Sponsor's Day

Here is a shout out to all our wonderful sponsors: AMERITY FINANCIAL, LLC, INGRAM FINANCIAL GROUP, THE ESTATES AT CARPENTERS, THE ENJOYMENT BOOK, GESSLER CLINIC, PA, LAKESIDE DERMATOLOGY, LLC; OPTICAL OUTLETS, KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, AMERICAN LEGION POST 8.

This great group of benefactors help to make our league play possible. Get out and support these businesses and spread the word to others, to do the same. And don't forget to put a license plate frame on your vehicles.  It helps promote the ball club.

In honor of our sponsors, todays teams will be named after three of these honored hosts.

The hitting team will be dubbed the Optical Outlets team. This team produced the following line up: Herb O, Toro, Butler, Duff, Hite, Reagan, Wells, Mohan, Moots, Ayala and Strait.  

The sitting team wore the Amerity Financial, LLC; name. Torres, F. Gonzalez, Witmer, Giordano, M. Gonzalez, Ayers, Matta, Marino, L. Baker and Merritt, made up this set of investors.

The fielding team was given the Gessler Clinic title. The team consisted of these players: Coffman, Chrest, T. Smith, Schappler, Jacobs, Zelazny, Lopez, D. Hill, Bess, G. Baker and Powell.

This Friday we will have pizza, after the game.  When you make a pizza, you usually cook it in a piping hot oven.  Playing on the WHSS fields today, was like playing in an oven.  The heat was on; we almost melted, like mozzarella on a hot pizza pie.  If it stays this hot, Bobby Z, can just bring uncooked pizza dough and cheese to the ball park, we can cook our own pizzas on the sidewalk.

The hitting team must have had their Optical Outlets eye glasses on, for the start of this game.  They were hitting the ball well.  You know the old saying, hit what you see; see what you hit.  The Optical group scored four runs each, in both the first and second innings.  The extreme heat must have fogged up their glasses in the middle innings, as the Optical Outlets team failed to score a single run in those frames. Maybe it was the heat that affected the Optical team, or, maybe, it was the excellent fielding plays that Bess, Duff Hill, Coffman and Bobby Z turned in, for the Gessler Clinic defensive team, which shut them down. Those ballplayers brought the leather and widened everyone’s eyes with their defensive prowess.

The sitting team, Amerity Financial, LLC; must have invested in Miken bats. Their hitting stocks were off the chart.  After a slow, two run, first inning, the Amerity team went bullish in the 2^nd inning.  Hits by Marino, L. Baker, Merritt, Torres, F. Gonzalez, Giordano and M. Gonzalez paid major dividends, as the Amerity Financial team scored six runs, to tie the game.  You can credit Ron Butler, (Gessler Clinic team), for a superb defensive play, in the first inning, or the financial team may have cashed in a few more runs that inning.

The fielding team, Gessler Clinic, needed to take their bats to the doctor’s office. Their sick bats only produced three runs through four innings.  However, the doctors who staff Gessler Clinic know how to make a patient well.  The bats came alive in the 5^th inning, as the Gessler group put on a hitting clinic.  Coffman, Chrest, T. Smith, Schappler, Jacobs, Lopez and Bess acted as surgeons, they carved up the field using their bats, in place of a scalpel.  The Gessler squad scored five runs that inning.

After 5 innings the score was Optical Outlets  8 - Amerity Financial, LLC- 11 and Gessler Clinic 8.

In the 6^th inning both the Optical Outlets team and the Amerity Financial, LLC team had a big, five run inning. The “eye on the prize” team focused on big hits from Mohan, Moots, Herb O, Toro, Butler and Duff, to score their runs. The “Wall Street wonders” had big hits from Merritt, Torres, F. Gonzalez, Witmer, Giordano, M. Gonzalez, Ayers and Matta, to cash in their five runs.  The Gessler Clinic team must have taken a sedative, their bats went to sleep, they were shut out in the 6^th.

After 6 innings: Optical Outlets 13- Amerity Financial, LLC 16 - Gessler Clinic 8.

In the final inning, the Optical Outlets team could only come up with one run.  They left two runners on base, when their final out was recorded.  The Amerity Financial team was shut out in the 7^th.  As the financial team took the field on defense, they had a healthy eight run lead over the Gessler Clinic. 

In their turn at bat, the Gessler Clinic got a shot in the arm when Bobby Z hit a HR. The rest of the team’s bats needed a transfusion.  Bobby’s run was the lone run scored that inning. Final Score: Optical Outlets 14- Amerity Financial, LLC 16 - Gessler Clinic 9.

 The winning pitcher in this game was Bobby Ayers.  Bobby made some nice defensive plays on the mound.  Defense was the name of the game for Witmer, Matta, Giordano, Barnes and Torres as they all made strong fielding plays during the course of the game to help their team win.

 So what lessons can be deduced from this game?

You need a healthy set of peepers, to see and hit the ball.   Go to Optical Outlets, if you need help with your vision.

A healthy body will help you play better ball; see our friends at Gessler Clinic for your health concerns.

If you want to end the game with lots of runs, you have to hit well.  If you want to invest well, see Amerity Financial, LLC.

It's better having hot pizza, after the game, than overheated ballplayers.

Leading Hitters:

• Butler: 3/ 4.
• Duff: 3/ 4.
• Reagan: 4/ 4 with a double and a HR.
• Moots: 2/2, and 2 walks.
• Torres: 3 / 4 with a HR.
• Giordano 3 / 4.
• Ayers: 4/ 4.
• Merritt: 3/ 4.
• Jacobs: 3/ 4 with a HR and a triple.
• Lopez: 2/ 3 and a walk.
• Bess: 2/ 3.
• Coffman: 2/3.