Wishing Upon A Star And
Swinging A Hot Bat!
Today’s write up is tied
together with Disney rides and movie phrases. See if you can recognize
them.
Team Toy Story,
Visitors: Pepin, Essenmacher, Stier, Toro, Vandenberg, Farinas, Zelazny, Denny,
Levesque, Kallister and Wells.
Team Nemo, Home:
Coffman, Drouilard, Doerbaum, Davis, Wiltshire, Seguin, Hill, Giordano, Dampier,
Smith, Schapler and Matta.
The Toy story squad
started out the game with a catch phrase from Sheriff Woody, “This town ain’t
big enough for the two of us”. They hit like they wanted to run the Nemo team
out of the ocean. The Visitors started out taking a 4 run lead. Pep,
Essenmacher, Stier, Vandenberg, Zelazny and Denny all reached base safely,
either by hit, or error, to account for the 4 runs scored. Team Nemo, was not going
to be lost at sea for long. The errors they committed, in the first inning, may
have made Nemo’s manager, Nick Matta, grumpy, but the team had an answer for
him. They followed the advice of Dory.
Dory: “Hey there, Mr.
Grumpy Gills. When life gets you down do you wanna know what you've gotta do?”
Marlin: “No I don't wanna know.” Dory: [singing] “Just keep swimming. Just keep
swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim,
swim.”
Team Nemo swam their way
to scoring 3 runs in the first inning. Coffman started things off with a single,
Doerbaum then went all Space Mountain on us with a homerun ball, to score two
runs. Wiltshire added another homerun to finish the scoring in the first. After one inning: Toy Story: 4-Nemo:
3.
Team Nemo added a run in
the 2nd to tie the game. In the 3rd inning, it was “Hi, Ho
Hi, Ho , It’s Off To Work We Go!” The Nemo gang got busy, they scored 5 runs.
Coffman, Drouilard, Davis, Wiltshire, Seguin and Hill worked the mine that
produced the gold. After 3 innings the
score was Toy Story: 4- Nemo: 9.
As Buzz Lightyear would
say, “Sheriff, this is no time to panic.” The Toy Story gang was not going to
fall out the window and quit; instead they had a “mad tea party” and scored 5
runs in the 5th. Those 5 runs, along with a solo run they had already
added in the 4th inning, lifted the Toy Story gang into the lead. The
big hit in the 5th inning was a Zelazny homerun. Like Buzz Lightyear,
the Toy story team had taken flight, or maybe, “they were just falling with
style.” The Nemo gang answered back quickly with 3 runs. They too, took flight,
like they were on the Peter Pan ride. Matta started out the 5th
inning with a triple, hit all the way to “Neverland”, in deep right center.
Coffman singled him in. Drouilard added a single, Doerbaum walked, while
Wiltshire and Seguin finished off the scoring that inning when they added
singles. After 5 innings of play the
score was Toy Story: 9- Nemo: 12.
It was time for the Toy
Story team to go to “infinity and beyond”. They added 4 more runs, in the
6th inning, to recapture the lead. Denny, Levesque, Kallister,
Pepin, Essenmacher, Stier and Toro wandered safely through “Tom Sawyer’s
Island” and found treasure. Team Nemo had a “Small World” experience in the
bottom of the 6th and could only answer back with one run. After 6 innings the score was Toy Story:
14- Nemo: 13.
In the 7th
inning someone “poisoned the waterhole”, for the Toy Story bunch. Team Nemo’s pitcher, Dave Doerbaum, applied
the poison. Dave started an impressive streak of strikeouts that inning, as he
struck out the last two batters he faced, to end the inning. The Toy Story team must have felt like they
had “a snake in their boot”, as they could only score one run in the
7th. In the bottom of the
7th inning Doerbaum crushed the ball. This time he hit Splash
Mountain. Here is how it went down, with two runners on base, Dave hit a shot
that landed in the lake over the right center fence. I’ll quote Crush, (the sea turtle), from
Finding Nemo, it seems appropriate here.
Crush: “Saw the whole
thing, dude. First you were all like “whoa", and we were like "whoa", and you
were like "whoa..." After 7 innings, the score was Toy Story:
15- Nemo: 18.
The Toy Story gang fell
down the “Tower of Terror”, in the eighth and ninth innings. They were shut out
in the last two innings. Doerbaum added 3 more strikeouts, giving him a total of
five strikeouts, in three innings. Meanwhile, the Nemo school of fish, hit like
they were sharks; they added 5 more runs in the 8th to help Team Nemo find their way home.
Final Score: Toy Story: 15- Nemo:
23.
The Disney All-Star
team:
Dave Doerbaum gets to
wear the mouse ears, as the top performer in today’s game. To his credit: A
strong fielding play at first. 5 K’s. WP. 3 / 4 batting with 2 HRs and a walk.
Toy Story Leading
Hitters:
Stier: 3 /
4.
Toro: 2/4 and a
walk.
Zelazny: 3 / 4 with a
HR.
Deny: 4 /
4.
Kallister: 3 / 4 with a
triple.
Nemo Leading Hitters:
Coffman: 4/ 5 with a
triple.
Drouilard: 4/5 with a
triple and a double.
Doerbaum: 3/ 4 with 2
HRs and a walk.
Wiltshire: 4 / 4 with a
HR.
Seguin: 4/ 4 with a
double.
Dampier: 3 /
4.
Note: Juan Toro made two
diving catches in left center field.
When You Wish Upon A
Star Lyrics
When you wish upon a
star
Makes no difference who you
are
Anything your heart
desires
Will come to you
If your heart is in your
dream
No request is too
extreme
When you wish upon a
star
As dreamers do
Faith is
kind
She brings to those she
loves
The sweet fulfillment
of
Their secret longing
Like a bolt out of the
blue
Fate steps in and sees you
through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come
true.
Write up by Nick Matta
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