The Soth Oakland Ducks of the North Side (12-5) face the Eagles (4-9) this Saturday. The Ducks are coming off their worst loss of the season, and are looking to get back on track against the 5th place Eagles.
The Black Sox (12-4) play the Bombers (5-12) at 8am that day, a potentially dicey proposition.
The Ducks will know the outcome of the game before they take the field that afternoon. They will either be tied with or a full game behind the Brookline Bullies.
Regardless of the result of the morning contest, a Ducks victory over the Eagles will set up a showdown for second place when the Black Sox travel to SpringView Field the following Monday. Naturlly the Black Sox are the home team Monday night
The Ducks have defeated the Eagles 3-2 and 9-2 in two previous meetings, and have never swept the Eagles in a season series. Practice today 6pm at John Herb Field.
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This is crunch time, we have hit bottom and it’s time to bounce back.
Stretch-run City.
Recap of last night’s horror film a couple posts down.
This recap is going to be dogshit. If you want to know how this feels, go into the bathroom slam yourhead off the toilet and piss yourself while your passed out. Then wake up and repeat.
I could give a gray bats ass about beating some of the teams we play I want to beat the best.
It sure didn’t look like we were a second place team playing our 17th game of the year, we were tight to start, we missed plays we usually make.
“It looks like were here for a business meeting“ -Dr. Jones.
Mike Fletcher started, after pitching 4 innings yesterday when – in a last minute decision, – coach decided to scrap the knuckle-baller idea. He pitched well the defense was uncharacteristically bad. We were down 4-o before That loud lady in the stands could get her voice warmed up. Kirk almost went yard, wound up with a double. They loaded the bases on walks, KT hit a hard grounder to first. Kirk took out their catcher when the first baseman threw home. they cried foul. Then they threw at Mars, well over his head, almost over the back stop. he walked in our only run. That was a hard baseball play, I would have done the same thing. I have done the same thing, and i’ve had it done to me as a catcher. I don’t think it was dirty or done with intent to injure. If hadn’t gone 0 for 3 like a joke, (2k’s and a broken bat on a double play) I might have gotten the chance. I give them credit for arguing the to try to get the out. That was about as exciting as it got.
4-1. after two Fletcher battled. Some kid hit a shot up the middle our secondbaseman made a diving stop, but rifled one from three feet instead of flipping it. these things happen. Some pop-up dropped in right center. This is what happens when we play sloppy baseball against the best team in the league. The Ducks got out of the inning down 6-1. We continued to not hit. Then we ran out of pitching and they effectively dominated us in a display reminiscent of the 2006 Ducks. Guthrie and Jesse Smith also had hits.
that Sinclair kid is the real deal, a little wild, and we weren’t (I definitely wasn’t anyway) as patient as maybe we could have been. But he’s got an extra gear when he needs it, and basically owned us.
I’ve never wanted to play a double header so bad in my life.
What a shit show.
I could have done without the guy in the stands who was loudly asking if they could call the game without us having our last at bat, so we “wouldn’t get embarrassed,” as if it wasn’t embarrassing enough.
I have No idea who that guy is and i wouldn’t write it here if I did.
It isn’t as if the Owlz didn’t put on a hitting display. they hit it hard and often, and to give a team like that extra outs is a recipe for disaster.
but at the end of the day, we are 12-5, 1/2 game out of the coveted 2nd spot. We play the Black Sox twice, and they also play the Owlz twice. We are owlz fans now, until we face them again.
A loss is a loss, a 2-1 loss would have counted the same in the standings.
I’m disappointed in myself, and that we, collectively, didn’t play our best, which is what it will take to beat this team.
It’s important we keep our sense of humor, it’s one loss, it might not even be the last.
Bullet pointz
We still have seven games left and are in a battle for a first round bye.
I think Mars gets his chance if we see these guys again.
If anyoen thinks I, or the Ducks have made any excuses go _uck yourself, we got our ass beat fair and square.
D is the missing letter
I’ve gotten my ass beat by worse teams, I’ve K’d against worse pitchers.
(pause for you to make a joke to yourself)
Scoscia, bwp model 243, 32 1/2 in.
Thank you to the fans who showed up to support both teams.
We need Novak back on as permanent a basis as possible.
Mantis’ ERA took a bit of a hit.
I really like the way Watson plays second, there was some rust tonight, but if he continues to show up everygame, that shot up the middle will turn into a sick double play when we really need it.
this is only the second worst loss to the owlz in ducks history
at least they didn’t run it up, no stealing or bunting or whatever, we just sucked.
If you think we can’t make a run at this Ill take your jersey and give it to some guy who can pretend to be you for the rest of the season.
I don’t think we were intimidated, just nervous, I take some of that blame.
apparently there’s something going on in the post after this one.
What a game of the week, eh?
Dr. Jones 4Life
Take the good with the bad, and hope we get a chance to redeem ourselves in the playoffs.
Seven games left, we still have hope. No one is going to kick us out of the league for this game. We are still going to be in the think of the battle for the bye. We need to put this behind us and focus on our next game. We have to respond by playing well down the stretch. Hope is a good thing.
Bad News for the Eagles on Saturday, at the Confederacy’s home field in Monroeville.
Both the Owlz (12-1)and Black Sox (11-4) lost today. We have sole possession of second, one game behind the Owlz who have 2 games at hand and dominate us in all tie breakerz.
We have to take care of business tomorrow against the same team we beat today.
nothin’ to fuck with
The South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (12-3) won their seventh consecutive game – the longest current winning streak in the Pittsburgh NABA.
The Ducks have allowed six runs in the last seven games.
The Ducks have recorded three consecutive shutouts.
Adam Smith (5-1) has pitched 19 consecutive scoreless innings.
Tony Casale hit a solo homerun.
Wojton had 2 triples and 3rbi.
Depo and Murphy hit doubles
Coby leads the team in infield hits
The Warriors have the best looking left fielder in the league by far.
Kenny Powers just wants to be loved
Tomorrow won’t be as easy.
full recap to follow – a Gibson/Gunner joint.
BP 12-1:15pm tomorrow at Pitt.
Ducks at Warriors at 3pm at Ohio River Blvd. Field
He still has stats form an ’05 Ducks Warriors game It was a barn-burner 18-15 Ducks loss. That kind of stuff would go well on a Warriors website if one existed.
I’d post them if i felt like creating a pdf file or something but i don’t. it’s only the warriors stats anyway.
Also was the box score of a game i played on the Warriors against the Eagles. an excerpt from the email: Ben,I thought these games were funny to look back on.7/17/05: The Peters brothers rolled into Herb field in the top of the first with Stein at bat. Dan Peters must have just rolled out of bed, he was actually in just a pair of shorts.6/8/06 (You filled in for us vs. the Eagles) then the stats.
If it seems like i gush over how far the league has come that should give you an idea of why. guys don’t wear shorts anymore, and we don’t normally play on different teams. there are also significantly fewer 18-15 games.
So whatever.
Let’s avenge that 18-15 loss.
The Warriors are without Steve Heckman who is at some Gay Rights rally in Washington D.C.
He is a brave one.
This is the start of a crucial stretch for South Oakland of the North Side.
After taking a year-long furlough between games we have 3 tough ones in a row. Let’s get off to a strong start against the Rainbow Warriors, and stay hot through Monday.
Last year we lost 7-4 – i think – in a game where we had second baseman issues and gave up like 5 unearned.
The Warriors are always tough, they will have some kid who throws strikes and knows how to pitch, and a bunch of guys who can catch the ball.
and this guy
I haven’t seen Wojton in ten years, is he alive? Will Jesse Smith take some kid yard again like he did in our last game against the Warriors? Will Watson be back from his ankle injury? How many Doubles will Captain America hit? Who will pitch for the Ducks? Abe Lincoln knows…
We will find out tommorrow We should have all Ducks on board.
Bad News for the Warriors
Quack.
{This is the Ducks Blog’s 300th post} thanks to everyone who has contributed to the blog. and most importantly, thanks for reading.
Into the belly of the beast. I’ve been to at least 40 Phish shows, 4 is my lucky number. The last time i saw Phish was 2003 – the last year the Ducks won a Championship. Superstition City.
I hate Hippies so much.
Huge weekend for the Ducks.
Batting Practice Friday 6pm, and Saturday 12pm-1:15 then we leave for Warrendale Field
Since you probably don’t read their site without provocation… The Gray Bats are calling out the Ducks foil in the Campbell Conference, the PGH Bulldogs. GrayBatsBlog-Reprise
If for some reason we had a blogger who didn’t also play on our team, or i was smart enough to be anonymous from jump street.
it would open the door for the blog to say things like who we’re going to beat etc… but I didn’t and we don’t.
I’m just glad I’m not thinking about how I’m going to avoid a first round match-up with myself, and hoping to get forfeits from the Matadors, and hoping other teams lose etc. Those were bleak times.
I don’t know how I’d feel if I were a player and our defact-o team spokesman specifically said we were going to lose 3 of 7 games.
(Any Duck who wants admin access to our blog is welcome to it, the more variety we have in the voice of this site the better.)
and I would sure as hell be pissed if I were Dr. Radical, and a 2-12 team said my team was one of 4 he expected to beat. The odds are they won’t lose to them twice. The Gray Bats figure to be active at the roster deadline.
My take on the rest of the Ducks schedule is that every game individually is winnable. We went 9-3 in the first half of the season, and to improve that by one game and finish 19-5 seems reasonable. The big picture goals are to advance in the playoffs, make a run at the conference title and the championship.
Kenny Powers will be out for blood the next time we face them.
Kenny Powers is a bullet-proof tiger. (I don’t think I’m getting that recap,but if he wanted a guest spot to post some league news, or something, we could probably work that out.)
To list individually which games i think we will win is not something I would do.
The South Oakland Ducks (11-3) of the North Side have won 6 straight – a franchise record.
South Oakland Ducks Baseball 