ONES :
Pitch : Indiana/Kitty, Catch : Monk, 1st : Guppy/HY, 2nd : Princess & Pianzhi, 3rd : Sandman, SS : Money, RF : TK, CF : Cool Papa, LF : Fye, Rover : HY/TK & Diane
TWOS :
Pitch : TS/Rickey, Catch : Jason, 1st : Rickey/Rube, 2nd : Geok, 3rd : Generalissimo, SS : DT, RF : Andy, LF : Rube/TS, CF : TS, Rover : Diana & Horfun
Game 1 : ONES 7, TWOS 8
Game 2 : ONES 14, TWOS 4 (5 innings)
MBP : TS
Game 1 was an excellent game, with both sides shutting down the other defensively. Many innings went 1-2-3 out, with nary a runner on base. There was one exceptional inning for the TWOS when the infield showed some magic. First out by the SS, second out, unassisted by 1st, third out the 3rd base. The unassisted out by Rickey at first was one of the great plays of the day. HY was up at bat, she drilled a screamer of a grounder in the gap between Rickey and Geok, out of nowhere, Rickey, showing great range, plucks the ball on the first bounce and runs to tag the base in one smooth motion, taking out HY, an unbelievable play...for Rickey, (but then again, he's been making unbelievable plays at 3rd as well, my SS position feels threatened, a couple more weeks and he could jolly well usurp my position as starting SS) HY got her back TWICE, running down a right-center liner and an opposite field blooper over her head. Both hits should have been singles, but HY (and you could see it in her face) really, really wanted to get Rickey out. Although she wasn't the MBP, Diana was clearly the most valued hitter for the TWOS. She stomped on the hearts and pride of the ONES at the top of the 9th, with a hard-hit flyball over EVERYONE's heads (the outfield moved in for a girl, no respect) which brought in 2 insurance runs. She literally saved the game for the TWOS as the score was 6-5, and the ONES came back to score 2 runs in the bottom of the ninth as well.
For the second game, the ONES wanted revenge. They hit the ball hard, totally dominated the second game. Taking an early lead from the get go, they held onto their lead and ran into double digits by the ninth inning. The TWOS were managed to salvage their pride in the bottom of the ninth by escaping just barely escaping mercy. Diana was at the forefront of the rally with another sharply hit liner down the 3rd base line to bring in a run. She definitely led the games in RBIs.
On another note, Pianzhi finally showed up again, and she had a 1.0 OBP (that includes pinch running for an injured Diane). She even got a three bagger on a single. That woman has speed. She scares the daylights out of the infield, because when they play her short, she'd smack the ball over their heads, but if they play her normal, she will get on base if the ball is hit on the ground. She's the Ichiro of Saturdaysoftball. Great speed combined with single hitting ability.
The Names have been changed to Protect the Errorists
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
16 Oct 2004
ONES :
Pitch : Geok, Catch : Andre, 1st : Beyonce, 2nd : Guppy/Money, 3rd : Generalissimo, SS : Money/Sandman, LF : Rube, CF : TH, RF : Nigeypooh, Rover: Diane, Andy
TWOS :
Pitch : TS/Monk/Kitty/Cool Papa, Catch : Jason/Horfun, 1st : Rickey/Indiana, 2nd : Princess/Horfun, 3rd : Indiana/Rickey, SS : DT, LF : Cool Papa/Kitty, CF: Cheetah, Rover : Diane/TK, RF : TS/Monk
Game 1 : ONES 11 : TWOS 5
Game 2 : ONES 9 : TWOS 4
Frankly, I don't remember much of the games. I went for a barbeque after the game and I got very drunk, so everything's a hazy blur. I wish I had written this on sunday though, then I could have said "The TWOS were swept by the ONES like the RedSox by the Yankees". As you now know, it's no longer true, as the RedSox have won game 4 and 5....Now those were great games. We've been having a great weekend, and those of you blessed with non-work and ESPN on cable should have stayed at home to watch the games. What a great series. 3 long long long games back to back to back. Ok, back to the real task at hand. Nothing really fancy about saturday's game, no spectacular plays, no batting gems, no clownish errors. It was just a good high-standard saturday softball game (we've been having quite a number of these of late, except for that one fatal week against Lloyd's All-Stars), with everyone putting in their best, playing hard and having a great all round time. For the second week in a row, there is no MBP. Though Money the player formerly known as Fubar/Nomar/Pokey had a good game at second base. He got 1 double play off Lloyd's liner to first to get Kitty out a 4-3 double, and he was trying desperately all day to get a 6-4-3 from Ted. He had 2 good feeds from Sandman with a good turn to first, but the runner was safe both times (we were going to call it safe either way just to not let him have the double).
Meanwhile, why isn't anyone taking part in the caption contest?
Pitch : Geok, Catch : Andre, 1st : Beyonce, 2nd : Guppy/Money, 3rd : Generalissimo, SS : Money/Sandman, LF : Rube, CF : TH, RF : Nigeypooh, Rover: Diane, Andy
TWOS :
Pitch : TS/Monk/Kitty/Cool Papa, Catch : Jason/Horfun, 1st : Rickey/Indiana, 2nd : Princess/Horfun, 3rd : Indiana/Rickey, SS : DT, LF : Cool Papa/Kitty, CF: Cheetah, Rover : Diane/TK, RF : TS/Monk
Game 1 : ONES 11 : TWOS 5
Game 2 : ONES 9 : TWOS 4
Frankly, I don't remember much of the games. I went for a barbeque after the game and I got very drunk, so everything's a hazy blur. I wish I had written this on sunday though, then I could have said "The TWOS were swept by the ONES like the RedSox by the Yankees". As you now know, it's no longer true, as the RedSox have won game 4 and 5....Now those were great games. We've been having a great weekend, and those of you blessed with non-work and ESPN on cable should have stayed at home to watch the games. What a great series. 3 long long long games back to back to back. Ok, back to the real task at hand. Nothing really fancy about saturday's game, no spectacular plays, no batting gems, no clownish errors. It was just a good high-standard saturday softball game (we've been having quite a number of these of late, except for that one fatal week against Lloyd's All-Stars), with everyone putting in their best, playing hard and having a great all round time. For the second week in a row, there is no MBP. Though Money the player formerly known as Fubar/Nomar/Pokey had a good game at second base. He got 1 double play off Lloyd's liner to first to get Kitty out a 4-3 double, and he was trying desperately all day to get a 6-4-3 from Ted. He had 2 good feeds from Sandman with a good turn to first, but the runner was safe both times (we were going to call it safe either way just to not let him have the double).
Meanwhile, why isn't anyone taking part in the caption contest?
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Caption contest part 2
Same thing, click on the comments link below and enter your prize winning caption.
Thursday, October 14, 2004
baseball related games
The Yeti sports page with the ever-popular pingu throw game.
Candystand's baseball games.
Test your reaction time. Can you react in time to hit a fastball?
Baseball shoot.
Baseball at clevermedia.com.
A typing game that's tangentially related to baseball. To start the game, just click on the first row of words at the upper right-hand corner.
Candystand's baseball games.
Test your reaction time. Can you react in time to hit a fastball?
Baseball shoot.
Baseball at clevermedia.com.
A typing game that's tangentially related to baseball. To start the game, just click on the first row of words at the upper right-hand corner.
saturdaysoftball.blogspot.com caption contest
Click on the comments link below and post your wittest caption for this picture. Funniest gets a prize.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Tigers
Some faces to names
Standing : Dan Collison, The Generalissimo, Indiana, Ipoh Assassin, Teck Piaw, Kim Seah, The Sandman, Gil, The Cheetah
Front Row : DY, Ed, Guppy, Coach, Marvelous, Legend
Sunday, October 10, 2004
09 Oct 2004
ONES :
Catch: Dahlia, Pitch: scooterboy/Andy, 1st: HY, 2nd: Princess, 3rd: Rickey, SS: Fubar, RF: Andy/scooterboy, LF: TH, CF: Sandman & Gino, Rover: Diana
TWOS :
Catch: Joanne, Pitch: Geok, 1st: Indiana, 2nd: Horfun/coach@second game, 3rd: Generalissimo, SS: DT, RF: TS, LF: Swat, CF: Rube & TK, Rover: Jason
Game 1 : ONES 12 : TWOS 9
Game 2 : ONES 10 : TWOS 14 (7 innings)
Two very good games. Good defense and hitting from both teams. 4 new people showed up for the game. First timers, but they performed admirably, showing good batting skills and good hustle on the field. Jason put up a good effort in Rover, and he even made 2 plays to 1st for the out. Diane, Dahlia and Joanne showed great hand eye coordination and took good at bats with power and direction. They didn't get on base, but showed lots of promise. This is the first time we had new people that didn't suck and bring down the standard of the game. In fact, they raised the bar by showing good skills for a first try. Great effort. Hope they come back again.
The game overall was both a masterpiece of hitting and a defensive gem. Two extremely close games that could have gone either way, all the way down to the bottom of the ninth. Th was back to form after the sad display last week, and the princess was back dominating second base. She put out the coach by grabbing his hard-hit opposite field liner. The Ipoh assassin definitely performs better when the princess is around, he was too distracted last week with her absence. And the princess was back with solid hits and error-free fielding, I guess the 3 week break did her good after all. Horfun took a good step up to take second base, making good stops and even a great play to first to take out the batter. She's definitely getting there, it's good that she's a stayer and we see great potential for her.
ONEs were the victor in the first game but it could have gone to the TWOs. The TWOs had several chances during the game to take the win, but solid defense prevented extra runs. The game was turned around in the second game when the TWOs took a solid lead in the first inning, and held on to it in a mirror image of the ONEs in the first game. Coach finally showed up, and horfun graciously gave up her place for him to play. DT offered him the SS position instead of 2nd, but he declined. This comment was heard coming from the dugout, "OMG. Look at the infield, it's Indiana at 1st, Coach at 2nd, Generalissimo at 3rd and DT at SS. What an infield". And to prove the opposition correct, the TWOs with the infield-of-death, setup a textbook 4-6-3 doubleplay in the bottom of the 9th to get the win. The ONEs had a spectacular play during the second game as well with a 8-6-5-1 relay to take out Rube at home. Rube hit a solid opposite field hit and he was heading for 3rd when the throw came in to fubar. The basecoach signaled rube to hold at 3rd, but fubar turned and threw the ball at rickey, and the basecoach signed rube home. Rickey astounded everyone with a quick turn and throw to Andy at home and a surprised rube was tagged out at home.
There was no MBP for this double header as everyone played good ball. The weather was fantastic and except for some rude, disrespectful cricketers who almost threatened to ruin our day, the 2 games were extremely memorable.
Catch: Dahlia, Pitch: scooterboy/Andy, 1st: HY, 2nd: Princess, 3rd: Rickey, SS: Fubar, RF: Andy/scooterboy, LF: TH, CF: Sandman & Gino, Rover: Diana
TWOS :
Catch: Joanne, Pitch: Geok, 1st: Indiana, 2nd: Horfun/coach@second game, 3rd: Generalissimo, SS: DT, RF: TS, LF: Swat, CF: Rube & TK, Rover: Jason
Game 1 : ONES 12 : TWOS 9
Game 2 : ONES 10 : TWOS 14 (7 innings)
Two very good games. Good defense and hitting from both teams. 4 new people showed up for the game. First timers, but they performed admirably, showing good batting skills and good hustle on the field. Jason put up a good effort in Rover, and he even made 2 plays to 1st for the out. Diane, Dahlia and Joanne showed great hand eye coordination and took good at bats with power and direction. They didn't get on base, but showed lots of promise. This is the first time we had new people that didn't suck and bring down the standard of the game. In fact, they raised the bar by showing good skills for a first try. Great effort. Hope they come back again.
The game overall was both a masterpiece of hitting and a defensive gem. Two extremely close games that could have gone either way, all the way down to the bottom of the ninth. Th was back to form after the sad display last week, and the princess was back dominating second base. She put out the coach by grabbing his hard-hit opposite field liner. The Ipoh assassin definitely performs better when the princess is around, he was too distracted last week with her absence. And the princess was back with solid hits and error-free fielding, I guess the 3 week break did her good after all. Horfun took a good step up to take second base, making good stops and even a great play to first to take out the batter. She's definitely getting there, it's good that she's a stayer and we see great potential for her.
ONEs were the victor in the first game but it could have gone to the TWOs. The TWOs had several chances during the game to take the win, but solid defense prevented extra runs. The game was turned around in the second game when the TWOs took a solid lead in the first inning, and held on to it in a mirror image of the ONEs in the first game. Coach finally showed up, and horfun graciously gave up her place for him to play. DT offered him the SS position instead of 2nd, but he declined. This comment was heard coming from the dugout, "OMG. Look at the infield, it's Indiana at 1st, Coach at 2nd, Generalissimo at 3rd and DT at SS. What an infield". And to prove the opposition correct, the TWOs with the infield-of-death, setup a textbook 4-6-3 doubleplay in the bottom of the 9th to get the win. The ONEs had a spectacular play during the second game as well with a 8-6-5-1 relay to take out Rube at home. Rube hit a solid opposite field hit and he was heading for 3rd when the throw came in to fubar. The basecoach signaled rube to hold at 3rd, but fubar turned and threw the ball at rickey, and the basecoach signed rube home. Rickey astounded everyone with a quick turn and throw to Andy at home and a surprised rube was tagged out at home.
There was no MBP for this double header as everyone played good ball. The weather was fantastic and except for some rude, disrespectful cricketers who almost threatened to ruin our day, the 2 games were extremely memorable.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
02 Oct 2004
ONES :
Catch : Horfun, 1st : John/Rube, 2nd : HY/Monk, 3rd : Generalissimo, SS : Rube/John, Outfield : TH, TK, Monk, Alex, HY
TWOS :
1st : TS, 2rd : Geok, 3rd : Rickey, SS : DT, Outfield : Swat, Scooterboy, Andy, Nigeypooh
Pitchers from batting teams.
Game 1 : ONES 23, TWOS 24 (extra innings)
MBP : Nigeypooh (who actually plays very well without a handphone stuck to his ear)
I guess we must have been feeling the fallout from the previous weeks humiliating defeat because everyone was hitting like there was no tomorrow. Lots of singles to advance runners. None of the flashy long ball whacks, but simple ball on the ground up the middle hits to get on base. No one team had an obvious superiority over the other, and the score flipped-flopped from one side to another. The TWOS had a chance to wrap up the game in the 9th, but due to an error at short, ONEs managed to come back. Score was tied at the bottom of the 9th and we went into extra innings. TWOs surged ahead at the top of the inning to take a 2 run lead, and when the ONEs came up to bat, it was some good defence by TWOs to withhold the ONEs assault. The final play of the game was the most memorable. Monk was the tying run on third base, with Alex up at bat. DT played bunt depth expecting Alex to pull a suicide squeeze to bring in the run. Lo and behold, Alex bunted. DT surged forward to cut off The General(pitching) from making the play to first and pumped faked a throw. Monk was fooled and turned back towards the 3rd. DT then fired a shot to Swat who was covering the bag, and he tagged Monk out for the win. Monk made a great effort to slide back into the base, but somehow ended up sliding ballfirst right into Swat's ankle. Swat walked away with a bruised ankle from the collusion with Monk's scrotum. There was a stifled "oooo" from all the men on the field.
Catch : Horfun, 1st : John/Rube, 2nd : HY/Monk, 3rd : Generalissimo, SS : Rube/John, Outfield : TH, TK, Monk, Alex, HY
TWOS :
1st : TS, 2rd : Geok, 3rd : Rickey, SS : DT, Outfield : Swat, Scooterboy, Andy, Nigeypooh
Pitchers from batting teams.
Game 1 : ONES 23, TWOS 24 (extra innings)
MBP : Nigeypooh (who actually plays very well without a handphone stuck to his ear)
I guess we must have been feeling the fallout from the previous weeks humiliating defeat because everyone was hitting like there was no tomorrow. Lots of singles to advance runners. None of the flashy long ball whacks, but simple ball on the ground up the middle hits to get on base. No one team had an obvious superiority over the other, and the score flipped-flopped from one side to another. The TWOS had a chance to wrap up the game in the 9th, but due to an error at short, ONEs managed to come back. Score was tied at the bottom of the 9th and we went into extra innings. TWOs surged ahead at the top of the inning to take a 2 run lead, and when the ONEs came up to bat, it was some good defence by TWOs to withhold the ONEs assault. The final play of the game was the most memorable. Monk was the tying run on third base, with Alex up at bat. DT played bunt depth expecting Alex to pull a suicide squeeze to bring in the run. Lo and behold, Alex bunted. DT surged forward to cut off The General(pitching) from making the play to first and pumped faked a throw. Monk was fooled and turned back towards the 3rd. DT then fired a shot to Swat who was covering the bag, and he tagged Monk out for the win. Monk made a great effort to slide back into the base, but somehow ended up sliding ballfirst right into Swat's ankle. Swat walked away with a bruised ankle from the collusion with Monk's scrotum. There was a stifled "oooo" from all the men on the field.
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