Solingen Alligators

Finally a game worth playing for. #1 vs. #2. The alligators have probably the two best pitchers in the north league and a offensive lineup to match. In the first game they actually threw the weaker of the two pitchers. not sure why but it was definitely to our advantage. We touched this started and the couple of relievers for 8 runs...granted we had some help as what was a pretty good defense made an unthinkable 4 errors. We aren't going to complain though. The final score was 8-4

Second game the Alligators threw the best pitcher in the North league....in fact, last year we won the pitcher of the year award for all of Germany. He's a guy from the Dominican Republic who has been here for so long and now has his German Passport. he is actually a very good pitcher who could be pitching in the states in the minors as he has good control of all his pitches and really knows how to get batters out. Surprisingly for our team we hit him very well, unfortunately we didn't get the hits when it mattered. We out hit them 12 hits to 6 but somehow lost 4-2. It was a tough game with two errors on our part being the deciding factor.

As for me...I had a crappy day...really crappy day. for some reason, my bat could not find the baseball. I guess since I control the bat, then I couldn't seem to hit the baseball. it was tough for me and I don't know why. I went from one week of taking great swings on the ball and hitting every single one hard to a very bad week filled with strikeouts and weak hits. I guess its back to the batting cages for me.

Cy on the other hand had a very good day. He would actually say it wasn't that good of a day however he got on base almost every time he went up. I think he might have gotten out just once or twice. the sad thing is, as many times as he was on base, he only scored once. It was just one of those days for certain players like me that didn't really execute and help out the team. Sorry guys!