June 6, 2016 rockets win 4 out of 5 on weekend

Good morning baseball fans, it’s a beautiful day in Portland. Portland rockets played wood bat baseball this weekend in Portland and won 4 out of the 5 games played.

Friday grand lake came to town on golf cart nite.  They got their revenge, Portland had defeated the mariners wed but they won 6-2.  score was 0-0 in the 5^th,  rocket pitcher dan bollenbacher had a perfect game, 12 up 12 down, but they nicked him for 2 runs, and closed with a 6-2 win.  First nite game of the season and a very nice crowd on hand.

This made possible only thru the efforts of franklin electric and our Portland parks department/  they used the 80 foot lift truck to install the replacement lights at runkle-miller field. Thanks greg franklin and ryan myers. 

Rockets came back with avengence sat and sun. winners of 4 straight and now the rocket train rolls.  As pointed out by chris chantz, 42 runs scored on the weekend and the offense is staring to click. Rockets sweep ft. wayne 14-6 and 7-3. tj lindstrand 2 doubles and a grand slam home run, total k6 rbi, Andrew bobeck of bethel college the winner, 101 pitches. Craig martin from marion won game 2 and both left handers this day were in command.  Please note, 4 hits from rocket rookie catcher jake geesaman,  the jay county h.s. senior caught both games and in his first action as a rocket earned the nickname pig pen/ it drizzled all day and Jacob was a muddy mess by days end, and what a day he had.

Sunday and the rockets knocked out the twin city bankers, 12-5 and 7-3

Dalton tinsley had 6 rbi  5 hits and a homer on the day. Zach tanner had 4 hits and a homer as well, exciting to see the boys bashing the ball around the yard, garrett scott the wp from Goshen game 1, d”Quann Blackmon from Muncie game 2

Thanks denny Affolder for feeding the team between games. 

Josh Gibson shared Friday that last time he saw billy geeslin, he was the size of josh’s kid the crazy days past when josh and tony minch minded the rocket lunching pad and billy was a kid

Ben smith a rocket player a few years ago from maria stein was in the house.

Ben is now in the us airforce a crew chief on the combat search and rescue team.

Their job if a craft is downed, go rescue the planes pilot and crew.

Ben just back from turkey, when asked what he likes about his job,

Going up on the mountain and watching us bomb the bleep out of them, pounding them every nite,  he was quite graphic,

Wow,

Rockets set off some bombs this weekend , win 4 of 5 and now record is 6-2

This unique group of men, becoming a team is a great thing to  see. They will rest up for action in Portland wed. vs the ft. wayne panthers, rockets home wed.

Come see us at the corner of western and blaine