Author: mightyeskimo

Gameday [9] Ducks vs. Bulldogs

2011 Ducks Baseball, Bulldogs

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (6-2)

vs.

Pittsburgh Bulldogs (9-3)

9pm

Springview Field.

South Oakland looks to overcome and early season defeat at the hands of the Bulldogs who couldn’t even do us the courtesy of beating the Black Sox last Saturday.

Thanks guys. Way to be even more hungover at 8:30 am on saturday morning than the Black Sox.

Ducks’ utility player and third base coach, Rick Whalen was hospitalized during the first matchup between the Ducks and Bulldogs, but figures to factor in to tonight’s game in some manner.

Coming in to tonight’s matchup, South Oakland is riding a six-game win streak while the Bulldogs have won nine of ten.

The biggest difference between these two teams over the past four seasons has been playoff success. Since TC took over and then relinquished the manager’s position for South Oakland, the Ducks have won a title and advanced to the conference semi’s for a 6-1-1 playoff record. The Bulldogs can’t make it out of the first round.

Maybe we’ll get our championship t-shirts tonight from the commish?

and where’s my trophy?

I wonder if Flip’s buddy still catches for them?

This blog has turned to crap. However,  the Bulldogs blog has proven to be even more racially insensitive and  hedonistic than Fred Phelps reading from a public high school history book in a battered women’s shelter, wearing a bathrobe made out of  Hustler back issues.

(I’m going the clothes made out of magazines route, it’s getting bad over here. Go read the bulldogs blog.)

Fightin’ words.

“I wanted to destroy something beautiful.”

Bad News for the Bulldogs

Ducks Extend Win Streak to Six, Sweep Militia.

2011 Ducks Baseball, who names their team the Rebels?

James Tessyier had a perfect game through 3. Following a leadoff  walk in the bottom of the fourth, with the Ducks (6-2, 2-1) leading 12-0, South Oakland’s center fielder misplayed a fly ball that allowed a run to score, blowing both the no-hitter and the shutout.

The Ducks went on to win 12-1.

To their credit Monroeville came back strong in game 2, however the Ducks won 4-2.

James Fago pitched 5 strong innings allowing 2 runs before Garret Mack picked up a 2-inning save in his first official pitching appearance for the Ducks.

Mack also went 2 for 2 with a sac fly.

The game ended on a bases loaded fly out to Nick Berdine who made a phenomenal running catch on what would have been an extra base hit

 

Note: The Militia have only played Elliot once. For whatever reason i misread the league site and thought they’d lost to Elliot twice.

South Oakland is 6-1 in its last seven games against the Militia including last season’s semi-final victory.

South Oakland plays the Pittsburgh Bulldogs Wednesday night at 9pm.

Black Sox at Moore Park on Saturday.

quackquackquackquackquackquack.

Ducks Notch Fourth Straight Victory

2011 Ducks Baseball

South Oakland of the North Side (4-2, 1,1) beat Cranberry 13-6 in Springview last night in front of an offended crowd of 3.

The hilights of the game were Rick Whalen’s sweet double off the wall in left, and Duffy’s blistering single down the 3rd baseline.

Mike Fletcher recorded the win, allowing 1ER over 3 innings.

Fago was a double and a homerun short of the cycle.

Cinefra hit a triple, I don’t think I’ve seen 2 legit triples in the same game at Spring Hill ever.

DeFilippo had infinity RBI

More doubles were hit by Ken Cool, DeFilippo,  Cinefra, and Gwin, marking the first time Whalen and Gwin recorded extra base hits in the same game for the Ducks since Ken Cool was in elementary school.

Rob Cool reached base four times.

The game ended on a fantastic catch by 1b Nick Berdine

Big double header against the Militiaon Sunday.

We can almost knock them out of the division race if we sweep, thanks to Monroeville losing twice to Elliot last week.

I don’t think Elliot has lost yet.

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The blog has been garbage lately and we don’t even have our stats up, the latter is certainly uncharacteristic for us and management is on it.

Acknowledging the problem is the first step.

quackquackquackquack.

Ducks Shutout Express, 7-0

2011 Ducks Baseball

I don’t have Fago’s pitching line, but i think he only allowed three hits and recorded at least 10 ks.

He also went 3 for 4 at the plate with 2 doubles.

Rob Cool went 1 for 1 with 3 walks.

Baumgartel and Lipp also doubled.

Every Duck reached base at least once.

A couple base running errors  kept the game from becoming a complete laugher.

The Express didn’t advance a runner past second.

Ducks catcher, Brendan Scioscia threw out two runners

South Oakland of the North Side (3-2, 1-1) takes a 3-game winning streak into Wednsday’s game against Cranberry, before a big time double header against the Militia in Woodland Hills Sunday morning.

quack

Gameday [5] Ducks vs. Express

2011 Ducks Baseball

South Oakland Ducks of the North Side

vs

Carrick Express

9pm

Springview Field

The Express have played some good teams tough despite a poor overall record.

They beat us last year as the Maulers.

Another singular noun team name. The train that goes from point a to point b without stopping. OK. That works I guess.

Also a pants company for women.

South Oakland looks to win three straight tonight and even our record in the division.

This is a huge early season game, we can’t fall 2 back of Elliot and the Militia.

Bad News for the Express

Gameday [3] Ducks at Hurricanes

2011 Ducks Baseball

Ducks

at

Hurricanes

5:30pm

Pie Traynor Field, North Park

The 2009 and  2010 league champions square off at a neutral site this evening, in the first of three games in five days.

We’re looking to get back into the swing of things here with a victory over a tough opponent.

South Oakland lost the last two meetings to the Hurricanes by a combined 75 runs or something.

Judging by the standings, both teams are limping out of the gate a bit.

Finally some sunshine. Hopefully monsoon season is over.

I’ll miss this one due to graduation.  After tonight, I’ll be a master, so says my degree. This means I’ll be one of the most educated food service workers in the city.

Fago’s running the show tonight.

Guthrie made it out of San Francisco alive.

Bad News for the Hurricanes.

Quack.

Tuesday Morning Now…

2011 Ducks Baseball

Seriously, all this rain is a joke.

The defending league champion South Oakland Ducks, have had seven rainouts and two losses a month into the season.

Not the start we were looking for.

After our inevitable 10th rainout against the Rebels scheduled for Wed the 18th, at Springview Field,

we have two non-conference games:

Saturday’s game against the Hurricanes is at 5:30pm

Then we play the Warriors Sunday at 3pm

both games are at Pie Traynor Field in North Park

quack.

Weekend Rain Outs

2011 Ducks Baseball

The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side saw two more games washed out this weekend bringing the Ducks rainout total to 7.

Our next scheduled game is a rematch against the Militia Wed, 9pm at Springview Field.

South Oakland’s game against the Hurricanes is set for Saturday 5/21 at 5pm at Pie Traynor, I think the schedule says noon.