Denver Post South Suburban Edition 6/5/10

Denver Post South Suburban Edition 6/5/10




Platte River Fat Kids Ride the Moustache Rally to Victory





The Cinco de Mayo celebration had a few celebrities make an appearance yesterday, The Three Amigos! No not Ricky, Vance, and Mark. It was none other than Caliente Carlos, El Handlebar Hollywood, and Rico Suave all sporting their facial super powers proudly upon their upper lip. This unknown power would supply a team with all the timely hitting, defense, and rally power the Fat Kids would need heading into the playoffs.

The Fat kids could not seem to gain any traction twice giving up big innings to team Socko despite a great defensive catch by El Sukador aka SOX. But there was a small spark that ignited the team. A routine sacrifice fly scoring El Handlebar Hollywood from second got the team going. “I ate a bunch of candy (twitch) before the game so I was really (twitch) flying around out there (twitch)” Hollywood was heard saying. The timely hitting continued with Alejandro Holder and Newman (Seinfeld voiceover) getting singles. Rico Suave stepped to the plate with the bases loaded in the bottom of the 5th and quickly deposited his first grand slam over the left-center field fence. “I told that ball to get out and not look back, it’s a good thing it listened” noted Mr. Suave

It was the bottom of the 6th inning that where the Fat kids put it all together after having given up 5 more runs despite excellent work from Pete the Pitcher. With one out and runners on 2nd and 3rd, Team Socko was clearly scared of the power from El Sukador and opted to walk him to face the confident Chode Cannode. With bases loaded the ever dangerous Chode strutted to the plate stopping to comment to the catcher “let’s get this over with, I know I’m gonna blow it”. With one swing of the bat the ball glanced off the third baseman scoring the tying run and an errant throw to second to plate the winning run which was scored by Newman (Seinfeld voiceover) who had to retrace his steps a retouch home plate. The victory firmly placed the Fat Kids in the 3rd seed for the playoffs and finishing what was the best regular spring season.

The playoff moustaches will make another appearance next week as the single elimination playoffs begin. Game time has yet to be determined.