Past Season Review Part 4 of 4

It's the final part of the past season review: 2007- Major Red Sox.

Every season has it's controversial moments, and it is good to be on the right side of things, but it is just awful to be on the wrong side of things. An unbelievable season took a great turn, after finishing 3rd out of 4 teams, we drew the 2nd place Yankees in the first round of the playoffs. The Yankees and us were fairly evenly matched, but there was a lot of fuel to the fire in this contest. The game began with the Yankees wanting to wait for their 9th player to show up, we did not approve because it was 8 pm and we had our players, and in our league you can play with 8. But anyway after 15 minutes of waiting we got up to bat and went back to business.

After 3 innings we were leading by 1 run, and in the top of the 4th, something long overdue was about to happen. 2 on and 2 out with 2 runs in, Tyler who had not had an extra base hit all season long stepped into the box. And with with a swing of the bat Tyler blasted a 3 run dinger over the left center field fence. Folks, I have seen airplane rides that have been shorter than that blast. The homer put us up by 3 runs (only 2 counted, due to the 4 run mercy rule). In the bottom half of the inning we gave up 3 runs, then we scored 4 more and the Yankees scored 3 as well. Now leading by 2 and in the 6th inning, controversy came next. With 2 outs and tying run in scoring position, our pitcher Tyson threw the ball in dirt and it got by the catcher- Spencer, Spencer sped to the ball and tossed it Tyson who looked like he got the out, the umpire called him out. From my view in the 1st base dugout, the runner was safe, and by a bit too, but oh well. We escaped with a 13-11 wild victory.

Two nights later we would lose to the Pirates in the semi-final by 10 runs. On the following Wednesday we met up with the Blue Jays, the winner would move on to the finals, and in the first inning the Blue Jays meant business, taking a 3-0 lead. In the home half we roared back with 4 runs to take a 4-3 and never looked back from there, winning 12-6 in a great game.

In the finals against the unbeaten and #1 Pirates, we shut them down the in first 2 innings, clingling to a 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the 3rd the Pirates would tie the game, but in the fourth, with Noah on 2nd and Eric on 3rd- Tyler came up to the plate. Tyler after fouling a couple off, drilled the next pitch down the left field line over the 3rd basemen's should for a 2 run double and a 3-1 lead. Tyler would later score and it was 4-1 through 4 innings. Now in the 5th the Pirates would score 4 times and take a 5-4 lead that they would not give up and won the title, but for a few innings and about 90 minutes there was a lot of hope and belief that the Pirates would fall.

Tomorrow- how I draft a team, my strategy going into the draft, and how to build a Championship team.