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Dawgs Finish Spring 2005 with 4 wins, and 10 losses
Posted by Shmuel Goldstein on
Jun 04 2005
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05:00PM PDT
There are some good spots, some tough spots and some ugly spots.
The good spots are obviously, our three wins (which was more than 2004, LOL). Oh, the fourth was the make-up game from the first ZT game. They forfeited, FWIS. And then ....
With Zeke pitching half the post-Pesach games, and Shmuel pitching the other half, the Dawgs fought hard, but couldn't quite put together a convincing win after the MH win on May 5th.
- Against Dimona on the 8th of May, we made them work for it, but some key mis-plays, a few of Zeke's illegal pitches, and the fact that we have a hard time against Yarone's pitching resulted in a 3-7 loss.
- The Tigers are the hottest hitting team in the ISA this year, and Shmuel's junk wasn't junky enough for them. They pummeled us, 19 to 4 on May 15th.
- We then played Eilat, and everyone expected to win. But Zeke was having some illegal pitching problems, and this affected our play, and encouraged the Eilat pitcher, former Dawg Jeremy Shai. We jumped out to a 9-0 lead, but then slipped back until at the end of 4 innings, Eilat was leading 16-11. The only bright spot for us, if you can call it that, was the fact that the game was called at this point, due to time (the lights were going to go out in three minutes), leaving it unofficial. So we didn't "lose". Gee, what phun.
- The next game against Penticon, on the 22nd, was probably the best game we played against this perennial top team. After three innings, we led them 5-3, and were feeling good. After all, we were hitting against Ami's pitching, which isn't the easiest thing thing in the world. The Penties were having some problems hitting Shmuel's junk well, and we had tight D, but the Penties are experienced, and they were able to get a few more on board, and eventually went ahead, 13 to 7. But the final result was respectable, and we all went home feeling good.
- The Tri-United game on the 29th was the one truly ugly game of the year. A strong outing for Zeke, with rookie Alberto Tascher behind the plate, it was an exciting, see-saw game. We were up 11-10 in the bottom of the sixth (in spite of our SEVEN errors!), and at this point the umpire made an erroneous call (mis-interpretation of the rules, not a bad judgement call), awarding TU three bases (see the summary in the Games link), thus scoring the tieing run. So, the game is under protest.
- Finally, the second Dimona game starting out OK, with Shmuel coming back with some decent stuff, but Dimona exploded in the third, and didn't come back. Yarone's heat closed down our bats, punishing us with our first shut-out in more than three years.
Final standings for Spring 2005 (ISA website):
1 Tigers |
14/2 |
2 Penticon |
13/3 |
3 Dimona |
12/4 |
4 Zion
Tours |
9/7 |
5 Tri-United |
7/7 |
6 TTT |
5/9 |
7 Dawgs
|
4/10 |
8 Eilat
|
2/13 |
9 Magic
Homes |
2/12 |
That’s what happened. Now, what SHOULD have happened:
1 Tigers |
14/2 |
2 Penticon |
12/4 |
3 Dimona |
11/5 |
4 Dawgs
|
11/5 |
5 Zion
Tours |
8/8 |
6 Tri-United |
7/8 |
7 TTT |
3/11 |
8 Magic
Homes |
2/12 |
9 Eilat
|
2/14 |
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