Jays and Royals had a great day to play baseball on Sunday with John Weber going against Jon Atwell. Jays went down scoreless in the 1st with a 1B by Scott Ross and a 2B by Paul Post. Royals put up 1 run with a BB by Marc Fiacco who stole 2B and scored on a 1B by Dave "Boomer" Hartman. Answering in the Jays 2nd inning - Mike Surin doubled and scored on singles by Weber and Andy Rumpelt. Royals went scoreless. Bob Yakatan opened the 3rd for the Jays with a single, but was cut down attempting to steal 2B. Ross singled again and scored on again a double by Post, a double by Pat Alston and single by Mike Aiello. Royals went down in order. Those pesky Jays put up another run in the 4th on singles by Rich Garberino and Weber. Royals had enough and got to work scoring 5 runs in their 4th on singles by Steve Deblasis, Fiacco, Steve Vangelder, Dave Mcdermott and doubles by Atwell and Hartman. Scoring a run again in the 5th - the Jays Ross singled and Alston boomed a triple to deep left-center. Staying hot - Dave Demaria opened the Royals 5th with a double and scored the first of 8 runs on singles by Billy Smith, Mark Finelli, Rick Koster, Vangelder, Bill Farrell, Atwell and another double by Hartman. Both teams came up scoreless in the 6th on a single by Surin for the Jays and another double by Demaria and single by Deblasis - and finally the Jays couldn't muster any runs in the 7th. Weber left the mound in the 5th for the Jays and Farrell relived Atwell in the 6th for the Royals.
Final - Blue Jays 4, Royals 14
Next up Saturday: Jays at Marlins and Royals at Black Sox
Brad B
-- Edited by BradB on Tuesday 7th of May 2013 10:01:50 AM
Whoa! Who gunned down Yakatan? That may be a first!
Marc Fiacco, a former Rensselaer Ram now living in Duanesburg. Good to see him come out of retirement. Plays a mean game of hoop, too.
Royals now extremely deep team with addition of Bill Smith and Mike Lannon as well, though Lannon missed game due to his aunt's death. What? Did Boomer go back to the gym? Guy's a stud! Sounds like he's back in his glory days when Rotterdam BR won the BR World Series in South Dakota.
Alston picking up where he left off. This guy can wake up 3 in the morning and whack one deep.
OK, seriously, we've had some conversation about stats and all-league teams. Looking at the results so far this year, we may have 3-4 first all-league teams. How can anyone differentiate among all these great players. If we could get them all to Florida in November, we'd be more than well-represented.
