Month: July 2014

Ducks Lose

2014 South Oakland Ducks, pittsburgh NABA

West View 6, South Oakland of the North Side 2.

Ducks starting ptcher Brian Stom faced 10 batters through 3, and South Oakland lead 1-0 going into the top of the bottom of the 4th.

There were a couple plays that weren’t made by the Ducks, a walk or two, and the WOLFPACK scored five in the bottom of the fourth, and we couldn’t get back in it.

We ran out of a couple innings, We had 10 hits, but we weren’t able to string anything together. it was really frustrating.

At one point one of our guys ran into their catcher who was well up the line, and their catcher wanted to fight or something. It was ridiculous. Benches partially cleared. Everyone should have been tossed. No one was.

The West View pitcher threw a good game, working out of trouble a few times. Two of their guys hit the ball pretty hard, their four hitter, and that guy who no one seems to have seen play during the regular season.

After the game, the West View coach was nice enough to offer to play game 3 at their home field. Ducks management declined the offer.

*EDIT game Saturday will be at Stoneridge, time tbd

Contemporary country music sucks.

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In other Pittsburgh NABA news, Jefferson Hills lost in the opening round of AA playoffs in a big upset to Cranberry. Then Cranberry took one look the Cherokee’s awesome alternate jerseys in their next winners bracket game, and forfeited. The Rebels were crushed by the Bulldogs, the Black Sox beat West End, in what has become an intense seres between the two teams. The Carrick Express can eliminate Jefferson Hills on Saturday. I hope it comes down to Brookline and the Cherokee and that their is a fight in the stands and lots of guys getting beaned. It would be like old times.

The other side of the Single A bracket hasn’t started yet.

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Ducks Win.

2014 South Oakland Ducks

South Oakland scored 7 runs in the 4th inning, overcoming a 3-0 deficit en-route to a 8-5 victory in game 1 of the semifinals at Springview Field Monday night.

Jason Fetter threw five innings, allowing 4 earned runs, and recorded his first playoff win as a Duck. Ben Sorosky pitched a scoreless sixth inning, and Anthony Ciccone recorded the save, striking out the West View cleanup hitter with the bases loaded in the seventh.

Matt Limbach went 2-for-3 and drove in three runs, Rob Galvanek went 2-for-3 with a double and 3 RBI, Brandon Culp and DJ Dover each had multi-hit games.

Ducks catcher, Rob Galvanek threw out 2 runners out at second.

Short stop Tony Casale made a diving stop behind second base and threw out a runner from his knees to save a run. It was one of the best plays by an infielder I’ve seen in person.

Game 2 is Wednsday night, 8:30PM at John Herb Field.

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Ducks Earn #2 Seed, First Round Bye.

2014 South Oakland Ducks, pittsburgh NABA

I got the tie breaker scenarios wrong in figuring out where we would have to finish record wise to get the 2nd seed.

The first tie breaker is head to head record. Then it’s runs allowed head to head. I thought it was overall runs allowed.

We’ve outscored the WOLFPACK 19-16 in head to head play, but have a 1-2 record against them. However, our rain delayed game has essentially been ruled a forfeit in our favor since there is no time to make it up. Therefore, we have avoided the 3/6 matchup against the Monsters, and will play the winner of Sunday’s Monsters/WOLFPACK game on Monday night. Time and place TBD.

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The Ghost of Larry Z: Ducks Spilt Double Header. Throwback Game Resounding Success.

2014 South Oakland Ducks, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball

The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side lost 11-10 to the Monongahela Monsters Wednesday Night. The Monsters really hit well, and we didn’t make enough plays in the field to help out our depleted pitching staff. On the bright side, Brandon Culp looked really good in a relief appearance, and no one got hurt who wasn’t already injured. We had our four hitter at the plate in the seventh with two outs and the tying run on second, and we couldn’t get a run across.

The Ducks fell behind 6-0 early, and came back to tie the game at 6, scoring six runs with two out in the fourth, but after a season full of come from behind wins, we couldn’t pull out another one on the last day of the season. The Monsters took an 11-7 lead into the seventh, and we couldn’t complete the comeback. We paid for digging such a big hole for ourselves. Hats off the Monsters, who we will likely play Sunday night at 6pm in a terrifying first round matchup. The Monsters beat us twice this season, and played us close in a 11-10 Ducks victory in Brentwood a few weeks ago.

This loss hurt, given that the Warriors upset the WOLFPACK!!! on Wednesday night, and if we’d won, we likely would have secured a bye. Whatever.

It’s still possible we will have a first round bye, but we should plan on being ready to play Sunday at 6 pm vs. either the Monsters or Senators.

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(Ben Sorosky, Anthony Ciccone Esq., Ben Gwin, Matt “The RBI Collector” Swetz, Jason Fetter, Brandon Culp, Matt Limbach, Tony Casale, Donnie “The Windmill” Petril, Bob Faust, Iceberg Galvanek, Mike Brandt, Garrett Moore, Brian Storm, Alex Riley. Not pictured: Ben Hartranft, Larry Zalewski, TC Jones, “Hatless” Shawn Dorsek, Mike Playmaker, DJ Dover.)

Game 2: 

Another pitcher’s duel. This game featured a fly ball that bounced off our backup right fielder’s chest and into the murky area between second, center and right before it was thrown aimlessly back towards the pitchers mound by our backup center fielder, allowing a run to score. That play summed up the double header pretty well.

Brandon Culp hit a home run to right center for the Ducks. That third baseman for the Bombers hit one out to left center. Jason Fetter had two hits for the Ducks, including one on the last play of the game–a shot to right field before the lights went out with the ball still in the air.

South Oakland’s Donnie Petril had the game winning RBI in the top of the fifth.

Barring a highly unlikely scenario, which I will discuss in a subsequent blog post, South Oakland will start the playoffs on Sunday, July 20th, 6pm at Moore Park.

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Ducks split double header 1-1. Run differential: 20 scored / 20 allowed. Sweet photos taken in retro jerseys. Swetz has one up on his Instagram. Moore can’t remember his Instagram password so he can’t really get a good look at it. Pending make-up with the Wo!fpack, next stop post-season. Quack.

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Gameday 22/23: Ducks vs Monsters/Ducks vs Bombers

2014 South Oakland Ducks, Gameday

Game 1: Ducks vs Monsters

6pm

Springview Field

Game 2: Ducks at Bombers

8:30pm

Springview Field

We’re getting down to it. This is the first double header at Spring Hill in Ducks history. Of course we are the away team in game 2.

Here are the Standings:

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If North America beats the Warriors at 6:15 in Etna, they clinch the top spot, and it will come down to us and the WOLFPACK!!! for the other first-round bye. I don’t know how West View is going to get five games played in three days. We are probably going to play them on the 19th.

Today we have two games against teams that have played us tough, but are below us in the standings. We need two wins to get a bye. I don’t know who is going to be available to pitch, or who can still walk at this point in the season. We are really banged up right now. We’re going with throwback unis in game 2 vs the Bombers.

These are the greatest throwbacks ever.

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Bad News for the Bombers and Monsters

Double Header tomorrow

2014 South Oakland Ducks

Tomorrow might be the first time the Ducks play a game at Spring Hill that’s not under the lights. We have the Monsters at 6pm and then a throwback night against the Bombers. To celebrate the history of the Pittsburgh NABA and it’s oldest team (both in terms of average age of players, and years with same team nickname) players are asked to wear their oldest NABA uniform they still have in their closet. We expect to have players in uniform representing Ducks from almost all eleven seasons and potentially: Pythons, Graybats, Oilers, Militia, Orioles, Phantoms, Rakers, Knights.

Bombers players are welcome to join. Though I assume this would mean Joe Graff in a Bulldogs/Pythons Jersey and everyone else in last years Bombers unis.

In other news it looks like the Lions have about clinched the division. North America has won something like 15 straight games. Their magic number is 1.

Since we technically started the WOLFPACK!!! game, it is considered a suspended game and will only be made up if it affects the standings. West View has four other games to get in before the regular season ends on the 19th.

We might have to play them on the 19th with a first round bye at stake. They’ve also not entered any stats or a roster or anything on the league site. I hope we don’t have another Hurricanes situation on our hands.

The Bombers have clinched at least the six seed, holding the tiebreaker over the Monsters and Senators. The Titans can’t finish any lower than fifth. The Monsters hold a half game lead over the Senators for the six-seed. The Warriors need to win out and get lots of help to make the playoffs.

First round games start on Sunday the 20th. The best-of-three semifinal series start the following week.

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Game Day 22: Ducks vs. WOLFPACK!!!

2014 South Oakland Ducks, Gameday

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side

vs.

West View Wolfpack

8:30pm

John Herb Field

So far the game is still on tonight. Since it’s the Ducks’ umpire money, and it’s West View’s call as to whether or not the field is playable, I don’t expect to hear anything.

We need to win tonight if we want a shot at a first round bye, and to stay in the hunt for the one seed.

I found this awesome Rambo/Captain America picture in my files, and I think it’s time to re-tread this one. Whoever photoshopped this is my hero.

Go Blues

Bad News for the WOLFPACK!!!