Game 4

Game 4 - June 27, 2010 - They finally did it. This win was 6 years in the making. To everyone's knowledge, the Spitballs have never toppled the old, fat, smack talking giant that is the Hanson Brothers. The losing streak came to an end Sunday night.

The Balls jumped out to an early lead by putting 4 runs on the board and almost batting around in the very first inning. The Hanson Brothers could only muster up one run in the first. One stand out play worth noting was Mick Foley's "never say die even when the outfielder has the ball in shallow left field" attitude while trying to stretch a single into a triple. Mr. Socko's hit was a shallow blooper down the left field line. A keen sense of awareness and ten poolside beers from earlier in the day propelled him to second base easily. While the left fielder lazily threw the ball to second, Gamso (Socko) was already two steps towards third in a "delayed steal" type of maneuver. If he would have slid, he would have been safe, but instead he chose to try and half-ass bull the third baseman over. No dice on that one considering the third baseman has the biggest belly on the team for the Hanson Brothers. It was a valiant effort.

The offense for the Spitballs consistently put up runs all game, but never exploded for a big inning while the Hanson Brothers old weary bats came to life midway through the game. It was a comedy of errors that led to a tie ball game by the end of the hour. Kicked balls, overthrows, and missed divers all combined to allow the opposition to plate just enough runs to force an extra inning of play. The extra inning was somewhat controversial in that technically it was only the 7th inning, but because the old guys were so slow with everything it was after the one hour time limit, begging the question "where was the runner on second?" No matter about him, the Balls got 3 across. Two overthrows leading to a few extra bases and one umpiring error where the runner advanced from first to second even after the other team picked the ball up on a no-slide into home (which i'm extremely bitter about) made it seem as if the ol' boys from the Chiefs/Hanson Brothers might just have enough left in the tank to be Ball-Busters for the 7th straight time. It was not to be though as a lazy fly ball to left field ended the game.