Author: mightyeskimo

Upcoming Games: May 30th to June 2nd…

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland has a week off before playing four games in four days. Those four games are as follows:

5/30, 9pm at Brookline Black Sox

6/1, 1pm doubleheader at Cranberry

6/2,  12:30pm vs Militia at Woodland Hills

We lost to Cranberry by 1 early in the season, we beat the Militia 3-0, and the Black Sox are currently one up on us in the win column.

The Ducks have a big opportunity to gain some ground in the race for the last playoff spot.

Management is also working on rescheduling a game against West End that was rained out early in the season.

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and then it got worse

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

After a bizarre week in which the team nearly folded, South Oakland was 3 outs away from a much needed victory on Sunday night. Up 10-5 in the seventh, the Ducks proceeded to surrender 9 runs to the Pirates in the top half of the inning and lose 14-10 in spectacular fashion.

This was really painful.

We played with four starters, four backups who came into the game with one hit between them, two guys from single A and Tim Maul, who lost his pants.

If we had one more starter, we probably hold them to under ten runs and take this one.

On the bright side, we’ve scored 17 runs in the last two games, which is more than we scored in the first 8.

However, we are 1-9. The worst ten game start in team history.

But we’re only 1.5 games out of a playoff spot behind 3-8 Carrick, with 14 left to play.

Sunday’s game was delayed by some D-bag, who had the wrong field permit and scheduled a full day of soccer on the outfield at Moore Park.

The Commish stepped in and called the cops. The cops sorted out the permit discrepancy.

Many thanks to Joe for handling that.

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Ducks Lose

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland (1-7) lost an 9-7 heartbreaker to defending champion Elliot (3-1-1) Wednesday night in Spring Hill.

Trailing 1-0 in the bottom of the first the Ducks broke out of their season long slump and put four runs across to take an early lead. Fago doubled in Gwin and Owens, Ciccone drove in Fago, and scored on a single by Ferko, I think.

Elliot answered with a six-run second, and added a run in the fourth.

South Oakland chipped away scoring one run in the third, fourth and fifth, and trailed 8-7 going into the bottom of the sixth when the Ducks had runners on second and third with no outs and couldn’t get a run across. Elliot’s relief pitcher struck out the side after a walk and a hit and a wild pitch started the inning.

Elliot added a run in the top of the seventh.

South Oakland had the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the seventh.

The Ducks next game is saturday at 5pm against the Militia at Beedle Park.

This was a tough one. We played a real good team close, but came up short.

We’re playing better, but we’re running out of time to get wins.

We have to go at least 10-6 in our last sixteen games at this point.

It’s possible.

One game at a time.

quack.

Ducks Lose

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

Cranberry 3, Ducks 2

No idea how we couldn’t get more than 2 runs across. This is getting ridiculous. Our batting average on balls in play has to be under .150. The trend can’t continue.

We’re in no danger of peaking too soon. So there’s a bright side.

The down side is we have scored 13 runs in 7 games and are 1-6.

I imagine it’s going to take ten wins to make the playoffs, that’s what it took to last year to be better than the 3 worst teams. We have 17 games left and have to start playing up to our ability.

Sunday’s 3-2 loss to Cranberry might be an all-time low. There’s nowhere to go but up.

South Oakland plays Elliot 9pm Wednesday night at Springview Field.

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Game Day 7 Ducks at Cranberry

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

South Oakland Ducks

at

Cranberry

5pm

North Boundary Park

South Oakland needs a win today. There’s not much more to it. Hopefully everyone shows up and we can put our best lineup on the field.

I think it’s going to start coming together for us, and if this team we’re playing can’t even come up with a team name they don’t deserve to win. Seriously just pick something.

Randy is probably starting, but who knows.

Bad News for Cranberry.

Ducks Probably Lost Monday

2013 South Oakland Ducks Baseball

I left before it went final, but we were down 7-0 in the top of the seventh, and were being one-hit.

The Bulldogs scored five in the top of the fifth to blow it open.

So many walks.

There is some fantastic facial hair on the Bulldogs this year.

We’ve got to start hitting.

I’ve been using this generic icy hot, because i’m old, and my joints don’t work and this goop turns the inside of my uniform a brilliant bright blue and it doesn’t really help my shoulder and elbow that much but that blue color makes me wonder how toxic it is and if i’m perhaps going to have some kind of blood disease now. Man, would that be something.

The Ducks need some kind of spark real bad right now.

We need to play the Black Sox soon, because you can’t help but get fired up for those games when you walk across the broken cement bleachers, through the cigarette smoke hanging everywhere and drop your gear by the mud pit full of mosquitoes that smells like a dead dog that’s been rotting there since the last frost of winter. And maybe a Sox fan hitting one of our players with a half-empty empty gin bottle could provide that spark.

It seems like none of the teams in our league have any character anymore.  There’s no more shit talking and hatred and I miss it. Teams are too classy, at least outwardly. Even the Cherokee are only shady in the front office, and really i liked it when their catcher was giving us shit and we threw at him. Of course he scored and we lost but at least it was something exciting other than the blue stain on my shirt.  The Ducks certainly don’t have an identity right now, other than a team that doesn’t hit and usually gets good enough starting pitching to keep us in games, and that is a poor identity for a baseball team.

 We’ll see what kind of heart we have in the upcoming games as we edge closer to must-win territory. We’ll either come together and turn it around or it’s gonna be a long summer. I’m optimistic because that’s my nature and we have the talent, but sans gin bottle we need something/someone to light a fire under us.

South Oakland plays at Cranberry this Sunday at 5pm.

Quack.