Tuesday
January 16, 2018 Field A
Beautiful
day for a ballgame on Field A. Teams
managed by Elmer Black and Larry Strait were matched up and Black’s players
batted with Herb O. leading off followed by Accetta, Shaffer, McLellan,
Schapeler, Kallister, Turpin, Hawbaker, Bess, Shearer, Navarro, and
McPartlin. Marino, Newton, Burtner,
Hite, Boito, LeTourneau, Kriger, Altemose, Strait, Fryzowicz, Peske, J.
Andrews, Thompson and LaMay took the field for the home guys.
Herb O.
singled as did Accetta and Shaffer than McLellan drove one over the fence for a
double. Two infield outs produce a third
run. Bottom of the inning started with a
ground out, then a single off the bat of Newton and doubles from Burtner and
Hite. LeTourneau singles in the second
and final run of the first for the home team. After one the score was 3 to 2
favor the visitors.
After
holding the visitors scoreless in the second the home team took the lead with two
runs on base hits from Altemose, Fryzowicz, Peske and Thompson. With the temperature
rising so were bat getting hot. Herb
started in inning with the second of 6 straight his in this game. Accetta and Shaffer followed with base raps
and McLellan blasted another double then Schapeler drove in two runs. Strait’s
Braves lead off batter Marino let off with a liner down the left field line for
a double and kept running on a throwing error with blazing speed and cross the
plate with the first run of the inning.
Burtner tripled and Hite singled him home with a base hit, LeTourneau and
Kriger singled in the 3rd run of the inning. Game tied at 7. Both teams added 4 runs in the 4th. Visitors were held scoreless again in the 5th
while Home team added 3 to take the lead 14 to 11. The 6th saw the visitors adding 4
more runs to take the lead but the Strait guys posted 5 to regain the lead by a
run. With the score now 19 to 15 for the
home team and both teams not scoring in the 7th or the 8th
inning we come to the ninth. In the top
of the 9th and the heart of the lineup coming to bat the visitors 6
hits out of 7 hitters and produced 5 runs before the final out. Home team had two hits and some hard hit balls,
but to no avail. Final Score 20 to 19
for the visitors.
Hitters for
Black’s team: Herb O. 6 for 6, Shaffer and McLellan 5 for 5, Schapeler 4 for 5.
Hitters for
Strait’s team: Newton, Burtner and LeTourneau all 4 for 5, and Hite 3 for 5 with
2 doubles.
Write up by Don Lamay
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