I’m writing this on APBA Day, 6/6/11, Happy APBA Day to you all! Three times a year the Illowa APBA League gets together, as a whole, twice in Naperville & once in Champaign. This is when the Chicago teams play the out of Chicago teams.
I needed to get back home because I had a graduation party to attend on Sunday. So I decided to take Amtrak to Champaign & arrive 10:30 AM. My Amtrak hit a Metra as it was pulling out of Union Station, so on to Plan B. Ended up getting a ride with Rob and we arrived at John’s house at 2:30 PM.
Things were going well for the Chicago Champions as we won 13 of our first 21 games. Our record was 13 games over .500, 41-28. That’s when the roof collapsed, not literally, but you never know, that might’ve been less painful.
We dropped the next nine straight games, to finish up the weekend with a 13-17 record, 41-37 record on the year. We were outscored 59-17 and were out homered 18-5. It’s definitely time to regroup. This was a reality check and a gut check.
After dropping the last three games versus Molly Putts, things really went south for the Champs when Tim Lincecum stepped to the plate with the bases loaded, nobody out, in the 2nd inning of a 1-1 tie. I rolled a 55-23 on a squeeze, missed the bunt, two runners tagged out in rundowns, runner on first holds. We went on to lose that game 9-2, along with the next five games, for a 6-0 Upperdeckers series sweep.
Good news is, it can only get better!