The 1PM game versus the Elk Grove Giants, March 29th - Openning Day....Finally.

The San Francisco Giants, last years mythical champions of WCFBL, openned the season with a colossal flop against the Elk Grove Giants. Coach Don Dewitt started off with a solid bingle up the middle. Then Jimmy Cullen belted one to center that the wind beat down into DaCosta's glove. Chilli comes to bat and rips a liner to right center that DaCosta cleanly fields and relays back to the infield, but wait!! Donny Dewitt is making like Chilli trying to make it happen or it might have been the awkward sign Tommy Sanfilippo flashed at Donny, something like a one-armed windmill or a look at me bar tender, is it last call? Anyway Donny gets thrown out by 20 feet. Poof, rally gone. Craig Nelson followed with a single moving Chilli to third and then Bennet dribbled weakly to first.

The next inning, the Colonel lofted a blooper to center that nonchalant DaCosta missed and then Terra launched a fly into the swirling maelstrom winds of right center which DaCosta caught running nearly to second base, unforntunately that's where the Colonel drifted to so he was properly erased by DaCosta.

Over the next couple of innings the Giants invited Ringling Brothers to play the infield with some pretty amazing displays of how NOT to play the game. The Colonel nearly saved the day with a bad throw to home plate that caused G-man to nearly break his knee because Nelson correctly blocked the plate. G-man doesn't wear double knee braces for nothing, so even though he failed to touch the plate, he got up to keep throwing well for the Elks. Somewhere in this morass Buzz forgot that they only say "Play Ball" at the beginning of the game as he waited patiently for some signal or alert that the game was actually inprogress while a fly ball landed near his left field position.

The Colonel ripped a solid single to right center and scored after the Elks miffed two chances by Terra and Johnson. That was the only scoring on the day as the San Francisco attack was led by two hits each from Dewitt, Chilcote, and Realini. Captain Steve and Craig Nelson each lashed a bingle to round out the 8 hits and a run.

Chilly pitched fairly well and was scheduled to go a routine league limit of six, but his pitch count or better yet his unearned out count left his arm lifeless in the sixth. Craig Nelson came in and went up 0h-2 on every batter to finish in strong style holding the Elks scoreless over the final three.

Oh well. maybe when Weishaar, Wallace, and Gray show up next week we'll see what this team is really going to do.

The 930 Game, April 5th....