Meridians Baseball

We don't get a game time or opponent until after 6pm Friday night and it's not where & who it was supposed to be, but we get a game in despite the break in the NKABL schedule.   We bring some lefties down to Ludlow to gander at their short porch and find it twice with both Weinewuth and Mears depositing a pill in the rock garden.

Bolia makes his return after another 2 weeks off, but only wants the first two innings and 51 pitches (4 K's).   Scheffel steps in for the next few frames, Mears gets him out of the 5th and Reese takes the 7th and the unfortunate walk-off loss.  Final: 8-9

Mears with 2 hits including his line-drive home run in the 6th to tie up the game, Bolia maintains his 1.000 batting average with 2 more hits and a BB, multi-hit nights for Kraus, Parkhurst (3) and Arnold who ties it back up in 7th with a clutch knock.   Weinewuth makes a cameo with a 2B, HR and 2 runs so that Reese can make his 2012 catching debut - tossing out the lead-off runner right away in the 1st.   Mears picks off a baserunner as well.

Sunday brings a good roster as well despite a blown tire on 275 and a potential dog in heat...  

Mears lets a trickler through his legs on the mound just to be able to turn and whip it to 1st in time.   13 K's in his 6 innings including the side + one in the 5th.   Kraus pops the nitrous rounding 3rd right through the bench-proclaimed "Stop!" sign to score on a high throw in the 5th.

Clim makes his first cameo of the summer going 3-3 with a HBP as well to score 3 runs, Reese with 3 hits (2 2Bs), Averwater with 2 crack bamboo hits, Kraus with 2 runs and Mears with a 2B, 2 SB and 2 runs.

Umpires enforce the time-limit due to the heat so we wrap up in 6 innings with the Bandits then losing players after Game 1.  Final: 9-3 & their forfeit (Chris Arnold fires the official first pitch of Game 2 for the Win, but the umpires - already in the parking lot - call it a "ball" from all the way out there...)