South Oakland looks to turn its season around with a stretch of four games in four days starting this Thursday night in Brookline.
Upcoming Schedule:
Thurs 9pm vs. Black Sox at Brookline
Sat 1pm Doubleheader at Cranberry
Sun 12:30pm vs. Militia at Woodland Hills HS
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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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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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South Oakland plays the Pour House Pirates Sunday 6:30pm at Moore Park.
We’re not folding. Sorry for the confusion.
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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.
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We’re 1-6.
There’s not a lot to say right now other than there’s still time to get it turned around. We haven’t played our best baseball yet.
Hopefully we don’t get rained out tonight.
Unless you hear otherwise, we are playing.
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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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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.
