Saturday, 12:30 at Spring View Field. South Oakland will play the winner of the Oilers vs. Devils game. Winner goes on to face West View.
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Gameday 21: Ducks vs. Cranberry
2016 South Oakland Ducks, Gameday, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks BaseballSouth Oakland Ducks of the North Side (11-9)
vs
Cranberry (7-12-2)
9PM
Springview Field
Tonight is throwback night in Spring Hill. The Ducks will wear uniforms representing teams across 14 seasons of the Pittsburgh NABA. I think Cranberry might breakout their inaugural 2010 unis for the event as well.
The Ducks look to bounce back from a bad loss in Shaler Monday night. Cranberry has an impressive two ties on the season.
There’s a log-jam in the 2-6 spots in the standings. We’ve got to get a couple wins down the stretch here and we tend to play better at home.
I haven’t seen our best hitter in like a month, but we have a lot of guys who can step in and contribute.
Bad News for Cranberry
Gameday 20: Ducks at Rebels
2016 South Oakland Ducks, NABA, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks Baseball, who names their team the Rebels?South Oakland Ducks of the North Side (11-8)
at
Shaler Rebels (8-8)
6pm
Stoneridge Field
We lost to these guys in 9 innings the first time we played them, so it should be another close game. The standings are real close 2 through 5, and we have chance to get some breathing room between us and Shaler with a win. Good luck getting across town at rush hour.
Doc’s on the hill tonight.
Gameday 18: Ducks vs. Express
2016 South Oakland Ducks, Gameday, NABA, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks BaseballSouth Oakland Ducks of the North Side
vs.
Carrick Express
6PM
Springview Field
The Ducks look to bounce back after a tough loss at the hands of the Devils and get back into the thick of the division race today.
This is only the second non-night game we’ve played at Springview. It will be a whole different experience, I’m’ sure.
We have won two, one-run games against Carick this season so it figures to be another close one tonight. A win will give us the season series win and the first playoff tie-breaker over the Express. With the standings as close as they are, tie-breakers are likely going to figure in to playoff seeding and avoiding the play-in game is huge.
Injury update: Pittsburgh NABA all-time leader in hit batsmen and current Ducks RBI leader, Brian Strom, is out indefinitely with what appears to be a dislocated thumb. He made a diving catch last game in the second inning, popped his thumb back in and finished the game.
Strom will be with us in spirit.
Bad News for the Express
Ducks Lose. plus bonus coverage of near brawl in WOLFPACK vs. Oilers
2016 South Oakland Ducks, NABA, pittsburgh NABAWe’ve now lost 3 times to the 6-11 Devils. Our record is 10-8. We were flat after a big win over the Oilers on Tuesday and made a bunch of errors. We are probably the only reason the Devils haven’t folded, so I guess it’s good for the league that we’ve struggled against them.
We play the Express this Saturday, 6pm at Spring Hill.
Despite the loss to the last place Devils last night, we are still 1.5 out of first thanks to BIG OIL drilling the WOLFPACK 4-0 last night in West View
Sources close to the Ducks report that the game got out of hand when a Wolfpack player tried to take out the Oilers’ three-hitter with an elbow to the face during a rundown. Not a hard slide, but an elbow to the face.
Oilers pitcher Dan Rueff shut down West View, throwing a one-hitter through 5 innings. When Rueff came to bad later in the game, the West View pitcher threw at his head.
There was a bizarre report of the WOLFPACK coach using stall tactics that don’t even make sense, regarding cars parked in center field. This shit is too weird to make up.
I’m not a gracious loser, but what an embarrassment.
For the five of you who still read the blog, You can now comment without creating an account with a fake email address. So go ahead and comment like it’s blogspot 2009.
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Gameday 18: Ducks vs. Devils
2016 South Oakland Ducks, Gameday, NABA, pittsburgh NABA, South Oakland Ducks BaseballSouth Oakland Ducks of the North Side (10-7)
vs.
South Hills Devils (5-11)
9PM
Springview Field
We are responsible for 40% of the Devils’ wins this season with a 1-2 overall record vs. South Hills. Pitching is thin for us tonight, but they’re coming off two games this weekend too, so it should even out. Who knows. We need someone to step up.
Bad News for the Devils
Ducks Win: Scooter Retained.
2016 South Oakland Ducks, Ducks win, NABA, pittsburgh NABA, Recap, South Oakland Ducks BaseballThe South Oakland Ducks of the North Side defeated BIG OIL 7-5 behind Brian Strom’s 3-for-3, 3 RBI night and another strong start from Zuzak (W, 4-1).
The Ducks jumped out to a 4-1 lead after three innings, the teams traded runs until the seventh, when the Oilers pulled to within 7-5 with two outs and a runner on second. Then Ducks relief pitcher Chris Heisler struck out their clean up hitter to end the game. Big time pitching.
Morgan drove in two runs for the Ducks and Sorosky laid down his team leading, second sac bunt of the season.
A. Ciccone went 3-for-4 with an RBI double, reached on an error and stole three bases in a losing effort.
South Oakland wins the season series against BIG OIL 2 to 1, and retains the Spring Hill Scooter, which was thrown at the home dugout during their loss to the Eagles a few weeks ago.
Chartier is holding the scooter. I’m holding Chartier’s arm in its socket.
The Ducks (10-7) have won four of their last five and are now in third place, 1.5 games behind West View (10-4) and half a game behind the Eagles (12-8).
The Duck’s next game is Wednesday night, 9PM at Spring Hill vs. the South Hills Devils.
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Gameday 17: Ducks at BIG OIL
2016 South Oakland DucksSouth Oakland Ducks of the North Side (9-7)
vs
Hebrew Oilers (9-8-1)
6:45 PM
Mellon Park
The Scooter will be in the building tonight.
Bad News for BIG OIL
Ducks Win 3-2. Umps Not Terrific.
2016 South Oakland DucksSouth Oakland of the North Side defeated the Carrick Express 3-2 in a bizarrely officiated game, Saturday night in Carrick. DiPiaola (W, 4-1) threw his first complete game of the season for the victory. He struck out the last batter of the game. Brian Grundle pitched well for Carrick in the loss, also going seven innings and generally keeping the Ducks off balance.
The Ducks (9-7) scored three runs in the first and held Carrick (6-8) to two runs over the final six inning to hold on for the win.
We made key defensive plays to cut down the tying run at the plate on a chopper to the pitcher, and turned a double play to end a threat in the third. So far, we’ve won more close games than we’ve lost this season, which is the sign of a good team.
There were bad calls against both teams in this game, which is a shame because it was a well played and well pitched game that could have gone either way. The plate ump forgot the count and missed a fair/foul call on a potential double that went against the Ducks, and made a few bad calls on pitches against the Express. It probably evened out, but who knows. You can’t fix one call and then replay everything in a vacuum. The space time continuum would collapse on itself.
The Ducks play next on Tuesday night 6:45 at Mellon Park vs. the Oilers.
Rain Out
2016 South Oakland DucksThis is the second time in Ducks history, we’ve had a rain out that I couldn’t call off in time to avoid ump fees. Really thought the rain was gonna miss us. Fifteen minute downpour and it was all she wrote. We now have 2 games vs. the Express to reschedule.
South Oakland’s next game is Saturday, 8:00PM against the Express at Volunteer Field in Carrick.
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