed that Lance wasn’t looking at him. Lance realised the ball was coming in time to catch it, but not in time to apply the tag. It later turned out that he had assumed Jeff wouldn’t get to it and was looking to the outfield to find the ball. The Falcons scored three. Storm was able to draw even on a Duran two strike double followed by a three run bomb by Joey.

The Falcons scored three again in the top of the 2nd, but Storm was only able to manage two runs and the Falcons led 6-5. Joey managed to get the Falcons to lay an egg in the third, but Storm blanked out and the score remained the same after three.

After being bitten twice now, Storm kept with the rotation and switched to Jeff, at which point one of the Falcons could be heard saying “I think this guy’s nickname is literally batting practice.” The Falcons were held to two runs during the first inning of their batting practice session. Storm tied it up on a triple from Mills. 

The tie lasted a grand total of two pitches, and then batting practice lived up to his name as the Falcons launched a home run. They added another for a 10-8 lead. Storm seemed to run of steam as they were blanked and the Falcons added an insurance run. Storm chipped away in the sixth loading the bases and bringing Duran to the plate. With the bases loaded, Duran launched a mighty pop fly to the pitcher ending the inning. Storm got two relatively quick outs before a two strike home run extended the Falcons lead. They would go into the bottom of the seventh up seven.

Joey led off with a single, but two quick outs followed putting Storm’s back up against the proverbial wall. Greg singled, which put Lance in the terrifying position of potentially being the last out in four different innings in the game. He was petrified. Literally. He didn’t swing and managed a walk. Jeff popped up, but it was in a very strategic position and fell in between short and the outfield. Tony cleared the bases with a double and Storm was back in business. Frankenstein singled and the team debated whether or not to send out a courtesy for recently recovered surgery survivor. They decided to use a courtesy runner, but the runner didn’t get to run anywhere as Storm’s comeback ended prematurely (does that remind Scoops of any of his honeymoon’s?)

Final Score: Falcons 15 - Storm 12