Gatorland Field
We had two teams of ten on the old Field E today. The Home Team 'Rays' were Coffman, Gazarek, Jacobson, Duff, Toro, Jacobs, Parker, Reagan, Lopez, and Matta.
The Visiting Angels were Gonzalez, Butler, Witmer, Held, Edwards, Giordano, Wolfe, Scarbrough, Hartley and Rodriguez.
This was one of those games that you just love to be a part of. Close all the way to the end with no defensive boo-boos and solid hitting by everyone. It was almost like a tournament game. The Angels started off posting 3 to the Rays 4 runs but then gained the lead in the third inning posting 5 on a string of doubles by Held, Edwards, Giordano, and Scarbrough. After 3 the score was the Visiting Angels 8 and the Home team Rays 6 and that seemed to be the story of the game. The score never separated by more than 3 runs after that until the end.
For the visitors, Don Held hit for the cycle with a 5 for 6 day including a pair of doubles, while Don Scarbrough and Charlie Giordano banged a couple off the fences for doubles. The Home squad highlights included a Chuck Duff triple and a bunch of doubles by Les Jacobson and Juan Toro.
The final score was Angels 28 and Rays 19 but that was only due to the Angels posting a 7 run final inning against a zero for the Home team Rays.
Nice defensive plays were turned in by Chuck Duff, and Sam Lopez for the Rays and by Fred Gonzalez, Charlie Giordano and Ron Butler for the Angels.
Leading Hitters:
Gazarek 4 for 5 and a walk
Jacobson 4 for 5 and a sac fly
Jacobs 4 for 6
Parker 5 for 6
Gonzalez 4 for 6 double
Witmer 5 for 6 double
Held 5 for 6 2 doubles, triple, homer (winning pitcher)
Edwards 4 for 6 2 doubles
Giordano 4 for 6 2 doubles
Wolfe 3 for 5 double, walk
Scarbrough 5 for 6 2 doubles
Servicemaster Field
The National Leaguers had a very exciting game on Servicemaster Field for
the first six innings. Not so much the last three when the visiting team pulled
away for a commanding victory. Neither the Visitors (Fulton, Bloom, Merritt,
Thompson, Podbilski, Remington, Waddell, Bess, Restiepo (sic), Morey, and Gene
Baker) and Home Team (Duchen, Moots, Kline, Miller, Black, Stepp, Taylor, Mills,
Snider, Lee Baker, and Gibson) managed to score in the first. The second saw a
run explosion as the visitors pushed across five and the home boys four. In the
third both teams got the lead off batter on moved them around the bases. At the
end of three it was visitors 6 and home team 5.
The next three innings saw the score tied as the visitors built on
their lead by scoring three in the fourth. Unfortunately they only batted four
batters in each of the next two innings as they were effectively shut down. The
home boys went scoreless in the fourth as they went three and out. In the fifth
however, they fought back to even the score by pushing four runs across on six
singles. With great expectations for more runs in the sixth, they stumbled and
went three and out.
As I stated earlier it was a great game up to that point, unfortunately for
the home team they were unable to score anymore runs during the final three
innings. Meanwhile, The visitors put up 5, 5, and 8 in their half of the
same innings. The big hit was the only extra base hit of the day, a double
by Dave Podbilski. The final score was the visitors 27 and the home team
9.
Key Performances
Ted Taylor 3 for 4
Marshal Bloom 5 for 6
Ron Thompson 5 for 6
Dave Podbilski 5 for 6 with a double
Jerry Remington 5 for 6
Arvil Waddell 4 for 6 and
winning pitcher
Vasir Bess 5 for
5
Gene Baker 4 for 6
Gold's Gym Field
A very interesting if not exciting game was played between Chris Constantine's Visitors (Marino, Grabb, Shaffer, Wiltshire, Constantine, Levesque, Smith, Byrd, LoPiccolo, and Ofstie) and Bob Zelazny's Home Team (Osterreiech, S Hill, Laffoon, Zelazny, D Hill, Zakrowski, Pepin, Simon, Mohan, and Wells). Both teams scored at will in the first inning. The visitors tallied four in their half but were outdone as the home boys scored five. The visitors bats went cold in the following four innings as the run total was zero as they only sent twelve batters to the plate in the three innnings. Meanwhile, the home team scored five in the second off doubles by Herbie O and Josh Wells, a triple by Jimmy Laffoon, and a homer by Steve Hill. It was five more in the third as errors and Herbie's second double resulted in five more runs.The home team was shut down in the fourth so at the end of 4 innings the score was visitors 4, home team 15.
The fifth inning saw the visitors come to life. They scored four runs with
the help of Terry Smiths double while shutting down the home team. In the sixth
inning both teams managed but a single run with Jimmy Laffoon's second triple
being the big hit for the home team. The game appeared to be out of reach
during the seventh as the visitors failed to score and the home boys pushing
across five more on Steve Hill and Bob Zelazny's doubles. The eighth inning saw
the visitors fight back with five runs of their own. Terry Smith's second double
of the day providing the power. The home team managed a single run leaving the
door open for the visitors as the top of their line up was coming up in the
ninth. After a lead off single by Larry Grabb the defense tightened and got the
next three batters out. Final score Home Team 22 and Visitors 14.
Key Performances
Larry Grabb 4 for 6
Denny Shaffer 4 for 6
Mike Wiltshire 4 for 6
Ray Levesque 5 for 5
Terry Smith 5 for 5 with two doubles
Herbie O 6 for 6
Steve Hill 5 for 6 with a double and homer
Jimmy Laffoon 4 for 6 with two triples
Bob Zelazny 4 for 5
Jeff Simon 5 for 5
Bernie Mohan 4 for 5
Josh Wells 4 for 5 and winning pitcher
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