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Week One Milkmen

 

Opening day 2025 is finally here and today's opponent is the Milkmen. The Giants were expecting a tough matchup against this new team and went into the first game giving Adam Reents the ball. He lasted through a tough fourth inning and managed to get the win and a complete game with a final score of 7 to 4. Ryan Polhonka, Mike Ciseweski, Noah Danner and Cole Lambert all had two hits each to led the offense. Win game one - check, now on to game two. The Giants jumped out to a 4 - 0 lead with Rob Dembroski on the mound and then decided to take the rest of the afternoon off - apparently. A few questionable fielding decisions combined with a number of softly hit infield singles let the Milkmen come from behind to pull off a 5 to 4 win. Reents led the hitting with 2 hits. Well that's life. In fact it's almost as if you could be riding high one minute and then shot down a minute later. But as you can probably guess, we're gonna change that tune when we're back on top in June.

 

"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical." Yogi Berra

 

It's a long season. though, so enjoy the Memorial Weekend off and be ready to go in June.

 

Let's Go Giants!

 

Week 2 Coyotes

 

The Giants were expecting a challenge this week against the Coyotes, who year after year are consistently at or near the top of the league standings. The game one call went to Cole Lambert, pitching in his first game of the year for the Giants. Cole shut down the Coyotes for a while giving the Giants a chance to build an early lead that included a monster shot by Will Heise. Not sure if they ever found the ball, but unsurprisingly the Coyotes managed to get back to tie the game at 4 after 7 innings. A lead off single by Lambert in the top of the eighth led to scratching out a run and a one, two three bottom half earned a save for Noah Danner. There was a moment of joy in Mudville as the Giants had managed a 5 to 4 win. The offense was led buy Will Heise, Adam Kern, Adam Reents and Ren Martin, all with 2 hits and also a key hit/RBI from Josh Hammerton. Cole Lambert picked up the win giving up only 2 earned runs. 

 

Game two starter was Adam Reents, coming off a complete game win the previous week. The questions were how would Reents match up against one of the league's best, Coyotes pitcher Jason Eddy, and would the Giants get a sweep. Turns out the answers were "pretty good" and "no". When Eddy left the game after 4 innings the game was tied at 2. A couple of fielding miscues later and the Giants were on the short side of the 5 to 2 loss. Reents also had two of only three Giants hits for the only other highlight. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

 

"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." Oscar Gamble

 

It's a long season and the final standings at the end of the season are what counts.

 

Go Giants!!

 

 

Week Three Saints

 

As the wind blew forcefully over the grassy pasture known as Lighted Field, the intrepid collection of characters all somehow wearing the same green outfit, spurted out of the dugout looking forward to their shared cause of preserving hope. The first game today looked to be a rematch of the Giants playoff win last year that finished in a 3 to 1 pitchers duel against the same Saints pitcher. After 5 innings with the score tied at 1, the Giants finally broke out scoring 7 runs over the last 2 innings to reach the 8 to 1 final. Will Heise and Cole Lambert both led the offense with 2 hits including a double. Cole got the win on the mound as well, pitching the complete game allowing only 3 hits. Great start all around, except for the guy with a pulled hammy. 

 

Next up - game two. Adam Reents took the mound and did a good job of upsetting the timing of the Saints lineup, giving up only 3 hits over 6 innings getting the 9 to 1 win. Mason Drewelow closed out the seventh with a scoreless inning in relief. Noah Danner led the hitting with two hits, but the story of the day was Will Heise's blast into the parking lot. Despite hitting into the gale force winds, the ball was last seen bouncing off cars in the parking lot and may be somewhere near Iowa by now. This was even more impressive than Will's monster shot last week which might still be rolling as well.

 

"You don't kick that dog as he's sleeping on the porch, you don't step on his tail, you just walk on by. If you step on his tail, he might jump up and bite you on the ankle or the kneecap." Mike Shannon

 

Great job this week, guys. Let's carry this over another week.

 

LF Go Giants!!!!

 

 

Week Four Sea Donkeys

 

Last year's reigning league champions marched into the sometimes friendly confines of Lighted carrying a 6 and 0 record. The good guys sent out one of their best, but after a few innings with Giants hitters falling for the Jedi mind tricks of the Sea Donkeys' pitchers, they were now 7 and 0. The only saving grace in the 15 to 1 loss was that we had made it a 7 inning game, which allowed a couple of guys to get in some pitching experience against the league's best hitting team. Not the TCMABL Game of the Week spotlight that we wanted.

 

Normally the best advice when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. But that would be the easy way. Game two started with the Giants falling behind right away giving up a home run to a guy that likes to hit a lot of home runs. Wish we would have know that before the game, hmmm.  Oh well, by the third inning scratching out a few runs to tie the score at 4 provided some momentum and before you could blink ten runs scored over the next two innings led to the 15 to 5 final. A five inning win against the Sea Donkeys? Well I did find a diamond (true story) in the infield once, so I guess almost anything can happen on a baseball field. Adam Reents got the complete game win with a gutty performance, getting out of multiple jams. Adam Kern led the offense with 3 hits. Noah Danner, Mike Cisewski and Eli McEwan each added 2 more. Eli and Cole Lambert also both had 3 RBI.

 

"One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something." Nolan Ryan

 

Let's not wait until the second game to get the bats going against next week's opponent .......... the Bats.

 

LF Go Giants!!!!!

 

Week Five Bats

 

The only positive aspect to playing at Arlington Arkwright during a heat advisory forecasted to possibly hit 100 degrees was the fact that we didn't have to deal with some sketchy dude sleeping under the trees behind the third base dugout like we did the last time we played there. Even too hot for the homeless, apparently, or maybe he was just a guy that had a argument with his wife. But I digress. Today's opponent, the Bats, seem to always be on the verge of a break out season, so the challenge was to not only beat the heat but also beat the improving Bats. The Giants were able to score a run in the first inning of game one to take an early lead as the teams exchanged a couple of scoreless innings in what was shaping up to be a pitcher's duel. However by the time that starter Cole Lambert gave up  his lone run in the 6th inning the Giants had increased the score to what was the 4 to 1 final. Rob Dembroski came in to pitch a scoreless 7th. Adam Kern led the offense with 3 hits and 2 runs scored. Dembroski and Will Heise added two more with Heise hitting another blast into the wind for his third home run of the year.  

 

By the time game two started the Giants and the Bats had both lost a few players due to the heat, injury and other obligations. Would this game come down to the last man standing? Last game's closer, Rob Dembroski, pitched a couple scoreless innings into the second game before being relieved by Adam Reents. Similarly to the first game as the Giants pitchers kept the bats from scoring, the hitters scratched out a run or two, here and there until the Bats finally scored a run in the bottom of the seventh to make it a 5 to 1 win. Nice defensive play by Will Heise in centerfield to get the last out at the plate. Eli McEwan and Cole Lambert both had two hits with Ryan Polehonka getting a clutch hit that scored two. Combining a bend but not break defense with a few key hits was the story today. 

 

"It ain't the heat, it's the humility." Yogi Berra

 

Good team victories with every Giants' player contributing. Let's keep building on that.

 

Go Giants!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

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