| Team
Smacker hands Team Guidash their first beat down of the day |
| Team
Smacker 13 |
| Team
Guidash 4 |
| by
Turd Ferguson |
| In
the second game of the day, Team Smacker faced off against Team
Guidash for the first time since Team Guidash eliminated Team
Smacker in the 2002 playoffs via sweep. Adam Beveridge made his
first appearance on the mound, facing off against Team Guidash ace
Matt Dinger. The game started off as a pitcher’s duel, but before
long was a blowout. |
| Dinger
held Team Smacker scoreless in the top of the first allowing only a
single to Kyle Means. Andy Snyder and David Zimmerman each flew out
in a quick scoreless inning pitched by Beveridge. After allowing two
singles to Lantz and Means, Dinger got out of the second inning
without giving up a run. Beveridge allowed his first hit of the
game, a single to A.J. Gillung, in the bottom of the second, but did
not give up a run. |
| With
the game scoreless, David Huey, in his first AWBL appearance of the
year, led off the top of the third with a single. He would score on
a two run homerun by Kyle Means. With a two run lead, Beveridge did
not give up a hit or run in the bottom of the third. Dinger allowed
one hit, a solo homerun by Adam Beveridge, in the top of the fourth,
which extended Team Smacker’s lead to 3-0. Beveridge again kept
Team Guidash hitless in the bottom of the fourth and maintained his
shutout.
|
| Team
Smacker got out their bats and sent Dinger’s ERA through the roof
in the top of the fifth. Marc Lantz led off with a double and scored
on Kyle Mean’s second two run homerun of the day. After an Adam
Beveridge groundout, Team Smacker got five consecutive hits
including a single by David Huey, two run homerun by Marc Lantz, a
single by Kyle Means, a two run homerun by Adam Beveridge, and Huey
was left stranded after hitting a double. |
| With
the score 9-3, Team Guidash tried to start a rally. Dustin Guidash
led off the inning with an inside the park homerun. Matt Dinger
singled after subbing in for A.J. Gillung and scored on a two run
homerun by Andy Divelbiss, his first of the season. Zimmerman ended
the inning with a groundout. |
| Team
Guidash hoped to stay in the game but it was put out of reach in the
top of the fourth. Adam Beveridge followed a Means single with a
two-run homerun. After a Huey groundout, Lantz and Means hit back to
back homeruns to extend the lead to ten runs. Down ten, Guidash
scored on a Dinger groundout which cut the lead to nine. Both teams
went scoreless in the seventh innings to give Team Smacker the
victory. |
| Adam
Beveridge pitched brilliantly in his first outing of the year. A
slew or errors by Dustin Guidash helped put runners on the bases for
Team Guidash. Andy Divelbiss was 1-5 in his first game of the year.
David Huey, signed before the game, went 4-8 in his first game of
the year. Todd Martino struckout in a single pinch-hit at-bat. |
|
| Box
Score |
| T
Smack |
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
LOB |
| Lantz |
8 |
3 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Martino |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
| Means |
8 |
5 |
7 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Beveridge |
8 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
| Huey |
8 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| T
Guidash |
AB |
R |
H |
RBI |
BB |
SO |
LOB |
| Divelbiss |
5 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Zimmerman |
5 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Guidash |
5 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Gillung |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Dinger |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Turd Ferguson is a
regular contributor to AWBL2K3. |