West Coast Fantasy Baseball Association
2006 BASEBALL LEAGUE
FROM THE STANDS
Albert Park, San Rafael
September 24, 2006
by Jim Realini
You sure can tell the season’s winding down. Could it be the flood of new pool players (MSBL must be over), Sunday afternoons at the redoubtable FlatIron consuming Fat Tire, and anxious talk about a rendezvous in Sacramento. After Sacramento, we’ll have our final two-week ends of play. Hopefully it won’t rain....
Philadelphia A's (Luis) 5 Fresno Giants (Terra-Realini) 4
The scrappy Fresno Giants played a tough game and the Philadelphia
A’s made it a tough loss in spite of Dave “Prodigal Son” Chilcote’s 9 straight
K’s to finish the A’s day. The A’s rode a big two-run third inning, two timely
double plays, and tight pitching by Scott Wagner and Mike Byron to snuff the
Fresno rallies throughout the game. Joe Gagliardo turned in another fine
pitching performance in spite of the Giants lack of run support.
Ken Calloway, Mike Byron, and Craig Alexander led the A’s 13-hit
attack with two hits each. Chris Dorn, Don Luis, Erik Hoffman, Scott Wagner,
Sil Krevocheza, Pat Macias, and Dave Vigil added their singles to the Philly
day.
Fresno had plenty of base runners but could only manage four hits on
the day. Chilly had a lead-off double and then only Dave Decruz, Mark Bruzzone
(on his virginal pool experience of the year!), and Todd West could punch out
hits for Fresno.
Yomiuri Giants (Miller-Schmuck) 14 Oakland A’s (Mello) 3
This was an interesting, tense game for
seven innings before the floodgates opened on the hapless A’s. Yomiuri was
riding the wily darts of Rob Weber when the A’s imploded under a twelve run
onslaught in the final two innings that left coach Mike Mello at a loss for
words. Maybe it was Steve Bennett crushing his Oakland buddies with a line
drive double that caromed off first base to clear the bases or maybe it was the
excitement of talking up A’s playoff tickets, while the Giants are doomed once
again to peering into the winter talks wondering if the Barry days are over?
Rob Weber socked three singles to go with his stellar pitching
performance, while Mike Miller, Randy Wallace, Scott Lueders, and John Haines
each slapped two solid singles each. Don Hahn, Tim Cullen, and Lorne Johnson
also chipped in a bingle apiece with Matt Schmuck topping the dog pile with a
loud double.
Sil Krevocheza contributed two hits to go along with singles by Pat
Macias, Dave Vigil, Mike Mello, Matt Amaro, and Boomer Aboumarad. Better luck
at Raley Field guys.
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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