Roy Hobbs Baseball, November 9, 2010

Well, we are now 1 -1. We lost to the Spirit today 10 - 0. I believe we had only 6 hits. As opposed to yesterday, when the opponents hit everything on the ground right to us, today those hit balls found the holes and gaps. On the other hand, we did not hit anything well, and as the numbers say, didn't hit much. I relieved in the 6th inning and gave up the "winning" run (10 run rule) in the 7th. If there is anything good in this, the shorter games are easier on all our old bones! This will help us stay fresh for the games later in the week.






Tomorrow we play in the spring training stadium of the Boston Red Sox, City of Palms Stadium. (It is a beautiful ballpark, but the Sox have convinced (coerced?) Ft Myers to build them a new complex on the east side of I75 near the airport.) The plan is to start the 7 (amateur) Baseball Hall of Fame players we have on our team. Six are from South Dakota and one is from Minnesota. Maybe this will give us the spark needed to get back on the winning path.