Playoff Schedule

Big win leads to 2nd seed in playoffs

Doublewide held on for a huge 11-10 victory last night over Ballz Deep, which catapulted Doublewide from 5th in the standings all the way up to 2nd - leading into next week's playoffs.

Doublewide led 9-2 going into the bottom of the 6th inning, but Ballz Deep's sticks got hot as they scored 5 to cut the lead to 9-7. Doublewide got 2 big runs in the top of the 7th (with 2 outs), which ended up being the difference since Ballz Deep scored twice in the bottom of the inning. The final out came on a 2-run homer by Ballz Deep, which was an out because it was their 4th homerun of the game.

As the 2nd seed in the league playoffs, Doublewide (9-6-1) will host the #7 seed Team Streicher's (5-11) at 8 p.m. The teams split their two games during the regular season. A second game against either #3 PT Mortgage or #6 BMW will follow at 9:15.

Congratulations to Dirty Grizzlies for winning the regular season championship!

The final regular season standings are:

1. Dirty Grizzlies (11-5-1)
2. Doublewide (9-6-1)
3. PT Mortgage (9-6-1)
4. Wild Turkeys (9-7)
5. Ballz Deep (9-7)
6. BMW (5-9-2)
7. Team Streicher's (5-11)
8. Amish Donkey Mob (5-11)

Winning!

The story of the year continues. We struggle to find 10 guys that are able to show up. However, even though short handed and missing three of our key players we pounded Wild Turkeys 14-0 in a game that only took 35 minutes to play. Cuff lowered his team leading ERA to 11.48 (FYI...I have no f'ing idea) on the season behind a complete game shut out that included one strikeout. Primus finally learned how to field a ground ball and played superb D at 2nd base. One last tune up next week against Ballz Deep before playoffs start. Currently we are in 5th place in the standings so we get to play the spoiler in the playoffs. That is if we all show up! ;)

Bloodbath

After possibly the worse showing in Doublewide's illustrious history last week, dropping two games to bottom of the barrel squads, we showed up last night with a rag-tag mixture of scrubs and subs.  We then proceeded to beat the shit out of poor old BMW.  After a close first inning, we went on to score a combined 22 runs in two innings on our way to a route of the scrappy (and sometimes crabby) BMW team.  As an added bonus, we got to see their usually hot-headed pitcher completely fall apart and take himself out of the game.  I am not really sure who played the best.  It was pretty much a team effort.  Watching people scared shitless from the surprise fireworks show following the game was pretty fun too.

Bottom line, whatever we did last night, keep doing it....

Games at 7 and 9 next week with a break in the middle - better bring some beers and bug-spray.

Updated Schedule

I have updated the schedule based on what Barry sent out last week.  Lets hope we remember how to play softball tomorrow night.  We play the two last place teams so let's keep rolling with two more wins.  At least our pitcher has been practicing during the break (see picture below).


Great Form!



Rained Out

Tonight's games have been postponed due to rain. No word yet on when they will be made up.

We're Comin'!

After a slow start to the season, Doublewide is starting to look like the team that won both the summer and fall league championships last year.

On Tuesday, Doublewide pounded both PT/General Mortgage and Wild Turkeys to pull to within one game of the league lead. The best part of the night was watching PT's pitcher walk off the field after walking a couple batters - screaming at the umpire. I think we walked 2 or 3 times that inning and had about 10 hits - not sure you can blame the ump for us hitting well.

A bright spot for Doublewide was Derick Primus - who like Alexi Casilla - took a few weeks to show up, but he's starting to earn his roster spot (even though an opposing team referred to him as a "scab"). He was only retired once all night.

The two wins brought Doublewide to 5-3-1. PT/General Mortgage is still leading the league with a 6-2-1 record, but...WE'RE COMIN'!

Next weeks games: 6 p.m. vs. Wild Turkeys and then @ Dirty Grizzlies (who always seem to have our number). A couple of tough games - let's stay hot!

Player of the Week - Mr. Scott Ronglien

The german moses was smoking the ball all over the field. Probably because he gets so much rest between innings.  Does it annoy anyone else when you look over when we are on defense and Scott is over there enjoying a nice chew and taking practice cuts in the on-deck circle?  I guess if he keeps hitting like this, I dont care.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU6UHBYJOUw

We're Commin....

Sorry it took me so long to post.  I will try to exercise more haste after future wins.  Yeah that's right...I said win.  Doublewide took the field Tuesday for the late game against a tough Ballz Deep squad.  After giving up the proverbial 10 runs in the first inning, we were not to be discouraged.  Especially since we witnessed our opponent balls-deep into the mixed adult beverages before the game near the lower picnic table.  We scraped 9 back in the bottom of the first and went on to add 17 more leading to a 27-18 victory to bring us back within striking distance of the league leaders.  Bottom line is...whatever the hell we did on Tuesday with the bats, KEEP DOING IT.  In my opinion, Tuesday night was a good example of what happens when we become patient at the plate (exception: Tim).  The funny thing is, we waited until we had a 40 mph wind to show the patience.  Lets show the same patience at the plate during dead calm nights.  We are all capable of driving the ball with a strike on us so lets start making the pitchers work a little bit.  Notice how when we were patient, we had less pop flies and more lasers?

LETS KEEP IT UP.  It is nice to show up on Tuesdays and have fun (aka win).  We have a tough double-header next week against PT and the Turkeys who have both been hot.  PT continues to embarrass teams with their uncanny ability to utilize their age, wisdom, surgeon-like hitting, and beer guts as their keys to victory. The Turkeys are fresh off a big upset win of the Dirty G's.  We will have to show up with our A game.  Next week's game is definitely a momentum changer in the league if we play like we should.  We won so we have a player of the week (see main page on sidebar). 

Disclaimer: Player of the week is chosen by me and is not necessarily reflective of the player that played the best.  Plus, we don't keep stats and my memory sucks.

Until next time...

Other News around the League:

• Good news: Dirty Griz lost, Ballz Deep lost
• Bad news: PT crushes again.  Turkeys are hot.

5/17 Recap

The first game started and ended ugly against PT Mortgage. The game was fairly close until about the 5th inning when again the bats went silent and the gloves failed us miserably. The 17-1 Doublewide summer team that played sick defense all last summer had yet to show any signs of that team . PT put a pretty good beat down on us the last couple of innings and ended up winning the game 24-8.

The second game we showed some signs from the team we had last year. The only big change was we went back to playing 4 infielders and 4 outfielders for the first time since the 2009 season. The bats came alive and defense stepped up. The game turned into a homerun contest with several cars getting dotted in the parking lot. Doublewide ended up winning the game 16-8 in game that was never really close.

Our record now stands 2-2-1. The league is wide open this year so it should be a very exciting summer.

Side Note: Ryan hit into a double play. (12 Pack)