Week 7 Scores

Looks like a very interesting evening at the ol' softball complex last night.  Every team ahead of us in the standings lost atleast 1 game... Enjoy.

Offensive Explosion: 6-4

We had the full squad on hand last night, and its safe to say everyone had fun.  After being down 2-8 after the first, about bats came alive in an explosive way.  We scored runs in nearly every inning, going 2,7,4,5,0,3,10.  We ended up scoring 31 runs...an all-time team record.  Congrats everyone. Even those of us at the bottom of the order got in the action...us 4 went a combined 15 for 20. Our defense played well too after giving up 8 in the first, shuting them out the final 4 innings.  It was good to finally play again after all the rain outs, and maybe the time off has helped us refocus and get back on track for our impending championship run.
Final Score: 31-13

Three different guys batted one thousand last night...Jon went 5-5 with 3 runs scored, Hof went 6-6, batted the cycle and had 6 rbi, and Derek went 6-6 with 8 rbi, 2 doubles and a trip.  It was a tough call, but I don't think Derek had 8 rbi all last season, so let's give it to him.

B-Dubs Playa of the Week
Derek Berube
6-6 with a 2 doubles, triple, 4 runs and 8 rbi.
Way to get your chili hot.

Rain-out Debacle...

Here are some of the emails that got sent in to the softball director and her response at the end....

It sure looks like we could have played some of the games. :)

ya, I think we're getting a little paranoid (do ya think)the warning's were for north of us and right now it's sunny ,not to mention we've played with storms coming in many times -that's why we have ump's to decide when games should be stopped. It's not like we need another reschedule for tuesdays "sic",,,,, maybe we'll have fall ball tuesdays and wednesdays whooohooo.

I agree with some of the managers that it seemed pretty strange to cancel tonight’s games…. What is even more frustrating is that I live in Minnetonka just down from the youth sports complex on 101 between Minnetonka Blvd and Hwy7 and the 10-12 year old little leaguers have been playing all night.

And her response........

Managers:


I obviously made a poor decision last night by calling the games as early as I did. I am very sorry and will try not to make the same mistake again. As mentioned yesterday, I will send out make-up information by the end of the week.


Again, I apologize for my mistake.
Ann

Week 6 Scores

Looks like Doublewide has finally figured things out... just in time for our match-up next week too.  Sure would have been nice if BMW could have knocked off Ballz Deep too...but they didn't and thier losing streak extends to 6 straight.

2 things to bring tonight

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Your A Game

Weekly Recap...sort of.

For those of you who were lucky enough not to be there, here is the short version of how the game went this week.  It was 6-6 after 2, we were leading 8-6 after 4, then our defense got real sloppy and they scored 19 runs in the last 3 innings.  It was extremly windy and that didn't help, but its not like the wind stopped blowing for them... we just sucked on tuesday.  Plain and simple.
Final Score: 9-25

Moving on...
So far this season we are averaging 14.3 runs per game, which is actually higher than last summer.  Our bats have been ok. The big problem is our D.  We are giving up 13.3 runs per game, and that is over 5 runs  higher than last year.  Furthermore, in our 4 losses we are giving up a staggering 20.5 runs per game.  20.5! It seems pretty clear that we need to improve the D for us to start winning.  We have always had one of the top defenses in the league (last summer we allowed 7.9 all season), so there is no reason we can't turn it around.  Lastly, every time we played solid defense we have won.... giving up only 25 runs in those 4 games combined... (6.3 average).  Bottom line, lets start playing defense every game, let's run off some wins, secure the #2 seed... then copyright PA, let's play.

Right now we are at the part of the movie when Ricky can't see,  next week let's be at the part when he starts wearing glasses.

Week 5 Scores

As much as it pains me to do this, here are the scores from last night.  It will try to update everything else later...