{"id":1318,"date":"2015-08-04T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T04:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2015-08-04T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T05:07:59","slug":"why-are-you-running-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/04\/why-are-you-running-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are You Running?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another long weekend is upon us, which means I, Shaun Keay, finally have a few free minutes to update you all on the latest SweatSox happenings.\u00a0 The last time we spoke the SweatSox still didn\u2019t have an invitation to the Tier 2 postseason, we had just come off a disheartening loss to Marc Sports, and our hottest hitter was none other than Ross Hughes.\u00a0 A few things have changed in the past 2 games, while others have stayed exactly the same.<\/p>\n

This adventure began with our third and final matchup of the season against the Braves, who were pulling out all the stops to at least hold, and ideally improve from the 8th spot in the Tier 2 standings.\u00a0 The Braves struck first with a couple runs in the top of the 1st, but the SweatSox struck hardest with 11 runs in the 2nd, highlighted by a Ross Hughes two-run double, his first double since 2012.<\/p>\n

It was at this point that the Braves decided that their best chance to win the game was to have it cancelled and replayed at a later date.\u00a0 In the 3rd inning with the SweatSox up 11-2, Braves management, under the guise of the safety of both teams, requested the game called as the invisible\u00a0storm of 2015 approached.\u00a0 Fortunately the umpires, under the watchful eye of their boss, opted not to end the game based on hopeful wishing.<\/p>\n

It was also around this point that several SweatSox players became suspicious that the Braves were intentionally delaying the game before it was official, hoping that the Great Storm would actually come\u00a0and bail them out.\u00a0 Were the shoelaces of every single Brave really coming undone after every single pitch?\u00a0 Are their 3rd base signs really hidden in a sequence of 200+ signals?\u00a0 Did the whole Braves team really have to go chase a foul ball in the parking lot?\u00a0 My stance is they were not<\/strong> delaying; I\u2019m guessing there\u00a0was simply a manufacturing defect in their most recent shipment of team shoes, their 3rd base coach was being attacked by a swarm of bees, and they were all just making sure that one of their car windows wasn\u2019t smashed, something I know all too well.\u00a0 Any other \u201cdelays\u201d can simply be chalked up to the Braves being old & slow.<\/p>\n

Once the game was official, the Braves started working on their comeback.\u00a0 Chipping way with runs in the 4th, 5th, and 6th, the SweatSox found their once 9 run lead cut down to 4.\u00a0 John Groves, making his first start since dismantling the Kingston Ponies at the Brewer Tournament, threw into the 6th before turning the ball over to Cory Bond with 2 outs and the tying run on 2nd (Eric White may have gotten the ball had he known it was a save situation).\u00a0 Our GLE got out of the jam, which motivated the SweatSox to get back on the sticks and end the game, which we\u00a0did by scoring 6 runs to win 17-7 in a mercy shortened 6 inning game.\u00a0 The Braves were furious that the SweatSox ended it early\u00a0and didn\u2019t give them another crack at the bat, but to be fair they would\u2019ve probably been mad at the NCBL for only having 7 inning games had it gotten that far and they hadn’t completed the comeback yet.<\/p>\n

With the win, the SweatSox got our *, which means we clinched a spot in the 2015 Tier 2 Playoffs.<\/p>\n

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Final SweatSox vs Braves Notes\/Thoughts:<\/p>\n