Meridians Baseball

After rainouts on Thursday (independent) and Saturday (NKABL), we roll into Roselawn on Sunday afternoon for our CRC double-dip to find an empty dugout across the diamond.   A no-show by the Redhawks (who also had a DH scheduled) leave us with some infield work, loaning out the college guys (Humpert, Easterling) along with Mears & Reardon to the game next door (where they waste all their hits for the day...) and a bullpen session for Dolan since we now have 4 pitchers for just 1 game...   (Rumors swirl about Easterling pimping a single and Mears getting picked-off by a mile...)

We do get to 3 of our arms though unfortunately as the Bombers come in even stronger than our opening weekend against them.   We do give them some more free passes, but they do more to earn it this time out - scoring 5 and 6 respectively in the first two innings.  We don't do much to counter, as their pitching has improved as well and we fall easily in 5 innings.

Mears tidies up the mess with 3 K's in the final 1.2 innings to close it out.   Imperiale gets a sticker for his helmet for quieting the scoring with 1 pitch to end the long 2nd inning and an appropriate HBP in the 3rd to earn his early exit from the ball yard.

Woltermann jumps off his flight from a 10-day vaca, drives an hour and a half and proceeds to rip a 2B right away and scoring our only run (2-2).   Kraus (2-2) drives him in and Clim makes his return from the DL.