This was overall a really good game by both teams. I lost this one for us a few different ways.

Their catcher definitely dropped the ball when he tagged me at home, but I shouldn’t have run and deserved to be out. A bunch of other things could have gone differently, but this one is tough.

I haven’t been this upset about a loss this year. This is our second one-run loss to Cranberry in two games, and we wasted another good outing by our starting pitching. The hits have to start falling eventually.

Cranberry is now 9-1, while South Oakland falls to 6-7.

South Oakland’s next game is Friday, 8pm at Hershel Park. We play D2, and are the home team. This is a makeup of a rain out earlier in the season.

 

Tough one-run loss the day after Brandt’s wedding. Looks like we battled, and came up just short, scoring two in the sixth on Morgan’s RBI single and another in the seventh off a Colton Fago triple. We had the tying run on third to end the game. Two close ones against the Eagles this year. We’ve accounted for half their wins.

South Oakland falls to 6-5 with the loss. The Eagles improve to 4-6.

The Ducks next game is Wednesday, 8pm at West Field vs Sheraden

Around the League

Cranberry handed Bauerstown their first loss of the season this weekend, and those two teams are tied for first at 7-1.

The defending champion Oilers (7-4) are somehow still competent despite their manager’s pleas to stay in AA because their team that lost everyone and has no pitching.

Sheraden is a game in front of us at 6-3. Big game against them this Wednesday. It’ll be interesting to see how they respond to the suspensions that were handed down over the weekend, and a ton of makeup games that have been backloaded to their schedule.

The Devils and Bandidos both won by forfeit over the Wolfpack this weekend. Bad news for West View. I’m not sure if they are going to be able to keep from folding. Who could’ve seen this coming?

How are the Bandidos 1-6?

A big part of succeeding in this league is being able to put out a competitive lineup when starters are on vacation or whatever, and grind through June without blowing up too many times. We’ve done ok so far, but a couple close losses and an opening day error-fest might hurt down the line. It’d be great to string a few together, and get out of the middle of the pack. We play 4 games in 6 days next week.

Quack.

 

 

Friday night South Oakland lost 4-0 in a bizarre game to D2. D2’s starter threw well, and we were short a few players. Then in the second inning, our starting pitcher got hurt, and Patton filled in and threw well for the last 4 innings. D2 scored on an error on a dropped fly ball with 2 outs in the first. In the third they were aided by a single that took a six foot hop over our second baseman. They scored another run on a throwing error by our pitcher. I don’t know how they scored their other run. some guy doubled.

The umps admitted they blew the play on the intentional drop that D2 turned into a double play. We had first and third with no outs and their second baseman intentionally dropped a soft liner. Heads up play, but not a legal one. Our next batter popped out anyway.

And we left guys on base all game. It was frustrating. The umps didn’t lose us that one, but they were not great for either team. I think someone skipped a few batters in our book. It’s hard to read.

The biggest loss of the game was Colton Fago pulling his hamstring in the seventh inning after hitting a leadoff double. Fago was scheduled to start the next game at Cranberry, but is now on the injured list.

Saturday we went to Cranberry and again made just enough mistakes to give them a couple runs, and didn’t hit well enough to overcome those mistakes. Cranberry scored a run on a dropped pop-up, and a couple hits that should have been caught, also one on a throwing error on a pickoff attempt.

It was a lot like Friday.

On the bright side, Matt Mullen pitched great in his first start, filling in for Fago. Fago’s injury made us worse at two positions defensively even if the pitching was still good enough to win. We moved an infielder to the mound, an outfielder to the infield, and our DH to the outfield, and it hurt us. We still should have been able to score more runs, but we never seem to hit Cranberry, ever. Germani and the guy with the beard shut us down pretty routinely. However, a couple guys had good days at the plate. Casale hit three doubles, Lombardi and Brandt drove in runs, and Mullen hit a double and scored.

So now we’re going into Tuesday and Wednesday with a depleted bullpen, but we should be ok. our weekday lineup is typically strong.

South Oakland plays next on Tuesday, 6:45 at Mellon Park against the Oilers.