{"id":637,"date":"2014-06-24T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/?p=637"},"modified":"2014-06-24T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T21:59:06","slug":"the-fisherman-left-his-hook-in-the-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweatsoxbaseball.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/24\/the-fisherman-left-his-hook-in-the-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Fisherman Left His Hook In The Fish”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The slumping SweatSox took their first 4-game losing streak since 2012 with them to Kinsmen last Friday night to face the Gatineau Marc Sports in the rubber match of their season series.\u00a0 Now in general, whenever the SweatSox play a game all NCBL eyes are squarely focused on that bout; but we\u2019re the first to concede on those very rare occasions when we take a back seat to a superior matchup.\u00a0 Friday was one of those games, as the Kanata Athletics hired Jose Canseco to be their teammate for their game vs the Bytown Battalion at the Sportsplex.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Kanata, things got out of hand rather quickly as Marc Sports jumped out to a 3-0 top-of-the-first inning lead.\u00a0 In the bottom, the SweatSox answered with 2 runs, highlighted by Armando Navarro stealing home after realizing nobody was going to hit him in.\u00a0 An honourable mention goes to the Marc Sports catcher who got ejected for questioning an admittedly bizarre play at the start of the inning.<\/p>\n

From the second inning onward, it was smooth sailing\u2026for Marc Sports.\u00a0 They scored 5 runs in the 2nd, 4 in the 3rd, and 4 in the 4th en route to a 16-2 beat-down.\u00a0 Things got so bad, Mark Stinson made his SweatSox pitching debut, throwing 1\/3 of an inning, giving up 3 walks and 0 runs, which means The Fisherman sits atop the SweatSox career ERA rankings (0.00).\u00a0 Craig Cornell also got in on the action, making his standard biennial pitching appearance, throwing 1 inning of 0-run ball.<\/p>\n

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The winner of the 2004 A&W Kamloops International Baseball Game MVP Award was: Armando Navarro.\u00a0 #12 went 1\/3 with an RBI double, but it was his steal of home that was the highlight of our night, plus he was the only outfielder to not make an error.\u00a0\u00a0 Honourable mention goes to Josh Ramage who went 2\/2 with 2 singles.\u00a0 The winner of the anti-award Odlid was: Mark Bond.\u00a0 Cop gets the \u201cBlack Beauty\u201d not for committing an error in CF, but for what he did in the seconds afterwards: TROTTING!\u00a0 Honourable mention goes to Josh Ramage, who did a pretty good Rafael Castillo impression with a non-slide at second base.<\/p>\n

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Immediately after the game, the SweatSox split into 3 different subgroups, each with a different set of priorities.\u00a0 One group, led by the Brothers Bond, stayed at the field and had an impromptu batting practice.\u00a0 A second group, led by the MindyMobile, went straight to the cooler to start the Hyjinx ASAP.\u00a0 A third group, the OM\u2019s (L, G, and C), got in their cars and raced to the Sportsplex to try and get a whiff of Canseco\u2019s jockstrap.\u00a0 So to recap: one group practiced to try and help the team out of a now 5-game losing streak, a second group worked on #winningthehyjinx, and a third ran away from a cooler full of 72 beers to maybe (they didn\u2019t) see someone who is an admitted PED user, a snitch, and professional fame-whore.<\/p>\n

For those who weren\u2019t able to watch Athletics-Battalion, here\u2019s a piece of what you missed, a called strike 3 on a 3-2 count.\u00a0 How very NCBL of us:<\/p>\n

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