Sunday brought the beginning of the juiced ball era and some surprise outcomes in what has become a rebalanced season in the PBL. The rain gods finally blessed us with beautiful weather, and we finally had another week with four games of baseball.
9:00 AM
The Pelicans smash four home runs and get out to an eight run lead against the Weebies. But before the 7th inning the Weebies all ate from a bag of radioactive sunflower seeds, caught the Pels defense asleep, and put up a nice big 10-spot to take the lead. One that the Pels could not gain back.
Pels (10) – 5WW (13)
12:00 PM
Jason Sorbet throws 14 SOs in 8 innings to help S9 take it to the beleaguered Beef Sliders in general despite some new life in their pitching rotation from young gun Ahiyjah Charles. Carson Briggs tattoos his first HR of the season over the Center Field fence.
S9 (15) – BS (3)
3:00 PM
“Krony pitched a gem.” – John Nowaczyk.
CSR ace, Adam Kronenberg goes deep pitching 7 1/3 innings and limiting runs. Rougarou can’t match it, and the fracture cup goes to CSR.
CSR (8) – Rou (4)
6:00 PM
The Blues back up their huddle call “Blues fucking rule” with a well-rounded rout of an uncharacteristically sloppy Beer Labs squad. Despite a brief sign of a comeback after the arrival of Chris “Centerfold” Shinaberry in the later innings, the run-hungry Labs turn to a desperate stolen base attempt, a bad strategic move in a league where stealing is illegal, and one that would ultimately squash their momentum with the Blues extending their lead by 3-runs in the bottom of the 8th.
The game ended in a once-in-a-lifetime play: with 1-out and the bases loaded, Beer Labs batter Shorty ducked under an inside pitch coming right at his head, but failed to lower his bat, hit the ball behind his head into play (a perfect bunt down the third base line), and the Blues clean it up for a double play.
Blues (11) – Par (6)
Spring 2021 HR Leaderboard;
2 Dan April
2 Lou Brown, Jr.
1 Carson Briggs
1 Steve DeLong
1 Cody Dunlap
1 John Nowaczyk
1 Samuel Vargas