On a gorgeous Summer day at New Scotland, the Giants and Golden Marlins battled into extra innings to decide a very important game for the 45+ standings. The Marlins would get off to a flying start, in the top of the first, with 3 runs off of Giants starter Jimmy Konstantakis. A Randy Craft walk and stole...
It was the best of times for the Blue Thunder and the worst of times for the Vets, as two teams in the middle of the pack of the 45's squared off for a doubleheader on Sunday for what could best be described as a tale of two completely different ball games. Behind Pete Geannelis' sparkling complete game shu...
The Cubs and A's benefitted from some great groundskeeping by Jamie Duncan at Swift Road Park in New Scotland Saturday morning. After a late night downpour on Friday night, Jamie got the field in great shape for, what turned out to be a great game Saturday morning at 10:00 am. Another awesome job by the...
The Damn Yankees held off the front-running Propane Cardinals, 4-2, in a game shortened by darkness Friday night for a key victory to tighten up the 55's standings. The Yankees led 3-2 heading into the bottom of the fifth. Mike Hart drove in a fourth run with a clutch RBI single up the middle and the Yank...
Pirates and Yankees square off for a game at Central Babe ruth. Pirates hop on the starting pitcher for the Yankees Herrlett sco ring 2 runs in top of first. Herrlett settled down Shutting the hot hitting of the pirates down for the next 4 frames. Pirtaes starter walked the first 4 batters wth 2 k's and a c...
The Cubs and A's squared off at Central Babe Ruth Thursday night in an important game, with the two teams entering the game just one game apart in the standings. The A's got one run in each of the first 4 innings to take a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the fourth. That is when the game would turn in the Cubs favor...
We are now closing in on the end of the season and even though there are some make up games not in the books the standings are pretty tight except for the bottom 4 teams ( no offense). Thoughts on any possible finals matchups??
CDMSBL, A perfect storm of unavailable Shaskys has hit for this coming Monday night, July 11th. We are at Bob Moore at 5:45 against the Yankees and we can use 3 borrowed players. I have 7 Shaskys and I'd like to borrow 3 guys to make 10, just in case anybody gets hurt. email me or text me or call if you are inte...
My kids 14 year old all star team came in 2nd in our district tournament and earned a trip to the state tournament. After telling them they don't have half the heart of us old guys the idea of a scrimmage came up and everyone liked the idea ... so my over 45 dodgers are going to scrimmage them tonight at 6 PM. W...
In the midst of a beautiful 4th of July weekend, The Nolan Propane Cardinals came armed with a host of fireworks of their own, not to mention a complete game, seven-strikeout performance by Rick Loffredo. Rick also went 4-for-4, scored two runs, knocked in two, and had three stolen bases. The Divisio...
I had some guys ask me to put a team together for the Puerto Rico tournament in Feb. This has just become a National Tournament and they now give out rings to the winner. Its a five game minimum and the weather is the best out of all the tournaments we do. I was looking to do a 45 team, but will go with a 35 if we ha...
The WhizKids beat the Yankees 8-6 Friday night, behind the strong pitching of Jesse Braverman, Jim Konstantakis (WP), and Chris Abrams (save). Ed Draves had 3 of the WhizKids' 13 hits, with Braverman, Mike Lannon, and Billy Smith chipping in with 2 each. The Whiz scored in the 2nd on a sac fly by Jim Por...
I play in the 55 and over league and can play OF, pitch some, hit decent, or whatever---but no catching. I need to link up with a team where I will get in good playing time. Please contact Jim Edelman at cljvedelman@aol.com.
