Summer Baseball 15/16. Round 8.

[perfeckt]

Cuppla good contests this round and a couple maybe not so.
What do you think about your clubs chances?
Does Lorenzo deserve the Moto GP World Championship?
How'd your favourite AFL club fare during the draft?
Local cricket?
Crickets............
I feel that I must give credit where credit is due this week. By midweek the VSBL had posted reasonably good reports about round 7's games across several levels of the summer league.Given the lack of resources at their disposal it was a step up in timely reporting that was better than the cookie cutter approach so far.
I would have liked to seen more reportage regarding the premier class (Div.1) but I would always like that.
Reports on the women league games and the mens Div's 3,2,1 which included a more in depth look at the Newport v Waverley 1st's game that included an audio interview with Matt Lawman on Newports win is to be applauded.
Consistency however is key.
I really hope that the VSBL can maintain the level that they have now set and continue to inform the tragics like me but also
the newcomers to the game in Victoria, especially Junior baseball's parents who might be wanting to gauge the long term involvement of little Jenny or Johnny and giving the two little 'J's some names to dream about with thoughts of, 'Hey I could be like them'.
One day.


Blackburn V. Sunshine Div.1

Sorry Sunshine but I see the power batting of Blackburn being simply too much.
Even with Sunshines 1 run win over the Baycats in Round 3 taken in to account , Blackburn to win by a fair margin.

Geelong V. Melbourne. Div.1

The game of the round has to be the split conference leaders, Geelong V. Melbourne at the 'Cattery' (well at least it's better than calling it the 'girl thingy-dome').
Only 1 game separates them and that from a Geelong loss to Sunshine. Melbourne so far are the only team in the division that remains undefeated.
Geelong can boast 40 runs scored to Melbournes 37 but Geelong suffers a record of 31 runs against compared to Melbournes 10.
The home team don't have exceptional stat's in the batting or the pitching departments but are obviously able to tame their side of the draw so far.
Melbourne on the other hand are hitting their straps with the likes of Nathan Aron in very fine form punching out a season ERA of .571 and Rob Hondromatidas at .444 giving out warning signals to all pitchers in the league.
Geelong are usually very tough to beat with a home ground advantage, particularly on a wet track but Melbourne just might have the wood on them this weekend and remain undefeated.

p.s.

This report has not been subject to the approval of the CIA, ASIO, Bindi Irwin or VicRoads but Elvis just gave me a big thumbs up!




Every game counts.

[perfeckt]

HA! "girl thingy-dome" Was supposed to have read girl thingydome!
The lewd police are everywhere.

[perfeckt]

girl thingy.

[perfeckt]

Pussey.

[doubleplay]

MAGNIFICENT

[perfeckt]

Div.1, VSBL.

Blackburn beat Sunshine in a close one, 2-1.

Never say never!

[doubleplay]

Malvern visited the Panther Pit at Moorabbin and found rampant bats in both the 1st & 2nds to the tune of 21 nil in the seconds and 14 nil in the firsts. Impressive pitching from Josh Mulherin and Ryan Campbell in the seconds along with four hit games from Stewart Mathieson and young gun Jack Fielden. This was followed by another performance by Grant Irving throwing a control five innings backed up by two relief shut innings by Mitch Bowen. The one downer for the day was Ryan Phillips dislocating hie shoulder in the first innings.

[fuzzy]

Sandy V Waverley
1sts Sandy 3-1
2nds Wav 7-3
3rds Sandy 6-1
4ths Wav 12-2

[wyatt33]

An epic Sunday at the gravie dome, with 1's, 2's and 3's playing at home. In the main game the Rebs hosted footscray and got the choccies, 15-5. Some excellent hitting across the board, a couple of big bombs by nick Thompson and young Trent watkinson, backed up again on the bump by gringo Stuey Phillips. The magoos had a good 9-5 win and the threes stunk losing 12-5. An amazing afternoon, a great turn out and a spread that was AMAZING! Big cheers to the canteen wench Ryan and his able partners Fred, Shelby and bumcrack! Lots of cheers, laughter, food and beers was the order of the day! Good job by everyone, and looking forward to Wednesday night for our first mid weeker of the year.
Ps I've heard Berwick masters put on a decent spread....I'm looking forward to it tonight!
GO REBELS!

[perfeckt]

Any more?

[perfeckt]

Any women out there playing baseball with a voice? Love to hear from you.

[doubleplay]

Well perfeckt, the populus might as well send their write ups into the forum, now tuesday afternoon and still no weekly wrap. There is more news coming out of Thailand than there is coming out of Albert Park or wherever they live nowadays. The bloke who does the wrap needs to actually find out what really happens before he puts pen to paper. Anybody can read a box score.
Keep up the good work perfeckt, it is a delight to read.

[wearnie52]

Perfeckt...are you looking for some women's results? Or info?

I would be happy to provide a wrap of the games from my club each week if you're interested.

I'm sure 4crownies would also comment in regards to Malvern's results each week too.

[Deleted]

It is a tough ask trying to keep all teams, and all clubs at all levels happy, doubleplay. That is for sure. But I agree that this current stuff (basically a summary from box scores that are available to anyone) is superficial, lazy and is just not acceptable - especially as a paid service.

wearnie52, no doubt perfeckt will respond in his own manner in his own time, but I have no doubt that he (like plenty of others) is simply interested in what is happening in Victorian grassroots baseball.

If you, or 4crownies or anyone else is happy to post match reports, news or images on this Forum then you are more than welcome to do so. I am sure it would be most appreciated by our regulars and even our occasional visitors.

It might even serve to set a standard for what the Victorian baseball community quite rightly expects.

[perfeckt]

G'day wearnie52,
I was interested in hearing more about chat from any women involved with or interested in baseball from women. Scores and such would be great as would any game commentary as seen from a female perspective but just as importantly thoughts on the women's league from women about women. Any stories? Any names? e.g. Cheltenham have fielded a women's team for the first time since.......Eve was a girl! I find it really gutsy that a team of mainly newbies are having a crack and are fronting up every week despite floggings in their debut season. Gotta admire that. I'd like to hear about people and from a different perspective. I would like to think that more people other than yourself could be made to feel welcome to voice their opinions on this forum and I would like to think that more people other than myself would be keen to hear about it.

[wearnie52]

Absolutely perfeckt! I would love to hear it from others too :-)

And yes, Cheltenham have done a fine job in getting a team on the field. We played them a few weeks back, and they did very well despite struggling in a few areas because they have a lot of inexperienced players.

And, they had their first win on the weekend! Credit to Lance and the rest of the Cheltenham club for committing to a women's program.

Kev, how did your girls go last night?

[4crownies]

Managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
See saw game all the way.
Down 3, then 1, then up 1 going into the bottom of the last.
Footscray managed to keep getting runners on until it was bases loaded and 2 down.
Abbey McLellan steps to the plate and does what she does best.
Walk off single with Sabrina Roberts, then Risa Tanaka crossing the plate as the winning run. Pretty sure she was winking at me as she crossed.
Footscray girls are looking better every week.
We (Malvern) on the other hand, on our day are competitive with everyone. However consistency is killing us.
We are working hard to remove this from our game.
The great thing I'm seeing is our 6-9 hitters improving their output at the plate. Having better AB's and choosing better pitches to swing at.

[wearnie52]

Sounds like a great game Kev! Thanks for the info :-)

Agreed. I have seen improvement in both Footscray and Malvern - and I absolutely think any team can win on any day. Really even competition in Division One this season.

[perfeckt]

G'day 4crownies, thanx for the report. Do you think that you might be able to convince any of the players to write a little/short piece about what it's like for them to play in the women league?
I no most people are shy about putting their thoughts out here in a public domain but it would be interesting to get a womans perspective on things like camaraderie, juggling lifestyle with baseball etc.
It doesn't need to be a play by play report on a game just a view on baseball and what it means to them. How and why did they get into baseball for example.
They needn't worry about feeling silly about doing it as most of us on this forum do that on a regular basis anyway .

[4crownies]

I can only ask....