West Coast Fantasy Baseball Association

2006 BASEBALL LEAGUE

FROM THE STANDS
Albert Park, San Rafael

September 17, 2006

by Jim Realini

             A very nice day at Albert Park.  Not many fans.  Good cheer at the Flat Iron afterwards.

GAME #1

 San Francisco Giants (Bennett-Lee) 9   Saint Louis Giants (Hughey-Weishaar) 4

            The San Francisco Giants took advantage of the St Louis Giants.  St Louis manager started Tom Sanfilippo in what many thought was a “charity” move to let Tom have a day on the mound.  Unbeknownst to every one was that Tom was dazzling with a baffling array of slow, slower, and motionless pitches aided by the incessant harassment by his battery-mate Jim Realini.  Tom left with the game tied after six innings followed by Coach Moochy who walked five in a disastrous 8th inning to hand San Francisco the win.  Mike Shaffer (2 IP), Bobby Hartkop (3 IP), and the redoubtable Randy Wallace (3 IP) kept SF in the game until Carl Vargas nailed down the victory in the ninth.
            Steve Bennett led the SF hit parade with three bingles, while Mike Vargas and Mike Shaffer chipped in two hits each.  Rolly Hofstedt had the “WCFBA Drive of the Game” with a two-ribbie double in a wild fourth inning.
            Guy Peabody slapped two singles for Saint Louis followed by individual hits of differing dimensions by Keith DaCosta, Eric MacAusland, Heath Keller, Frank Weishaar, Bill Pederson, Tom Sanfilippo, Cliff Gray, and Jim Realini who got a hit by lining a shot into his own runner’s exposed flank.

GAME #2

 

Fresno Giants (Terra-Realini) 20    Oakland A’s (Mello) 2

           
            The Fresno Giants exploded and the Oakland A’s imploded.  Guy Peabody stiffed the Oakland men for three solid innings and then Smokin’ Joe Gagliardo silenced them over the last six with a bedazzling array of stuff.  Sil Krevocheza and Kevin Zimmerman pitched like journeymen in front of their fielders’ untimely eight errors, five in the last inning alone, mercifully ended by the league’s time limit.

            Greg “Diablo” Terra stung the A’s for four loud hits to lead the Giants along with Big Bill Londeree who also smacked four hits on the day.  Dave DeCruz, Lynn Harkrider, Guy Peabody, and Todd West each collected two hits to pummel the A’s with West cracking a long double for one of his hits.  Joe Gagliardo blasted a big hit into left field and Willy Wineberg ended up on third after his single hit of the day.

            Kevin Zimmerman led the A’s with three hits in a valiant effort with Mike Mello, Gary Hopper, and Pat Macias keeping up with two hits each.  Don Luis, Sil Krevocheza, Erik Hoffman, and Russ Greenfield added singles to the Oakland attack for the day.

 

Next games are at Albert Field in San Rafael, followed by more meetings at the Flat Iron.

 

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

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