Week 3: Hatfield 4/24/2024

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Game 1: Mashed Taters vs Disciples
Taters start off hot and score 3 in the 1st. Pat Furst doubles. Disciples match their opponent in the bottom and also score 3. Richie Fluck and Darren Hughes both double. No scoring in the 2nd or 3rd for the Taters, but Disciples score 1 in the 3rd with Sean Murphy's RBI double. Taters get a solo homer from Keith Saunders in the 4th, and go on to score another run on singles. Disciples don't score again until the 5th, where they put up 4. Mashed Taters get 2 more in the 6th to make it a 1 run game. Disciples add to their lead in the bottom of the 6th with 5 runs. Murph doubles again, and Travis Ludwig drives in 2 with a nicely timed single. Needing 6 to tie and 7 to with, Mashed Taters get a 2 run bomb from Pat Furst, but then run out of gas. Disciples win, 13-9.

Game 2: Mashed Taters vs Warriors
Hoping for a split in their double header, Taters can't get anything going until the 6th inning, where they bat around and explode for 8 runs and take their first lead of the game. Carl Wambold blasts a grand slam, Pat Furst doubles and Paul Grant adds a homer to his earlier double of the game. Warriors are playing the part of the tortoise, however, and are slow and steadily adding runs each inning. They plate 6 in the 1st 6 innings, with John Britland and Nick Jokiel both doubling in 2 runs and Michael Waterstradt doubling and scoring. Mashed Taters add one more to their lead in the top of the 7th, and needing 3 runs to tie and 4 to win, Warriors go to work in the bottom of the 7th. Craig Schwartz leads off the inning with a walk, Waterstradt singles, Jokiel singles in a run, Stephen Massey doubles in a run, Matt Curtis reaches on a walk, and Alex Mitchell walks it off with a 2 RBI double. Warriors walk it off with a 10-9 heartbreaker for Mashed Taters.

Game 3: Mayhem vs Did We Win?
Did We Win gets a 1st inning 2 run homer from Andrew Burgher. Mayhem answers with 4 with a Derrick Strowhouer 3 run homer. Strowhouer will add another 3 run blast in the 2nd as Mayhem adds another 5. Did We Win gets 3 in the 4th and then 7 in the top of the 7th. Stephen Kodluk and Sean Pena both double in 2 runs. Mayhem can't get anything going and go down quietly in the bottom of the 7th. Did We Win, in fact does win, 12-9.