11 Dec 2004

ONES :
1st : Guppy, 2nd : Diana, 3rd : Indiana, Outfield : Rube, TS, Jason, Horfun

TWOS :
1st : Princess/Geok/Rickey, 2nd : Princess/Geok, 3rd : Princess/Rickey, Outfield : Gunz, Andy, Grandpa

All-Time SS : DT

Game 1 : ONES 13 : TWOS 11

It was a return of old school ball this saturday. A nasty turn of weather left the field soaked through, gratefully, the rain let up at 2.30, but the numbers definitely looked old school with many away for the holidays. Only 13 die hards showed up on the field, but we managed to pull off a good game anyway. It started off as a balanced game with the scores tied at 2 till the bottom of the fifth, when the bats of the ONEs just opened up to score 8 runs to take a 10-2 lead. The TWOS did not take it lying down and came back to score 9 runs to steal the lead from the ONES at the top of the 5th. The longest two half innings played, the batters went round and round to score run after run. The ONEs managed to score immediately at the bottom of the 6th. And the scores stayed this way till the bottom of the 8th, when the ONEs scored 2 runs to take the lead, and finally the win. Of course the last hit of the game belonged to Rickey, who was picking on Jason in right field all day. He hit a scorcher of a opposite field line drive, but Jason plucked it out of the sky to defend the win for his team.
Best play of the game belonged to Gunz, who ran almost to the edge of the infield and made a sliding catch to grab the ball barely inches before it could touch the ground.
We played with a rubber ball, and with the ground wet and soggy, there were no spectacular defensive plays and none of the usual gymnastics that we usually see at SAS.

A special shoutout to Jason, Diana, Andy and Horfun, who though new to the SAS family, truly displayed some old school conviction by showing up for the game even though they didn't know if we would play or not after the rainstorm that preceeded the game.


MBP : None
Gold Glove : DT
Biggest Bat : Rube
Best Play : Gunz
DY play of the day : Jason for his stint at catcher for his own team, and catching all the foul tips.