Another amazing night at Triple Creek on Wed. night. Ryan’s bribes to Mother Nature are finally paying off.
On field 1 we had Team Wagner vs. Team Wolf.
Wes for the winners:
Team Wolf continued its winning ways with a dominant run-rule performance over Team Wagner. After starting slow with a 1-2-3 first inning, Team Wolf’s bats heated up with 3 in the second, 3 in the third, then an explosion of 7 in the fifth, capped off by a three-run JCC Home Run by Tyler Wolf on his first ever hit down the left field line.
Mike Gray led the team on the defensive side with another stellar pitching performance. The right side of the infield was held down by the stylish tandem of Keith “Shin Guards” Kombrink at first and Dan “The Stache” LaCerva at second with some nice plays throughout the game.
After the game, the other captains were overheard at Silver Spring House hyping up Team Lefton ahead of their showdown with 4-0 Team Wolf next week. Jimmy and Ricky immediately got their gloves to practice their bunt defense and game-plan pitch selection in the parking lot.
On field two, it was the always exciting cage match between Team Kamrass and Team Solomon
Micah for the winners:
Team Kamrass stayed undefeated with a 9-4 win against bitter rival Team Solomon. The story of the night was lights out pitching from Fink and great team defense across the board. Super James Swan had the hit of the night with a three-run triple that almost made it to the fence. Jordan Skinner had a couple of nice plays at third base.
Tip of the cap to new guys, Adam Teitelbaum and Andrew Solomon, both of whom had nice hits over the heads of our outfield. Another tip of the cap to old guy Alan Lessure on a nice single to the outfield.
Bring on Team Z next week!
On field 3 Team Grefer vs. Team Z
Kyle for winners:
Team Grefer beat Team Zawatsky 9-5 in a game that was all about defense. The highlight of the game was a rare triple play by Dan Grefer at first base where he made a jumping catch on a missile from Z, stepped on first and threw to second for the third out.
Other defensive highlights were Dan with a diving stop at third; David Wertheim ran down balls in short center and turned a double play; Landon Krantz turned a double play at 2B, and in his first time playing catcher threw out a guy at second on a passed ball; and Adam Cronstein threw a runner out at third from right center.
Jon Ruben pitched another good game, and offensively the top of our order did the heavy lifting with David Wertheim, Adam Cronstein, and Landon Krantz with good games at the plate. Joey Hiudt also redeemed himself from his first at bat (got called out trying to bunt with two strikes) by blasting a triple in his next at bat.
Finally on field 4 Team Fogel vs. Team Lefton
Roger for the winners
TEAM LEFTON 4
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TEAM FOGEL 9
After two close losses, TEAM FOGEL got back to their winning ways with an impressive 9-4 victory over undefeated TEAM LEFTON.
Defense and timely hitting were the keys to the victory as it was a total team effort.
After TEAM LEFTON went down in the top of the opening frame without scoring, the victors got ahead in the bottom of the inning and stayed ahead the entire game.
In a line-up change, Philadelphia native, DAN “DANNY” GREEN moved to the leadoff spot and got aboard with the first of his two bunt hits, to spark the offense
and ignite an early lead.
There were hitting stars aplenty including JOEL “SPARKY” FOGEL, father of captain JEREMY FOGEL, who moved down in the batting order and had four RBIs.
“I told my son he should move me down in the order. I knew what I was talking about. I’ve been in this game a long time and it worked out great,” the elder FOGEL said afterwards. He added, “If he didn’t obey his old man, I was going to dock his allowance for a month.”
The younger FOGEL added, “I didn’t want to, but I listen to my father all the time and it worked out great. I also need that allowance to supplement my expensive lifesytyle.”
GREEN added, “Hey, I’m a team player and I want to do what’s best for the team. If that’s leading off to start rallies or take the luggage to the motel rooms after a long bus ride, I’ll do it. Anything for the team.”
JASON “THE COWBOY” ESTERKAMP, SCOTT “PLEASE BE MY” FRIEND, and pitcher COREY “I CAN HIT LIKE ANYONE ELSE” NORRIS also supplied the big hits.
Defensively, the two defensive wizards of the game had to be SCOTT “PLEASE BE MY” FRIEND who played like a gold glover and had perhaps one of the best games of his career and captain FOGEL who made a few diving catches of his own and let his teammates know about it.
“Hey, GRIFF HARRIS is a great friend of mine, but I’m no slouch and I’m not sure he would have made those plays.”
It should be noted that an unusual play happened in the latter stages of the game, when perennial star ANTON LOON of TEAM LEFTON had a brain cramp. He was on first base and a runner was on third base with two outs and his team down six or seven runs at the time, when he attempted to get into a rundown to produce another run.
TEAM FOGEL should have conceded the run to get the third out, however they botched it and let the run score and LOON remained on base and they proceeded to make it a 9-4 lead.
First baseman, ROGER ROSENTHAL, who dropped the throw in the rundown to tag LOON said afterwards, “I was in a state of shock that we would just concede the run in that situation to get the final out of the inning. I’ll take the blame, but it shouldn’t have come down to that.”
LOON stated after the game, while eating his postgame meal, “I don’t know what I was thinking. It was stupid play on my part, but it turned out OK.”
OTHER QUOTES……
MATT “THE BEST BASKETBALL COACH ON OUR TEAM” MILLER said to ROSENTHAL, an avid XAVIER UNIVERSITY fan, “How about what former University of Cincinnati head coach BOB HUGGINS recently said about students at XAVIER UNIVERSITY. Are you one of those he was talking about?”
In response, ROSENTHAL said, “What an asshole. That’s typical Huggins. What an idiot!.”
SCOTT “SHORTY” ADAMS on walking out to his rightfield position in a slow walk said, “Hey. I played 18 holes of golf today and I was tired.” Nice that you played a good game!
Finally, BRANDON “GAMECOCK” WRONKER said, “Do you guys always go at it like this?”….the answer…….YES!
Tidbits at the dinner table after the game…..
LOON stated he didn’t like hockey and the response from ROSENTHAL, an avid hockey fan……..”You’d rather watch baseball than hockey?”…..the two had two be separated before a brawl broke out by peacemaker DAVID “MR. OPINION” WEIL who was just drinking his beer and minding his own business.
STAY TUNED……
League Notes:
Once again please sign up for Jewish Night at the Reds game on May 23.
Plan on coming out to the Silver Spring House on June 21 for League Wing Night sponsored by our guy, Big Gig Franklin.
Congrats to Handsome Sam Castellini. He and his wife are expecting their first baby.
A week late congrats to former All-Star pitcher, Randy “Tex” Broyles, on the graduation of his daughter from college.
And because it can’t be a week without a Lefton kid graduating from college, this week it’s former All Star Ben “Weezy” Lefton’s daughter, who not only scored her 200th goal in LaCrosse, but also is graduating. Congrats to them.
If you asked me which guy in the league would least likely be going to see Taylor Swift, my answer would be Alan Lessure. But if you asked me the second least likely guy to be going, I’d say Scott Wolf. Who knew that Scott was a Swifty? If you ask him nicely I bet he will sing Lavender Haze for us next game.
Congrats goes out the Half Man Gang Ryan Marcus on the bat mitzvah of his soon to be sister-in-law (Or is it your current sister in law?). Either way I know you are involved in the Burstein family, so congrats!
Rookie, Jon Spears, and I have been in a sports and music related text chain for years. One of the things that I point out each year is how often right after the Reds score a run they give it right back. We have named this a Brafy. From this point forward pay attention to how often this happens. I was at the game on Tuesday. The Reds got a run in the bottom of the first. Then, on the 1st pitch of the second inning, Hunter Green gives up a homer. That equals a Brafy. I’m telling you it happens at least two-three times a week (This, by the way, has replaced ESPN showing highlights of every NFL Team doing something good vs. the Bengals, which used to be a staple of their shows).
You have to give the NFL credit for always being in the news. First, the biggest waste of time in all of sports, the NFL draft. Then, last night, it was the release of the schedule. WLW had Mo, Tony Pike and Lance on the air for 3 hours talking about this! I get that it’s exciting to see how many prime time games the Bengals get and where the bye week is, etc. But to say well this game or that game is a hard game in May with all the injuries that can happen is just dumb.
And finally, in this week in Roger’s world, he told me earlier in the week that he hit the mother load at the flea market with a purchase of over 2,500 football cards. So if you are in the market for Aaron Rogers or Tom Brady or Stanley Wilson, Roger is your guy.
See everyone at the field Wednesday night
Marc