Benchwarmers - Doubleheader

 Game 1
Benchwarmers 4
Conundrums 21

Game 2
Conundrums 15
Benchwarmers 2
Attendance: 9

Season Total: 22

Puzzler Sweep!

Conundrums Take First Step Towards Securing Post-Season Berth, Crush Warmers Twice

                   Double-Crossed MVP's - Coach Tomey awards Game 1 and 2 Crunchoclaty TWIX's to Dave Brubaker (4-4, 3RBI, 2R, Jason Emmot (4-4, Hits for cycle, 6 RBI's - Congratulations!  May the caramel be with you                                 

LAKEWOOD, CO (TP) - On a windy, occasionally moist Monday, the 'drums got-a-beatin' as the Puzzlers launched the first of four consecutive two-for-the-price-of-one shows.  It wasn't close - well maybe before the first game pitches were heaved - the demoralized Benchwarmers were thrashed in both contests as the Conundrums claimed 2nd place supremacy and are on a path towards securing a post-season invitation to the Lakewood Leisure tournament.  On this night, Poser after Poser from top to bottom showed why for the past two seasons this team has been the most feared in all of E-League ball in the lesser Lakewood metropolitan area.  In game 1, Dave "Construction Zone" Brubaker won the MVP, but there were plenty of suitors to choose from as the team pounded no less or more than 24 hits in a 4 inning rout. In game 2, led by Jason "Hit For The Cycle"  Emmot, the Conundrum bats were a bit less vociferous; nevertheless by the 5th inning, the Warmers cried auntie, and so everyone just shook hands and called it a night.

And then the Saint Said, 'It Shall Be Mine' - Believing that crunchoclaty awards is a family birthright, Dale St. Aubin unilaterally decrees the game's first game MVP award to be his, and his alone.  Coach Tomey condemned Dale's caramelly hubris and added insult to injury by informing the Conundrums' flustered hurler that his roaming 4 year old kid Ryan was attempting to pinch hit over on field #3.

I'm Not Worthy - With a perfect 4-4 performance in the first game, leadoff guy Dave Brubaker accomplished what no Brubaker has been able to do this season - earn a coach's MVP.  With an equally humdrum 1-4 in game 2, "Asphalt Engineer" Dave nearly neutralized his triumph.  In the end, Dave's selfless team record, his loyalty to the club and ceaseless whimpering was enough to say "OK, here you go".

Life's a Cycle - Jason "4-Tool" Emmot" becomes the first Conundrum in modern history to hit for the cycle while collecting 6 RBI's to boot.  On his final AB in game 2, needing a triple, Emmot hit a screamer that split the right-center outfielders, raced around the diamond and beat the throw to 3rd easily.  In an odd twist, 3B coach Paul Ries - who was denied his very own cycle two years earlier when the game ended prior to his last AB - was seen attempting to send Jason back to 2B.  Go figure.

Particle Softball Physics in Motion - In game 1, Brandon "Hot Corner" Casey nearly became the first Conundrum to hit for the "anti-cycle".  Casey notched an HR-O in his second AB and in between he was retired at 3B and 2B.  The only base the third year Conundrum didn't make an out at was 1B and was denied the glory only for the fact he had only three plate appearances.  It could have marked the first time in the history of organized slow-pitch leisure league softball in Lakewood CO that there was a classic and anti cycle recorded in the same doubleheader. 

The Battle For SF Supremacy Rages On - With his two sac-flies in game 2, Tom Hodorff took another step forward towards wrapping up the 2012 SF mark.  With 4 SF's through 10 games, Hody Do leap-frogged over fellow mate, Tim "Oldest Conundrum" Doherty who has 3.  The two are neck and neck and with 6 games still to play, it's too early to declare a winner in this hotly contested altruistic stat.  It reminds many of the Ruth vs. Maris HR race that embraced a nation back in 1961. 

Conundrum Sidebar - We (mercifully) end this TWICS edition with this little exchange overheard by a nosy coach during a brief interlude during Game 2:

Emmot:  Nothing destroys a softball swing like a golf swing.
Wilcoxen:  Humph
Emmot:  'Course, softball swings also hurt your golf swing.
Wicoxen:  Humph