Antiques 2001 MSBL Father-Son Results

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MSBL Father-Son

The Antiques Father-Son team went 1-2-1, barely missing the playoffs. Ron Mosely from San Jose pitched a complete game to win the last game.

Antiques 12 -- Omaha Black Sox 12

We opened the tournament with a tie. Denny Brown was the starting pitcher and had a rough first inning, giving up 6 runs on 5 hits, a walk, and an error. We responded in the bottom of the first with 2 runs of our own. Jeff Brown led off with a walk. Buster Brown followed with a single. Pat Brown singled to drive in Jeff. Buster scored on Fred DiPietro's fielder's choice.

We gave those two back in the third on three hits and a walk. Fred stuffed the rally by picking off a runner at second for the third out. We got one of those back in the bottom. Jeff reached on an Omaha error and scored on Pat's double.

We got another singleton in the bottom of the fourth. Rick Chassey started it with a base hit. Brian DiPietro moved him along with another hit. Rick scored when Brian got caught in a rundown.

Buster relieved Denny to start the fifth. Omaha scored two on an error, a walk, and two hits. Meanwhile, Buster struck out the side.

We scored three in the bottom of the seventh. Ron Mosely led off with his third hit of the day. Earl Fowler and Don Fowler also singled to load the bases. Jeff singled on one run. We scored two more on walks to Buster and Fred. That got us close at 10-7.

We gave up two more in the top of the eighth on a walk, two hits, and another error. So we went into the bottom of the eighth down 12-7.

Brian drew a one-out walk. Donny Fowler followed with a hit. Ron and Earl walked to score one, and then Don stroked a single to drive in two more. Jeff's single loaded the bases again. Buster got hit by a pitch to get us within one. The umpires then announced that we had reached the time limit, so this inning would be the last one. Pat drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game. Fred stepped up with the bases loaded and one out. He hit a shot up the middle that hit the pitcher's glove before he could move it, starting a 1-2-3 double play to end the game.

Chicago Pater Filius 7 -- Antiques 5

Denny started the second game of the day and had a better outing. Three scoreless innings included a nice 6-4-3 double-play in the second.

Meanwhile, we scored a run in the second when Caleb Mosely led off with a single and stole second. Brian reached on an error and Caleb alertly scored. We scored another one in the third. Jeff reached on an error, Buster got a hit, and Jeff scored on Pat's groundout.

Denny gave up two in the fourth. A one-out base hit was followed by a double to the gap. Denny made a lousy relay throw to the plate to allow the runner from first to score. Fred chased down the overthrow and we barely missed getting the batter at the plate.

Pat came in to pitch in the top of the fifth and Chicago got a run on a hit, a groundout and a double. We got back ahead in the bottom of the fifth with a two-out rally. Buster and Pat got it started with singles. Fred's double drove in Buster. Caleb and Brian each singled to drive in a run, putting us ahead 5-3.

Chicago got those three runs right back in the top of the sixth, however. A walk and a couple of errors turned into 3 runs, putting the bad guys ahead 6-5. This time we couldn't respond. Pat hit into a 5-4-3 double-play to end the seventh. Rick lined into a 1-3 double-play to snuff out a bases-loaded, nobody out threat in the eighth. Chicago added one in the top of the ninth to complete the scoring.

Sacramento Cardinals 21 -- Antiques 2

We started strong against Sacramento. Buster knocked a triple. Pat followed with a double. Caleb drove Pat in with a two-out double. Jake Levine's base hit put runners at the corners, but that's all we could muster in the first. Worse than that, it was all we could muster for the rest of the game. We followed up that promising first inning with 8 straight 1-2-3 innings. Not even one more base runner!

Our lead was short-lived. Sacramento scored 4 in the bottom of the first, and then it got worse. The only consolation we took from the drubbing was that Sacramento went on to win our division of the tournament by beating Elk Grove in the finals.

Antiques 11 -- Riverside Cardinals 5

Ron started our final game. Riverside's leadoff hitter was a kid who could fly. He beat out a hit, stole second and third, and scored on an infield out to get Riverside on the board in the bottom of the first. Buster got the run right back. He got on via an error, stole second and third, and scored on Rick's sacrifice fly.

We stayed 1-1 until the fourth. Riverside scored on two hits and an error. Greg Chassey got us out of that inning by starting an inning ending double-play.

Ron had finished the required 4 innings of father-pitching, but was pitching well, so we decided to let him go until he got in trouble or ran out of gas. Meanwhile, Earl got warmed up and ready to go.

We went into the top of the sixth still down 2-1. But they had been pitching kids so far, and now it was our turn to face a father. Mel Levine started a rally by getting hit. Earl walked. RBI singles by Greg and Jeff put us back ahead. Greg scored on a passed ball. Jeff scored on Fred's hit. Pat plated Rick (Fred's courtesy runner) with a deep double to put us ahead 6-2.

Ron faltered a little in the sixth. A leadoff double followed by a base hit got Earl up in the bullpen again. But Ron got a strikeout, a sacrifice fly, another base hit, and a groundout to limit the damage to 2 runs, keeping us ahead 6-4.

Donny doubled in the seventh and scored on Mel's single. Mel later scored on a two-out error. We added three more in the eighth. Caleb got on on an error, Jake walked, and Fred stroked a double. Jake scored on a passed ball, moving Jeff (Fred's CR) up to third. Buster knocked a sacrifice fly deep enough to score his dad.

Ron walked the leadoff hitter in the seventh, which got Earl up again. But Ron got the next three batters to keep himself in the game.He had probably his easiest inning of the game in the eighth, giving up only a two-out single. Leading 11-4, we had to give Ron a shot at the complete game. He gave up an unearned run, fueled by two of our errors. But with runners at first and second and one out, he got a popup and a groundout to finish it off and give us a well-deserved win.

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