With Molly Putts Marauders on the schedule for December and both Don and I having busy holiday schedules, John was nice enough to pinch-manage Molly Putts today. We took over a table at the local coffee shop for four hours and got the series done.
The Molly Putts took six of nine games from us Thunderchickens. We’d be complaining ‘cept we feel pretty lucky. They took the first five games and we managed to win three of the last four.
Our first win was Game Six and was pretty sweet. Hendrickson a D plain versus Volquez a A with a W. Well, we capitalized on that W with 10 walks for the game and demoted Volquez twice. The score was 14-8 and Hendrickson got the win.
The series ended with Joe Crede hitting a pinch hit walkoff solo homer giving us the win 6-5. That was only the beginning of interesting and odd things about that game:
- There were TWO pinch hit homeruns by us (Eric Hinske hit a three run shot in the 5th).
- Manny Parra was taken out after 5 innings with a perfect game going (manager enforcing strict pitch count, I’m sure).
- Reliever Jesse Carlson gave up 4 earned runs… and got the win.
Hinske was our big bopper for the series. He hit 4 homers with 10 rbis. Mark Hendrickson didn’t exactly pitch well (he pitched terrible… 18 earned runs in 23 2/3 innings) but thanks to incredible run support, he got 2 of the 3 wins for us.
Congrats to Don and Molly Putts for the 6-3 series and thanks to John for helping us out!!
Good job by John and Tom to handle this series for me. My other priorities got in my way and I think this was the best solution for the sake of the ILLOWA League.
Molly Putts pitching gave up 53 runs in 9 games. But John’s level-headed management style still managed 6 wins. I heard that he DID threaten Adam LaRoche, so Adam must have felt “right at home.”
I speculate that if John had managed Molly Putts all year, we would have finished first. But then it wouldn’t have been “WE.” It would have been “THEY.” Or “SHE.”
John, are you available to play my team against El Presidente for my last 9 games? Just kidding. Now that John has me “on the doorstep” I will win or lose this thing on my own.
Thanks to both of you for handing this quickly. I appreciate it.
DonS.
we had a typical series. Start out slow then come back for a few wins. Also manage to squeak in one or two barnburners where we really hit the ball (we scored 20 against the Hitmen earlier this season and I think 17 against the Gamblers).
So what does that make the Molly Putts record? Have you just got one last series to go?
I play Todd in January…
I play Mike Bunch in January. We have not yet made arrangements to play.
Moly Putts Marauders and East Moline Bombers plan to play on Sunday, January 17.
the T-chix and Bombers will face off the next weekend on Jan 23.
Watch those limits everyone!