Karma, Lions, SFRCGG and a Beer Thief
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Surprisingly, it was a beautiful night for two games. There was jealousy all around for the new SFRCGG beer holder which was still hot off the presses.
You can only keep a lion in a cage for so long. When said lion comes out of its cage, it may snack on a small bunny or a dirty rat (see Game #1 vs. Goodfellas), but only until it identifies the largest water buffalo (see Game #2 vs. Midwest Realty) to attack.
Game #1 vs. Goodfellas
Goodfellas is an interesting name. The team certainly has a couple of “fellas” who seem like good people. They also have two or three of the biggest Jack-O’s in the league. These are the same goons who chose to yell at Patsy a few weeks ago for blowing her horn instead of their own players for popping out and booting balls. In summary, this is a fun team to beat. How do I know this? Because that is what we do. Yes, the SFRCGG beat the Goodfellas regularly. That’s just what we do. It doesn’t matter that they kick fence posts after losses and talk about “losing to one of the worst teams in the league.” Maybe I’m missing something, but in most leagues (of any sport) wins and losses are the distinguishing numbers between which teams are better than others. Currently, the SFRCGG are two games up on Goodfellas. Maybe I heard them wrong. Maybe they were upset about losing to H-Bombs (second worst team in our league) back on May 11th.
On to the details of Game #1….
Sans took the bump for the first time in 2011. He admitted to having a few jitters. After walking the first two batters, Sans was locked in and pitched a very good game. With the first two batters reaching base, the SFRCGG fielders took over and shutdown Goodfellas in the first inning. We answered with two runs in the bottom of the first. The game was low-scoring as neither team could get things going. The SFRCGG took a 5-3 lead into the top of the seventh inning. After getting two outs Goodfellas put together a little rally and scored three times to take a 6-5 lead.
Karma and the SFRCGG came to bat in the bottom of the seventh. Matty started off with a solid single. Cinco followed up with a line drive single of his own. Mr. Clutch came to bat with two on and no outs. Surpringly, contact was made, and although Mr. Clutch stood and watched what he thought was a HR, he made it to first for a single off the fence that scored Matty. With Cinco on second and Mr. Clutch on first, Ryan hit a solid single loading the bases. CW made a sacrifice taking the “last out” rule and a game winning SAC fly.
Karma was caught winking to the right side of the infield.
Final Score: SCHLITZ GUSTO GUYS 7 – Goodfellas 6
Last out: CW (Game winning SAC fly)
Game #2 vs. Midwest Realty
The lion (SFRCGG) was tired of snacking on a small rodent and they were ready for a real meal. This came in the form Midwest Realty who was tied for first place heading into the evening. It is difficult to single out an individual leader for this game. It may sound cliché, but it was Leader, Leader, Leader, Leader, Leader throughout this game. The worst stats for the game were two players who went 2×4 (which is very good). The best went 4×4. As a team, we were 30×43 for the game. That is a 0.698 average. When the team bats around .700, you are going to win most games. Numbers don’t lie.
We plated three runs in the top of the first inning and shut them down defensively for a 3-0 lead after one. The second inning was one for the record books. It went like this: walk, double, single, walk, single, single, single, single, single (first out of the inning was thrown out at the plate after we had scored seven runs), walk, single, single, single, double, error. Some fun numbers for the inning:
- · 19 plate appearances
- · All but one person batted twice
- · There were only two walks
- · We had 14 hits in the inning
- · We scored 14 runs
That really took the fire out of Midwest Realty. It did not, however, take the fire out of the SFRCGG’s. We went on to score one run in the third, four in the fourth and three in the fifth on our way to a 25-8 victory.
Final Score: SCHLITZ GUSTO GUYS 25 – Midwest Realty 8
Last out: Mr. Clutch whilst running from second to third on a ground ball (yes, #35 has the beer holder per the new rule “Last out of the second game brings a 12-pack AND the beer holder”)
Post game: It went something like this:
- “We are out of beer.”
- “No, really? Let me look [helping himself].”
- “Can I have another [putting a couple in the back pockets]?”
- “Remember that play in the Savage, NM tournament?”
- “We are chasing a pennant.”
- “How old are you?”
- “28.”
- “I’m 50.”
