Week 9 Recap - Nasty Nuggets

We won one and lost one last night and all went home with a bad taste in our mouths... Despite how much we lollygagged we still ten-runned Stepdads in the first game. We should have known we were in trouble when we only managed to have 5 runs after 4 innings against those guys when they only had 9 players in the field. Despite of this we played pretty good D and landed our first shut-out since blanking the Silver Bullets twice back in 09. With all due respect to the Silver Bullets, this years Stepdads is much worse. I hate playing those games as it seems to throw everyone off because they are so bad.

Game 2 was a different story. We came out pretty focused and after Dan's 3 run bomb in the first. We shut them down for a few innings and extended our lead to 5-0 despite a lot of fly ball outs and pop ups. They showed some power eventually though as they battled back with a couple of dingers to tie it up at in the 4th at 5-5. It was fairly tight the rest of the way but after all was said and done we lost mainly because our hitting failed us (its a big problem when we have 6 guys who only manage 1 hit each in the game). Despite the lack of baserunners, we still found a way to strand 6 runners in scoring position throughout the game (the worst being leaving Eric on 2B after a lead-off double). It was just an off day though and we can't expect to beat anyone when scoring only 7 runs (except maybe Stepdad's). The despite the loss I still like our chances heading into our big match-up again Ron's Repair... which happens to still be a do or die game for the #1 seed! To learn more here are all the scores from last night...

Next week is the last week in the regular season. Despite our down performance we are still in position to get the #1 seed with a win over Ron's Repair in the first game next week since only a 1/2 game back. We are still in great position to win the title no matter where we get seeded... but it sure would be nice to head into the playoffs with a big win over Ron's...

If the playoffs ended right now this would be the matchups:

1-Ron's vs 8-Stepdads
4-Gold Nugget vs 5-Excelsior Brew

3-BMW vs 6-Black Matter
2-DG vs 7-BMO Bombers

This is when it starts getting fun boys...
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