Storm Subdues Surge

Storm played another excellent game on both sides of the ball. The defense was strong with some good pick-ups on grounders, some nice catches on line drives and the outfielders covering lots of ground and letting virtually nothing drop with a couple of nice grabs by Mike in particular.
Storm jumped out to a quick lead in the first. After the first two batters got out Joey walked, then Storm strung together four consecutive hits culminating with Al’s 3 run homerun to cap off a five run inning. Storm then blanked Surge for four straight innings and took a 15-1 lead into the 6th inning.
Surge tried to surge back, scoring five runs in the sixth and adding another three more in the top of the 7th, but it was too little too late.

Home Runs: Al (6), Dave (4), Joey (19)

Highlights:
Al recorded 6 RBI off of a 3 run home run and a 3 run double.

Streaks:
Joey scored a run in his 30th consecutive game.

Humour Highlight:
Joey: “It wouldn’t have been a home run; it would have been a triple and an error.”
Bob: “We don’t count errors, or your average would suck!”

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Surge	1	0	0	0	0	5	3	9
Storm	5	1	6	2	1	1	x	16

Both sides of the ball strong for Storm

Storm had another great all around night. The offense was pretty strong, particularly early. James and Jeff hit back to back homers and the team was finding some holes on the field. Storm grabbed the lead early and held on.
The defense was also strong, as Storm turned two double plays and made some nice catches on line drives and hard grounders. Solid defense really kept Coulas bats at bay.
One of the highlights of the evening came immediately as Bob hit a ball up the middle that went off the shortstop’s glove and allowed Bob to reach base. That marked 150 straight games where Bob has reached base.

His stats throughout the hitting streak are as follows:

AVG. - .718

Hits – 443 (averaging 2.95 hits per game)

2B – 96

3B - 15

Runs – 332 (averaging 2.21 runs per game)

RBI – 331 (averaging 2.21 RBI per game)

HR – 68

OBP - .727

What a fantastic 150 games. Keep the streak alive.

Other Highlights:

Greg, Bob, Joey and Al all going 4 for 4.

3 Double plays on defense

Al hitting three doubles.

HR – James (9). Jeff (4), Joey (18)

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	1	4	6	5	0	1	1	17
Coulas	2	0	0	5	0	0	2	9

Storm win by default

Win by default.

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Hanet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Storm	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	7

Storm bats were hot vs Devils

Storm bats were hot last night as they faced the Devils. Every player was on fire as the Storm offense put the Devils through hell. Eleven players had four or more hits, including Joey and Kenny, who each went 6 for 6. Of course, Storm had a little bit of help from the Devils defense who were having a devil of a time fielding the ball. They even stopped the game mid-inning to have a spirited discussion on the purpose and use of the cut-off man.

On the other side of the ball, Storm defense was solid. The infielders gobbled up nearly every ground ball within reach, and nothing was falling within running distance of an outfielder. One of the highlights may have been Joey, Jeff and Duran catching a Devils runner in a rundown.

The only thing that didn’t go seemingly exactly according to plan was Bob’s pursuit of the cycle. He was held captive by the league home run rule for most of the game, as Storm was up two home runs by the second inning; however, Scott from the devils was very gracious, and hit a grand slam in the 5th, giving Bob the opportunity to hit a home run. The only problem now was that Bob was the last out of the previous inning, so Storm would have to bat through an entire twelve person order to get back to him. Fortunately for Bob, we like him, so we accommodated and batted through the order and got to him in the top of the 7th. Unfortunately for Bob, it seems that the Devils pitcher does not like him nearly as much as we do, as he put the first pitch off the front of the mat, the 2nd pitch off the corner of the mat, and the 3rd pitch Bob muscled through the infield for a single. Not the home run he needed for the cycle, but a five hit day is nothing to sneeze at.

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Storm	8	4	6	12	3	3	0	36
Devils	0	0	0	3	6	0	0	9

Storm over Direct

This one was an offensive showing as both teams hit double digits after the first 3 innings.  The ball was jumping out of the park, with the longest home run of the year hit by Al as well as a dead center shot by Brad.

The real offensive star was Mike with his two no doubter home runs.  He was also striking people out and playing solid defence on the mound.

Kenny, Lance and Bob all added four hits in the game to help Storm pull away from Direct.

Boxscore
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
Direct	3	8	2	1	2	1	0	17
Storm	5	4	3	5	4	3	x	24