July 18, 2014 portland
rockets 3 ft. wayne
jackers 2
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. The Portland rockets
Continue their winning ways, defeating the ft. wayne jackers 3-2 thur
nite at Carrington field.
This very well could have been the shortest rocket report
ever, we came, dan pitched good, we lost \1-0
but wait???
ROCKET RALLY
Trailing into the final inn. 1-0 with just one hit, mitch
waters walked on a 3 2 pitch, and was sacrificied to second by tj lindstrand,
after a walk to alex delk, collin affolder grounded into a potential game
ending double play, but his hustle play beat the low throw to first, as the
first baseman smothered the low throw and dropped to the ground, magic mitch
chugged around third base and just kept on going, scoring to tie the game.
Granted the call at first base was close, but that collin affolder was in this
game because he gives his all. Coach
doug tinsley noted this as a big hustle play.
But the rocket rally continues! Thomas mccowan smacks a
ground rule double over the fence, atta boy tom,
They change pitchers and bring in old righthander matt
ousley, we talked about him as a former
rocket in our last report,
With the score tied, catcher cody krumlauf topps it off with
a 2 run liner to right giving big dan bollenbacher a 3-1 lead. Atta boy catcher
cody
What a rocket rally indeed!
Big dan bollenbacher was like a shark smelling blood in the
water
He closes out the complete game win with 105 pitches giving
up 1 earned run on 5 hits with 4 Ks
Rockets had 4 hits, 2 by Thomas mccowan, one by Dalton tinsley and by
catcher cody crumlauf.
Wow, we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Rockets
record improves to 19-10
Jackers fall to 21- 8.
interesting to note, Portland leads the
ft wayne league
with an 8-3 mark. Second place jackers
are 9-5
Game time 1 hr 50 min.
so I got home in time to watch movie bull durham,
I quote walt Whitman, “ I see great things in baseball, its
our game, the
American game. It
will repair our losses and be a blessing to us.”
Rockets will be home this weekend with doubleheaders sat,
sun at runkle-miller field.
Both start at 1 pm.
Saturday tyler
Reynolds and matt helm will start vs northeast kekionga
Sunday mitch waters and Johnny bullpen. That means everybody,,,could be gary Williams from union
city.
Rocket rally
We came, dan pitched good and snatched victory. And it feels
great
Randy miller
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