South Oakland beat the Warriors 5-4 on Wednesday night. The Ducks got strong pitching performances from Ben Phillips and Andy Nichols (W, 1-1). The Ducks had RBI from Culp. Tuomisto, Koshzow, Galvanek and Morgan.
The Ducks (5-8) play Saturday afternoon vs. The Senators (11-2). 12pm at Pie Traynor Field.
We are losing to Single A teams now. This is not OK. No way I’m recapping this bullshit. Good game, Monsters. That guy pitched pretty well and kept it low.
South Oakland looks to right the ship Monday night against West End. 8:30pm at Herschel Park.
South Oakland looks to build on Wednesday’s win over the WOLFPACK in tonight’s inter-division game against the Monsters. This team played us tough last season. We need to bank wins against Single A teams, but we can’t look past these games. I hope they have their boom box with walk up music like last year.
We need our pitching staff to step up during this upcoming stretch where we have five games in eight days. Four of these games are against single A teams, and another against West End (0-6), who has struggled against AAA competition so far this season. If we take 4 of 5, we can get back to .500 while the teams ahead of us beat up on each other. After a rough start, I think we’re starting to come together.
Bad News For the Monsters.
South Oakland snapped a two-game losing streak last night, beating the WOLFPACK 7-1 at Spring Hill.
Pat Dipaola pitched a complete game for his first win as a Duck, improving his record to 1-2 on the season. He struck out 6 and walked 2.
The Ducks took a 1-0 lead in the first when Tuomisto singled in Gwin. Gwin has been hit by a pitch in every regular season game the Ducks have played against West View in the last two seasons.
West View didn’t really threaten until the third when they had a guy single and steal second with one out. Limbach threw him out trying to steal third, and Pat struck out the batter to end the inning.
In the bottom of the third, the Ducks added 2 more runs on four singles. After a fielder’s choice, Strom was by a pitch in the goin for his first RBI of the season. AFter a 2-for-2 night at the plate, Strom is batting .500 on the season.
The Ducks scored two more in the fourth when Nichols doubled to lead off the inning and scored on a throwing error by the thirdbaseman on Casale’s infield single. Casale was thrown out at second trying to advance. Then Gwin doubled and scored on another throwing error by the thirdbaseman.
That kid had a rough night. He’s normally really solid over there.
West View scored a run in the fifth, loading the bases on 2 one-out singles and a walk, and scoring on a single to right. Doc worked out of the jam, getting a wolf to ground into a 1-2 out out, and then inducing a bases loaded flyout to center.
It was during this inning one of their fans taunted Morgan in right. Because the league needs more old men who come to games and scream at the slightly younger men who are playing adult league baseball against their children or grandchildren. Great stuff.
In the bottom of the sixth, Morgan hit a one-out single to right, driving in 2 runs to put the game out of reach.
Their pitcher threw over 130 pitches. We had many good at bats and wore him down. We didn’t make any errors.
This was a much needed win against a good team. We crushed the defending champs a week after losing to the last place Devils. It’s been that kind of year, but things are looking up.
With the win, South Oakland imroves to 4-7 on the season. The Ducks next game is 9PM Saturday night, at Moore Park vs. the Monsters.
quack.
We’ve got to get this figured out. It’s never taken us this long to put it together.
When we pitch we don’t field, and when we field we don’t hit and when we hit we don’t pitch.
Bad news.
South Oakland (3-7) plays next on Wednesday 6/3 vs. the WOLFPACK. 9PM at Springview Field.
quack.
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