July 4 and Notes from Recent Games

Just a notice to anyone who gets there news from the website: We will play a doubleheader (or more) at 11:00am on Friday, July 4, at the Heckscher fields.

And I thought I'd pay tribute to the incredibly strange basepath adventures of Charlie Block last week. Charlie came to bat in the 7th inning with no one out and a runner on first. He grounded out to shortstop, retiring the lead runner, but the relay throw to first went wide, and Charlie reached safely. The next batter was Sam Melendez, who hit a grounder to third. The defense attempted a 5-3-4 double play, and got nobody. Sam easily beat the throw to first, and the throw to second sailed into center field. I moved Charlie to third with a single to right. Phil Ciccone was next, and he grounded out 4-3. There was probably a play on Charlie at home, but the defense elected to throw to third. Like every other throw in the inning, this one went wild, into foul territory down the left field line, clearing the bases and turning a close 9-7 game into a 12-7 game. Well done, Charlie!

Fathers Day and Stats Update

We played three yesterday in fine weather. Freddie Melendez beat Jeff Appell 5-2 in the opener, scattering 7 hits and smacking a bases-clearing double in the first inning. In the second game, Havelock Hewes improved his record to 10-3 by beating Phil Ciccone 5-2. Ciccone was undone by a defense not containing himself that committed 7 errors. Marvin Cohen tied a softball record by getting three unassisted putouts in an inning, on a pair of line drives, one of which Cohen took in for an unassisted DP. For some reason we decided to play a 9-inning third game, which Sam Melendez won 14-11 over a committee of Tony Connor, Freddie Melendez, and Havelock Hewes. Sam Magnus drove in 5 runs for the winning team, and Ian Parfrey relieved Sam Melendez in the 9th and snuffed a potential comeback by retiring Fred Lang and the suddenly red-hot Marvin Cohen (5 hits in the last 2 weekends) on groundouts.

Also, the stat sidebar has finally been updated.