Three Strikes
Corry has been playing baseball this summer for the high school's freshman team (baseball here is a summer sport, so the team is open to incoming freshman, of which Corry is one). Yesterday, he got the call-up to play with the JV team, playing first base for both ends of a double-header. He played really well defensively and went 1-for-4 in the first game. The second game was quite a bit more ragged for everyone on the team (we're still in triple digits for heat index, I believe), but he still did OK. I have to give him credit - he has really worked hard and improved since last year.
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Corry's club team has its season-ending tournament this weekend, so that will wipe out gaming for me.
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We have only managed to get in two more games of our playoff simulation. Game 5 of the NLCS featured a pretty good pitcher's duel between Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux. Arizona took a 4-2 lead (on 3 hits,1 walk, and 3 Atlanta errors) into the bottom of the 9th, but then gave up 4 runs - capped by a 3-run Rafeal Furcal homer - without recording an out. To add injury to insult, earlier in the game the D-Backs lost Reggie Sanders (RF) and Jay Bell (2B) for the rest of the series after they collided going for the same pop fly. Atlanta is now ahead 3-2; the series heads back to Arizona and will most likely feature Curt Schilling against Tom Glavine in Game 6.
Over in the AL, Seattle pulled to 3-2 with a Game 5 win behind Jaime Moyer. The Mariners got to Game 1 winner Andy Pettite early and cruised to a 7-2 victory. The good news for the M's is that the series now moves back to Seattle. The bad news is that the Yankees will have Roger Clemens and Mike Mussina for games 6 and 7, and Seattle is in the "pray for rain" section of their rotation.
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Corry's club team has its season-ending tournament this weekend, so that will wipe out gaming for me.
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We have only managed to get in two more games of our playoff simulation. Game 5 of the NLCS featured a pretty good pitcher's duel between Randy Johnson and Greg Maddux. Arizona took a 4-2 lead (on 3 hits,1 walk, and 3 Atlanta errors) into the bottom of the 9th, but then gave up 4 runs - capped by a 3-run Rafeal Furcal homer - without recording an out. To add injury to insult, earlier in the game the D-Backs lost Reggie Sanders (RF) and Jay Bell (2B) for the rest of the series after they collided going for the same pop fly. Atlanta is now ahead 3-2; the series heads back to Arizona and will most likely feature Curt Schilling against Tom Glavine in Game 6.
Over in the AL, Seattle pulled to 3-2 with a Game 5 win behind Jaime Moyer. The Mariners got to Game 1 winner Andy Pettite early and cruised to a 7-2 victory. The good news for the M's is that the series now moves back to Seattle. The bad news is that the Yankees will have Roger Clemens and Mike Mussina for games 6 and 7, and Seattle is in the "pray for rain" section of their rotation.
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