Monday, June 7, 2010

Red Rockets Repeat!! Repeat

Despite their obvious name-jinx, the Red Rockets Repeat continued their winning ways this weekend in the Kickball Society Bush League Championship.  Having won the 2010 Grand Champions Tournament a few months before, the Rockets set their sights on their first ever league title.  Here's how it happened:


Game 1 (Elite Eight) - vs. The Children Left Behind
This game was a cluster-fuck.  The Rockets had already beaten this team of Tampa Police personnel two weeks before 7-3.  A first-round bye allowed RRR an extra hour of sleep, which was important due to the hungover state of a few players.  Only the bare minimum 11 Rockets showed up, so you could say it was ToeJammer Tournament Mode-esque.

Thanks to a bunch of base-running errors from 3rd to home, the game was locked in a 2-2 tie before clutch kicking blew open a 5-run inning.  Amidst all that excitement, were a bunch of controversial calls and rule-clarification delays.  Instead of arguing every call, TCLB should have just taken what was coming to them (an afternoon in the shade).  Final score: 7-2.


Game 2 (Final Four) - vs. Team Flugelhorns
A rematch of last season's semifinal in which The Bushwhackers (now Flugelhorns) knocked RRR out of the tournament.  There was major deja-vu in this game, with both teams struggling to get base runners.  After two unsuccessful trips through the line-up, Chandler kicked two perfect munts (two since the first was actually ruled a munt) and got on base to lead-off the 5th inning.  April (tall) advanced him to third and Griff's sacrifice fly scored Chan-Chan two batters later.  Unlike the last league tournament, the Rockets were not "Thunderstruck" with any fielding errors.

So basically, a Liger Munt won the game 1-0.


Game 3 (Finals) - vs. Huge in Japan
Huge in Japan is the new team from Tampa Bay Club Sport who went 7-0 in the regular season and handed the Rockets their only loss.  They were the heavy favorites in the 104 heat-index weather.  However the Rockets scored a run in each of the first three innings, while still playing 9:15pm (lights out!) defense.  Unfortunately in KBS, games are played to a specific time limit, not a set number of innings.  So while the game was moving fast, it was only a matter of time until the Rockets collapsed.

A deep solo home-run got HiJ on the board, and a string of bunts with throwing errors allowed HiJ to tie the game 3-3.  During that same inning, a collision at 2nd base sent April (tall) to the sideline with neck pain.  As the game continued into the final inning, both teams scored to force extra play.  Long story short, Rockets score 3 in the first extra inning and then shut down Huge in Japan to win 7-4.

Notes:
- April's injury sent her to the hospital (ambulance and all).  All tests were negative and she's doing well, despite soreness.
- Brooke pitched the entire tournament on a severely sprained ankle. She even had a few hits and RBI on the day.
- The Rockets will probably take a long break until the end of 2010 or beginning of 2011. So now you have one less thing to not care about.

 Svedka. Fuck it.

3 comments:

Maria said...

Wow, only 9 of us left at the end of the game... crazy!

So glad you're ok April, pretty sure you're the only person to leave the field in an ambulance in KB Society history! Way to Go!!

Chris said...

Medium-sized In Japan.

SarahB said...

Over-rated in Japan