Meridians Baseball

Possibly under the radar a bit with a last minute 'call to arms' and with only two teams in the league gathering to play, the Meridians assemble Saturday evening to get their 10-year anniversary season rolling!

With some new swag representing our tenure, we venture into 2012 with a new batch of rookies along with some regulars and originals to meet the NKy Owls for the first time this summer.   Reese wins the toss and we take the barely adequate field with him on the bump as he tosses the first four to earn the Win, giving way to Meridians newcomer Mears who gets the 3-inning Save.

Soto spends more time with the equipment than he does warming up and shows off the lack of arm early on providing the day's first web gem with Parkhurst's framing of the Covington #5's one hop slider.   The other defensive highlight is a 'non-web' gem up the middle by the newly-annointed, "Dyson" (designed to move) with a bare-handed snag & toss from the 2nd base side of the bag.   Herby handles the dish all day while Ehrhardt earns the VH-1 Pop-up (Video) award for the game.

Meridians start the scoring right away and have a 6-0 lead before they scratch 1 lone run across.  Final: 10-1

We swing 11 guys amassing 18 hits with Couture leading the way going 4-4 while Kraus, Mears, Parkhurst, Arnold and Herby have multi-hits days.   Soto then gives the guys the Taylor Mill parking lot tour allowing Kraus enough time to devise the, "I did so order a pizza an hour ago" plan to effectively altar every other person's bill in some way.   Fortunately, "Ron Noodle" exudes his zen-like presence over the after-ball gathering and no boy scouts were injured as a result...   ("I swear I heard her call someone, Ron Noodle." say two unreliable sources.)