July 11, 2014 ft. wayne panthers 6 portland
rockets 4
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. Thrs nite at runkle-miller
Field, under a full moon, the Portland rockets dropped a wood bat ballbame
to the
Ft. wayne
panthers from st. francis; 6-4.
Rockets got behind the 8 ball early giving up 3 runs on 0
hits after 3 inn, but did
Rocket rally to tie the game in the 6th 4-4. rockets would not dent the plate again,
stranding a glaring 14 men on base,,,exciting to the end –portland put runners on the corners with one
out, but mitch waters popped out and tj lindstrand hit a laser, right to
The 1st baseman for the out,,,,a game of inches,
just a couple either way and it would have found the right field corner and
perhaps tied the game.
Rockets out hit the foes of ft wayne 10-7 put left to many opportunities
squandered.
2 hits each for kokomo kids logan barnes and Dalton
tinsley, connor milligan and mitch waters hit doubles.\
5 rocket pitchers toiled and foiled, 8 walks and 2 hits
batsmen, 2 hour 50 min. in this titanic
struggle
Alex delk, gary Williams,
milligan, Justin miller, and tyler
Reynolds and we had Wesley
Hibbard ready just in case.
This was a disappointing loss, one wonders how we let this
game slip away, but we did have baserunners nabbed at the plate, hit into
double plays, and just did not protect our house,,,,as yogi berra said,,”90% of
this game is half mental.”
We should note that Indiana
all-star kyle selvey did play a stellar shortstop and made many a fine
play; I enjoyed the fellas approach to
the game,,,he even garnered his first rocket hit.
Thanks cale Jeffries for your help chasing foul balls, cale
is john welker’s grandson.
And great to see
Charlie and Vicki tague at the park, and we appreciate giving us your 50/50
donation.
Rockets are now 25 games into the season. The 6-4 loss makes the team record 15-10
We have more fish to fry, home double header sat. 1pm
start; the Mishawaka brewers
Are coming to town,
waters and Reynolds are the starters.
Sun back to ft wayne
vs 4th of july tournament champions.
Bollenbacher and helm vs the expos.
Nothing like hearing the resonant sound of bat on the
ball, I told logan barnes that rockets shot he hit woke up
the whole ballpark
See you sat at runkle-miller field at 1pm and root root root for the home team
Randy miller pg 14 |