Again, I'm sorry for the delay. Coach Lerner told me after the game that I was to go home, not blog, and not think about baseball for the entire night. As always, I obeyed like the good boy that I am.
The highly touted Eagles of Eden Prairie came to PBMF on Monday to take on your own Hopkins Royals. Hammy toed the bump for us and Tyler Ruemmele pitched for the Eagles. Ruemmele had been hitting 87-89 MPH on the gun and even hit 90 a few times. He will be going to the University of North Dakota to pitch and play outfield.
The problem with us was that our bats never woke up. Ruemmele kept us off balance with a hard curve that looked a lot like his fast ball and he ended up pitching a complete game no hitter. What was really remarkable, though, was that even though we didn't get a hit, we hung in there with arguably the best team in the state for the entire game. We ended up losing 2-1 but we had every chance to take that game.
Somewhere in the middle of the game, a pinch hitter for the Eagles squared to bunt. Hammy went inside on him and it hit the kid's bat and possibly him. The behind-the-plate ump claimed that he had seen it and that it was a hit by pitch. Coach Lerner called time and walked out to discuss the play. This brought the total to 4.5. It turns out that the field ump had a better view of it, seeing as he didn't have to use his x-ray vision to see what happened, and he declared that the kid had, in fact, offered and that it was a strike rather than a hit by pitch.
Hammy pitch extremely well. He pitched the entire game, gave up 0 earned runs, and left a lot of Eagles on base. His effort went unnoticed for the most part because the other guy threw a no hitter and we lost, but nonetheless, Hammy pitched a gem.
Next we travel to Minnetonka to take on the mighty Skippers at the "House that Twenge Built" a.k.a Veteran's Field.
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