Suffice to say the Dazzlers faced excellent opposition and didn't exactly cover ourselves in glory. Were it not for some aggressive baseruning by Misters Tiu and Hall, there would be nothing to brag about. Which there isn't, anyway.
14 June - v Beyond Bermuda Shorts, Finsbury Park (W, 16-3)
The middle of June....and our first real home game, how about that.
20 June - Metoric Tournament, Finsbury Park
These games didn't count in league standings. Thank god.
22 June - at Tiger Cubs, Wandsworth Common (L, 14-9)
When Eddie Rabbit sang "I love a rainy night", this wasn't what he had in mind. And we really don't wanna think about what he had in mind, because Eddie Rabbit sucks.
The Dazzlers continued to make friends and influence people with excellent sportsmanship on this occasion, looking the other way on the nutty 5 male / 5 female rule and not insisting on an automatic out for the opposition. So much for that Championship Trophy, then.
28 June - v. Sumata Panthers at Finsbury Park, (tie, 6-6, 7 innings)
To our friends at the BS-UK website ; you've been misinformed. The result wasn't 4-4 and the Panthers didn't collect 23 (!) base hits.
The correct linescore for the evening :
Panthers : 6 runs, 11 hits, 6 errors, 10 runners left on base
Dazzlers, 6 runs, 5 hits, two errors, 6 runners left on base
I'm not sure how many weeks we'll manage to score more runs than we have hits, but taking advantage of walks and the Panthers' mistakes was key. Also of note was our lack of an extra base hit all night, which either speaks to our lack of power hitting or the oppositions great pitching (maybe a little of both). The Panthers, conversely, only had two extra base hits all night, both courtesy of their aspiring rugby pro who stretched a single into a double with his aggressive (some might say criminal) baserunning, along with a 2 run HR to deep left in the top of the 6th that might've killed us....were it not for the heroics by the top of our batting order in the 7th. Two runs down, Paul and Karen set the table...and much credit to Colin for getting the game-tying hit.
There was some dispute over the Dazzlers not having the requsite 5 female players in the batting order, resulting in an automatic out at the bottom of the order. The Panthers seemed to think we were arbitralily changing said automatic out to a different spot in the order when it suited us --- our version of events is that we had the automatic out in the 10th spot each time it came around, which our scorecard verifies.
For the guy in the Derek Jeter shirt who asked "can't you lot organize a proper game?", thanks for the constructive criticism. The Panthers, for their part can't manage to win when facing opposition handicapped by an automatic out every 10 at bats, nor can they keep score.
Tuesday night, we're back in Wandsworth to take on the Tiger Cubs.
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