Another Wild Walk Off Against the Zips

Friday night saw the MBC team once again battling a low count roster.  MBC started the game with ten players on the line-up card and nine players on the bench.  Luckily #10 (who is #99) arrived just in time to bat.

Stuart Fairchild pitched a brilliant complete game striking out five, walking no Zips.  His worthy opponent was also a fierce competitor and pretty much limited the MBC bats to zip against him.  The hard throwing Zip's pitcher struck out 12 MBC hitters and as a team we mustered just two hits against him.

But striking out that many MBC hitters takes a lot of pitches and the fire-baller with the Harpo Marx hairdo could not last past six innings.

In the sixth MBC plated a run to make it 3-1 thus setting us up for another wild finish.

David Becker and Andrew Helean both worked a walks and Dylan Vchulek hit a towering double to right center to score David and put runners on second and third.  Quin Burcham then singled to tie the game and put Dylan on third setting up Keenan "Bonecrusher" Heller in the role of tonight's hero.  Keenan had already singled sharply off the starter and the crowd felt good about his chances.  With a drawn in infield and a very sick Nick Reeves on deck Keenan came through with a high bouncer to short.  Speedy Dylan (who goes from standing still to full speed as good as anyone I've coached) took off and was in safe in a cloud of dust.