KANATA– On July 8th, the SweatSox bested the Lumberjacks 5-3 behind a strong 6-inning performance from Josh Ramage, and a 4/4 day at the plate (+ a save) for Eric White. Jaspreet Sanghra was the hero of the game, knocking in the tying and go-ahead runs on a 6th inning double to right.
Coming off throwing a gem where he unfortunately took the L, our Arsonist was really pumped up for this game, in fact, he may have been a little too excited to pitch. Uncharacteristically, for the first time since learning to pitch from the stretch in Little League, the Hero of Hydration was called for a balk! We believe this to be the first balk called against the SweatSox since Game 5 of the 2013 Tier 2 Championship Series, the game where Marc Lett eventually slammed the Cornwall River Rats.
Now normally when a balk is called, the pitcher in question finds out what they did wrong, and makes sure they don’t do whatever it was again. That is of course unless that pitcher is Josh Ramage, who does what he wants, when he wants. J2O refused to acknowledge his error and come to an obvious complete set, leading to a 2nd balk a few pitches later. We later learned that Josh was working to increase his reaction time from pitch sign to pitch release, hoping to reach a Lenardon-like level. He could not. We also learned that he only stopped balking because he realized that balked runs are earned runs, not because the umpire was right. He did not balk again.
Oh, by the way, with 2 hits tonight I, Shaun Keay, am officially at exactly 400 “total bases” for my career. Some say this is the most important stat in baseball, so CONGRATULATIONS to ME.
SweatSox vs Lumberjacks Notes/Thoughts:
- We will never know if assholes are supposed to switch seats or not.
- We will never know if Kent invited Josh, or if Josh invited Kent.
- Craig Cornell removed Mark Bond.
- If Josh said it happened, or didn’t, then it did, or it didn’t.
- Josh’s phone is special.
- @Craig Cornell can go fuck himself.
- You can put a snail in a bucket, but you can’t buy a gorilla.
- My profile is magnificent.
- Kent’s a shandy.
- Kent is not sitting, except in the parking lot at 4:45pm before the game.
- Craig was feeling this one, he was a fuck in.
- It’s good Josh was ready, cause he’s going.
- It’s good Eric was ready, cause he’s going.
- Nobody else is going.
- Not only was there a Rogers outage, there was a Powers outage (0/9).
- Eric doesn’t appreciate people streaming porn on his hotspot.
- Pat Lyons made his 1st (but hopefully not last) appearance at the Hyjinx.
- At Darcy’s, the tables are wobbly, the burgers are tasty, and the urinal walls are curvy.