MBC Runs Out of Magic in 6-5 Loss

This MBC 15 team is fun to watch. Great defense, scrappy pitching and strong bats. MBC played another barn burner on Friday night, this time however, the barn burned down.

Nick Salle pitched well for four inning against a solid hitting Tiger team. A rusty Quinn Burcham came in and after walking two and beaning one was lucky to get out of his inning allowing just one run. Riley "broken wrist" Duffy came in to battle for an inning and a third and was releived admirably by Nick Reeves, but by the time the dust had settled, MBC was down 6-2.

MBC had scored their first run in the second. Nick Reeves led off with a double and scored on Adam Hinthorne's opposite field scorcher. In the fifth, Adam led off with another single and scored on a clutch two out single by Mitchell Smith.

You can never count this team out. In the seventh, down four MBC rallied back hard. Nick Reeves led off with a single and after the Tiger second baseman could not handle Adam Hinthorne's sharp blast MBC had two on and no out. David Becker then singled to load the bases. After a tough strike out during which Nick scored on a wild pitch, Mitchell Smith walked to load the bases again.

Nick Salle singled home a run and Quinn Burcham launched a deep drive to left (sac fly) to score David and move the runners up to second and third. With the tying run on third, and the go ahead run on second, the Tigers wanted no part of Tino Peleti and put him on first.

Ahh, but there was no joy in Magnoliaville as the Tiger releiver reached back for something extra and recorded a game ending strike out.

It made me ponder why baseball is so exciting and just why it feels so good to come back and win a ballgame. The reason of course is because it is so very hard to do! All we can do is try our best, put ourselves in positions to win and relish the times these dreams come true. Heck, if it was easy, it would be no fun. If it was easy, we would not jump around so much when we DO make it happen. And let me assure you, with this team, and with the amount of talent on THIS team, we will be jumping around quite a bit this summer.