Whately Pioneers vs. Chicopee Skipmucks at Herlihy Field 4/10/11


The Whately Pioneers opened the 2011 Season on a fine cool day at Herlihy with Dog doing the Home Team hurling vs our friends and rivals the Chicopee Skipmucks. The last time Dog hooked up with the Skipmucks, he was the winning pitcher in the Gentlemen's Cup final game of the 2010 Season, pitching a Gem in S. Hadley.

Technical Difficulties

It's very early in the year for Herlihy Field, so technologically it really IS 1886. It's about a week or so too early for running water and electricity. ALSO, it's early for the Pioneers, because at game time we had no grill for the beer inning and were seriously short of outfielders. But the Show must go on, and Go on we did. Several Garden Variety muffs and a broken hand later, the Whately Pioneers were safely in the Home dugout, but down 3-0. The absence of the Grill was weighing heavily on the Pioneer 'minds'. This was a disturbance i n the Force. But, the Pioneers are tough, and we stiffened up to get the game right side up again. Dog was knuckling his way through the pretty damn good Skipmuck lineup. After 6, the Pioneers were only down 6-4. Nice job Dog.

The Last 3 Frames

Ordinarily we would have the bullpen getting loose in the 7th, especially against a good League opponent, but Dog had to take this one all the way out. A few more muffs and a few good swings by the 'Mucks and the game swung Chicopee's way. A good day at the ballpark, if a bit bloody. On to Manchester! HuzSaKi!!

Whately Pioneers AB R H RBI BB/HBP HR                          
                                       
Ski 5 0 3                                
Babe 4 1 1 0 1                            
Spider 4 2 2 0 1                            
Ricky Bobby 5 0 1           4/10/2011                    
Mustard 5 0 1                                
Albie 5 0 2                                
Nails 5 0 3                                
Grass 5 0 1                                
Buck 5 1 2                                
                                       
                                       
                                       
  43 4 16 0 2 0     Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Score
                  Chicopee Skipmucks 3 2 0 1 0 0 2 1 4 13
Chicopee Skipmucks AB R H RBI BB/HBP HR     Whately Pioneers 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 4
                                       
Meat                                      
Beer Frame                                      
Stoned                                      
Thunder                                      
Angler                                      
Snake Oil                                      
Councelor                                      
Lightening                                      
Amstel                                      
Ginger                                      
                                       
                                       
  0 0 0 0 0 0                          
                                       
Whately Pioneers IP H R "E"R BB/HBP SO      
                   
Dog 9   13            
                   
                   
                   
                   
Chicopee Skipmucks IP H R ER BB/HBP SO      
Angler 7   4            
thunder 2   0