So... Ok you ask, who's Carlos May? Carlos was a famous White Sox and Angels player from the 60's and 70's who is, at least as far as I know, the only player to have his birthday on the back of his shirt. His uniform number was 17 of course.
Despite the great weather, we had our smallest group of the summer with 34 players reporting in. I believe we would have reached four teams if not for all those players on injured reserve. But what the heck, we divided up into three teams, assigned three new managers to run them, and played one heck of a three team game. Team Reagan hit first and scored two runs when Freddie Gonzalez started things off with a double.Team Toro and Team Lopez both went four and out. Advantage Team Reagan. The second inning saw Team Reagan go three and out then took the field and with some rather questionable fielding allowed Team Toro to take the lead as Chamlee,Wise and Radlein all scored. In the bottom of the inning, Team Lopez again failed to score.
Despite the great weather, we had our smallest group of the summer with 34 players reporting in. I believe we would have reached four teams if not for all those players on injured reserve. But what the heck, we divided up into three teams, assigned three new managers to run them, and played one heck of a three team game. Team Reagan hit first and scored two runs when Freddie Gonzalez started things off with a double.Team Toro and Team Lopez both went four and out. Advantage Team Reagan. The second inning saw Team Reagan go three and out then took the field and with some rather questionable fielding allowed Team Toro to take the lead as Chamlee,Wise and Radlein all scored. In the bottom of the inning, Team Lopez again failed to score.
The power drain of Team Reagan continued through the next four innings as they managed to score only four runs during that span. Call it bad hitting, poor base running, or outstanding fielding by Team Lopez but runs were few and far between. Team Toro on the other hand put up five runs in the third to build a comfortable lead, Maybe they thought an insurmountable lead, and started to coast a little early. By doing so they failed to score in the fourth and fifth innings. So after losing the lead to Team Lopez who managed to score at least two runs in the third,fourth, and fifth innings: Manager Toro had a team meeting with the result being five runs in their part of the sixth. Having regained the lead and then losing it, Team Lopez put on an awesome display of hitting as Larry Grabb hit a homer and Jeff Simon and Jimmy Laffoon both hit triples as they quickly scored five runs.
Going into the final inning, the score was Team Reagan 5, Team Toro 13, and Team Lopez 12. Team Reagan started out with five straight hits. Unfortunately poor base running shut the rally down and they were only able to score three runs. With the top of their line up coming the bat, Team Toro took advantage and scored the first two runners. They managed to put three more base runners on but a smooth double play snuffed out the rally. They still held a three run lead over Team Lopez and showed great confidence as they took the field. Obviously Manager Lopez knew what he was doing as the middle of the line up started off the inning and were pretty impressive. The first three batters each got on and scored (Hill,Byrd, and Thompson) Sammy Lopez then got on and was moved to third on Jimmie McPartlan's hit. With two outs and Sam on third Dennis Borowicz drilled the game winner through the infield. Final score Team Lopez 16, Team Toro 15, and Team Reagan 8.
Outstanding players included:
Wayne Mundy 3 for 4
Larry Grabb 4 for 4 with a homer
Jimmy Laffoon 3 for 4 with a double
Johnny Byrd 4 for 4
Jeff Simon 3 for 4
Nick Matta winning pitcher
Chris Constantine 4 for 4
Doug Chamlee 4 for 4 with a double
Tommy Wise 4 for 4
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