Battle for the Bottom

Epic doesn't describe it.  The two losingest teams of the year squared off for the Charlie Brown trophy and guess what? We ended up tied for last.  It doesn't get any more classic than that.  Neither of us can lay claim to the Charlie Brown this year. The JDs beat us back in January and we repaid the favor today leaving us both with one win each. That is, both teams posted 1 and 14 records for the season. Yeesh.

Since we had the worse record, at zero wins going into today, we were home team and as it turned out, it didn't matter.  Butler's Boys led from frame one and never looked back.  We gave up a five run inning in the 6th when we were ahead 17 to 3 but our defense came through shutting down JDs Squad in the other 7 innings.  The JDs scored 3 in the first (on a Dave Doerbaum bomb with two on) and 5 in the sixth but that was it.  Zeros the rest of the way.  Meanwhile we scored our second best total of the year putting up 22 in 8 innings.

The Charlie Brown will have to wait until next year. 


Winning Pitcher: BJ Kallister

Key Hitters

Winners!!!

• Keller 4 for 5 HR 2-2B
• Butler 4 for 4 2-2B SAC
• Busch 3 for 4 2-2B
• Zelazny 5 for 5 2B
• Lafoon 4 for 5
• Hartley 3 for 4

The Other Guys

• Wiltshire 3 for 4
• Gazarek 3 for 4
• Coffman 2 for 3 BB
• JD 3 for 4
• Hill 3 for 4
• Schapler 3 for 4

The Tale of The Tape:

For what it's worth I kept On-Base stats for my guys.  In slow pitch softball with the pitches zooming in there at about 3 mph, everyone should be up around the 800 level or so.  This probably explains our season.

	OBP
Keller	0.688
Butler	0.683
Busch	0.605
Zelazny	0.590
Andrews	0.581
Lafoon	0.533
Poke	0.462
Hartley	0.452
Walsko	0.438
Hite	0.429
Kallister	0.406
Wheeler	0.346

submitted by Ron Butler