June 6, 2012
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland.
Wed twi-nite doubleheader in Celina, rockets rolling with a 4-0 record. our club has some swagger, with many Portland fans on hand, 28 players we competed with our grand lake rivals.
Rockets go down swinging, losing 4-3 and 5-1
Both games the Portland team was in a position to win, my sister mickey would also make that claim while playing the dice game aggravation,,,be in a position to win
We just didn’t climb that mountain
All our undoing came disappointedly, with 2 out
Tied 3-3 in the 7th , eathan daggett who was masterful in his 2 inn was touched in his 3rd inn on a 2 out double and a controversial safe call at first base as the mariners drove in the winning run on a ground ball that Justin Marrero made a fine play on , firing to billy wellman at first and we only could wish to see a replay.
Rockets had a good pitching performance by starter billy geeslin who went 3 innings
Giving up 2 runs on 2 hits. Tyler Reynolds gave up one unearned run in the 4th before daggett took the hill.
The rockets out hit the marines in both games
7 hits 2 each by bryan brudi and Justin Marrero,, Marrero with 2 rbi sidenote: Marrero was drafted out of high school 4 years ago by the white sox in the 32 round
game 2
dan bollenbacher rocket ace returned to form,,, and put us in a position to win ---
dan left us ahead 1-0 in the 5th Marrero scoring our only run in the 4th on a 2 out error,
the big righthander from berne surrendered 1 hit with 5 ks but
again the 2 out bug bit.
Cody Harrison with 2 out loaded the bases, travis gray then gave up a 3 run double and the game had a new leader.
Rockets gave up 2 runs in the 6th all with 2 out also. Really a managers nitemare 6 walks with 2 out in those last 2 inn. That issue will be addressed
Game 1 2hours 1 min, game 2 2hours 19 min
Logan hug, marreo, grant hendershot, and jose Gonzalez from carrasco Venezuela a new catcher who came with bollenbacher all had hits, ben smith also had a single, a walk and a stolen base..
Ben a rocket mvp from last year now moves on to the medicine hat mavericks in the Canadian league.. good luck ben we will miss ya
Good to see don and marilyn maloy who made the trip and also marv bruns along with many other of our ohio baseball friends. And happy birthday gary miller of Wabash ohio
Rockets resume action sat in a weekend double header in Cincinnati
Sat vs. Cincinnati chiefs at 2 pm at roselawn park mitch waters who pitched a no hitter vs. them 2 years ago the starter
Sun vs. Cincinnati cobalts at 11 am at Lakota west hs.
We wont win em all but we we’ll win the next one
Randy miller pg 14
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