Sausages sniff the Glue

CHINA CREEK PARK, British Columbia, May 18, 2006. An undernourished bachelor, a visit from Winter, and another story of a navy career ruined by Tabasco. Those were the themes of the night Thursday as the Sausages took on the first-place Glue in MHR action. The score (which isn't really important, is it?) was 18-10 for the Glue.
The on-base machine, Satoshi, his wife away the past two weeks, was clearly weakened by malnutrition as he had his first strikeout in recent memory in his first at bat. He was revived with smelling salts after that at-bat and finished the game three for four. Meanwhile, on the mound, Volley had a strong start and it was only due to some lucky seeing-eye singles and sun-blinded errors behind him that the Glue did as well as they did. In a dramatic shakeup, Sink was thrust into the catching job mid-game, replacing the shocked Shoe, after which Volley retired the side 1-2-3 on about 5 pitches. "It's all about the catcher," said Sink.
Winter got his first few innings in of the season, playing a solid centre field and ripping a couple of hard line drives. "We should be in an over-40 league," he said later at the post-game team meeting.
T-Bag was a little less jovial. "I don't know why [I didn't steal]... it was dumb," he said, before adding, "I've been working on my quote all week!" He was two for two at the plate, picking up his average from the first two games.
Mells, who is conducting an "intensive search for a new nickname", asked some reporters, "Who's the fly on the wall?" It wasn't clear if she was referring to Phil Fly.
After the game, at the team meeting at a secret location code-named "Joe's", Volley secured a choice table for the team and wisely flanked himself on both sides with several other players, to give him a buffer against the throngs of groupies. One groupie, who happened also to be a waitress, asked "Hey Marshall, what are you doing in there?" Busted. Meanwhile, Dirty Al told a rip-roaring story about his buddy's buddy Boris who had his life ruined when his (Boris') roommate splashed Tabasco in his face and Boris cracked his knee on the coffee table. It was riveting. After the roaring laughter died down, Dirty Al, who, incidentally, was voted third star by the junior fan club, put on his best southern accent and said "I'm going home for some chicken pot pie." He then flipped everyone the bird and stormed out.

Box score:
Satoshi 3/4
Dirty Al 2/4
Deedee 2/4 (couple of nice rips)
Shoe 4/4
Norm! 1/4
Mells 2/3 (got robbed at least once)
Sink 1/3 (got robbed at least once)
T-Bag 2/2
Winter 1/2 (got robbed on his second AB)
Volley 0/4 (can this be correct?)

Injury report:
Dave Williams, on the 14-day disabled list

P.F.