Denver Post South Suburban Edition 6/10/10
Fat Kids Battered but Still Standing
The Fat Kids stumbled a few times on Wednesday night but came out of the game victorious. The evening was a roller coaster of emotion with innings of scoring a bunch of runs and then returning the favor and giving up a bunch of runs. The low light of the evening was the loss of one of the Fat Kids most likely for the season. In the end, timely hitting and just enough defense leave the Kids 2-0 for the summer season.
The top of the first inning saw the Fat Kids unable to stop the Purple People Eaters from dropping in shallow hits into the outfield coupled with seeing eye ground balls on their way to scoring 6 runs. “What’s with these guys, they hit the ball so softly it doesn’t even make it to the co-ed line, but we can’t seem to do anything with it” a frustrated El Sukador said. The Fat kids were left shaking their heads but came back and answered with 5 runs of their own. The battle continued throughout the game with each team taking turns sharing the lead.
In the bottom of the fifth on slow ground ball to second base hit by Alejandro Holder , Canada attempted to break up the double play and the shortstop made a late throw offline. The throw solidly connected with Holders jaw dropping him to the ground instantly. Team tough guy Kyle the Bully said after the game “I’m the toughest guy around, if the ball hit me like that I would have been on the ground crying, but Holder took that one like a champ!” It turns out Alejandro broke his jaw in two places and is awaiting surgical advise. We wish him well and hope he is back out there with his team soon.
The game didn’t end on a sad note however as the Fat Kids came charging back in the bottom of the sixth to run out over four and half minutes on the clock scoring enough runs to take the lead and win the game. Over those last minutes of the game the team experienced the most consistent hitting from the lead off of Hippie down through Jimbo “The Blackhawks didn’t end up choking but we all know the Cubs will” Paliga. Jimbo and Frankie were on target several times perfectly placing slap hits to the right field corner, Jim actually ran all the way to second. Way to go Jimbo! The Fat Kids are now 2-0 in summer play and face off against a familiar for in Team Socko next week.
Get better soon Holder.
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