Garrett Moore’s pants went 2-for-4 with 3rbi to lead the shorthanded South Oakland Ducks (4-2) to an 8-2 win over the Allegheny Bombers (3-1).
The schedule is up on the league site.
South Oakland plays next Wednsday night 8pm at Springview Field
Full recap to follow.
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Blog posts will get better as we build rivalries, and someone else start writing them.
South Oakland looks to remain unbeaten and extend its winning streak to four tonight against the second place Monsters.
The Monsters beat the Warriors 7-1, and the Senators 11-1.
It should be an even matchup.
I hope they have awesome glow-in-the-dark unis like this:
May be women’s softball jerseys. Even better.
These kids took down the most haunting monster of my childhood.
Bad News for the Monsters.
South Oakland has won two straight and looks to remain undefeated in the season’s early going.
The Senators didn’t do very well last year. Better than the House, but still bad. Allowing 186 runs in 24 games, stalling bills with filibusters, and taking kickbacks from lobbyists.
I prefer Radek Bonk
Bad News for the Senators.
South Oakland improved to 2-0 on the season with a 6-4 win over North America.
The Ducks scored 3 in the bottom of the first. Casale and Gwin Singled to start the game putting runners on first and third with no outs. Casale scored on a double steal. Culp singled in Gwin, and advanced to third when Swetz singled to right. Ben Hartranft scored Culp with a sac fly to center.
The Lions scored an unearned run in the top of the second. Ben Hartranft threw out a guy at the plate.
The Lions ran into some outs. Runners on first and second, there was a past ball and only the runner on first tried to advance and the Ducks got an out on a 2-5-4 putout.
With a runner on second in the third, a ground ball to the left side resulted in a 5-6 putout.
After taking a 4-3 lead in the fifth after a dropped fly ball by the Ducks, North America had runners on first and third with 2 outs and tried to get in a rundown between first and second to allow the runner on third to score but it didn’t work.
Some guy tried to stretch a single and was thrown out at second.
North America threw two good pitchers, and the starter settled in after a rough first innings. South Oakland trailed 4-3 going into the bottom of the fifth.
Faust singled to start the fifth, and took second on a past ball. After a pair of strikeouts, Gwin walked. Then the Lions pitcher went from the windup for some reason, allowing Gwin and Faust to advance. Ciccone drove in 2 with a single to right. Then Culp chased their starter with a double off the wall in right center.
The Lions would only reach base once in the sixth and seventh. Ciccone struck out their 2-hitter to end the game.
Some stats:
2-for-3, 2RBI, R, 5IP, 3H, 2BB, 4K, 2R 0ERNotes:
South Oakland plays next on Saturday at 12pm up at Pie Traynor. Might be scrambling for guys over Easter Weekend.
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Fuck this winter.
It looks like TJ Morgan is running the AA Ducks, and I’m running the single A Ducks. I’m still trying to find a loophole to allow me to play on both teams, but I’m not sure that’s going to happen.
The split should’ve happened in 2010, but no one on that team was going to step down and play in a lower division. Instead, a bunch of guys quit rather than take reduced roles. And, really, who wants a reduced role in a fucking summer league? No one. I strained some friendships over that mess, and I probably deserve it. Maybe I shouldn’t give as much of a shit four years later, but I’m obsessed with narrative–the story in this mess, and without conflict there’s no story. So I think about it.
This weather is making me sound depressed. Here’s a photoshop to lighten things up. Some of my best work!
The A Ducks are shaping up pretty well. We have a bunch of guys from the Militia, and a few ghosts of South Oakland past returning. I think it’ll be fun. We will be competitive. If the pitching holds up, we should contend with the other sandbagging teams for a title. I think those are realistic expectations.
Morgan’s Ducks, will be nasty this year, too, if the pitching holds up. The Fightin’ Ducks, is what it looks like since everyone still has Ducks jerseys. Morgan does things the right way, and helped the franchise through a rough patch last season that saw a near folding of the team, and a collapse down the stretch and a ton of games in the middle of nowhere. It sucks to run a team without a pitching staff, and guys who won’t commit.
Teams that left in the offseason: The Militia. Elliot. Maybe one other one. This will be the Ducks 12th season.
If it wasn’t for Elliot, we could conceivably have won two or three titles in the last four years. We’d have won in ’11 maybe ’12. What would have been awesome, is if we played the Cherokee in the finals or semis two years ago. But this is some space time continuum shit. Whatever. Elliot made the league better. Not upset I don’t have to face Barnes again. They beat us 20-3 one game, the year where only divisional games counted towards our record so we punted that one and got slaughtered.
The Militia broke up, the team that was the Orioles, Knights, Gray Bats, and Rebels who left the Black Sox who were the Stampeders.
With Monroeville disbanded, who will defend the league?
Not Captain America.
Guthrie retired. The last holdover from the TC Jones era, Guth beat the Black Sox to win our most recent championship. Guth went 6 1/3 innings on the mound in a 5-3 win in the clinching game then blacked out and split his chin open that night celebrating. Blood and cheap whiskey everywhere. That’s always how it ends.
Goodnight Captain.
Quack.
Pittsburgh Standings as of Sunday afternoon
We play 3 games in two days starting tonight against 2-time defending champion Elliot in Elliot.
We will have a forfeit win for one of our west end games, and play the other tomorrow night in a game that could be huge.
The Pirates have clinched a spot.
Carrick is technically still alive, but barely. (note: Carrick comes up as carsick in spell check)
Cranberry is falling fast.
The Militia went on a nice run as of late, but lost a tough one this morning.
The Black Sox play Carrick tonight, and still have to reschedule a game against the Bulldogs, before they play us tomorrow.
If we win-out we’re in.
Despite our respective records, we played Elliot close early this season, losing 9-7 and leaving a ton of guys on base.
Patten’s on the hill tonight.
Bad News for Elliot
South Oakland of the North Side beat the Clinton Cherokee 12 – 7 Monday night to take first place in the Monongahela Division.
I wonder what was discussed in the huddles over there? the pre-game talk, two (I think) during the game, and the post-game speech by Clinton’s manager. Probably either the hollow, “we can’t take this team lightly.” Even though it was clear we were taken lightly, or “There’s no way we should lose to this team, they’re horrible. Look at our pants and look at their pants the don’t all match. I love our uniforms they are so sick!”
Or not. I mean, i could be way off base, but whatever their coach was trying to get accross it didn’t take.
Immediately the game had a weird feel to it.The city actualy fixed the lights and dragged the field.
Ducks catcher Ken Cool threw out a runner to end the first. Clinton led 1-0.
In the bottom of the first, Ducks firstbaseman Bobby Swartwout hit a two-run home run and South Oakland wouldn’t trail for the rest of the game.
The Baumgartel/Fago duel started with Baum almost Baconating one to right center, but Roberts made a tough catch at the track.
We scored a run in the second.
Fago picked off a guy at first.
Jesse Ferko and TJ Morgan started hitting doubles.
We had the bases loaded with 1 out in the third, and got one run across.
after three: Ducks 4, Clinton 1.
Then we scored five in the fourth.
Morgan led off with a double Ferko walked, and Roberts bunted for a baseh hit.
Doyle was pulled.
It gets blurry for me at this point. This game was the best the offense has looked all season.
Tessyier came into the game on short rest.
Casale and Houseman came through with back to back singles.
Ken Cool lined out to the wall in left, Gwin flew out to right and Swartwout drove in another run with, I think, a double.
9 – 1, Ducks after four.
the game was stopped to acknowledge Morgan’s first three-hit game as a Duck.
Clinton scored four in the top of the fifth. Baumgartel walked, I threw a ball backwards, there were a couple walks, but we worked out of it. Lead preserved.
9-5, Ducks through four-and-a-half.
In the bottom of the fifth Gwin lead off with a double, Swartwout reached on an error when Gwin was caught in a rundown and pegged in the back. Fago reached on an error. Jesse Ferko hit a bases clearing triple.
South Oakland led 12-5 after five. Fago retired the side in order in the sixth getting Baumgartel to groundout to end their individual battle for the evening.
They put some other kid in to pitch the sixth, he was effective.
The Cherokee scored two in the seventh but the Ducks held on for a five run victory.
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From what Ken Cool tells me, the Cherokee coach still gives us no credit for putting 12 runs across in this game, and taking advantage of the numerous, uncharacteristic Clinton miscues.
They may not have given us their best, but that has nothing to do with us.
I don’t have the book, but I think six Ducks starters had multiple hits in this game, Ferko, Morgan and Houseman each had 3.
We have three non-division games before we play the Black Sox on the 23rd.
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Despite a 9 – 3 overall record, Clinton is half a game back in the division race. First place is on the line.
This game is so important Ken Cool’s brother rescheduled the Cherokee calendar shoot so the team could take extra bp.
We’re down a few key players, but the Cherokee have played fifteen games in the last three days so that’s a wash.
I don’t think they’ll bat 12 tonight.
We need someone to step up.
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
South Oakland will play a makeup game vs. the Matadors Friday at 6:15 at the Inverted Field in beautiful Etna.
The Matadors have been inconsistent this season.
We’re trying to get a game scheduled for Monday, July 5th
Recap of Bulldogs Fightin’s game from last week.
The Hurricanes only losses have come in the division, bummer for them.
The Bulldogs can clinch the Campbell Conference with a win over the Canes, or a win over the Warriors and another Canes division loss.
The Comment section has been mud. Here are the power rankings as of July 1st.
Notthing to controversial there actually, but whatever. The Warriors are struggling which surprises me. Now way should the OIlers be playing down. The Ducks blog likes the Maulers to come out of A. The Bulldogs have the inside track to hold off the defending champs out west.
South Oakland still has four division games remaining against the Militia (2) Sox, and Eagles. One Ducks win over the militia, and one over the Black Sox will clinch the division. The score from last nights Sox Eagles game has not been posted.
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