Hitmen (5-2) hammered Cal Twerps (3-4) by eight runs Friday night, 26-18.
A couple pictures of the brothers:
This wasn't a very exciting game (for me at least). I got hammered in the first two innings (3 runs in the 1st and 10 runs in the 2nd). I was pulled and our best pitcher was inserted. He showed up just a little late. His reason was a big surprise: stuck in traffic on the 405.
I lost confidence in the second inning and was pitching like Ballfour (probably not that bad but I wasn't good). I finished the second inning, then Sam came in and finished the last five innings nicely.
Anyhow, the highlight involved a guy by the name of Kendrick Chipman. Kendrick is the best hitter in the history of softball leagues. He's our Barry Bonds without the steroids. Actually, I'm not sure; he could be on that HGH stuff, especially, after what happened in this game.
He homered in his first plate appearance. The ball hit the trees in right-field and almost disappeared. His second at-bat was an unintentional intentional walk where the pitcher threw three pitches halfway to homeplate and one over his head. He had to throw four because Kendrick swung at one of them to keep his at-bat alive. He walked on the fourth pitch.
In his third at-bat, the pitcher did the same thing. He throws one ball deep over the catcher's head and then one ball halfway short to homeplate. On the third-pitch, he threw another high pitch over Kendrick's head. But this time Kendrick took a hack and didn't miss. He swung his bat over his head in a downward-forward motion just like a blacksmith hammering his rod of steel. Kendrick didn't miss, he connected and the ball landed in the same spot as his first homerun: in the trees. The pitcher was clapping his hands. The umpire gave him a high-five as he stepped on homeplate. It was a disturbing homerun. Boy, I'm glad he's on my team.
Manager DPeng just released Season 25 stats. Here they are:
Here are the updated standings:
October 27th, 2007, 5:00 PM PST @ San Marino HS
NotGuilty (1-5) got hammered, 52-41 by Taiwan Center B (4-2).
I don't have much to say here except for the fact that I sucked it up because we should be winning even if our team sucks. But yeah, we suck. The other team sucks too. But they won and we didn't. That means we really suck!
Props to McNair and Killa Kev for showing up with six minutes left in the game when we were down by fifteen points. I appreciate it fellas! Not to mention, Magniza went down after ten minutes into the game with an ankle-sprain. Great game all-around.
Stats link: www.chineseballers.com
October 28th, 2007, 9:50 AM PST @ Banning HS
LBC (3-3) lose to 3-D, 74-70, on Sunday.
Once again, we found a way to lose a game. Even though we didn't have our best player, Kevin filled in and we should of won.
We were up by ten points on the defending champs in the third quarter until we decided to pass the other team the ball instead of to our own teammates. We turned the ball over on five consecutive possessions and had a 50-40 lead turned into a 51-53 deficit. Horrible.
More problems. This is from the October 2nd entry:
"James, our starting power forward, told one of his boys to join the team. I didn't get his name but he's a short Asian/Filipino/Mexican-looking guy. He pulled me from the game a couple times after like four minutes of play. I didn't like the gesture. He thinks he's good. He's not. I don't like him. I hope he never comes back."
It turns out that he shot about 1/10 in this game including 0 for 5 from 3-point land. Towards the end of the game, he pulled me out of the game (as if he's a better shooter than me or as if he's been hitting threes all-day) when we were down by 2 points and the other team shooting two free-throws. The guy shooting the free-throws was a defensive specialist and didn't seem like a good free-throw shooter. He missed both free-throws and finds a way to get his own rebound. That Asian/Filipino/Mexican-looking guy (let's call him Turnover) doesn't run after the ball and I blame him for not getting the loose ball. So that guy returns to the free-throw line to shoot two more. Of course, he makes the first one. In between the first and second free-throw, Turnover tells Manny to switch with him. Let's just say that Manny is about 6 inches taller than Turnover. What a great switch! Put the smaller man in the paint to rebound a miss free-throw! For some reason Manny conceded to the move but the dude ends up hitting the free-throw anyway (not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing). So we're down by five points and Turnover comes down and chucks up a three-pointer like it's going in. It doesn't. Manny gets the rebound and hits a three. We foul the same guy and somehow he hits two more free throws and we lose.
Jibri on Turnover (after our previous game):
"I don't like that guy man...[he] turns the ball over too much."
Stats: 3/5 FG's, 2/2 FT's, 8 points, 4 rebounds.
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