Sennet (#10) & Flynn (#8)

The Twins played another game tonight, against the Yankees, and it was a doozy. This team sure starts off slowly.

Henry started as pitcher and Sennet catcher. In the first inning Henry gave up quite a few hits and a number of walks and we were down 0-5 before we got to bat.

Luke was up first, he grounded out. Zeke was walked. Henry flied out. And Sennet grounded out on a nicely hit ball, but they made the play at first.

Second inning Henry pitched for a bit and walked a few and gave up some more hits. They brought Eli in to pitch (this is not the same Eli from Rainiers who we did the Haka party for). He did fairly well but did give up a couple hits and a walk before retiring the side.

We got quite a few walks and runs over the next couple of innings and Eli pitched better. One was a dropped third strike, which means if the catcher drops the ball on a third strike, the batter can try to run to first and if he beats the throw or tag he’s safe. Sennet (catcher) promptly threw him out. Into the 4th inning I think they were still ahead 9-6 or something.

The next time Sennet was up to bat he hit a pop fly that was caught for an out. Then he played first base and Luke pitched. Luke did well and at the end of the 5th inning the score was 11-10 and they were still ahead. Sixth inning was the final inning.

They put Sennet in to pitch and he let a couple counts get to 3-2, but ended up striking out all three batters. The last strike out Henry (playing catcher) dropped the third strike and the ball scooted away. The batter sprinted to first base, but Henry scooped up the ball and fired a missile to the first baseman (Luke) and that was it.

Bottom of the last inning, down by one. Sennet’s Radiator teammate Flynn was pitching for the Yankees. Top of the order, so Luke was up first for us – and hit a triple! Next up was Zeke, and he walked. Henry next and he hit a single, scoring Luke and moving Zeke to third. Score tied. No outs. Sennet up. He ripped a shot into the outfield that everyone thought was probably going to be another home run. The outfielder made a spectacular catch though, surprising everyone. Zeke tagged up and sprinted for home, but Henry had already taken off for second, thinking it wouldn’t be caught, and so had to try to get back to first. He was thrown out at first, but that allowed Zeke to score, putting us up 12-11 and that was the game. So Sennet had a walk-off sacrifice fly that turned into a double play, but still drove in the winning run.

Twins are now 4-1. Only team with a better record are the Mariners who are 4-0-1 (one tie). They also have two kids from Radiator Whiskey (Malakai and Julien) and two kids from Rainiers (Eli and Quinn), and the head coach is Jordan from Radiator and the assistant coach is Jon from Rainiers. And that’s who we play next!

I really hope our coach starts having some practices, because we’re winning, but we always fall behind early and have to play catchup and it pretty stressful. We’re almost winning games in spite of ourselves.