20 Feb 2010 - Tish vs Farts

Lineup
Tish - 1st Upton, 2nd Chano, 3rd Indiana, SS Ripken, LF Shane, CF VoodooChild, CF John, RF JC
Farts - Catch Rickey, 1st Ziegler, 2nd Jor-el, 3rd Rickey/Sandman, SS DT, LF Uboat, CF H, CF Horfun, RF Geok.

Box Score
Tish: 0 10 0 2 2 1 2 3 2
Farts: 2 0 6 7 5 0 0 3 X

Final Score
Tish 22 : Farts 23

Highlights
Top 1: Jor-El to DT to Upton 4-6-3DP
Bot 3: Uboat Grandslam into deep left field
Bot 7: Chano to Ripken to Upton 4-6-3DP
Bot 8: H 3RBI opposite field linedrive HR
Bot 8: Ripken to Upton 6-3 DP

It was a very good day. Clouds were out to filter the sun, field was dry but not overly hard. Numbers did look iffy at 3pm. We did a mental count and it seemed that we only had 10 (Rugburn, Mick, Bumblebee out of town, Ripken banned from playing - ARI rules, Dumi and Sin celebrating CNY.... etc). But as usual, we showed our faith by lacing up and taking the field, and the baseball gods rewarded us with a fantastic turnout.

Thanks to Upton and his inspired recruiting (We haven't seen such wonderful recruiting since Ferrell and Coach). He managed to get almost his entire Tish faculty out for some fun in the sun. We decided to do a Tish vs SAS friendly with a couple of additions from the SAS side. We should have done Film vs Others, but if we had swapped out Voodoo+Indiana for Rickey+Jor-el, the teams might have been a little too lopsided.

As it was, the teams were fairly even, leaning slightly towards the Tish team. With Voodoo's big bat to buffer them. The put up 10 runs in the 2nd to take a monster 10-2 lead. As usual with SAS tournaments and friendlies, the home team did not give up, and came back strong, scoring 18 runs while allowing 4 in the next 3 innings.

Uboat led the charge pulling a bases-clearing grandslam into deep left field. Even Rickey got in on the action, hitting a solo HR that was not charged for fielder's indifference.

The visitors did not let up though. They hammered our centerfield mercilessly, plopping hit after hit into the space between 2nd base and CF. Too deep for the infield to get to, and too short for H (even at full speed). They advanced on every hit and scored from 2nd at every opportunity, closing up the game to a tie by the middle of the 8th. These Tish guys may not be SAS regulars (yet), but they sure showed the SAS spirit.

It was H's bat and DT's glove that finally broke them down. H (continuing her dominance from last week) lined a beautiful opposite field hit straight down the 3rd baseline, past the left-fielder to bring in 3 runs to allow the home team to take a meager 23-20 lead going into the top of the 9th. It was just enough. The visitors then ran into the wall (usually a gappy fence) that was DT's glove who got all 3 outs to secure the final victory.

We definitely need more games (and numbers like this). Here's looking forward to next week.