The Sons of Sully FINALLY took the field on a balmy day in West Medford against the Brew Crew (never heard o ya). The Ringers come in as even money with Josh's favorite team, The Hibernions, to "win the whole f'n thing" (thanks Jake Taylor).Missing from the early roster were Adam Crowley, Jeremy DiStefano, and Aaron Noyes. Crowley has become quite the exerciser and you should be on the lookout for the fitness DVD series "Body by Shot" very soon. Boonton attended a bring your dog to the ballpark day up in Portland...or was it bring your dog to work day? Anywho, he is studying his face off to jump on the next Dancing with the Stars. Noyes is a different story, rumor has it people saw him back in town for a "medical appointment" on Sunday attended by Ringers favorite Amy Noyes. One can only think he is going under the knife for the ol Tommy John on that left wing of his. Too many dirt balls will do that to you.
Back to the action. Lineup shake up for the first game with heralded rookie Matt Cutrell batting leadoff. Cutrell is best known for sleeping in some bushes down at Trinity spring weekend and his last softball game was played roughly 14 years ago. Sounds like a perfect leadoff guy for the Ringers. He also awings like Russell Branyan so he has that going for him...which is nice. Cutrell sets the table early and ends up going 2-3 with a few runs scored. DSull takes the end of the order to add some speed and break up the bottom a bit, kid did a great job and showed some opposite field power. Couldn't have happened to a better kid.
First hit of the game was a flyball out to TCDC and not quite sure what happened but after TC caught it Danny was still on the ground. I thought they may be playing a game from their youth called "snake in the grass" but Danny was down with what turned out to be way more than a shin boner, this was a full blown ankle blow up. Kid toughed it out until being replaced defensively by Matt. (Yes, that is his ankle)
We took advantage of the Brew Crew's errors in the beginning and went up 4-0 early. The kid (of 2009 Cy Young fame) was dealin't tonight and took a no hitter into the 4th but an error by Bags and an error by said Kid allowed them to get back in it 6-2.Sully broke it open late with a big bases loaded double...wait, single. Sully was running head up. chest out, and might proud of what he just did...the kind of hit that gets the Sullivans another bambino if you know what I mean. He made the mistake of running through 1st base, forever known as the icy patch. I can count 5 times (including myself) that almost broke their neck on the icy base. Connors went beard over feet trying to leg out a grounder. A new 70ft distance combined with an icy base is a longgggg run to 1st. (this video may not work for those who have it blocked, but it is WELL worth the 1 minute video, a true gem)
Few points of interest, Playing with a warped ball for a few innings, I think Worth took the Brew Crew for a ride, Bags was peppered all night at the 2Bag, he looks to take the mound on Thursday, TC almost decapitated the pitcher, Sully, MBags, and Rudelyn's husband Josh showed very solid D all night, Crupi had a nice laser with the new Freak, Shaun solid as always behind the dish, Pete keeping the book all year will be huge...but he forgot it somewhere already..and last but CERTAINLY not least, the kid goes 3-3 with the old Freak and takes home the MVP awarded brought to you by PBR
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