Where There’s Smoke, There’s
Fire.
Ron Butler’s team started the game
today “like a house on fire.” They torched the home team for 5 runs in the first
inning to take an early lead. It seemed like every time the Firefighting team
tried to combat the blaze, the fire just burned hotter. It was like we threw
kerosene on the fire, instead of water. When the Fire team hit the ball it would
spin past the infielder, for a base hit, or a line drive would fall just in
front of an outfielder. We were caught in a black fire; (This describes a
situation where heavy, dense, black smoke is being emitted by a fire.
This smoke will be of high
velocity, turbulent and high volume.) It was difficult to find our way out of
this inferno.
Team Fire, Visiting team: Andrews,
Laffoon, Keller, Busch, Zelazny, Butler, Poke, Hartley, Hite, Kallester, Wheeler
and Walsko.
Team Firefighters, Home team: Benson,
Drouilard, Brock, Held, Erb, Reagen, Matta, Seguin, Dampier, Oesterreich,
Coffman and Ing.
The Fire team continued to burn hot
in innings 3 and 4. They had a four alarm fire in the 3rd inning,
scoring 4 runs. They had a 5 alarm fire in the 4th inning, scoring 5
runs. Andrews, Keller, Busch, Zelazny, Kallister, Wheeler and Walsko all had big
hits and scored runs in those innings. Andrews and Keller had multiple hits and
scored twice, in those two innings. You might describe their hitting by saying,
“great balls of fire”. In the middle of
the 4th inning the score was Fire: 14- Firefights: 7. It looked
like the Firefighters would get burnt in this game.
Before the fire got totally out of
control and we lost the game, we the Firefighting team, “got fired up”
ourselves, on offense and defense. We went to our emergency operations mode and
answered back with 5-4-4 runs of our own, in the bottom of the 4th,
5th and 6th innings. Oesterreich, Coffman, Ing, Benson,
Brock, Reagen and Seguin all had their “irons in the fire”, getting big hits. At the end of seven innings of play the
score was Team Fire: 15- Firefighters: 20. The Fire team’s once promising
seven run lead had gone “up in smoke”.
Pitcher Rick Brock did a good job of
stamping out the fire that once burned wildly. Rick only gave up 4 runs in the 5
innings that he pitched. He was aided by several good defensive plays. Herb
Oesterreich caught two balls in right field that should have fallen in for hits.
Scot Seguin made two good catches at 2nd base and threw a runner out
at the plate. Other strong defensive plays in the game were turned in by Bobby
Reagen, who ran down a line drive, in deep left field. Don Erb pulled one out of
the fire, when he caught a hot grounder at short and turned it into an out. For
the Fire team, Bobby Hite “set the world on fire” making several great catches,
while fighting the sun in right field.
The Firefighters continued to “fight
fire, with fire” in the bottom of the 8th inning, to put the game
away. Drouilard, Held, Erb, Matta, Seguin and Dampier all contributed to a 5 run
inning. The Fire team was now only smoldering, they scored only one run in the
top of the ninth. The game ended on a strong defensive play, when Seguin caught
a smoking line drive and threw to first baseman, Matta, to complete a game
ending double play.
Final Score: Fire: 18 – Firefighters:
27.
Practice fire safety, watch what you
heat.
Fire Hall Of
Fame:
Andrews: 4/5 with a double and a
triple.
Laffoon: 3/5 with a
double.
Keller: 4/4 with a double, HR and a
SF.
Busch: 4/5 with a
triple.
Poke: 3 / 4 with a
double.
Hite: 3/ 4 with a
double.
Firefighter’s Hall Of
Fame:
Benson: 3/5.
Brock: 4/5 with two
doubles.
Held: 3/4 with a SF.
Seguin: 3/5.
Coffman: 4/4 with a
double.
Ing: 3/3 and a walk.
Write up by Nick Matta
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