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Sox Know "Mo"!
Congratulations
to Mo "Motown" Portillo and Player's
Sports Bar on a 21-9 victory over the Black Sox.
This evens our record at 4-4 with another tough
game next week vs. Luna Construction 9 am at Otay
Ranch HS. Including Luna, 7 of our first 9 games
will have been against teams with winning records.
After Luna, the schedule gets a little easier
for a while... things probably aren't as bad as
they seem. If we can get a win vs. Luna, we could
be in good shape to get 4 or 5 games above .500
before the schedule gets tough again.
Highlights:
- Nestor and Jim W.
both reached base 3/4.
- Jim McGaha hit 2/3 and reached
base 3/4.
- Rey reached base 2/3.
- Mike Gross played strong
defense in Left showing good range on a couple
of tough plays.
Lowlights:
Pitching, defense,
umpiring, managing, and hitting. Did I leave anything
out? For the afternoon, we had only 7 hits and
missed several chances for big innings. Contributing
to this were 9 strikeouts, many of them with runners
in scoring position. We had (at least) 5 errors
and a number of mental errors. We had 4 errors
in the second and third innings alone, which led
to 11 unearned runs and basically cost us the
ballgame. We also suffered from some bad umpire
decisions on key plays in those innings. Had we
played better through those innings, we would
have been right in this one at the end.
Give props to the
opponent, they are a strong contender in this
league and took advantage of our mistakes like
good teams will.
Looking
Forward:
I spoke with Rickey
last week. Rickey's knee feels good and he confirmed
that he will be rejoining the team as soon as
he is cleared by the doctors. Hopefully, this
will be about the time Jim W. leaves us. Rudy
is not going to be able to play this season as
his recovery has pushed out until at least the
end of July. Lance is more or less done for the
season. This leaves us with an open position which
I'd like to fill with another pitcher. I am pursuing
a lead provided by Nestor on a guy who played
college ball and 18 AA ball with the Barracudas.
If that pans out, we're set. If not, we'll be
looking to sign another player soon. A couple
of you had mentioned you knew guys who might be
interested in playing with us (I believe Mo and
Steve), if this pitcher doesn't pan out, please
remind me and we can evaluate our options. We'll
want to move fairly quickly as I believe any new
player will need to play in 7 games to be eligible
for the playoffs.
Next week Rey and
Mo will be out. This puts us down to 9 players
for the game, plus Lance as an emergency sub.
If anyone else won't be at the game, please let
me know ASAP.
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