The Beat Continues Their Roll with an 18-8 Victory Over the Loose Cannons!

It was a windy and cold San Francisco afternoon...the type of cross wind that gives pitchers fits and turns deep flies to left into cans of corn. The 20-run challenge still holds and the Beat came just a hit short of pulling it off for the 3rd time in 6 games setting down the Loose Cannons 18-8 and extending their current win streak to 6 games. The undefeated Beat allowed the Cannons 1 unearned run in the top of the first but made it up quickly with a 3 spot in the second and another 11 in the third to take a 14-1 lead. By the end of the third the fat lady was singing and the team seemed to go into cruise control for the remainder of the game.

Like Old Clamhouse last week, it was the fourth inning before the Cannons pushed across their first earned run.

Meanwhile the Beat bats were on fire with 11 of 13 batters hitting .500 or better. Four Beat batters went 3 for 4 (Jacq and Jacque Wilson, D. Moody, and Kev Austin) and 4 more went 2 for 3 (Jim Colletto, Mark St.Georges, Derek Rey, and Terry Hempleman). Nine Beat batters had RBI and 12 scored runs.

In fact, one has to wonder how, if the team was hitting so well (26 total hits) how they were held to 'just' 18 runs. Well leaving the bases jacked in the second and the fifth can have that effect, but for the most part the team made the most of their at bats.

The Beat has now outscored their opponents 112-34 in six games and is just 8 runs shy of tying the team's all time record for runs scored of 120 in summer 2003. On the defensive side, the team record of least runs allowed in an 8 game season is 54 set in summer 1993 and spring 2003. Since the team is averaging over 18 runs per game and allowing and average of less than 6 per game, both records seem destined to fall this season.

The game ball for the day went to rookie Brian Greenblatt who went 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored and scorched a triple to the wall in right that would have been a 4-bagger if the first baseman hadn't been day-dreaming in the baseline impeding Brian's baserunning. Brian suffered a ankle sprain from the collision and spent the rest of the game on the bench, but he made the most of his 2 at bats.

Honorable mention has to go out to Mark Briscoe whose been struggling to get back to form and is showing signs of doing just that real soon. Briscoe went 1 for 2 with a sacrifice fly and a 3-run line drive homer that split the gap in center field. He also hit a monster drive to right that hooked foul just feet shy of the fence.

The Beat has a bye next week while the second place SF Ballers take on the winless Old Clamhouse. Barring a clamhouse miracle, the Beat's playoff fate is in it's own hands with a 12:30 game on October 1 vs. the Renegades. The magic number is 1, so the Beat can seal the season before the last game on October 8 against the Ballers.

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