GAME SUMMARY: Rogues win 5th of the season

Warriors 2

Rogues 3

Sorry for the delay, as always there a few blog posts on Monday and Tuesdays. Sunday night we played the expansion Warriors, who were coming off their first win of the season.

They certainly had momentum on their side, as Rogues batters had a hard time figuring out their pitchers stuff, putting up little to no fight for most of this one. We scored 1 run in the 5th inning, after they had put up one run in the 3rd.

I was throwing fairly well as it was 1-1 heading into the seventh. Having made an adjustment to my pitching motion for my rise ball, it was more effective and I collected 6 Ks on the night. But while it WAS an effective pitch for the most part, it landed flat once too often in the 7th, as a batter who previously swung through all my risers, put my last one into the trees to give his team a 2-1 lead.

Thankfully the boys came through in fine style in the bottom half, as we loaded them up on 2 infield hits from our leadoff guys, and a walk to our #3 guy. Our clean-up hitter grounded to 1st, but the throw home for the force was over-thrown, and resulted in not only the tying run coming in, but the winning run too. Rogues win!

So we're now 5-3, which is one more win than we got in 2007. Strangely the roster hasn't changed that much, but for whatever reason, the team is hitting at a torrid pace, leading the league in runs for.

This Sunday we play a double header against the only team we have yet to defeat in the BMFL, the Knights. Hopefully we can put together another strong showing and finally get that monkey off our backs.

M@