If it's lively endings you like, this one was a loud bada-bing.

Of course, you would have liked the final play more if on Monday night at the A Diamond if you were a player on the over-62 Yankees,
or one of its fans, but both the Yanks and the Americans, clearly got a jolt out of the ending.

Jolts are one of the reasons we pay our fees.

The short of it is the many-time champion, Yanks went to the plate in the bottom half of the seventh down 4-3. They then proceeded
to load the bases with only one out and the still speedy, far-from-old-guy Dennis Buckley cracked a single to left center and that did it: Two
of his mates raced around third to score, the ball trailed them home, giving 2-0 Yankees a 5-4 win over the 1-1 Americans.

The game went back-and-forth, with both sides mostly kept on a leash by the two starters, John Weber for the Yankees, Don Ball for
the Americans, who were each terrific, notching, I'm guessing, somewhere around six strikeouts apiece.

I don't have the scorebook with me, which is a shame because I'd like to get my facts straight. The short of it (using creaky
memory) is the Yanks scored first, going up 1-0, in the second, the Americans rallied and plated four runs in the fifth, and
the Yanks put two more across in the sixth, to post the score at 4-3 going into the final frame.

The night had a slight April chill, so it'll be interesting to see how each team plays later when sun and time warm old muscles.

-Mike




-- Edited by mikehart on Wednesday 1st of May 2024 05:01:26 PM