July 9, 2014 rockets 3 twin city bankers 0

Rocket notes:

Portland rockets defeated twin city bankers tues evening 3-0 at runkle-miller field

Home sweet home, 1.4 in of rain, it just made our field green and it played well.

In front of a sizeable crowd, rockets return home and play well.

Portland 3 runs, 4 hits errors, bankers 0 runs , 2 hits, 2 errors.

Good pitching, defense and timely hitting, an old recipe for success.

Shutout pitching and 6 stikeouts each by matt helm from marion, and Justin miller from

Yorktown, and it was lights out, helm pitched 4 yrs at grace his line 4 inn. 6 ks no hits 5 walks. Miller 3 inn 6 ks, 2 hits 1 walk.

Our good friend pastor Darrell borders shared with me a tony larussa quote, the old manager of the cardinals said, “ the result many little things is not little.”

Just like getting to that next base 90 feet away.

Exactly the point sports editor chris schanz brought to light, small ball,

Get em on , get em over, get em in, I say,

Rockets used bunts by kyle selvey, logan barnes and Thomas mccowan and all three figured into 3 runs.

Rockets scored in the 3^rd 4^th and 5^th inning, catcher cody crumlauf from auburn walked and selvey in his first rocket at ab, executed the small ball bunt and an overthrow scored gary Williams running for our catcher.  All star player and coach kyle selvey and his dad lea, and josh and the family on hand, and we enjoyed having em,,, good luck in the all star series this weekend, also on hand Wesley Hibbard of the patriots

Great to visit with coach selvey ---he was part of some great times in rockets lore,

He reminded me of a rain delay and he, myself and pat medler shot bottle rockets at lamargarita dugout,,,I know this was pat medler’ doing,,,,,,

Crumlauf also drove in a run and picked off a runner at first, this kid is a solid addition to our catching postion, all our pitchers love throwing to him, blocking pitches in the dirt, and calling a strong game.

Alex delk from cowan had 2 hits, geoff bowers from lima, 1 hit. Mitch waters had a sacrifice fly rbi to complete the scoring

Thanks to our bat boy reid claycomb #7 from the redkey all –stars.

Great to see old rocket eli jones, he just may be Winchester high schools next baseball coach.
coach rick Atkinson assistant coach at taylor university and former pro player, was on hand and shared stories of his days in the 60s playing in the Detroit free press league

With teammate steve garvey –yep that guy from the la dodgers

Rockets win 3-0, 1 hr. 41 min in this titanic stuggle

Rockets record 15-9

More fun in store,  back at rmf on Thursday, rockets vs. ft. wayne panthers 7 pm

Congratulations rob weaver and all Cincinnatus league members.

Love ya in Portland,

See ya thurs nite at the ball yard.

Randy miller pg 14