The weather's getting at least somewhat cooler and the guys are slowly drifting back from northern climes as evidence by the turnout today. We had enough players for 4 teams. Way to go guys and gals. Also Happy Birthday to Stevan Hill and Larry Wells!
Servicemaster Field
You, the reader, get to participate in a game, while reading about the game. See if you can identify and count the cliché’s used in this write-up; it’s as easy as pie. (Hint, that’s the first cliché). (As easy as pie is a popular colloquial idiom, this is used to describe a task or experience as pleasurable and simple. The cliché does not refer to the making of a pie, but rather to the act of consuming a pie, usually a simple and pleasurable experience). Hopefully, I made myself clear as a bell and you know how to play now, piece of cake, right? You can check your score at the end of this article.
It was as plain as the nose on your face that the Visiting team’s line up was full of hitters. The batting order of Rivera, Herb O, Witmer, Toro, Giordano, DeRidder, Dampier, Torres and Wells eventually decided to make it rain, by getting hits all over the field, late in the game. When the hitting team started to hit well, it rained cats and dogs; it was a real gully washer, a frog strangler. However, that is not how the Visiting team started out the game, in the first four innings the Visiting team bats were as quiet as a mouse, scoring 1-1-2-0, in the first four innings.
When the Home team came up to bat, in the bottom of the first inning, they were down 1-0. That deficit would not be difficult to overcome; it was just a drop in the bucket, a spit in the ocean. Save the drama for your momma, that one run surely would be answered by the Home team’s hitting machine. After all, the Home team’s line up had the following stars: Coffman, M. Gonzalez, Laffoon, Scarbrough, T. Smith, Hite, Constantine, Butler, Poke and Matta. (Welcome back Poke, we are all happy as a clam, to see you). One would think that with that lineup, the Home team had the skills, to pay the bills. However, when you get to be of the age to play senior softball, you know not to count your chickens before they’re hatched. The Home team put up a goose egg, in the bottom of the first.
In the second inning, the Home team came out like their hair was on fire, they scored 5 runs, off big hits from Smith, Constantine, Butler, Poke, Matta, Gonzalez and Laffoon. In the third inning the Home team started to separate the men from the boys, they scored another five runs. This time Scarbrough, Smith, Hite, Constantine, Butler, Poke and Matta said, “show me the money”, as all seven players contributed to the scoring spree. The Home team added a solo run in the 4th inning when Gonzalez hit a double, was singled to third by Scarbrough and then scored on a fielder’s choice.
After five innings the score was Visiting team: 4-Home team 11. The Home team was ready to stick a fork in them.
It ain’t over, until it’s over. Good teams come in late, in big games. The Visiting team was not ready to accept the short end of the stick. Their bats were good as gold, the last four innings of play. The Visiting team scored 4-4-5-6 runs in their final four at bats. The sleeping giant woke up. Even though the Visiting team was hotter than Florida asphalt in the summer, in the 6th, 7th and 8thinnings, the game remained close; the teams were like two peas in a pod.
Score: Visiting team 20- Home team 18.
It was the Visiting team’s big 6 run, ninth inning, that slammed the door shut on the Home team. The Visitors started off the ninth inning with a mammoth solo home run, over the center field fence, by DeRidder. Hits by Torres, Rivera, Herb O and Witmer fanned the flames for a big inning. With two outs and the bases loaded, it was Juan Toro who cleaned the clock, when he hit a grand slam to deep left field. That grand slam was the cherry on top, icing on the cake, the cat’s pajamas.
The Home team tried to cowboy up, in the bottom of the 9th inning. It was time to fish, or cut bait. They loaded the bases and scored 2 runs. However, it was too little, too late; they could not pull the game out of the fire. The Home team was a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
Final Score: Visiting team 26- Home team 20.
It all over, but the crying. You can’t win them all. That’s the way the cookie crumbles, that’s all she wrote, and as porky pig said, that’s all folks.
WP: Wells.
Visiting team’s leading hitters:
- Rivera: 5/7.
- Witmer: 6/ 7 with a double.
- Giordano: 5/7 and a walk.
Home team’s leading hitters:
- Laffoon: 4 /6.
- Scarbrough: 6/6.
- Smith: 4/6.
- Hite: 4/ 6.
- Constantine: 4/5 and a SF.
- Poke: 5/5 with a double and a triple.
- Matta: 3 / 4 with two doubles and a SF.
Number of cliché’s used in this report: 44.
If you scored 40 or more: Great job.
35-40, good job.
30-35, fair.
Below 30, go back until you find the ones you missed.
List of clichés:
Easy as pie. Clear as a bell. Piece of cake. Plain as the nose on your face. Make it rain. It rained cats and dogs. It was a real gully washer. A frog strangler. As quiet as a mouse. Just a drop in the bucket. A spit in the ocean. Save the drama for your momma. Hitting machine. Happy as a clam. Had the skills, to pay the bills.
Count your chickens before they’re hatched. Put up a goose egg. Came out like their hair was on fire. Started to separate the men from the boys. Show me the money. Stick a fork in them. It ain’t over, until it’s over. Good teams come in late, in big games. Accept the short end of the stick. Good as gold.
The sleeping giant woke up. Hotter than Florida asphalt in the summer. Like two peas in a pod. Slammed the door shut. Fanned the flames. Cleaned the clock. Cherry on top. Icing on the cake. The cat’s pajamas. Cowboy up. It was time to fish, or cut bait. Too little, too late. They could not pull the game out of the fire. A few sandwiches short of a picnic. It was all over, but the crying. You can’t win them all. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. That’s all she wrote. That’s all folks.
submitted by Nick Matta
Gessler Clinic Field
Today's game was a close nine inning affair with each team having nine players and borrowing a player on defense. The visitors were managed by S. Hill and had Barnes, Marino, Zelazny, Thompson, Ayala, Strait, Kall and Holder. The home boys were managed by Simon and had D. Hill. Schapler, Reagan, Lopez, Mohan, Bess, Leggett and Baker.
In the top of the first inning the visitors scored three runs led by a S. Hill double. The home team responded with two scores led by a Schapler HR. The second frame had the visitors score three more and the home team tied the score at six apiece by having a big inning and adding 4 runs featuring a Reagan 3B.
The visitors went scoreless in the third inning and the home team scored 5 times fueled by a Reagen grand slam. In the fourth, fifth and sixth innings the visitors closed the score by scoring one run in each frame.
The home team bats went cold and were scoreless in the fifth and sixth and only added a run in the seventh. After seven innings the score was close with the home team leading 12 to 7.
The visitors went three and out in the top of the eighth and the home team widened their lead by scoring 4 runs in the bottom of the eighth. The visitors did not score in the ninth and the final score was 16-9 favor of the home team.
The WP was Walt Leggett and Ron Thompson pitched well for the losing team.
Leading hitters for the visitors were:
- S. Hill 3-5,
- Marino 3-5,
- Zelazny 3-5,
- Thompson 3-5.
The home team leading hitters were:
- Schapler 5-5 HR,
- Reagan 4-5 and hit for the cycle,
- Leggett 3-5 ,
- L. Baker 2-5,
- Simon 2-5
- Bess 2-5
submitted by Jeff Simon
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