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Posted Jul 6/11 - Rockets best Decatur 3-0, 3rd time this year

Portland rockets 3 decatur dirty birds 0 july 5, 2011

 

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. The Portland rockets continued their winning ways tues nite besting the Decatur dirty birds 3-0 at runkle-miller field.  This marks the third straight win over over rival, we beat them 2-0, 5-1 and now 3-0.  a huge crowd on hand, of course the maloys were there, did not see much offensive firepower, had plenty of that at the july 4th skyshow at the fairgrounds.  This contest was scoreless until the rockets scored 2 in the 5th . brad kindred singled to left, blake turner executed a sac bunt, kindred took 3rd on a wild pitch and was ruled safe at home plate on brady roundtrees ground out to first.  And he was safe, confirmed from the rocket pressbox by both public address man dan haines, and his scoreboard operator judge clem.

Rockets added another run on an 8th inning home run blast by ben smith over the hedges in right field, ben’s 5th home run of the season. Smith and heath Williams led the attack with 2 hits each.

Rocket pitching was the highlight of the evening,  brad benbow of delta went 7 scoreless inn. For the win. Brad allowed just 3 hits and struck out 5 giving up 4 walks and he hit 3 batters.  Tyler Reynolds went unscathed in the 8th.  Trevor kill closed out the game…the last out was made on a sparkling diving catch by kinderd in cf. with a throw to 1st to double up the dirty birds.  They  end up with 13 runners left on base and 0 runs.  So exasperated with his inept offense, manager victor canales came out of retirement to take an at bat, he bounced out to Williams at second

In attendance was former rockets Jason Stanton, corey locke, paul minnich and coach dean lehrman from heritage high school. 

Last nites game went 2 hr. 8 min.

Rocket record now 19-9 and 11-4 in league play.

And as judge clem stated, we get to do it again today. Rockets play the shady nook jackers tonite in Portland.  Yes, that is the same team that knocked out the rockets in tournament play this past weekend.  Well, this has a revenge match flavor to it,,,,and certainly some home town community spirit will be in vogue …. We will have our friends from crossroads financial credit union help set up the ambush. 7pm at the corner of western and blaine, bring your lawn chairs and root root root for the home team.

Rockets vs. shady nook jackers in a rematch  -----devin wilburn the starter

The rematch ===sounds like a rocky movie, cant wait to see it.  And all those zany folks from crossroads on hand, this will be fun.

Special birthday wishes to Robert freemeyer from ft. recovery and to max ludy, josh ludy’s dad,  and josh is still in texas darn it.  Last nite 3 rocket catchers were unable to make the game, we called blake turner and he backed out of his umpire gig and made the trip to Portland and caught the shutout.  Great work blake.





 


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