Everyone helped celebrate Joe DeForge's 90th birthday today with a cake, a
poem reading, and a great rendition of Happy Birthday. It was great to
see Joe come out again to root us on.
Another unexpected surprise was
a visit by George Radlein. It was super to see George and to witness
his recovery. He looked great and indicated he is back in training in
preparation for his return to play. We can only hope that day comes soon
as we can use his spirit, his pitching, and the sneaky hit down the
first base line.
ServiceMaster
The Nationals played on Servicemaster Field and had a very very competitive game. The visitors (Black, King, Thompson, Duchan, Bess,
Moots, McPartlin, Smith, Lau, Morey, and Gibson) broke out to an early
lead as their first five batters scored on doubles by King, Thompson,
and Moots. The home team (Merritt,Bloom, Mahon, Remington, Duff Hill,
Frank Miller, Taylor, Yarletts, Mills, Gene Baker, and Restrepo)
responded with three of their own in the bottom of the inning. That was
the total run production of the visitors until the fifth inning as they
were shut out for the next three innings. The Home Boys on the other
hand did much better as they scored two runs in both the third and fourth innings to take the lead away from the visitors. Dick Mahon's
double was the big hit.
The fifth inning saw the visitors bats return as they managed three runs off six singles. They could have scored more except that the home team turned one of their five double plays to stop the rally. In the bottom of the inning, Duff Hill reached base on a fielders choice and navigated the bases to score the only run for the home team knotting the game at 8-8.
The bats went cold again for both teams the rest of the way. The Visitors did not have a runner reach second base in the last four innings. The Home Team didn't fare much better as they managed a single run in the seventh. So with the pitchers (and fielders) taking control the game came to an end with the Home Team winning by the narrowest of margins. Home Team 9, Visitors 8.
Key Performances
Elmer Black 5 for 5
Ron Thompson 4 for 4
Vassearl Bess 4 for 4
Dick Mahon 4 for 4 with two doubles
Duff Hill 4 for 4
Jerry Remington 3 for 4
Ray Mills winning pitcher
Gold's Gym
Steve Hill's American League Team ( Herbie o, Steve Hill, Scarbrough, Wiltshire, Constantine, Zelazny, Reagan, Fabian, Davis, Hearn, and Zakrowski) gave Curt Coffman's Team (Coffman, Chrest, Laffoon, Shaffer, Poke, Levesque, Lopez, Byrd, Marino, Waddell, and Bowley) all it could handle on Golds Gym Field. Hill's visitors scored three in the first inning and never looked back as they built a nine run lead before the Home Team managed to score.two runs in the bottom of the fourth.In the fifth the visitors continue to build on their lead as Bobby Reagan had a triple that sailed over the left fielder and ran to the fence. In the sixth, Herbie O hit a home run that provided the lone run for the visitors in the sixth. After being shut out in the fifth and sixth innings and believing the game was getting away from them, the home boys got serious in the seventh and sent ten batters to the plate and tallied six runs to close the gap to a scant two runs. The following inning saw the game tighten even more as the visitors were again outscored. Going into the final frame, the score was 13-12.
The final inning was one for the record books as the visitors matched their run production for the game. Seventeen batters game to the plate and produced 13 runs. Mike Wiltshire and Claude Hearn had home runs and Bob Reagan and Bob Z had triples.Unfortunately, the Home team only managed to get their lead off batter on in the ninth. They were unable to push the run across so the game ended with the score Visitors 26 and Home team 12.
Key Performances
Herbie O 5 for 6 with a home run
Steve Hill 4 for 6
Don Scarbrough 4 for 6
Bob Zelazny 4 for 6 with a triple
Bobby Reagan 4 for 6 with two triples
JD Davis 5 for 5 plus winning pitcher
Claude Hearn 4 for 5 with a home run
Curt Coffman 4 for 5
Sam Lopez 5 for 5
Gatorland
Gatorland Field was very kind to the Home team as Freddy Gonzales led
his team (Rivera, Gonzalez, Jacobson, Wolfe, Giordano, Witmer,
Pepin,Diaz, Wells, and Kline) to a clear victory over Juan Toro"s
Visiting Team (Hamilton, Edwards, Busch, Held, Toro, Jacobs, Allenbaugh,
Smith, Grabb. Witter, and LoPiccolo).The visitors feel behind as they
manged a lone run in the first two innings as Don Held's triple was the
big hit. During the same period, the Home team seemed to score at will.
They tallied four in the first and five in the sceond. Doubles by
Jacobson and Giordano helped as did Rivera and Giordano's home runs.. In
the third Juan Toros helped propel his team as they scored five.
Freddie Gonzalez's double pushed his teams two runs across the plate.
The bats went silent for the visitors for the next hree innings as they were shut out. In the meantime, the Home Team scored ten runs as Freddie had a home run and Juan Rivera and Charlie G had doubles. In the seventh Juan T had another double as his team scored three runs. Ron Pepin was the lone runner for the Home team but was unable to score in the bottom of the seventh. Both teams manged to score in the eighth, three by the visitors and four by the home team. Going into the last frame, the visitors were chasing thirteen runs. Their first four batters reached base and you could sense that big things were about to happen. Unfortunately the big thing was solid pitching and defense as the next three batters went down swinging. They manged to score three but it was not nearly enough as the final score read Home Team 25, Visitors 12.
Key Performances
Juan Toro 3 for 4 with two doubles
Don Held 3 for 5 with a triple
Larry Grabb 3 for 4 with a double
Jose Rivera 5 for 6 with a home run and two doubles
Freddie Gonzales 5 for 5 with a homer and double
Les Jacobson 4 for 5 with a double
Charlie Giordano 4 for 6 with a homer and double
Ron Pepin 4 for6
Don Witmer 4 for 6
Eddie Kline 4 for 6
Josh Wells winning pitcher
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