With one doubleheader complete and the next today, the Railroaders find themselves back a neck ahead of the Greyhounds. The doggies lost they’re second game on Friday to the Pirates by a close 1-0 score. I think those Pirates are getting ready for us next week, but back to the task at hand. Our guys looked great out there last night as they chased the Firebirds off towards Union City for a doubleheader tonight with the Hounds. I hope they found what they are looking for at the dog pound. The Railroaders now have the Oilers for 4 games to finish the weekend of doubleheaders before the All-Star break.. The Oilers were rained out of their 2 games Friday night and I hope a little rusty for tonight. Our guys, on the other hand, looked great last night. Some superb fielding in both games and I really liked the play in the outfield tracking down those deep fly balls and grabs on the run. And Rehmel playing shortstop was a thing of beauty to see, catching pop outs even in foul territory! What’s with that? The infield was tough all around the bases, stopping hard grounders and making close plays. Every Railroader player and fan was loving baseball last night! Let’s continue tonight and press on to that first seed position for the playoffs!
Of note is Rehmel at short stop for Gillespie who was out from hurting himself in the last Greyhound game. Due to that, Hicks is taking Kyle Bondy to the All-Star game in place of Kevin. We haven’t seen the last of Kevin, just ensuring he’s around for the season’s end and playoffs
Saturday, July 21, 2007
2 wins down, 4 to go . .
Posted by Hoghead at 7:42 AM
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STARDATE 7 21 07.... RECORDS SHOW THE TRAIN HAS CRANKED THE ENGINES AND AHEAD OF THEM DOGS BY A NOSE..AWSOME PLAY LAST NIGHT,OUR OUTFIELD HAD GREAT WHEELS ON EM AND WAS MAKIN SOME CIRCUS LIKE CATCHES, THE PITCHIN FROM CRAYCRAFT IN GAME 1 WAS SUPERB,GAME 2 SAW lUCUS AND VARNUM GETTING THE JOB DONE,INFIELD REALLY ROCKED,I MEAN ROCKED,PUT ALL THAT TOGETHER AND IT WAS A GREAT TEAM EFFORD!!! HATS OFF GUYS!LOOKING AT THE SCREEN ITS A ROUGH 4 GAMES AHEAD,THE OILERS WERE ON A ROLL BEFORE THEIR RAINOUTS, WE GOTTA STALL THEM WHEN THEY ARE IN OUR HOUSE, THANKS TO ALL THE GREAT FANS LAST NIGHT HOPE WE ALL SHOW IN FORCE AGIN TONIGHT, GILLESPIE YOU GET ON YOUR HORSE SON AND GET BACK IN THE LINEUP SOON,GET WELL.
ReplyDeleteOUT FOR NOW.....ROLL TRAIN!!!!!
How was it that Bondy did not make the all-star team to begin with? How do you not take one of your top bats and practically flawless glove work to the all-star game anyway?
ReplyDeleteConsider this, all the other teams (except the RR) picked 3 men to go to the All Star game. Once those names were turned in, Manager Hicks was to fill the rest of roster as he needed. Guess what, no catchers were submitted by the other teams. So Hicks had to pick remaining players to fill positions he needed. One catcher from us and one from the Pirates. Had this not been the case, prehaps Bondy would have been selected to go instead of the taking one of our catchers. Bondy was the next man to go, when Gellespie couldn't make, so he must have been one of Hick's choices. It's over, Bondy went, let's move on to rest of the season and the playoffs!
ReplyDeleteTake a chill pill, I was just asking!
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