One more time, with feeling...

Well we were back at it Thursday evening, this time with the weather cooperating for a change. We're playing a double-header again this evening trying to get the games in for this series. It was a 5:00 pm start for game 1 so I was unable to make pre-game again, arriving around 6. The crew tonight was Newt, Ben (Newt's day guy), Alan and myself. I t was nice to be able to wear just a shirt and shorts instead of that damn rain suit. Game 1 moved right along with Erie jumping out to a quick lead, but our guys rallying to tie the game at 5 in the bottom of the 6th. I t stayed that way through the 7th and went to the 8th. Erie jumped on our reliever and lit him up for 4 runs and we couldn't answer in the bottom half, so Game 1 went to the Seawolves. Game 2 started around 8:05 with in between prep going rather smoothly. We were all hoping for the same pace for Game 2 so we could get out at a decent hour. The cubby conversation was mostly about what video clips we could get them to play on the scoreboard. "Clark the goalie" was our first choice along with several other movies. I left the cubby shortly after the game started to get a Spot dog(outstanding!) and decided to head back towards the picnic area and tap out last night's blog entry. When I finished, I headed back to the cubby and found out that Alan and Newt were engaged in one of my favorite pastimes, movie line quoting. They had run through most of the good ones until I got back. I'll have to load up and get it rolling some other night. I noticed upon my return that the boys seemed to be tanking in the 2nd game as well, the score being 6-0. We all thought is might just be a reasonable night, time wise, which is good since Friday is still a workday. However, when the bottom of the 6th rolled around, the guys really started to get things rolling. They started stringing together some hits and started plating some runs. Erie made some horrible plays in the outfield, dropping a couple of balls that extended the inning, which otherwise would have been over. Before it was all said and done, the score was tied
and we were headed to the 7th. It was looking like extra innings again as the Seawolves went down relatively quietly. In the bottom of the 7th, Bill Rinehart started it off with a base hit and was replaced with a pinch runner, Michael Martinez. It was down to 2 outs when Matt Whitney stepped in. He drilled one towards the middle and it skipped off the 2nd baseman's glove and into shallow center field. Martinez was on his horse and Stearnsy waved him through. It was going to be close at the plate, but the throw was just off-line enough to let Martinez to sneak through and plate the winning run. The dugout emptied like the had just won the league championship. It must have been a great feeling for the guys, after going 2-for-April. They've now won 4 of their last 6, thereby doubling their win total for April in just the first week of May. I'd say that's showing some signs of life. They're out for a quick 3 games in Akron over the weekend and back in on Monday the 11th. It's another quick 3 gamer with another 10:30 start in the finale. I'll be there. Maybe the boardwalk will be open. Probably not, though,more likely for the Memorial Day weekend series. It's Mother's day weekend coming up, so I'll be able to get some awake face time with Mrs. Wadsworth since I haven't seen her too much this past week. Until then, treat your Mom nice and I'll be back around next week.