Storm got off to a decent start thanks to Rene launching a two run home run and giving Storm a quick two run lead. Storm blanked The Crew in the first inning. Storm found some thunder in their bats in the second inning, scoring a max six on a sequence of singles and a double from Mills. The Crew was blanked again in the second.
Storm added another run in the third and The Crew broke through scoring their first run. The fourth started off with a bang when Sam launched a solo home run. Storm kept the hit train going with a bunch of singles and a signature Duran triple and Rene double to add four to the score. Storm was up 13-1 going into the bottom of the 4th. It was in this half inning that Jeff earned his new nickname. He started to struggle to find the board and one of The Crew’s players decided to start chirping him from the bases. When a pitch hit the board he referred to Jeff as a “blind squirrel finding a nut.” The blind quirrel found a few more nits, and the inning ended with The Crew scoring two runs
Storm seemed to rally behind Jeff and “squirrel” was taken as a term of endearment. Brian even changed decades of referring to pitchers as “kid” and started referring to Jeff as “squirrel” when he handed him the ball before each inning pitched.
Storm didn’t score any in the fifth and The Crew launched a two run home run and the game was 13-5. Sam launched his second solo home run of the game to increase the lead to 14-5. The Crew was unable to muster more than a single in the sixth.
The seventh saw Storm explode. They batted through the order one and a half times and scored 12 runs in the inning (more than they had scored in a couple of games on Saturday). The Crew went down in order in the final inning
Final Score: Storm 26 - The Crew 5
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