Storm doubles up Greenthumb

 A ten man Storm team suited up against a shorthanded Greenthumb team who had a little help from some of The Crew in the Tuesday night matchup. Storm started strong with a couple of singles before Duran mashed a home run. This was the real contest in the game. Storm had already locked up first place, but Duran was chasing Richard from Greenthumb for the home run lead. This brought him to within three and put Storm up three. Greenthumb was blanked and Richard, who after watching three pitches land off the board outside, lined the next pitch to… none other than Duran who made the catch on the hot smash, but who came off the field shaking his hand because the ball had been hit so hard.

Storm added to the lead in the second. With two runners on, Joey launched a three run shot. Under normal circumstances, this would be something to applaud, but with first place already locked up, the gentlemanly thing would have been to leave the home runs for Duran. Duran then came up next, but with Storm plus two, he could not hit a home run. Scratch that. He could hit a home run, it would just be an out. And that’s exactly what happened. Duran mashed a home run out. 

With Storm up two home runs, Duran had his hands tied. Would Richard be able to increase his lead? Nobody would know in the second as Greenthumb went down in order. Storm chipped away and got three more in the third to take a 10-0 lead. But Greenthumb wasn’t done yet. They scored four in the 3rd to make a game of it. But it wouldn’t stay close for long. Mills, who played again like he had eaten some extra wheaties, mashed an inside the park the home run in the fourth to propel Storm to a six run mercy. In the fifth, Mills would outdo himself. He hit an inside the park grand slam en route to a seven run inning for Storm. 

The only thing left was to worry about home runs. Storm kept Richard off the home run board. He came close in one at bat driving a high fly ball to the fence, but Mills sprinted back and caught it. He also popped up to right centre and then to deep second base to go 0 for 4. Greenthumb didn’t manage a home run until the bottom of the 6th, which was too bad because Duran had made the last out of the top of the 6th and didn’t come up in the 7th.

Cycle Watch:

Joey missed the double 

Scotty from the Crew, but playing for Greenthumb, completed the cycle in his last at bat with a home run that was too late to help Duran

Storm    28   -   Greenthumb 14

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	3	4	3	6	7	6	1	28
Greenthumb	0	0	4	2	1	3	4	14

Notable Boxscores:

Joey - 5 for 6, HR (stolen from Duran), 5 RBI, 3 runs

Duran 4 for 6, HR, HR out (thanks Joey!), 5 RBI, 3 runs

Mills 3 for 5, inside the park grand slam, inside the park 3 run homer, 7 RBI, 4 runs

Brian - 5 for 5, 2B, 2 RBI, run

Sam 4 for 5, 3 RBI, 3 runs

Rene 4 for 6, 5 RBI, 2 runs

Kevin - 4 for 6, 4 runs

Ferris takes another night off!!!

 Thanks to Ferris taking another night off, the A's are gifted the league championship on Monday night and the $300 that goes with it. Oh what could have been if the A's actually had to play all 32 games and not handed 5 victories due to forfeits. But it is, what it is and we'll take second place and move on to the playoff's which start on Friday, but for Storm they start on Saturday Sept 17th at 10:30am vs the Expos followed by a 1:30pm game against Coulas. After those games the elimination games start and depending on the outcomes we could play at 3pm or 4:30pm if we lose one or both games. But hopefully our next game will be Sunday Sept 18th at 10am. and if we win then 1pm and finally if we win that the championship game will be at 2:30pm.

We do have a few sign-outs for Saturday's games and Ken will most likely miss all the playoff's as he has commitments with his kids teams. Surprisingly Adam says that he can make the Saturday morning game and all of Sunday's games, I wonder if he remembers how to play... I guess we'll find out. lol!

Playoff Schedule

Ferris took the night Off

 The Buellers couldn't field a team.

Buellers no day off for Storm

 After beating two rivals in back to back fashion on Sunday, Storm came in riding high. The Buellers were not looking to be skipped over on the schedule, though, and they came out of the gates engines blazing. They scored four in the top of the first. Storm managed to get them all back in the bottom of the 1st, scoring five with the help of a 2 run blast by Rene and  two run single by Brian.

In the second, Storm would extend their lead powered by a two run blast by Joey, and Storm led 8-5 after 2. The offence for both teams played hooky through the next two innings, as each team only scored one run total across the frames meaning it was 9-6 at the end of four.

Storm started hitting again in the fifth. They put up five runs. Who knows how many Storm could have gotten as the first two outs were handed to the Buellers by Bob and Joey’s home run outs. Storm had extended their lead to 14-6 and it looked like they would cruise to the end. 

It was too early to plan a victory parade,, though, as the Buellers crashed their plans  and scored three in the top of the sixth bringing them to within 5. In the bottom of the 6th, Joey either had no faith in The Buellers relay ability or no faith in Jeff’s hitting ability, because with two outs he adamantly waved Bob home who got thrown out fairly easily ending the inning. Storm’s defence was able to shut down the Buellers in the top of the 7th and Storm held on to win.

Storm’s defence played another fairly solid game, though three different instances saw balls hit the ground in the outfield and then somehow get through the outfielder. But for the most part the defence was excellent highlighted by a superb running and leaping catch by Craig. The offence was also firing on all cylinders as the team hit well top to bottom again.

Notable Boxscores:

Joey - 3 for 4, 2 runs, 2 RBI, HR, Home Run OUT

Duran - 3 for 4, 3 runs

Brian - 3 for 4, 2 RBI

Lance - 2 for 3, 2 runs, 2 RBI

Jeff - 2 for 3, RBI

Rene - 2 for 4, 3RBI

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Buellers	4	1	0	1	0	3	0	9
Storm	5	3	0	1	5	0	x	14