Not pictured: Jeremy, Matt
The 2013 Cleaners are trying to pull of the same feat, but their little house of cards is starting to quaver and collapse. Today, their overworked starter lasted only four innings before we torched their weak bullpen for 18 runs. A lot of the "torching" involved standing calmly in the batter's box while their pitchers failed to throw strikes, but that's nothing to be ashamed of. We just scored one of our biggest victories of the year. We are now only a half-game out of the playoff picture. Time to start believing, my little atheists.
Left, flashing the victory sign: Mickey Thoms. Right: Jeremy from the
Cleaners, wondering where it all went wrong.
PLAYER OF THE GAME: This one's difficult. You guys were brilliant today. Mickey "Mouse" Thoms reached base five times. Will, Eric, and Spoon, four. The unlucky Rob "Robbed" Spector played a great 2B and padded his league-leading total in the "hard-hit outs to CF" category. Gomez was a fucking beast, obviously. We'll get to him later. But for sheer grittiness and comprehensive baseball success, it's gotta be the skipper, John Paul Segura.
Second from left, 1987
Three hits, two walks, FOUR RBI, a respectable (and absolutely necessary) pitching performance that was marred only by cheap wind-aided bloop hits and a tight strike zone from the umpire, and a GORGEOUS diving catch in RF that will be honored shortly. The guy's amazing. This one's for you, John:
RUSSELL PHILLIPS DRIVE OF THE GAME: In the top of the 6th, Jeremy from the Cleaners hit a deep drive that somehow landed *on top* of the chainlink outfield fence at Potrero and then bounced over for a home run. Then, in the bottom of the frame, our Andrew Gomez did the exact same thing. Is that possible? Did I hallucinate it? Fuck it, who cares? Gomez hit a ball out of Potrero, and it was a spectacular momentum-shifter. He now has four home runs on the year, which has got to be some kind of league record.
Shortly after Andrew Gomez joined the team, and I realized we
were both dysfunctional children of mass media, we devised a
home run celebration based on the ending of Terminator 2. You
hit a home run, then pretend to sink into a pool of molten
steel while giving a thumbs-up. Nobody got it.
PLAY OF THE GAME: John Segura's FULL-EXTENSION DIVING CATCH on a slicing liner to RF. Obviously. If you saw it...you came.
Honorable mentions: Mickey Thoms's bullseye relay from Spoon to nail Boof at third base in the 6th; Andrew Gomez to Sam Bull for the seldom-seen 3-2 double play in the 3rd.
QUOTE OF THE GAME: "Hello, hello, I'm back again"-Gary Glitter
MARK MOSS OF THE GAME: Mickey Thoms
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