Re-Cap of Game against Rosen

McNair v. Rosen & Rosen
(June 16, 2005)
Intro:
After winning two games and dropping one to Nelson Motors, the big McNair Machine came out a little flat against Rosen & Rosen last Thursday. In our last victory against Parker Poe the team fought off P&P’s 5th inning attack which tied the game and later put McNair down by one run. Yes, we took our early lead and sat on it until they caught us. Fortunately the ladies of the Scardato’s 13th Regiment Calvary Unit charged in and saved the day putting 4 runs on the board in the 6th inning. Yes, folks the girls came up strong each getting at least one RBI, Christina (overall .125) and Maggie (overall .250) getting a single a piece and Corbett (overall .417) notched two singles on her belt during the game. The team’s over-all batting average was .452% for the win over Parker-Poe. Unfortunately, the Rosen game was a different story.

Re-Cap:
For some reason I always seem to forget that teams with offices in the building where the Articles of Succession was signed are always a little rowdy. Jay pitched the night before and could barely lift his arms; Joel was stuck out in the country and it sure didn’t help that El Nino turned up the heat out at the Navy Base. On the plus side, we did have a plethora of cold ones, a good looking fan base and Glenn Walker flew in from Germany to catch the game. I digress; the blood shirted team from 134 Meeting came out hard and fast on your beloved McNair Machine. The first inning they put 6 runs on the board and held us to one hit by Bluestein. The second inning, we started to warm-up and held them to 5 runs, but they still managed to blank us again. After we returned the favor, RxR kept us from scoring until the fourth inning. Brett Bluestein (overall average of .666%) came up with our second hit of the game, as well as our first run on the board thanks to John Rosen (overall .333%) earning his first RBI of the year. Brad ‘Hondo’ Hiers (overall .308%) came up with the fourth hit, but did not beat out Romie ‘the Juice’ Bonds’ throw at second. Fielder’s Choice-you gotta love them. The fifth inning brought forth our substitutions and we continued to hold Rosen to a tight leash. The only problem was we couldn’t bounce back from their early lead. Jet led off and got our next hit, a single, with ‘Mad’ Mike Scarafile (overall .666%) following his lead just drilling one into right field-it was “home James, home” in no time flat. We continued to hold RxR to one run in both the 5th & 6th innings and blanked them in the 7th, but we still could not get out of the slump we were in with our hitting. We did earn one run in the bottom of the 7th-an RBI off of another well placed ball from ‘Mad’ Mike. Overall the team’s batting average was .258% down from .628% our first game! Yeah, we definitely need to work on that.

Dug-Out: (We saved the last inning for our best, err most entertaining stuff)
Speaking of well placed hits, Jet’s power swing produced a bunt, which rolled approximately 2.5 feet. Upon looking back from first, he noticed RxR’s Mary-Jordan picking up the ball. It was onto second base, where Jet noticed the slow, lofty throw from home and the third base coach waving him onto the hot corner. RxR put down their crossing signs and blocked off his travel to home, but it was the most exciting bunt/triple our team has had in along time. As mentioned, Scarafile was the next up and his hit made it an easy trot home for Jet. Maggie sacrificed one for the team to move Scarafile to second. Next up was Cid, with a runner in scoring position she hit one to Romie, but the Juice was no match for the wheels on Cid as she was safe at first. Unfortunately, this was too little, too late, because it would be ‘fielder’s choice’ to end the game with the next batter.

Our next game is tomorrow against Barnwell, Whaley at the Parkshore Field. Please do your best to get out there early to warm-up and take a few swings with the bats, especially our new secret weapon. (It’s a secret-I can’t tell you, come see for yourself.) Currently, McNair is 2-2; we’ll have to come out strong to put Barnwell Whaley in their place. Some of their players have already sent Corbett some trash talking about the game tomorrow.
The following are excerpts from an e-mail sent to Corbett.

B/W’s Coach: “I hope you all bring your "A" game, if not we’ll be seeing you in the dust!”
Corbett: “What dust?”
B/W’s Coach: “The dust I’ll be kicking up in your face! The guys at Rosen said it was the thing to do to you!”
Corbett: “Just watch and see buddy, we’ll be doing our trash talking on the field.”
B/W’s Coach: “You’re lucky I am just coaching tomorrow because I hurt my knee. Then again, my knee has a better batting average than Trabert!”

Corbett is right; we’ll be doing our trash talking on the field tomorrow. And to be honest, I would hate to see this guy’s knee in a dark alley.
Go Mighty McNair!