Slugs Rally, but Come up Short

By Jim Miller, Utility Infielder, Outfielder, Sliding Maniac and slugssoftball.blogspot.com contributor


The Slugs suffered their first defeat of the fall campaign Thursday, falling to So Cal Force after putting a late-inning scare into the overachieving D-Leaguers.

But for some arcane rule about not being able to catch a ball anywhere you can catch a ball, the Slugs would have won 12-8 instead of losing 15-12, according to a slugssoftball.blogspot.com analysis.

The Slugs’ balanced attack featured standout performances from Erin, who posted five RBI’s, Kevin, and Ahmed. On defense, Ed, Katherine and Matt made terrific plays.

The squad was down 15-3 after two innings, with So Cal’s putting up 13 runs in the second. Most of So Cal’s offensive outburst came after an ump ruled that Ed had gone out-of-bounds when he made a great catch off the bat of The Really Big Guy.

But the Slugs came back with four runs in their half of the second and exploded for five in the bottom of the fourth. The final out came with the tying runs on base.

Next week, the Slugs face some fellow media types, the Bad News and Review Bear Bears.

Note from Coach Tam to the SoCal's: Jim let you off easy in this post...but Ed "Fancy Pants" Fletcher is promising some game analysis of his own.