West Coast Fantasy Baseball Association
2006 BASEBALL LEAGUE
FROM THE STANDS
Wilcox High School
June 18, 2006
by Jim Realini
It was a great Father’s Day to remember Paul Roman. Busy family plans made for some heavy pool play. John Haines opened his bungalow in Sunnyvale for burgers and beer for the guys who did not have traditional plans.
St. Louis Giants (Weishaar-Hughey) 6 Philadelphia A's (Luis) 5
St. Louis bested the Philadelphia A’s (sounds like inter-league play!) 6-5 in a close one that was fairly well played. Mark Bruzzone went six strong innings for St Louis but Coach Frank Weishaar was the big hero with a three inning save and the game winning hit. Frank had two hits along with Doug Meyer, Keith DaCosta, (finally!) and Bill Pederson who had a double and a single. Heath Keller and Jim Realini each belted doubles while Mike Hughey, Mark Bruzzone, and Tom Sanfilippo each slapped singles.
Mike Byron (6) and Sil Krevocheza (2) hurled for the A’s letting in one run too, many for the potent Philly hitters. Ken Calloway led the A’s with a double and two singles followed by the dangerous Dave Gayner’s single and “monster” double to the right field fence (I knew I shoulda played deeper on that one!) Sil Krevocheza and Chris Dorn cracked doubles with Gary Hopper, Erik Hoffman, Don Luis, Mike Mello, and Doug Rusch chipping in singles.
Yomiuri Giants (Miller-Schmuck) 12 San Francisco Giants (Bennett-Lee) 11
After lunch, Yomiuri and San Francisco took turns at playing for the ugliest game contest with Yomiuri pulling it together in the end to eek out the win. Rob (strikes are a bad thing) Weber (5.3) and Sugar Ray Miailovich (1.6) pitched the pelota for Yomiuri while hard throwing Carl Vargas (5) and latecomer Bob Hartkop (2) threw for San Francisco.
Sugar Ray had a single and the game-tieing double to lead Yomiuri along with Mike Miller’s two hits and a triple. Matt Schmuck also had a single-double day to power the Yomiuri guys. Doug Rusch continued his loud line drive hitting with two scorching singles (one the game-winner) and Mike Hughey dazzled a dizzy Jim Realini in centerfield (don’t put him there again guys!) with a towering two-base hit. John Haines, Lorne Johnson, and Rob Weber each put singles on the board for Yomiuri.
Jim Realini led San Francisco with two hits and Steve Conroy crushed a triple. Dave DeCruz, Mike Desjardins, JC Penney, Dennis Horn, and John Riley each hit singles. TRIVIA QUESTION: of the singles hitters for San Francisco who got hurt running, who showed up hurt, who was hurt, who turned a double into a single by stopping at first, and who just plain can’t run?
GAME #3
C A N C E L L E D
Next games are at VALLEY CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL in SAN JOSE.
Reminder to all regular players, do not forget to tell your coach by Thursday morning, before NOON if you are going to play or you will lose your spot on the team for the weekend to a pool player.