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JIM REALINI |
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SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA APRIL 29th, 2007 |
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Ahh, what a beautiful spring day in sunny San Jose. Sharks on a roll, Giants swiped three from EL AY, Warriors smacking the Mavericks, NFL draft and a triple-header to boot. It just doesn't get better than this unless your from Japan, Saint Louis, or Philadelphia or trying to cross the Bay Bridge. |
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Philadelphia A's (Mello-Luis) 11 vs Oakland A's (Boomer-Vigil) 9 Hooray for the boys from Philly. They finally got off the schneid by outlasting the Oakland boys in the morning match. Gary Hooper threw a gutsy six innings and then handed off to Dave Gayner. Sil Krevocheza and Gary Moore suffered through for the Oakland A's. During the game Sil stated that it just wasn't a fun day with all the unearned runs and the tiny strike zone he thought he was getting. Sil, like Yogi said, "You can't win all the time, there are guys out there who are better than you." Philly pounded Oakland with 11 hits including five doubles. Mike Byron with two doubles led the attack followed by Gary Hooper belting two singles and ageless Don Luis "ringing" up a double and single. Pat Macias got the other double while Craig Alexander, Dave Gayner, Rod Oehrlein, and Dave Gayner made singeltons apiece. Dave Vigil led Oakland with a single and a double and Ken Calloway backed him up with two sharp singles. Gary Zimmerman with a double and Sil Krevocheza's single rounded off the Oakland batting attack. |
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Yomuri Giants (Schmuck-Miller) 4 vs San Francisco Giants (Bennett-Lee) 2 In a well-played game, the Yomuri Giants rode the hot bat of "Pool Boy" Geoff Jacobs and the nearly unhittable pitching of the redoubtable Dave Chilcotte. Chilly tossed four no-hit innings to start and then gave up the pelota to Carl Vargas who limited the SF Giants to one-hit over the final three. Carl capped off his pitching stint by stabbing a seed off Realini's bat and doubling a streaking Ruben Donig off first base. Heath Keller and Doug Meyer pitched around the Yomuri team using some great defense but could not keep four runs from crossing the plate. Captain Steve Bennett made a great running catch and even greater throw from centerfield doubling up a sleeping Yomuri runner. Jim Realini used his belly cushion stretching out in the prone position to stab an errant throw to first when Todd West caught his thumb in his shirt after fielding a grounder up the middle. Heath Keller made a acrobatic leap at the plate to gather in Realini's erratic throw after he'd snagged a high hopper at third. Geoff Jacobs with a triple and single led the Yomuri attack which was made up of singles by Scott Pimpl, Doug Rusch, Mike Miller, Carl Vargas, Dave Chilcotte. San Francisco saw Gordon Simmons, JC Penney, Dennis Horn, Chris Arthur, Heath Keller, and Jim Realini each belting hard earned singles off the hard throwin' Chilly. |
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Saint Louis Giants (Hughey-Weishaar) 12 vs '62 Giants (Terra-Realini) 4 Saint Louis pummeled the '62 Giants. Frank Weishaar and Michael Simon baffled the '62 Giants with their usual assortment of change-ups, off-speed pitches, and dinky curves to stifle the Giant bats in spite of their 13 hits!. Randy Wallace and Mike Shafer hurled respectively for the Giants in front of a suspect defensive effort. Frank Weishaar with three base-hits led the St Louis attack while Chris Arthur and Michael Simon each cracked a single and a double each. Keith DaCosta, Guy Peabody, Mark Bruzzone, Doug Rusch, and Dennis Horn each knocked out solid singles to help bury the Giants. John Riley made a successful (uninjured!) return in a pool appearance with three solid hits. Mike Shafer blasted a triple and smacked two singles to keep the Giant hopes alive. Colonel Realini and Captain Bennett each slapped two solid singles each while Randy Wallace slapped a double. Doug Penney and Greg Terra rounded out the '62 hitting attack with bingles. |
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#1. The first litigant in this week's Kangaroo Court: Dennis "Trader" Horn for wearing a DODGER Blue belt with his San Francisco Giants Uniform... whazzup wit dat!! #2. Next is Mark Bruzzone who asked for the week off from pitching claiming a "crick in the neck" so he volunteered to play shortstop where it was the hole in his glove rather than the crick in his neck that was the problem. #3. Finally, Scott Lueders learned to check the news before you drive to the game. You never know when the freeway's gonna catch fire and fall down!! |
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