All of you guys that got to play today should be grateful that you have understanding wives and/or girlfriends. They let you play ball on Valentine's Day after all. If you played today because you're on your own and you don't have someone to love, don't be sad; it's not just today, nobody loves you the rest of the year either.
Today was also water bottle day as the Commish passed out insulated water (or whatever) bottles today. If you didn't get one mention it the next time you sign in and we'll get you one. Also if you didn't get last year's micro fiber shirt mention that to Bobby and he'll see that you get one.
Gatorland Field
Angels at Tigers
At the Gatorland Field
today the short-handed Tigers hosted the even shorter handed Angels. What can you say about a game when there are
64 runs, 91 hits, 2 home runs, 2 triples, 10 doubles? Talking about defense is mostly out of the question,
not that there weren’t some bright spot for both teams with the glove, but just as many
more low lights. The game was back and
forth for the entire game until the top of the ninth when the Angels exploded
for 12 runs. The final score was Angels
37, Tigers 27.
Top Hitters
Angels:
Jose Rivera 6 for 7, HR
Freddy Gonzales 5 for 7,
HR
Joe D’Herin 6 for 7, 3 2B
Gerry DeRidder 4 for 7, 2
2B
Ron Pepin 5 for 7
JD Davis 6 for 7
Keith Linton 5 for 7
Loren Fabian 5 for 7
Tigers:
Mike Wiltshire 4 for 6,
3B
Tom Hamilton 5 for 6
Brian Busch 4 for 6, 2B
Jack Benson 5 for 6
Poke Rodriquez 5 for 5,
BB, 3B
Al Andrews 2 for 4, 2 SAC
John Carpenter 4 for 6,
2B, 3B
Dave Hartley 4 for 6, 2B
Bob Hite 5 for 6
Fred Dampier 4 for 6
Russ King 3 for 5
Gessler Clinic Field
Rangers vs. Rays
Friday’s
game, on Gessler Field, was between the Rangers and the Rays. Looking at the
lineups your gessler was as good as mine, as to what was going to happen when
these two teams faced off. I bet you
would not have guessed that the hardest hit of the day did not come from a
batter.
The hardest
hit in the game came off of Steve Hill’s head. In the 7th inning, Steve, who was
playing left field, ran under a towering fly ball, in foul
territory. Under the windy conditions
that existed in today’s game, there were no easy grabs. Instead of the ball falling into Steve’s
glove, he caught a cleat on the edge of the warning track grass and the ball hit him square on the top of his head. It looked like Steve got hit by a nine pound
hammer. Down he went, in one second
Steve was looking up at the sky, in another second he was taking a dirt nap. The ball bounced back up in the air 10 or 15 feet
and flew about 20 feet over the foul ball fence in left. That is how hard of a collision it was, when
packed horsehide met bone.
I have been
in steel mills, being from Pittsburgh I have an appreciation for the heavy hard
metal known as steel. I can tell you
Steven Hill is as tough as any piece of steel, that cooled after it came out of
a blast furnace. We had to force him,
temporarily, out of the game, he wanted to stay in and play ball. In fact, the next inning Steve refused to miss
his turn at bat. He wound up getting
singles in his next two at bats and went back to play a flawless left field.
The rest of
the game had some exciting moments as well. The Rangers opened with a 5 run inning in the
first, and closed in the 9th, with a five spot. In between those big innings,
the Rangers added 12 more runs. The Rays tried to keep pace. Jim Goodhue had a HR in the 1st
inning. Players like Pat LoPiccolo, Rick
Brock and Ken Ota all swung hot bats for the sunshine boys. It just was not
enough to enable the Rays to pull out a win. The Rangers played good defense, had solid pitching and had triples
from Laffoon and Hill, as well as a HR, from Chris Constantine to help their
cause.
Final Score:
Rangers 22 – Rays 11.
WP: Josh
Wells
Leading
Hitters for the Rangers:
Coffman: 4 /
6.
Laffoon: 4 /
5 with a triple.
Constantine:
5 / 5 with a HR and a double.
Erb: 4 / 5
with two doubles.
Hill: 3 /
5 with a triple and a lump the size of
Texas.
Leading
hitters for the Rays:
Brock: 4 /
5.
Ota: 4 / 5.
Lopiccolo: 3 /4.
I hate to mention this but with 5 games left to play in the season, both the Angels and Rangers have 6+
game leads in their division and so by the numbers they have both
clinched spots in the playoffs. It remains to be seen who wins the
division but if the odds makers are still taking bets put your cash on the Rangers to repeat.
The Senior Division is much closer with two teams tied at 8 wins and a third team within reach only a couple back.
Polk State College Field
The Braves vs Cubs
The
game got off to a slow start considering the game was played on the
Polk College Women's field. You would of thought their would be a lot of
doubles hit on the short field as balls hit over the 210ft fence only count as two-baggers.
Also noteworthy, this was Larry Powell's first game of the year after shoulder surgery 4 months ago.
It was the third inning before any runs were scored. In the bottom half of the third inning, the
Braves woke up. They scored 5 runs-- no doubles. The Cubs scored 3 in
the top of the fourth-no doubles. The Braves scored 5 more runs in the
bottom of the fourth -no doubles.
Braves added 4 more runs in the bottom of the fifth inning-one double by Sonny Burrell.
Top
of the sixth inning the Cubs started their comeback by scoring 7 runs
on doubles by Bernie Peterson and Bill McLellan. The score after six
innings was Braves 14 -Cubs 10.
The eight inning saw both teams score 5 runs. Bill M. had another double for the Cubs.
In the top of the ninth inning, the Cubs scored 5 more runs to take the lead 20-19, on doubles by Bill M. and Sam Lopez.
The Braves didn't give up. They scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth with two outs to win this exciting game.
Final Score was Cubs 20 --Braves 21.
Jerry Witter and Larry Powell combined their pitching talents to earn the win.
Leading hitters for Cubs:
Bernie Peterson 4-5 two doubles
Bill McLellan 5-5 three doubles
Sam Lopez 5-5 one double
Leading hiitters for Braves:
Dave Abney 5-5 had the winning hit in the ninth inning
Arvil Waddell 3-4
Sonny Burrell 4-4 two doubles
Dale Bennett 3-4
Milo Macko 3-4
Larry Powell 3-4
Submitted by
Larry Powell
Field C
Marlins vs Giants
The first three innings, The Marlins did not score any runs.
The Giants scored six runs in the first three innings on 10 hits and home runs by D. Scarborough and E. Guspyt.
In the fourth and fifth innings, The Marlins erupted for six runs on seven hits, walks and errors.
The Giants came back with six runs also. They had eleven hits, with walks and errors thrown in.
The sixth and seventh innings, the Marlins did not score.
In the eighth and ninth innings, the Marlins scored four runs on a combination of nine hits.
The Giants sealed the Marlins fate with six more runs in the next three innings.
Marlins Hitters. D. Hill 3-4 (hr)
F. Miller. 3-4
Giant Hitters. D. Scarborough. 4-5 (hr)
E. Guspyt. 4-5 (hr)
D. Ragoneese. 4-5
The final score was Giants 18, Marlins 10
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