July 21, 2014 rockets complete weekend sweep
Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. I cant believe
what I just saw, to quote broadcaster jack buck. Portland rockets, the cardiac kids, win all
games this weekend, the last 3 in walk off fashion in their last at at
bat. A walk off is when a player drives
in the run that ends the game for his team.
. geoff bowers, alex delk and Dalton
tinsley provided the walk off heroics. I have never seen anything like it –each
of those thrillers were come from behind victories. Wow.
Saturday vs northeast kekionga rockets behind the complete
game effort by tyler
Reynolds, 122 pitches, rockets win 5-1. game 2 the funky walk off stuff begins.
The Indiana
tech team jumped to an 8 0 lead on just 2 hits, and rockets start bursting in
air. 3 run home run by mitch waters,
then a clutch 3 run bomb over the fence
by connor milligan, and the rockets make the big comeback. Great to see heath
Williams make a return to the lineup.
Heath played all day after a 3
year layoff and had hits in both games.
Rockets down then 10- 8 in the last inning used a Williams bunt with 4
hits by his teammates to set up bowers walk off. Rockets win when down 8 0 win
11-10.
Special thanks for the weekend at the ball park with Samantha
Thomas. She was in the publicity dept
for the ft wayne
tincaps, she ran our press box and we loved it.
Good baseball and good karma Sunday. My uncle ron miller made the trip down from Warsaw, and stayed the
day. He claims the coach is a slacker and
overpaid. Ray millers younger brother game me my umpire gear about 40 years
ago.\
Portland
rockets finished the regular season at runkle-miller field Sunday with a
doubleheader sweep over the ft. wayne
expos. Rockets won 2-1 in 9 inn. And 5-4.
Veteran righthander mitch waters surrendered one run in the
9th but rockets came back and won anyway, walk off alex delk come from behind win again
Waters went the distance , 5 hits and 95 pitches 0 walks.
Justin Marrero returns to the lineup and scores the tying
run, on waters single, bowers scores on delks single.
Game 2 rockets have but 1 hit going into the last inn,.
Trailing 4-0 and here comes that rockettrain, scratching, clawing digging, with
2 outs Dalton tinsley singles in billy geeslin, who had doubled with the bases
loaded to set the stage,,,man, I thought billy had won the game w a granny but
tinsley walk off closed the deal.
Tinsley had 10 hits this weekend, bowers 7 waters 5
Good karma, a little luck,\
I say just good players making plays,
Rockets record now 23-10.
Portland
will play Thursday at Carrington field. 7 pm start vs ft. wayne marlins 9 inn. Game
We say good bye to good friend Gerald kunce who graded the
original park
Happy birthday dick huffmman
Certainly news worthy , rockets win x 4, and 3 are walk
offs.
I will never forget this weekend for as long as I live
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