The better late than never blog
On field one we had Team Fogel vs. Team Grefer
Keith for Team Fogel:
Softball – Blog Game 4 Fogel Win #2 2025
Correction for last week’s Fogel Blog entry. Landon Krantz is not related to Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. I was caught in a time warp. At my age these things happen.
It looked bad for Team Fogel in the top of the first inning. Team Grefer scored 7 runs with line drive after line drive and then threw in a couple towering outfield shots. Those were courtesy of Landon Hawkins, Mike Gray, Oren Shmoel, Ryan Silverman and Jeff Finklestein, and others unnamed (Grefer’s 1st baseman) and unrecalled. Team Fogel refused to fade away and plated 4 in the bottom of the inning. There was a bunt single by Krantz, and hits by Jeremy Fogel, Nick O’Brien, Josh Rosen and Norm Frankel.
The hits kept coming from Team Grefer, but the Kurtzer defense was aided by 3 double plays and rally ending groundouts to shortstop. It was O’Brien to Krantz at 3rd, repeat, repeat. The notable double-play was 3rd baseman Krantz running full-speed into left field to make an over-the-shoulder catch and throwing across the diamond to a surprised Kombrinck at first. The doubled-up runner from 1st base was probably also surprised because he was near 2nd base at the time.
Jeremy played his usual stellar defense ranging near and far to track balls in left center. Norm at 2nd turned a double play to KK at first. Yes, 140 years. Oh, and I tagged Oren up the line at 1st base. The umpire called him safe, but I got him. Oren admitted it after the game.
Grefer’s pitcher Mike Gray was firing BBs, but the Fogel hitters were finding holes with hard grounders and not-so-hard liners over the infield. Throw in a couple of errors and Team Fogel somehow managed to plate 18. The Grefer’s only managed 4 runs after the first inning. Final 18-11.
On Field 2 Team Wagner vs. Team Stu
Stu for the winners:
Team Solomon is finally off the schnide with a big win over Team Wagner.
Now to the game action…….
The offense was led by both the dynamic trio of Cam ” Ward” Kirzner, Dan “Crenshaw” McGrath and Matt “LeBlanc” Brodof. People forget Dan’s mom was an olympian (Barbara Weinstein – Wikipedia). The Run-CDM set the table going a combined 12-15.
Steven “Glansberg” Shapiro, Ben “Tarleton State” Charlton, and Alex “Trebek” Kraus continued the hit parade, keeping innings going and coming up with huge hits.
Lastly, Eli “Jay” Gould (Jay Gould – Wikipedia) has been great all year batting about .800 and playing great in the field.
On Defense, if it weren’t for “Disco Stu” Solomon losing his mind for an inning and a half as a pitcher, the score would have been much bigger. The defense picked him up though, making plays all over the place. Will “Derrick” Coleman made two great scoops at first to throw Roger “Rabbit” Rosenthal out from RCF.
Next Week for Team Solomon is the Battle of the Stu’s as Team Solomon travels to Team Simons.
Spiritual Leader Jeremy Dock had this to say after the game. “After three close losses, we were able to put together a complete game. Everyone hit and we played smart.”
Senior Member of Team Solomon and Former Wise Temple President, David Snyder “Pretzels” Esq. spoke to the media after the game and said, “I just keep the book.”
Field 3 saw Team Simons vs. Team Groh
Kenny for the winners:
A Pete Soltesz triple helped put Groh up 2-0 but Simons plated 5 in the bottom half to go up 5-2. In the Top of 2nd we hit around. Ruben, Wasserman, Cohen, Castellini, Stansbury and Soltesz helped us go up 8-5. Tyler, Pete, Von Holle, Groh and Ruben all singled in the 4th to build a 12-6 lead. And Ruben, Wasserman and Kraus had hits to plate 7 in the 6th to finish the game. The final score was 19-9.
And in a first for JCC softball an AI generated blog post from field 4.
Both teams put up a bunch of runs, but Goldhoff’s Goons fell to Team Wolf 15-9 at Field 4 on Wednesday. Team Wolf collected 28 hits, while Goldhoff’s Goons had 23.
AJ Goldhoff collected four hits in five at bats in the loss. Goldhoff doubled in the second inning, doubled in the first inning, singled in the sixth inning, and singled in the seventh inning.
Team Wolf jumped out to the lead in the top of the first inning after Jimmy Lefton singled, scoring one run, and James Swan doubled, scoring two runs.
Goldhoff’s Goons tied the game in the bottom of the first thanks to a single by Griffin Harris, a double by Jamey Drennan, and a single by Eric Cronstein.
Team Wolf flipped the game on its head in the top of the second, scoring six runs on nine hits to take the lead, 9-2. The biggest blow in the inning was a single by Adam Heldman that drove in two.
Lefton earned the win for Team Wolf. The starting pitcher allowed 23 hits and 11 runs over seven innings, striking out one and walking none. Drennan took the loss for Goldhoff’s Goons. The hurler went seven innings, surrendering 14 runs on 28 hits, striking out none and walking none.
Goldhoff’s Goons piled up 23 hits in the game. Adam Cronstein led Goldhoff’s Goons with three runs batted in. The right fielder went 3-for-5 on the day. Ryan Small, Michael Heldman, Ian Segall, Sam Klinkowitz, Harris, Drennan, and Cronstein each collected multiple hits for Goldhoff’s Goons. Goldhoff’s Goons were sure-handed and didn’t commit a single error. Harris made the most plays with seven.
Team Wolf collected 28 hits in the game. Heldman and Lefton each collected four hits for Team Wolf. Zach Mayer led Team Wolf with three runs batted in. Mayer went 3-for-5 on the day. Tyler Wolf, Swann, Pat Feldman, Jeff Wolf, Scott Adams, Andy Beck, and Mark Franklin each collected multiple hits for Team Wolf. Heldman stole two bases. Team Wolf stole four bases in the game.
Goldhoff’s Goons play at home on Wednesday against Team Barfing Brafman in their next game.
League Notes
Congrats to Cam Kirzner who graduated from UC last week
Congrats to all parents who had kids graduate either college or high school last week
Another congrats to Scott Wolf whose daughter got married a few weeks ago
And Scott Friend’s sister, I believe, is now the principal of one of the Sycamore Elementary schools.
I have little to say about the Reds other than it’s a long season already and we aren’t even to May 15. I can’t believe Tito came back for this.
I have heard that Roger has a new Pope bobblehead in White Sox gear eating a hotdog from the Wiener Circle. It’s a hot seller.
See everyone next week