Game 5, Win 13-7 aka "the first win vs a B team"

The Sons of Monty took the field in sort of a must win game. After showing know energy in the last two, the Ringers needed to put something together. The A-Team was the opponent and the game was played under ominous skies. The Sully Boys Bangers were missing their fearless leader with what he claimed was a "wrist deformity". I Googled wrist deformity this morning and this popped up.

Now if that is the case, then it is safe to say Bags will NOT be playing anytime soon and he should really consider a job in the Haunted House circuit that comes once a year...

The game got off to a tough start as some fielding miscues got us in a bit of a jam...but like a Cornerback with a short memory, MBags came back to make some great plays and crisis averted. Boonton had the honor of Christening the Miken, but walked on 4 pitches, bringing up the man, the myth, the legend, Two Hole. Two Hole had already heard that Adrian Beltre took his patented "dirty knee" and hit a bomb with it. You remember the dirty knee right? The kid would ALWAYS have dirt on his knee from wiffle ball...well Beltre must have heard about this and stole it.

Two hole proudly smacked one in left field and the Miken has been born...and she is a real bad bitch. The line drives, ground balls looked like lasers off the bat. Noyes even got into the action a bit when he unbuckled his seatbelt, locked his car, walked up to the plate, and hit a sharp grounder to short.

What we had going for us was our speed. Looking at the A-Team, they looked like a bunch of muscle d-bags that would crush beers on their heads at keg parties back in the early 90's. #3 would walk directly in front of me warming up EVERY time, real pricks. There outfield resembled the stunt doubles in Spaceballs. So slow and if you hit it in the right place you could run forever. Case in point Mr June getting an inside the park HR on a Texas Leaguer down the right field line. Or my single up the middle that 3 people looked at and NO ONE hustled to get it.

McGrath also had the same luck with a misplay in right center that the guy all the way on the left of this picture didn't want to run full speed.

Solid defense by Sully, Josh, TC and Danny, and a great play by Boonton to get a short hop in right and keep it in front of him with Sweet helping out. We won by playing sound defense and speed stretching singles to doubles and taking Home when they were dogging it...a good recipe all year.

Dodged a bullet in the 5th with bases loaded and no out...how that kid 1. let that pitch go for a 3rd strike, and 2. how the f that wasnt a strike is beyond me. That stirke zone was the size of the short umpires prick...but that is neither here nor there. MBags geta a grounder, third to home for a double play, then we get a pop up, that saves the game.

We hold them off and they go 1-2-3 in the 7th. A big win for the program and we found out a great recipe to win.

In the crowd: Peter Brown (peterxbrown@gmail.com), Noyes butt buddy Tony, the Daily Boggs bitching about the schedule, Rudelyn Tilingting Smith with Rude Jude in tow.

3-2, get some