At Least It Didn't Rain

Well, it isn’t as if a play here or a play there would have made a difference. Our 21-10 loss to the Catahoula Orcs wasn’t that kind of heartbreaker game.
It would have taken a play here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and there to turn around this baby.
And we didn’t make any plays. None. Zero. Our stunning inability to catch and throw turned what was a seemingly close game in the middle innings into a rout. Now, we’ve seen this game before, and the outcome might have been preordained. But we made it a little easier on them than necessary.
For the record, it was a 6-6 game after three innings, and we trailed just 8-6 after four innings, but Catahoulas put up a nine-spot in the fifth inning. They might have batted around twice. (We don’t know for sure because there was no one on the bench to keep their side of the scorebook. More on that later.)
I didn’t keep count, but we probably made five or six errors that inning. It was good that we bunched them together and gave up only a pretty reasonable 12 runs in the other six innings, but that’s pretty much inventing the bright spot. And I hope Nevins is having a great vacation.

Score was still close after four innings. George did get the
opponents' name wrong, though. Easy mistake.

We didn’t do too badly on offense, although our big four-run inning came in the third when we batted out of order and they didn’t catch it. I think what I’m going to do in the future is post a clipboard on the fence with the batting order written really big so we don’t mess it up against a team that pays better attention. (Oh, wait. I do that? Damn.) And I'm not going to mention who exactly batted out of order because Lynch is actually very sensitive.
From our side of the book, which George Miller did keep for us, Chris Yasiejko, Keith Craig and the Management had three hits. George, Steve Lynch and Dan Rubin had two hits each.
We turned our 17 hits into 10 runs, which isn’t so bad because Catahoula does not give extra outs. They catch the ball, which is another reason not to like them very much.
We come back Monday against the Tap Room on Lake Belmont. Get your swimming in.
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A word about punctuality and showing up if you sign up: Please do.
OK, those are two words, but you get the idea. We have never been a late team and I’m not sure what’s going on, but the Management is going to have an aneurism looking at the time and at the parking lot every week at 6:25 p.m.
Try to arrive by 6 p.m. We can have batting practice! That would be fun!
And if you can't make it, text the poor Management. Don't make Brennan have to find a replacement this early in the season.
As you were.