Monday Baseball - Slow start, decent finish

The No-Lo's were looking for two victories today, because based on my predictions we were playing two of the lower teams in camp -- a 2-0 start would work well within those predictions - the first game I was on the mound and overall at camp I have had good success throwing on the mound so an expected "w" was on the mind.

No-Lo's were faced up against The Humble "13" and facing a stout pitcher named Dick Peters -- yep, that's his name (and he is a really good guy -- but if you are named Dick Peters how can you not be??) -- well the Bottom of the first came and Humble notched a couple runs off of me - a combination of good hitting, a couple errors, wild pitches -- added up to a quick 2-0 lead for them -- they added another run into the bottom of the 2nd and 3rd for a 4-0 lead.  Humble had some timely hits and No-Lo's defense was not nearly as sharp as it has been in the past.  Meanwhile the No-Lo offense was getting runners on base -- but failing to get them in -- we left two runners on in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th inning, including leaving the bases loaded in another inning -- all in all we left 13 runners stranded -- no clutch hitting and the only run was scored on a bases loaded walk in the 6th inning -- Humble played a very good clean game, I cannot remember them having an error and the only problem they really had was Peters was a tad wild -- but he did enough to get out of every jam and of course notched a victory.  Hitting wise I walked and was hit by a pitch and then grounded out to 2nd base in my final AB.  Sorenson was 0 for 3 -- timing was a problem for him but he will get his swing.    No-Lo's threw away (literally) a good chance to take a victory -- but hat's off to Humble's they played a real good game and did a good job on the defense!

The afternoon game started off sunny and about 75 degrees -- slight wind going.  Sorenson was on the bump for Game 2 -- not a pitcher by trade, but in fantasy camp -- everyone is a pitcher -- so he was dialed up for the game.   The No-Lo's (including my two errors at third base) couldn't get out of their funk -- the first inning was ugly ugly ugly -- 3 runs later -- we were down 3-0 before we even got up to bat.  Sorenson settled in after the inning and the No-Lo's defense figure it out the rest of the game - the offense finally woke up in the 4th inning (we were losing 3-1) and we put up a crooked number of 4 to take our first lead of the day at 5-3.  Sorenson was dealing and put up more 0 on the board - we chipped up a single run in the 5th and 2 more runs in the 6th (Sorenson with an RBI double, Bennett with a Sac Fly RBI) to cap the scoring -- the game ended on an unassisted putout at first base by the star pitcher Sorenson -- No-Lo's in the win column for the victory -- 8-3 final.   The bats woke up, the defense woke up after the first inning -- a nice feeling.  Sorenson with the CG (complete game) victory -- he scattered around 8 hits, with a few strikeouts and most importantly -- NO Walks -- an excellent outing for Sorenson!   Hitting wise I went 0 for 1, walk and Sac Fly still looking for my first hit -- that SHOULD come tomorrow......

Will post game results in a bit -- didn't get two games in the afternoon so will update with standings once I get those figured out.

PB

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