Their Turn…

Monday night we came up with the big play to lead our team to a win.

Wednesday night it was Cooper’s turn for the big play.

A three run blast over the left field fence fueled a five run fifth inning for Cooper, who came from behind to take a 5-2 win.  That evens the teams at 1-1, and sends them to a deciding winner-take-all game three Thursday night.

The loss cast a shadow on a couple of fine performances.  Hayden pitched very well, getting us into the fifth with the lead.  Logan blasted one to right center that one hopped against the fence, and Logan put on the afterburners and sped around the bases for an inside the park home run.

I was proud of Philip who regained his composure and showed some poise after the home run that put us behind.  He bounced back, struck out the remaining batters and went into the sixth still with good stuff.  Pitch count was the only reason he was pulled; he recovered nicely.

Shane managed to get us two outs on two pitches.  A wild pitch was recovered so quickly by Ryan that he was able to gun it to Philip and catch a runner from first attempting to steal.  The next pitch resulted in a lazy fly out to Koby in right field.  We needed that so we could get right back up to bat.

But to no avail as we could not get anything started in our sixth.

Two great baseball games have been played between these teams.  Win or lose, I hope the third one is just as good.