Mark’s (Mostly) Softball Blog

A big third inning rally fueled Up Dawg to an 11-8 victory this week.  The game started as a defensive struggle as we managed to push a run around for a 1-0 lead after the first inning.  In the second inning both teams went 3 up 3 down then a home run causing error by yours truly allowed 2 runs to score and we trailed for the first time 2-1.

In the bottom of the third our bats came alive as we rallied for 6 runs highlighted by Mike S. coming through with a 3 run homerun, his first of the season.  The defense continued to hold in the 4th as we gave up only one run and the bats kept working in the bottom half of the inning as we pushed our lead out to 11-3.  In the top of the fifth we gave up 5 runs before recording an out but the defense returned just in time to maintain a 3 run lead.  As we batted to run out the clock, Mandy ran out a routine pop fly and managed to avoid the double play as time expired on the clock to perserve a 11-8 victory. 

The win moves makes Up Dawg 3-1 for the season with 2 games left to play in the season.

Balls of Fury batted around in back to back innings en route to a 20-6 victory.  We gave up 5 runs in the top of the first, but the bats answered back with 5 runs of our own to tie the score.  In the second Q found his grove on the mound, striking out 2 as we gave up only 1 run.  The bats continued to ring out as we managed to hit around and score 7 runs to take a 12-6 lead.  Q stroke out another in the third inning as the defense held our opponents scoreless.

In the bottom of the third we managed to bat around again, scoring 8 runs, thanks in large part to a 3 run home run by Mike.  The third inning took long enough to run out the clock and set the final margin at 20-6.  The win moves the Balls of Fury record to 2-3 on the season with 3 games left coming up after a bye.

The Bad News Bears inning struck Up Dawg again as they fell 18-8.  The game started off well as both teams defenses held up and the score was 1-0 for our opponents after two innings.  The bats finally started to come alive in the third as we took our first lead of the game 2-1.  Two more runs in the fourth extended the lead at 4-1 before the calamity ensued.

In the fifth inning, everything that could go wrong, did.  Every hit by our opponents hit an open area, all the throws were off and when all was said and down we had give up 10 runs and found ourselves down 11-4.  Clint came through with a Grand Slam homerun to pull the score to within 11-8 after 5.  In the sixth, the hits kept coming for our opponent as they put together 7 more runs to take a 18-8 lead.  No rally was forthcoming this time as we were unable to score any more runs before the game ended.  The loss drops the Up Dawg record to 2-1 on the season and has created a 3 way tie for first in the league.

Balls of Fury dropped their third game of the Spring season 13-8.  The first inning saw us put up 2 runs in the top half of the inning but gave up 6 in the bottom of the inning.  The second inning saw the bats stay quiet as our deficit increased to 7 runs. 

In the third inning the bats started to come alive as we plated 4 runs to get the score to 9-6 before giving up 2 more runs in the bottom half of the inning.  In the fourth we put up two mroe runs to get to within 3 runs before giving up 2 more runs in the bottom half of the inning.

No late inning rally was forthcoming in this game though as we were unable to get a rally going in the fifth inning and the final score held at 13-8.  The loss drops Balls of Fury record to 1-3 at the halfway mark of the Spring season.

Balls of Fury snapped their two game losing streak with a 9-8 victory secured on the last at bat.  The game started rather slow for both teams as the score was only 3-1 after two innings with Balls of Fury in the lead.  The lead quickly vanished as we found ourselves down 5-4 after three innings.

The fourth and fifth innings continue the low scoring back and forth affair with Balls of Fury trailing 8-6 after the fifth inning.  The defense held in the top of the sixth to set the stage for a last inning rally.  After getting 1 out,  Mike got the rally started with a leadoff triple and was driven home by a seeing eye single by Paulette.  Quenton hit a double to right to put runners on 2nd and 3rd and after Tara drew a walk to load the bases with 1 out.  Then yours truly somehow got a lucky single between the third baseman and the shortstop that scored Paulette to tie the game, but then heads up base running by Q scored the game winning run. 

Balls of Fury moved their record to 1-2 on the season.

Balls of Fury dropped their second straight game of the Spring season losing 14-9 to our good friends of Team Scream.  The bats were rather quiet to start the game as we managed to score only 1 run in the first 2 innings and found ourselves down quickly 8-1. 

As the game progressed the bats started to come to life and after a 4 run fourth inning we had managed to pull within 10-8.  In the fifth inning we managed just one more run but gave up 4 more in the last inning to get to the final score of 14-9.  The loss drops our record to 0-2 for the Spring season.

The Balls of Fury team fell 14-9 in the season opener for the Spring season.  The game started very well as we put up 6 runs and held our opponent to 2 runs to take a 4 run lead after the first inning.  The bats started to go flat after the first inning as we saw our lead disappear after two more innings and found ourselves down 9-7. 

We failed to score any runs in the fourth inning and gave up 5 more to find ourselves down 14-7.  We started a rally in the fifth to get within 5 runs but we ran out of outs before we could put up any more runs.  The loss drops our record to 0-1 for the Spring season.

Up Dawg started the Spring 1A season with a nailbiting 11-10 victory.  The first inning didn’t have a lot of offense for either team and we trailed 1-0.  In the second inning we managed to put a couple of hits together and take a short lived 2-1 lead.  In the bottom of the second we gave up the most runs and found ourselves down 6-2.

The third inning, the bats slowly started to come alive as we managed to claw back to within a run at 6-5, but only gave up one run to make the score 7-5.  The fourth inning was our biggest inning of the game as we plated 5 runs to take our second lead of the game at 10-9 after giving up a couple of runs in the bottom half of the inning.  In the fifth inning we scored one more run to make the score 11-9.  After giving up a 0 out homerun to make the score 11-10, the defense recorded 3 outs to secure the victory by the slimest of margins.

Up Dawg moved their Spring 1A record to 2-0 on the power of a 23-1blowout victory.  Contrary to most of our games, the bats started to ring early and we scroed 5 runs in the first inning and held our opponent scoreless.  The second inning followed the same script with 7 more runs being scored, 4 of them thanks to 2 different homeruns to run the lead to 12-0.  We gave up the only run on defense in the second inning but the bats continued to ring true in the third inning extending the lead to 15-1.

The fourth inning was a bit slower than the other innings as we managed to score only 2 runs but the defense continue to hold and in the fifth inning we tacked on 6 more runs to make the final score 23-1.  The win moves Up Dawg to 2-0 on the season and in sole possesion of first place in the league.