OTTAWA-The fun bunch were in a “must win” situation after winning only one of their first two games of the day. They were playing “pitch please” a team they had tied in the regular season. But once again, there was a bewildering assortment of newly-minted players—unrecognizable from their regular season match up—in the “pitch please” dugout to start the game. This was going to be another uphill battle thought Adrian “the jackal” Seaman.

The game couldn’t have possibly started any worse. Pitch please scored 9 runs in the first two innings while the fun bunch scored zero. To make matters worse, the team was missing jess “bullseye” belanger, clark “pound ‘em back lawlor”, ryan “man o’ war” Matischuk, glen “the wrangler” rankin and keegan “Hollywood” Irwin (who had forgot to set his alarm clock and missed the team bus from Toronto)

The teams traded three runs each in the third inning on runs by paris “songbird” Patricelli, mark “polygon” pintar and Miles “my-lo” Lawlor to make the score a sobering 12-3 for pitch please.

The fun bunch had their best inning in the fifth when they scored five runs all without using up a homer on key hits by everyone who came to bat, to narrow the game somewhat to 12-8. But the fun bunch hitting—so stellar in the regular season—all but evaporated in this game, as they managed to score only a paltry one more run in the last two innings.

The large cavalcade of fun bunch fan grew quieter as the innings progressed and before the game was finished, had packed up their tarps and rain shelters and left the stadium in order to beat the rush--disappointed, wet and bewildered.