MBC 13's traveled to Bremerton to play the Vipers in their second game of the season. Coach Cougan's heart sank as he greeted the opposing coach on route to the field. In his chit chat with the coach he mentioned last night's lost to the huge team from Auburn only to hear the Viper's coach reply, "yeah, they beat us 8-7 last week".
???!!**! went through Coach Cougan's brain. Upon rounding the corner to the field Coach Cougan was again started at the size of the opponent. Another huge team, and this one featured the spitting image of Kirby Puckett*. Egads!!!
Undaunted, MBC came out swinging and took their first lead of the year. Joe Eskanzie crushed a ball deep over Kirby Puckett's head for a double. Landon Fletcher pounded out a single and MBC was in business. Danny Hunt smashed a would be sac fly to center helping Joe Eskenazi learn to ALWAYS tag up on fly balls when on third. Joe was bailed out of trouble after "Ryno the Hitting Machine" McAloon singled home Joe and Thomas Carey singled home Landon.
The Vipers struck back with three of their own in the bottom of the first to take away MBC's early lead.
In the second, a couple walks, a hit from Joe Carey loaded the bases and a walk to Guthrie Morrison plated the tying run. Magnolia then allowed the Vipers off the hook as the next three batters went down unproductively with the bases loaded.
The game slipped away from MBC at that point as the Vipers responded with a big inning creating an 11 - 3 gap that later became a 12-3 final score.
MBC played much better defense in their second game. An outfield of Joe Eskanazi, Guthrie Morrison and Joe Carey raced around making many catches, none better than Joe's over the shoulder grab in left. The infield play was solid and Thomas Carey made a great play for a 6U, 6-3 double play. Jake Welch came in a pitched with guts and guile to hold the Vipers to just one run for the remainder of the game.
Although the results were another loss, the team played much better and one could see the team starting to figure the game out a little more.
* For all the young uniformed members of our team who said "Who is Kirby Puckett?
Kirby Puckett (March 14, 1960 – March 6, 2006) was a Major League Baseball center fielder. He played his entire 12-year baseball career with the Minnesota Twins (1984–1995) and he is the Twins franchise's all-time leader in career hits, runs, doubles and total bases. At the time of his retirement, his .318 career batting average was the highest by any right-handed American League batter since Joe DiMaggio.
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