Yet another picture perfect night at Triple Creek last night. A great first night of the post season. Let’s get to the action
On Field 1, we had Team Wagner vs. Team Fogel:
Brad for the winners:
Team Wagner Took down team Fogel and a great opening around tournament contest by the score of 8-7. Team Wagner led the entire way for a wire-to-wire win. Key hits came from Captain “the Human Rain Delay” Wagner, Camden “the Bearcat” Kirzner, Matt Grindle and Jerry “Doc” Kirzner. Special shout out to Josh Rosen for an amazing catch in RC in the first inning off the bat of Jeremy Fogel. Howie pitched a great game and Chris Kunkel played a wonderful second base. Team Wagner takes on Team Kamrass next week on ESPN8 with Sir Oliver Humperdink and Women on the play-by-play and Color.
On Field 2 it was the Wolf Red Machine vs. Team Stu
Scott for the winners:
In a well played game Team Wolf won again in come from behind fashion with a 7-4 win. Team Stu took an early lead but Team Wolf tied it with a couple of timely hits by Pete “the Straw that stirs the drink” Soltesz. In the top of the sixth Harry “Hood” Meisner hit a homer over the fence to put Solomon up 4-2. Team Wolf came alive alive with six hits to score 5 runs in the bottom of the 6th to hold on for the win. A special shout out to Mike Gray who pitched another great game. Team Wolf tries to remain undefeated vs. Team Brafman next week on the CW. David Crocket and Gordon Solie will be on the call
On Field 3 it was Team Brafman vs. Team Lefton
Marc For the winners
Team Brafman started early and never looked back beating Team Lefton 15-3 (or something like that) Big hits came from all over the lineup but special shout outs go to Joel “Hallelujah” Buckley, Dee and Griff Harris, “The Mayor” Todd Wasserman Eric “The Mouth of the Midwest” Gruen and Mark “Bruiser” Wolfe. On defense, Alex Kraus and Gruen made nice plays in RF, Tait “Richie” Cunningham and Jamey Drennan also played well in the field and the battery of Eppy and super sub Steve “Curley” Z also played great. “This was our most complete win of the year,” Brafman said post game. “I’m glad I finally got my second all time win in the postseason. Couldn’t have asked for a better team and a group of guys to do it with. We look forward to the challenge of playing Team Wolf next week.”
Finally on Field 4 it was Team Kamrass vs. Team Grefer
Micah for the winners
In a game that featured the smallest strike zone in JCC softball history, Team Kamrass vanquished Team Grefer 19-11. Everyone contributed with the bats, with huge hits from Goldstein, Anslinger, and Michael Margolis.
Fink overcame a challenging strike zone to pitch well and was aided by a big 4-6-3 double play to get out of a jam.
Tip of the camp to Jack Cohen with one of the best catches I’ve ever seen in the outfield, robbing Anslinger of a likely home run.
We’re ready for Team Wagner. Our plan is to score more runs than they do next week.
To recap
Team Wolf vs. Team Brafman
Team Kamrass vs. Team Wagner
We will know field later this week
League notes:
Happy birthday to Joel “The Wrath of” Kahn, Dan Gilbert, Ben Sandor and Jacob Zeidenstein. Happy birthday, guys.
Last night Former Commish Rick Tenenholtz ordered a set of wings at the Spring House not realizing that Eppy orders enough wings to feed a small army. Rookie move there, Rick.
Kudos to the Fogels who drove in from their vacation in Michigan to play last night only to turn around and drive back post game. That is 10 hours in the car. That is dedication.
Roger has been pretty quiet this past week since the Nasty Nati team came into Cintas and beat the XU alumni squad called Zip Them Up in the millon dollar tournament. Now you might be asking what does Zip Them Up mean? Well only the nice Jesuit boys from Norwood would call themselves that after the famous fight with UC years ago where they said they would “Zip them up” as in dead bodies from UC post game. Keep it classy as always Roger and XU. (Actually, in Roger’s defense he has mentioned he doesn’t like the name but he still roots for them so he is complicit).
Leave it to the Rally House to put a display of Reds City Connect jerseys for sale online. What I found funny is instead of a Joey or India, Elly, McClain or even Diaz jersey front and center they instead have an Ian Gibaut jersey in the front. Who the hell is buying that other than his family?
If you want to waste a lot of time at work I can’t stress enough that you should play the game called Immaculate grid. https://www.immaculategrid.com/
It’s a lot of fun and very hard.
On sad note, long-time fan of the league, Marc Kuhr, passed away on Wednesday. Marc never met a stranger, and was one of the kindest people you could ever meet. He will be missed.
A special shout out to Alan “The Salsa King” Lessure who is retiring from the league after 50 years! Congrats Alan, we hope you come out and cheer on the teams next year.
This week with the Reds. Ugh, where to start? 36 runs in two games, a Reds position player finishing a game two games in a row for the first time since 1937? The chance to bury the Cubbies, but instead get rocked twice. Ben Lively becoming the first Reds started to give up 13 runs in like 100 years? None of that is even close to the train wreck that once again our front office left the team and the fans. There is no excuse NONE for not getting another starting pitcher who is better than Luke Weaver. I don’t know why you draft or trade for prospects which is code for haven’t done jack and not then parlay that into big league talent to help the current team. Ask the Mets, Cards, Yanks and Pads how much they thought they were going to win this year. Just because the Reds are playing well (minus the last two nights) doesn’t mean that they will continue this in years to come. Sure we THINK that will happen but the total lack of moves is another slap in the face of David Bell, the players in the clubhouse and us. I love this team…we all LOVE this team and the fact they are a year ahead is great. Why not go for it? And the narrative that the Braves are going to run away with it? Ask the M’s who won 116 games and lost the White Sox or the Big Red Machine in 1973 who lost to the almost .500 Mets. You only have so many chances to win and go for it. The fact that they stood pat and we are counting on hope that Hunter Green and Nick Lodolo, Tejay Antone and Vlad Gutierrez come back healthy is a crock. I will now hop off my soap box.
Hope to see everyone out at the fields next week.
Marc