April 10th Results

Summary of the games of softball provided by Rusty Shackleford.  Rusty does not care if you cry about not getting your name in the recap.  He gives the facts about the proceedings if he feels they are worth giving.  If the facts are valuable he will boil up some Mountain Dew and prepare for a long night.  He is not an avid softballer, but prefers golf with some help from the fowl of the course.  He was recently heard saying, 

• "What happens if my tee shot lands on a bird's back and he carries it out of bounds but then is attacked by a larger bird who grabs the ball and drops it in the hole? Is that still a hole in one? 'Cause that's how I'm gonna play it."
• "I do not recognize the authority of a court that hangs the gold-fringed flag. A flag with gilded edges is the flag of an admirality court. An admirality court signifies a naval court-martial. I cannot be court-martialled twice. That is all."

Rusty is an American.

Not an employee of BLM.

Angel Stadium

8pm at Master Batters

W, 18-12

Slow Poke raise their winning streak against Master Batters to five games.

The game started off promising as Sage hit a wonderfully placed line drive pass the shortstop for a single.  Unfortunately he trusted Trevor a little much as he ran on the pitch while Trevor hit a hard line drive right at the first baseman who was waiting for an easy double play.  Clay kept the inning quiet enough with a fly out to central.  Master Batters (who lost to Pokes 48-11 on 10/10/13) took an early lead by scoring three runs in the first and another in the second to lead 4-0.  

Pokes second inning was as eventful as the first with another goose egg.  Luckily the team woke up from hibernation with 12 runs in the third.  Pokes scored ten runs before recording an out.  The rally saw seven singles, a laser double by Trevor Houston, a homerun from Josh Probst, and a "quadruple" by Skyler (HR in the book).  A few more singles and the score was 12-4.

Master Batters responded with five runs while Pokes half of the fourth was ugly.  Clay, Zak, and Josh P all flied out to the outfield.  Trevor buckled down and held Master Batters to no runs following the crap inning before.

The fifth saw five more singles by Slow Poke to bring the lead to 15-9.  Clay lead off the top of the sixth (one of his 18 at bats leading off the inning on the night) with his first lead off single to left field.  

A double by Zak, a double by Skyler, and a single by Shelby finished the scoring bringing the score to 18-12.

9pm vs The Franchise

L, 11-25

The Franchise walked into Angel Stadium... (enter Slow Poke incompetence joke).

Zak continued his "out of his mind" start to the season hitting his team leading 8th double of the season.  He has hit a double in each game except one.  Last season only had seven total.

Skyler also continued his hot start to the season with some mighty wallops up the middle and even one to left field.  

After Pokes managed only one run through the first two innings the team loaded the bases for Sage who hit a grand slam just making it over the left field wall.  

Unfortunately that was the highlight of the game while Franchise hitters took BP once again destroying the lowly Slow Poke team.

Only Zak managed to get three hits in the game.  Good for you Zak.

The lineup was originally put together to score more than 11 runs a game.  This is still the goal.  Give an opinion on a new lineup because it is time for a change.