FUN BUNCH BEAT AQUABATS
Team holds on to win by one run after squandering six run lead
Facing her old teammates from the previous season, Kathie "daredevil" Adare decided she would "up the ante" and placed a bounty of "a bottle of whiskey and a case of beer" to secure a win. His eyes looking like saucers, Richard "wild thing" Bujold garnered visions of sugar plums dancing in his head as he heard of the wager. "You had me at the bottle of whiskey", he gleefully piped in, hardly able to contain his excitement. Wasting little time, "wild thing" promptly hit a hard liner to the fence and dug in as he rounded first to stretch for a double. Unfortunately, the base was unpegged and the ground was dry, hard clay. Without a foothold, "wild thing" attempted to defy the basic laws of physics and soon began skittering precariously. With his teammates holding their collective breath, gravity won the hard fought battle and "wild thing" went ass-over-tea-kettle as he settled in a cloud of red dust, his arms and legs splayed out at impossible angles. Steve "field marshal" Saunders--watching unimpressed from the dugout--quickly realized that the ersatz double-cum-single was soon to be an out if "wild thing" didn't crawl back to first base on the double. Unleashing a tirade of expletives, he brought "wild thing" crashing back to reality with a jolt and "wild thing" painfully (but hurriedly) made his way back to the bag. That debacle out of the way, the fun bunch settled down to play their best game of the day. Scoring four, three, three and five funs for a total of fifteen in the first four innings, the fun bunch seemed well in control of the aquabats who had managed only nine runs to that point. Moving into the bottom of the ninth, the fun bunch had a comfortable sixteen to ten lead (having managed however to score only one run in their last three innings). The Aquabats were in desperation mode and started spraying the ball hither and yon, to score several runs and make the game interesting. With two outs and two runners on, the Aquabat batter hit a towering fly ball to the warning track. Martin "the gazelle" Desjardins began tracking the ball and screamed "I got it". Eerily, Scott "don't call me boom-boom" Saunders, began tracking the ball as well and echoed "I got this one". As the two outfielders converged, neither giving ground, "field marshal" braced for the worst. The ball landed in Saunders glove as "the gazelle" passed in front of him and tumbled to the ground. Meanwhile the aquabats cleared the bases, to bring the game to within a single run. With two runners on board and the winning run at first base, the next aquabat batter mercifully hit a weak grounder to short which Chantal "rum runner" Bujold promptly caught to end the game and give the fun bunch a respectable 2-1 record for the day. Reached for comment after the game, Richard "wild thing" Bujold responded with a shrill shout of "I've got whiskey!" summing up his thoughts on the win.
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