Month: May 2019

Ducks Win: South Oakland 6, Bandidos 4

2019 South Oakland Ducks

The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (1-1) defeated the Bakery Square Bandidos (0.5-1) by a score of 6-4 last night in Spring Hill. Bakery Square opened the scoring when their new guy hit one to the fence and their other new guy singled him in, breaking a scoreless tie. There were some walks, and the Ducks trailed 3-0 going into the bottom of the fourth.

South Oakland scored four in the fourth. Muslin walked, Casale doubled, Pulice, Clark, and Fago singled. Colton Fago was hit by a pitch and Gwin drove in a run on a ground out.

Cody Quinn struck out the side in the fifth, and the Ducks added two more in the bottom of the inning when Brandt was hit by a pitch, Zuzak doubled, and Casale hit a sac fly. Zuzak scored on Pulice’s second hit of the night. I might be missing something in there, but that was basically what happened.

Tom picked a guy off first in the seventh then new guy grounded out to end the game. Fago recorded the save for the Ducks, capping off a strong night for the bullpen.

  • Eight of the first nine outs Ducks starter, Randy Patton (W, 1-0) recorded in the game were either strikeouts or groundouts to the pitcher.
  • The bullpen allowed one run on one hit over the last three innings
  • James Fago had two hits and recorded his first save in six years for the Ducks
  • Mike Brandt and Colton Fago were hit by pitches, and are tied for the team lead with one (1)
  • We might have got a couple calls in the field, but it was a pretty evenly played game. We had the ump with the AL East strike zone.
  • Only one error after committing seven in our first game
  • This was a quality win over a good team
  • South Oakland takes game one of the Columbus tournament inter-squad challenge

South Oakland plays next vs D2 on Sunday, 8:30pm at Herschel Park.

Quack.

Gameday 2: Ducks vs Bandidos

2019 South Oakland Ducks

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (0-1)

vs

Dirty Birds/Biscuits/Bakery Square Bandidos (0-0)

9pm

Springview Field

After losing an error-filled but otherwise winnable game last week and a rainout in Area X on Saturday, the Ducks will host the 2017 champion Bandidos tonight if we don’t get any more rain, and the field dries out.

We generally play the various incarnations of Bakery Square pretty close. Should be a good one at the Duck pond if we can get it in.

Springview is in better shape than years past, but it’s still relying on a trench filled with leaves and syringes for drainage. The city’s lack of interest in maintaining the field is discouraging. If I win the mega millions, I’m putting in turf.

Elsewhere, the Oilers are 4-0, while the rest of the league struggles to get in games. We need to get in the win column early so we don’t get bogged down in June playing four games a week while those guys rest their pitching staff.

A win over a good team tonight before the flood hits this week would be big.

Bad news for the Bandidos