With unseasonably warm and beautiful weather, Zinsser Park in Hastings was packed to the gills with softballers. We had a near-record 27 players in Game 2.
Game 1
O'Connor 21, Rosengard 18
Jim's team built a quick 16-5 lead and then had to sweat it out, as the Rosengarders stormed back with a 9-run 5th inning to close within 17-16 before Alex Rivera (3-for-3, 3 RBI) tripled to key a 4-run rally that proved to be decisive. Ken Walker also drove in three runs for the winning side. Ian Parfrey had a home run and 5 RBI for the losing team. Freddy Melendez added a home run, Joe Geller drove in 3 runs, and Sal Cipriano was 3-for-4 with 2 RBI.
Game 2
Hewes 11, Melendez 5
Havelock was sharp in his first outing since the Massacre at Riverdale, scattering 11 hits and allowing very little after a 3-run first inning. Freddy matched him until a 6th inning defensive collapse led to 7 runs scoring. The winning team was led by Rich Rowlands and Alex Rivera (2-for-3, 2 doubles each). Parfrey was 3-for-3 with an RBI and a boneheaded baserunning mistake for the losers.
Showing posts with label SFLOI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SFLOI. Show all posts
Monday, March 22, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
WHO'S WHO IN SFLOI???
***NOTE: This post will keep resurfacing to the top once a week; this way we can get everyone on it at one point or another.
Since SFLOI rosters seem to constantly rotate, I thought it would be great if we had a sort of meet and greet here on the blog. This way players old and new can get to know each other a little bit better. Here's my info as an example:
Name: Sal Cipriano
Age: 34
From: Brooklyn, NY
SFLOI Info: Joined SFLOI in the Fall of '08 through Ian Parfrey; I play RF and 2B mostly, but love 1B most.
Occupation: Comic Book Letterer for DC Comics; Writer of various facts and fiction.
Your Teams: Yankees, US Soccer National Team; have followed the Giants, Jets, and Rangers in the past; will be a fan of the Brooklyn Nets when they arrive ;)
Other Info: I love movies, cooking, fantasy baseball, reading, graphic design, and throwing good parties amongst other things. I'm a rabid foodie who likes going to new restaurants and cooking new dishes. Besides SFLOI, I play softball for the DC Bullets in the New York Media League as the starting catcher. I designed the Bullets logo as well as the SFLOI one.
My Websites: http://www.salcipriano.com/, http://www.besballtalk.com/, http://www.flixfiend.com/
That about covers it. Now just copy my info, paste it into a comment, and replace it with your own!
Since SFLOI rosters seem to constantly rotate, I thought it would be great if we had a sort of meet and greet here on the blog. This way players old and new can get to know each other a little bit better. Here's my info as an example:
Name: Sal Cipriano
Age: 34
From: Brooklyn, NY
SFLOI Info: Joined SFLOI in the Fall of '08 through Ian Parfrey; I play RF and 2B mostly, but love 1B most.
Occupation: Comic Book Letterer for DC Comics; Writer of various facts and fiction.
Your Teams: Yankees, US Soccer National Team; have followed the Giants, Jets, and Rangers in the past; will be a fan of the Brooklyn Nets when they arrive ;)
Other Info: I love movies, cooking, fantasy baseball, reading, graphic design, and throwing good parties amongst other things. I'm a rabid foodie who likes going to new restaurants and cooking new dishes. Besides SFLOI, I play softball for the DC Bullets in the New York Media League as the starting catcher. I designed the Bullets logo as well as the SFLOI one.
My Websites: http://www.salcipriano.com/, http://www.besballtalk.com/, http://www.flixfiend.com/
That about covers it. Now just copy my info, paste it into a comment, and replace it with your own!
Saturday, January 16, 2010
OPENING DAY
We decided to open the 2010 season in Riverdale, after hearing unfavorable reports of ground conditions in Hastings. The field, on Independence Avenue and 232nd Street, was a strange hybrid of turf infield and grass outfield. There was a fair amount of mud in the batter's box and in the outfield, but the weather was beautiful, and the games were exciting, though all the players are probably doing laundry tomorrow.
Game One was won by Jim O'Connor's team 15-13. They barely held on after scoring 10 times in the top of the 1st. First hit of 2010-- a Russell Rivera double to right-center off of Dave Rosengard. First home run of 2010-- an Ian Parfrey 3-run shot to left in the 2nd inning off Rosengard. First strikeout-- Dave Rosengard, 1st inning, pitching to Dan Glauber. First cycle-- Ian Parfrey. First win-- Jim O'Connor.
Game Two was won by Havelock Hewes, 8-4. Hewes's team rallied for 5 runs in the bottom of the 6th to win. Alex Rivera's 2-run triple to left-center was the decisive blow.
I want to thank everyone who played today in conditions reminiscent of Woodstock (the mud, not the rampant nudity), and keep in mind that the winter schedule is often improvised, like this game was. Our default is Zinsser Park in Hastings on Sundays.
Game One was won by Jim O'Connor's team 15-13. They barely held on after scoring 10 times in the top of the 1st. First hit of 2010-- a Russell Rivera double to right-center off of Dave Rosengard. First home run of 2010-- an Ian Parfrey 3-run shot to left in the 2nd inning off Rosengard. First strikeout-- Dave Rosengard, 1st inning, pitching to Dan Glauber. First cycle-- Ian Parfrey. First win-- Jim O'Connor.
Game Two was won by Havelock Hewes, 8-4. Hewes's team rallied for 5 runs in the bottom of the 6th to win. Alex Rivera's 2-run triple to left-center was the decisive blow.
I want to thank everyone who played today in conditions reminiscent of Woodstock (the mud, not the rampant nudity), and keep in mind that the winter schedule is often improvised, like this game was. Our default is Zinsser Park in Hastings on Sundays.
SFLOI DREAM TO RING IN THE 2010 SEASON
Just as the title states, I just woke from a SFLOI dream 5 minutes in advance of my alarm clock, which I would have slept through because the sound was off, so I would never have had Kathleen Marple of 1010Wins tell me to get up. So today, Saturday January 16th at 7:00AM, I am up in, I guess, anticipation of of the start of the 2010 SFLOI season, also known as the Polar Bear portion of the season.
This surprises me for a few reasons: A. I went to bed at 1:15AM, not the latest I've gone to bed on a SFLOI night, but still, B. I had a cup of green tea with honey before I did causing me to toss and turn for the first hour, C. I had a bad dream at 3:30AM which woke me and caused a small panic attack (which caused me to miss 2 or 3 SFLOI dates last year!), and D. I never spring out of bed for anything!
Onto the dream, which I jotted down the highlights so I can transfer them here after the morning piss; dreams usually fade rather quick for me. So, OK, first off, before you think I'm a crazy man, this is the first softball dream I can remember having. That said, it's still pretty vivid. We start with me, Ian, and Seung on a subway train on our way to the city of Riverdale. As we prepare to get off the train, Seung climbs into the bat section of my Easton equipment bag to take a nap. With Seung on my back, Yoda or C3PO style, (interesting to note that two Star Wars characters were carried on the backs of others almost at the same time in Empire, weird, huh? Analyzation for another time.) We get out in Riverdale, which looked like a weird mid-town Manhattan to me. I wanted to stop at Dunkin Donuts (hmm...), but Ian decided to keep going to the field, naturally. Inside Dunkin, I ordered a Box of Joe for all (hmm...) and a large grape juice for the sleepy Seung on my back. I think I got an egg and cheese sandwich, too. Upon leaving, we meet with Ian again, who got lost, and decides he wants yogurt to go along with the coffee I bought. We stop in some yogurt store where he orders a yogurt, but is pissed when it comes with giant hunks of indescribable fruit. Onto the field we go.
Once there, everyone is kind of blurry, and for some reason the only familiar players are Havelock, who is already formulating the sides, and Angel Torres, who I think I've seen once or twice in my life. There's a big puddle by home plate. We meet the owner of the field, a big rowdy Texan, who shows us the lower level, which is another small indoor field with absolutely no outfield. His wife appears and wants us to play down there because of an upcoming storm. Me and Ian convince them otherwise, and I head upstairs. I walk over to Torres who has our line-up card, which he proceeded to make. Here was the top five: 1. Ian 2. some name I cannot recall 3. Marvin! 4. another guy, but he was a man-mountain at the plate, and 5. me. Ian comes up from the basement level, and I hand him the line-up, to whom I offer up the disclaimer that Torres made it already, and he's fuming.
The game begins. Ian leads off and bunts off the female pitcher. Four errors ensue and Ian rounds the bases and scores basically a bunt homer! (Alex's goal for 2010, btw) The next guy gets on somehow, I miss Marvin's at-bat, but heck, Marvin batting third is awesome! The next guy is the man-mountain and he walks. So there's at least two on, and I'm up. I get to the plate and then decide to change bats to my new one. I have a tough time finding it, and then I'm disappointed that the bat is already all scratched. Ian inspects it, and likes the barrel. I step up to the plate and then realize I don't have cleats on, but rather my house slippers. I put on the cleats, although I think this is a quick blur, and step back to the plate. I'm in my stance when my dream completely shifts, and I'm now in a house with my girlfriend's uncle, who has just bought us matching smoking jackets. He's trying his on when I wake up 5 minutes in advance of my alarm.
Story of my playing career, folks, men on and I don't even take a swing! Welcome to 2010, SFLOI!
This surprises me for a few reasons: A. I went to bed at 1:15AM, not the latest I've gone to bed on a SFLOI night, but still, B. I had a cup of green tea with honey before I did causing me to toss and turn for the first hour, C. I had a bad dream at 3:30AM which woke me and caused a small panic attack (which caused me to miss 2 or 3 SFLOI dates last year!), and D. I never spring out of bed for anything!
Onto the dream, which I jotted down the highlights so I can transfer them here after the morning piss; dreams usually fade rather quick for me. So, OK, first off, before you think I'm a crazy man, this is the first softball dream I can remember having. That said, it's still pretty vivid. We start with me, Ian, and Seung on a subway train on our way to the city of Riverdale. As we prepare to get off the train, Seung climbs into the bat section of my Easton equipment bag to take a nap. With Seung on my back, Yoda or C3PO style, (interesting to note that two Star Wars characters were carried on the backs of others almost at the same time in Empire, weird, huh? Analyzation for another time.) We get out in Riverdale, which looked like a weird mid-town Manhattan to me. I wanted to stop at Dunkin Donuts (hmm...), but Ian decided to keep going to the field, naturally. Inside Dunkin, I ordered a Box of Joe for all (hmm...) and a large grape juice for the sleepy Seung on my back. I think I got an egg and cheese sandwich, too. Upon leaving, we meet with Ian again, who got lost, and decides he wants yogurt to go along with the coffee I bought. We stop in some yogurt store where he orders a yogurt, but is pissed when it comes with giant hunks of indescribable fruit. Onto the field we go.
Once there, everyone is kind of blurry, and for some reason the only familiar players are Havelock, who is already formulating the sides, and Angel Torres, who I think I've seen once or twice in my life. There's a big puddle by home plate. We meet the owner of the field, a big rowdy Texan, who shows us the lower level, which is another small indoor field with absolutely no outfield. His wife appears and wants us to play down there because of an upcoming storm. Me and Ian convince them otherwise, and I head upstairs. I walk over to Torres who has our line-up card, which he proceeded to make. Here was the top five: 1. Ian 2. some name I cannot recall 3. Marvin! 4. another guy, but he was a man-mountain at the plate, and 5. me. Ian comes up from the basement level, and I hand him the line-up, to whom I offer up the disclaimer that Torres made it already, and he's fuming.
The game begins. Ian leads off and bunts off the female pitcher. Four errors ensue and Ian rounds the bases and scores basically a bunt homer! (Alex's goal for 2010, btw) The next guy gets on somehow, I miss Marvin's at-bat, but heck, Marvin batting third is awesome! The next guy is the man-mountain and he walks. So there's at least two on, and I'm up. I get to the plate and then decide to change bats to my new one. I have a tough time finding it, and then I'm disappointed that the bat is already all scratched. Ian inspects it, and likes the barrel. I step up to the plate and then realize I don't have cleats on, but rather my house slippers. I put on the cleats, although I think this is a quick blur, and step back to the plate. I'm in my stance when my dream completely shifts, and I'm now in a house with my girlfriend's uncle, who has just bought us matching smoking jackets. He's trying his on when I wake up 5 minutes in advance of my alarm.
Story of my playing career, folks, men on and I don't even take a swing! Welcome to 2010, SFLOI!
Labels:
Alex Rivera,
Angel Torres,
Havelock Hewes,
ian parfrey,
marvin cohen,
Sal Cipriano,
SFLOI
Saturday, January 2, 2010
SFLOI CLASSICS-- 9/6/09
While waiting for the weather to warm up, here's a recap of one of last season's most thrilling games.
On September 6, 2009, SFLOI played a day-night quadrupleheader. The 4th and final game went 11 innings. Derek Martinez pitched for the visitors, and Jeff Appell for the home team. The visitors took an early 5-1 lead, but Appell's team scored four 2-out runs in the bottom of the 2nd to tie, highlighted by a Mike Palma 2-run single, and a Don Weiss RBI single on which Marvin Cohen tried to go first-to-third, made it, and then scored on an overthrow.
The pitchers then got down to business, and the game remained tied at 5 until the top of the 9th inning. Martinez's team took a 6-5 lead on a throwing error, but the game was quickly tied again. Marvin came to bat with the bases loaded and no outs, and beat an attempted 5-2-3 DP, and the runner from second alertly scored. Martinez got out of the jam by inducing a 9-2 DP, with Nel Yomtov gunning down the winning run at the plate.
Things got dicier in the 10th, with Martinez needing a rare 4-6-2 DP to escape. Ian Parfrey threw a strike to Josh Balsam to catch Don Weiss trying to score. Weiss's clean, hard slide toppled the catcher, who somehow held the ball. Both players were injured but remained in the game.
In the 11th, Martinez's team loaded the bases with nobody out, but only managed one run, with Martinez's SF to left just barely scoring Yomtov. Martinez held down the fort in the 11th, and came away with a 7-6 win.
On September 6, 2009, SFLOI played a day-night quadrupleheader. The 4th and final game went 11 innings. Derek Martinez pitched for the visitors, and Jeff Appell for the home team. The visitors took an early 5-1 lead, but Appell's team scored four 2-out runs in the bottom of the 2nd to tie, highlighted by a Mike Palma 2-run single, and a Don Weiss RBI single on which Marvin Cohen tried to go first-to-third, made it, and then scored on an overthrow.
The pitchers then got down to business, and the game remained tied at 5 until the top of the 9th inning. Martinez's team took a 6-5 lead on a throwing error, but the game was quickly tied again. Marvin came to bat with the bases loaded and no outs, and beat an attempted 5-2-3 DP, and the runner from second alertly scored. Martinez got out of the jam by inducing a 9-2 DP, with Nel Yomtov gunning down the winning run at the plate.
Things got dicier in the 10th, with Martinez needing a rare 4-6-2 DP to escape. Ian Parfrey threw a strike to Josh Balsam to catch Don Weiss trying to score. Weiss's clean, hard slide toppled the catcher, who somehow held the ball. Both players were injured but remained in the game.
In the 11th, Martinez's team loaded the bases with nobody out, but only managed one run, with Martinez's SF to left just barely scoring Yomtov. Martinez held down the fort in the 11th, and came away with a 7-6 win.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
WELCOME TO SOFTBALL FOR THE LOVE OF IT
Dear Members of SFLOI,
Welcome to your new softball home! All of the great off-field content can now be centralized here from Ian's stats to Havelock's ideas to Marvin's delightful soliloquies plus game recaps, analysis, photos, and more.
As you can see this website is being done blog-style, so it'll be very interactive. While we can only grant authorship to a few of you, as in any of the mass emails, your commentary is welcome and encouraged. Let's make this a community we are proud of, on and off the field!
So bookmark this page, and make sure to check in weekly for all the updates including changes to game-affecting weather conditions, leader boards, etc. ***Better yet, subscribe to the website by clicking the Follow tab down towards the bottom of the side-bar. This will tell you when a new post is published. Enjoy!
Best,
Sal Cipriano
SFLOI Webmaster
RF/2B/1B/C
'09 STATS:
.348/.390/.516
6 HR 36 RBI
Welcome to your new softball home! All of the great off-field content can now be centralized here from Ian's stats to Havelock's ideas to Marvin's delightful soliloquies plus game recaps, analysis, photos, and more.
As you can see this website is being done blog-style, so it'll be very interactive. While we can only grant authorship to a few of you, as in any of the mass emails, your commentary is welcome and encouraged. Let's make this a community we are proud of, on and off the field!
So bookmark this page, and make sure to check in weekly for all the updates including changes to game-affecting weather conditions, leader boards, etc. ***Better yet, subscribe to the website by clicking the Follow tab down towards the bottom of the side-bar. This will tell you when a new post is published. Enjoy!
Best,
Sal Cipriano
SFLOI Webmaster
RF/2B/1B/C
'09 STATS:
.348/.390/.516
6 HR 36 RBI
Labels:
Havelock Hewes,
ian parfrey,
marvin cohen,
SFLOI
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)