National Margarita Day

Hey if you can't win, drink Margaritas instead or in the case of Nick's team, just eat the peanuts.

 Field C

 Cubs VS Pirates 

The Cubs hoping to continue there winning ways after taking a double header from the league leading Giants, had their game hats on today.

Cubs pitcher Ed Kline kept the Pirates hitters off stride holding them scoreless in the first two innings.  Cubs scored two in the first inning and in the second scored  5 runs on a base hit by Manager Ted Taylor, a triple by hot hitting Reg Barnes, a SAC by John Fulton scoring Barnes.  A single by LaMay kept the inning going followed by Ken Wilson and Ed
Kline's hits.  Bill Wolfe came to bat and tripled deep  to left
center field clearing the based.  Bill was credited with a triple as the runners ahead of him scored the max 5 runs for the inning.  

The top of the third inning brought Bobby Allen to the plate, he reached base on an error, Arvel Waddell singled him to third and Sonny Burrell scored the runner with a SAC fly.  

Not much action with the bats for the next few innings but some great fielding plays were made on both teams.

Best catch of the day was made by Ken Wilson on a running shoe string catch.  

Manager Smith team missing some of his good hitters today did not get anything going with the bats until the 9th inning. Ron Carrothers led off with a base hit, followed by a hit Shinny Shoe's Baker a walk to Ragonege and singles by Allen and Waddell scored three runs.

In the meantime the Cubs scored 3 in the 6th inning on Singles by Wilson and Kline, another triple by Bill Wolfe and base hit by Evans,Leggett, Taylor and Barnes.   In the 7th it was more of the same by the top of the Cubs lineup after two were out scored 4 runs to put the game out of reach for the Pirates.  Final Score was Cubs 18 Pirates 7.  

Top Hitters for the Cubs
Wilson - 4 hits
Kline - double, 4 singles
Wolfe - 2 triples, double, single and walk
Taylor -5 singles

Top Hitters for the Pirates
Gene Baker 2 hits
Raonese - 2 hits
Waddell - 3 hits

Field B

In an important game concerning the standings, the Angels distanced themselves from the Rangers. While the Tigers drew closer to the Rangers, in the division race, by scoring just enough to take 2^nd place in the 3 team game.  

Remember your jeans from the 1960’s. How do you think they would fit now, pretty tight, right?  That’s how tight the race is for 2^nd place in the AL.  Also, that is how tight the games were today.  Going into the 7^th inning the score was Tigers 6- Angels 7 and Rangers 5.

Defense, solid pitching, a sun field, along with a wind blowing into the batter’s face seemed to effect all three teams.  In the decisive 7 th inning the Tigers jumped ahead with two runs. John Byrd and Mike Gatto gave the cats a slim one run lead, when they both scored in the inning.  Bobby Reagen had a big hit to drive in the go ahead run. The Angels came to bat in their portion of the 7^th inning trailing by one.  Preacher/ coach Freddy Gonzalez must have delivered a good 7^th inning sermon, because the Angels bats were revived. They scored 9 times, due to some solid hitting and some very questionable fielding from the Tigers. It would be enough to win the game.

The Rangers tried to rally to at least grab a 2^nd place spot in the game. The Rangers loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the 7th. It was all for naught, as the tying run was stranded on third base when Rich Marino made a nice catch in the right field foul area.

Final Score: Tigers 8- Angels 16- Rangers 7.

Leading Hitters:

Tigers

Don Keller, 3 / 3 with a double.

Bobby Reagen,  3 / 3.

Angels

Les Jacobson 3 / 3 with a walk and a double.

Russ King, 3 / 3 with a walk.

Larry Wells, 3 /4.

Rangers

Kirk Coffman, 3 / 4.

Regis Finnegen, 2/ 2 and a walk.

Steve Pinnick, 3 / 3.

Jack Benson, 3/ 3.

Field D

Rays vs Red Sox

It was another beautiful morning at the Winter Haven Softball Complex when Larry Powell's Rays took to the field against the Jeff Simon's led Red Sox.  The game was close, with neither team able to get more than a 2 run lead. Don Held flashed the leather on numerous occasions to squash many a Rays hope of reaching base.  While Roger Edwards, Frank Jacobs and Don Scarbrough all should be charged with a crime for numerous hitters they robbed of base hits.  

It came down to the bottom of the ninth inning with the Red Sox holding a slim 18-15 lead with the top of the order coming to bat.  The first 2 batters went into the book as out, before Frank Jacobs reached base with on wind/sun aided hit.  Don Erb followed with a sharp single and the Rays not quite out of it.  Roger Edwards tripled to score 2 and get the Rays within 1 but that how the game ended 18-17. 

Leading Hitters

Rays:

Frank Jacobs 3 for 4, BB, 3B

Don Erb 3 for 4, Sac

Roger Edwards 3 for 4, Sac, 3B, 2B

JD Davis 4 for 4, BB

Red Sox: 

Jeff Simon 3 for 4

Don Held 3 for 4, 3B, 2B

Bob Zelazny 4 for 4

Denny Shaffer 3 for 4

George Radlein 3 for 4

Dennis Borowics 3 for 4

Scott Sequin 4 for 4, B

Submitted by:

Bob Hite

Field E

The Giants, coached by Broom, beat the Braves, coached by Moots, 29-8.  

The game was one sided with the Giants scoring 21 runs in the first five innings.  The Giants scored nine runs in the first two innings led by everybody in lineup getting hits. The Braves scored only two in the two innings.  

The Giants scored nine more runs in the four and fifth innings.

The Giants got great hitting from Thompson 4-4, Remington and Merritt  5-4 and Bess and Bloom 4-3.  

The Braves got good hitting from Peterson 5-4, Chrest, Ravo and Moots 4-3.