Saturday, August 05, 2006

Sausages Soil Shirts, Film at Eleven

MONTGOMERY PARK, Vancouver, BC, August 2, 3006. The Sausages needed some seventh inning heroics from Speed to get by the Shirts in Thursday's action. The smoke, cured ones are now 6-7 on the year after the 19-18 win.
The Sausages needed to add another right-hander to their staff, so coach Shoe gave Norm! a surprise start in this game, and Norm! delivered a solid performance. It was his first start of the year and he shook off the rust quickly, going four innings and giving up ten runs, six of them earned, but he had to settle for a no-decision. Volley took over in the 5th and held the hard-swinging shirts at bay until the Sausages took over with their bats.
The Sausages' women were outstanding, racking up 10 "hits" (a walk is not differentiated from a hit) between the three of them, including a triply by M.E. (Emmy?) and a clutch single in the last inning by WendyK. Sink was desperate to bunt, but, sadly, she never got the chance. "Give me the bunt sign Shoe!" she yelled from the batter's box. "Suicide squeeze?"
But the MVP was Satoshi, who went 5-6, made some nice plays at third base, and hit the game-winning walk-off single in the seventh. After the game, Speed said "I have my class 1 drivers licence and I'm going to get a job driving a truck now." It was as if the money from baseball was not enough!
"I think he was inspired by having Yumi watching," said Shoe. Meanwhile, unknown to the ball players, Yumi and Mit and Redd were totally ignoring the game and playing with the babies and chatting.
There was only one injury in the game, and that was in the warmup when Julius got hit in the wrist by a fly ball from that meanie Rick. Julius collapsed in a heap in left field and barely had the strength in his hand to keep score!
Box score:
Speed 5/6
Norm! 4/5
Sink 4/5
Shoe 3/5
Volley 3/5
Emmy 3/5
Dirty Al 2/5
T-Bag 2/4
WendyK 3/4

PF

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