Hey A’s,
Well our Independence Day parade certainly got rained on. Not literally, though that would have been kind of nice considering the roughly 1300% humidity on Tuesday afternoon – the A’s got shut down by the Service Nationals on the south lawn of the White House.
To say we struggled at the plate would probably be putting things a bit too mildly; other than a futile flurry of activity in the last inning, the A’s managed just 3 runs for almost the entire game. We started out trailing 5-2 and just could not manage to make up any ground on the Service Nats. Stout defense helped keep things relatively close, but our hits were few and far between, preventing us from gaining any momentum. A few innings after K-Dawg came on in relief of Mr. Prohibition, our opponents had figured out her deadly screwball and started to generate the consistency we were so desperately lacking. By the time the last inning rolled around, we faced a deficit of 14 runs – we were able to cut that to ten with a small bit of a 2-out rally, but the game ended there at 17-7, and like all those hopefuls at Nathan’s who go home with nothing more than a bellyache after facing Joey Chestnut, our July 4th celebration was ruined.
Yet again, as with every loss, there are some good things we did in this game that we should look to build upon next week. We had three hitters all bat 1.000 on the day – Hoff, MVP Jennifer Wunderkind, and K-Dawg (the last 2 doing so for the first time this season) We had excellent defensive play from Will Abbott out in left field, and from the platoon of K-Dizzle and Noops on second. Many of us had one or two good hits, but we just couldn’t get a sustained offensive push.
Effing A, Mike
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