June 17 2007

Whalley Park. 10am. Vs Burnaby Biscuits.

Happy Father's Day!

Many thanks to all the fathers - and nonfathers - who attended today's miserably wet and uncomfortable ballgame. Well actually, maybe it was only wet and uncomfortable for us players as we are not allowed to take umbrellas onto the field. Or maybe we are allowed. We probably should have looked into that, cuz damn it was wet and uncomfortable. Swinging a bat while holding an umbrella wouldn't have looked too ridiculous. And it wouldn't have affected our swing much either. In fact, the at-bat outcomes for some of us (*cough cough* one of us *cough cough*) probably would have been the same.

"ohhhhhhhHHHHHHHH BRAD."

Biscuits took an early-innings lead courtesy us and our bumbling ways. After we spotted them a 3-nil lead our fielding improved, but our bats.. ohhhhhh our bats. We don't think the Surrey Indians franchise has ever been no-hit through the first four innings of a game before... until today! Please note: exclamation marks are sometimes used to mask our tears.

In the fifth inning the no-hit bid ended in dramatic fashion, with great rejoicing, when Ratelle crushed a ball to deep centre for a double. He eventually scored, then a couple of innings later we scored a couple more, and then a couple of innings later we scored a couple more.

Jones pitched the first five innings, and did an excellent job of it. Ratelle then came in and pitched the final three innings (eight-inning game today), doing an equally excellent job of it. Several of Ratelle's pitches that were called balls looked good from centre. Of the three runs the Biscuits scored today, we know at least two were unearned, possibly all three. Through nine games, we have a runs against average of 3.78, leading our division and behind just the Mathers Division's Black Sox's 3.38. We won't compare our runs for average.

Final score was Indians five Biscuits three. One video added to the video box: jeffrey - 06/17/2007.

Today's iPod.
In the top of the eighth the Biscuits had a runner on first with one out. The batter represented the tying run. ping - it's a liner up the middle. It's snowconed by a diving Piva! He gets up. He snaps a throw to first. Double play! Game over! Kudos.