Well well well,
Look who came to play ball.We did.
Our league tourney wrapped up last night as there were four teams left. The Aggies ( the one seed) played Wray (the three seed) at 6:30. So I had to go watch that ball game to see the outcome. Plus those two teams had played three times and each time it was a one-run game. I knew that neither team liked the other so I figured it would be a war.
It really wasn't. The Aggies came to play and Wray couldn't hit. Aggies 18, Wray 9. I believe that it was pretty much a shocker of an outcome. Wray slipped into the losers bracket to face the winner of our game and the Angels.
Again, the Angels didn't roll over and die. We didn't hit the ball well either but kept battling and battling. We tied the game at 12 in the bottom of the 7th on a Noyes triple. The winning run is standing at third with one out. I come up because I know all I have to do is fly out to score Niz. What happens? I get intentionally walked to first. Dibbo gets intentionally walked so now the bases are juiced for a force at home. Greg comes up and calmly rips a line drive into left field and that's the ball game kids. RPG 13, Angels 12.
We didn't even leave the dugout because we were the next game at 8:30 against Wray. The difference was that we were relaxed, while they were pressing. Plus they used their six home runs and only scored 11 runs with them. We were laughing and carrying on in our dugout. I told Brian, "Look at us. We're having fun and they're falling apart. I can tell we're relaxed because we are eating chips." Brian is a delivery guy for Frito-Lay and had brought two BIG boxes of chips. Here we were eating chips and having a good time. We ended up beating Wray, 26-18 and advanced to the championship game.
That proved pretty anti-climatic as the Aggies were fresh and we were fairly, okay, really tired. I didn't mind at all losing to the Aggies and claiming second place. It was a great run.
posted by Rusty @ 8:16 AM
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