The Yankees and rival Marlins played a hard fought contest on Sunday at New Scotland, with the two clubs first incounter since last years championship series. Jerry Solomon opposed John LaTorre. Yanks coming in at 2-3 and the Fish at 3-2. The Marlins opened up the contest scoring 2 in the bottom of the 1st, with RBI's from Mike Girard (sf), and Jim McQuade with an rbi single. Yanks come back in the 2nd with a run with hot hitting Don Dunham doubling in Ron McCarthy who earlier singled and then stole 2nd, making it now 2-1 Fish. Now to the bottom of the 3rd, the Marlins score one when Girard singled knocking in a run. 3-1 Fish after 3. Going to the top of the 5th, Yanks answer with 4. Pete Westphal comes on to relieve LaTorre.. With the bases loaded, Mike Eplite plated two with a single to right, then one batter later, Ron McCarthy knocked in 2 with a booming double to left now making it 5-3 Yankees after 5. To the bottom of the 5th, Marlins score a single run when Girard singles knocking in Coffey making it 5-4. Now to the bottom of the 6th, Marlins knot it 5-5 with Carrigan plating McQuade. In the top of the 7th, Yanks answer with 3 to take an 8-5 lead. Eplite had an infield single knocking in Joe Burns, then key RBI's by McCarthy and Dunham made it 8-5. Joe Burns replaced Jerry Solomon, who pitched a workmen like game, and came in to finish out the contest. For the Yankees, Don Dunham (2 db,single,1 rbi), Ron Mcarthy (2 db,single,3 rbi's), and Mike Eplite (db,2 singles,3 rbi's) led the Yankees 14 hit attack. The Marlins were led by Mike Girard with (2 singles,SF, 3rbi's) and Jim McQuade (db,single , 1 rbi). Yanks improve to 3-3, and the Marlins even there record at 3-3. Off next week (fathers day).
hat's off to the yank's who played an excellent ballgame yesterday. what is not mentioned by mike are the outstanding plays made by their left fielder and by their right fielder. those 3 catches saved at least 3-4 runs alone. don dunham threw out 2 of our baserunner's attempting to steal 2nd also. P.S.-- they beat me like an old rug when I was trying to hold them down. Again boy's, congrats. P.S.S.-- I would be remiss if I did not mention Skip Treece's catch in center field. I am still shaking my head how an 87 year old man can do the things he does.
Pete, thanks for adding that info. Just didn't want to take up all the remaining space on our website. Yes, Skip went a long way, and I mean long!!! Ed Scrieber made two gems, and 64 year old Brad Buchan made a key catch for the Yanks in RF, could have turned the game around without it. Oh, I should have added BIG D DUNHAM's outstanding game behind the plate, and at the plate. I've been waiting for him to come alive after 5 games. Believe me, I know Donnie won't let me forget his special day!!!! These are the kind of games that make the league better. Also, Hornets/Thunder played some tight ball the game after our's. This is what parity is about, spreading the talent among other clubs.
