Pool Play is over

The final 2 games of pool play (7 games in all) were finished up today at the Lee Health Sport Complex and Game 7 had another real good day (same with Redemption Tour) with 2 wins and secured the 2nd seed.

We won the game in the morning as Kevin threw a complete game shutout (won 9-0) and gave us the chance in the afternoon to simply "rest" (if you will) -- if we won the 2nd game we knew we had clinched the 2nd seed and had a small chance of moving to the 3rd seed if we lost and if runs given up gotten away from us.

I played real sloppy today in the field - which is strange, I usually play pretty good, but booted 3 grounders and missed judged a short fly ball (and looking like a circus show....and maybe messed up my hip a little bit) so all in all the afternoon game was ugly for me and a few others on the team.

We ended up winning 14-6 but just tired, not focused, game and I came in to pitch in the 6th and that was ugly too.  At least I hit well today so it's funny how things go - you hit well but play bad in the field -- you don't hit but maybe pitch well - you need to have thick skin to play baseball, you simply fail alot in this game.

Here are the "final" UNOFFICIAL standings from what I can tell from the posted game scores:

"Blue Division"

1) Redemption Tour 7-0  (one of the Pro Staff coaches lost all the games last year -- so big time redemption!)

2) Game 7  6-1

3) Irrelevants  4-3  (wins runs against tiebreaker)

4) Roasted & Toasted 4-3

"Red Division"

5) NorthStar Ninjas 3-4 (wins 2nd tiebreaker - runs scored)

6) LCL    3-4

7) 6905ers   3-4 (loses runs against tiebreaker)

8) Villains   2-5 (wins runs against tiebreaker)

"Toilet Bowl"

9) We R Family  2-5

10) Twin Killing  1-6

Game 7 will match up against the Irrelevants on Friday AM for a 10am first pitch.  We played them on Tuesday morning and beat them 8-0 behind the strong pitching performance of Mark Wolfe - we will have our 1a pitcher going (Josh Stoll) and we think the other team will go with Josh Popp (an acee in his own right) on the bump. Should be a good matchup and I look for this to be a low scoring affair with most likely the team that scores 3 runs first will win this game. If we play defense like we can I like our chances.

The camp is showing a lot of signs of bumps and bruises (strained obliques...) so hoping all these nagging injuries a few guys (and gals) can work through and make these Friday games real good.

Winners on Friday move on to play on Saturday!

~~ "You can observe a lot just by watching." - Yogi Berra ~~