Out With a Bang!

One thing seemed certain for Team Scotch in their season finale on Monday night, post game drinks.  Well six innings later the 2012 campaign came to an end, after Hard Balls delivered a final blow to Team Scotch, sending them to the bar.  The biggest bang of the night came in the fourth, when Hard Balls shortstop hit a ball that is still traveling north bound on the West Side Highway/Henry Hudson Parkway.  The ball traveled roughly ten stories high, soaring down the left field line, and landing near the third baseline on the other field.

That shot, seen only by anxious pickup soccer players waiting to use the field, was a bad omen.  It solidified one final defeat for Team Scotch.  The team battled and scrapped to cut into the deficit, but in the end Hard Balls delivered softball's version of being tea-bagged while you're both sober and awake, they won on the old walk off slaughter rule.  

To the bar!  The season, always fun and enjoyable ended with one last gathering for beers.  Stories, awards, and more to be shared among friends and teammates at the second annual awards banquet.  Details to be revealed here soon.