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The Turkeys are on a winning streak! Three in a row at this point! Perhaps it the fancy new T-shirts (thanks Debbie for all your work...oh, ya, and you to Sam and Tim). Perhaps its the new players. Perhaps its that we're nearly in mid-season form at this early stage of the season. Whatever the reason, we've won another. There were plenty of interesting plays. Mark was going crazy after watching Monica stab a hot liner to the short field and then, yes you saw it, raring back as if to gun the runner out at first. But her instincts kicked in and she held the throw. So much good stuff in such a short time. If you blinked, you'ld miss it. When she gets her healthy legs under her she'll be a menace to the batters who think they can pick on the little lady in short field! I can't wait to see it!
And our bats were there tonight. There was some interesting running by Monica and Mark tonight. Monica proved that you don't have to burn the bases to score. Her leg injury kept her speed down, yet she managed to tag all bases during one of the later innings. Mark went into the overcompetitive superdrive mode...was that really necessary? A simple single was turned into a 4-base run when the left fielder hesitated and couldn't decide whether to throw to 2nd (the right play) or to home to get a scoring runner. Choosing the latter, the fielder threw to home allowing Mark to pussy-foot it to second. Rounding second (like we're all trained to do...right?) Mark saw that the throw was too late to get the runner headed home, so he baited the catcher to throw to third. Taking the bait the catcher overthrew the third baseman allowing Mark to sprint (if that's possible for him any more) to third, around third and to home. Don'tja just love C-league!? Everyone did well at bat wth the Turkeys going up by more than 10 runs at one point. We'll take the mercy-out in order to pad the lead. After all, we're the Turkeys..and Sean has pointed out numerous times that we're just as likely to blow a huge lead as to keep it and win the game.
Defense was fun to watch. Some great catches...some not so great. You know who you are. And yes, we'll tease you all season long! At least Mark will! The box score says it all...oops...it's empty. Well, Sam has been busy and unable to provide them to me, but as soon as he does they'll be posted. Speaking of which, Sam is to be commended for keeping score in Jack's absence. Of course Mark had to assume the role of Sam (which is to say that he pestered the scorekeeper unmercifully) but Tim simply refused to assume the role of Mark. So Mark had to entertain the team and be Sam at the same time. Wait...isn't that redundant?
There were 14 of us collecting for pizza, beer, soda, and salads after the game. Rosana beat us all to the restaurant and was wondering were we all were. She started without us.
So here's the box score (as soon as Sam sends it...don't have any for this year yet!):
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