Lake Norman Vs East Rowan (Battle of NPC)

LKNbaseballfan · May 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM

Low & Slow said: ↑

The Lake Norman vs. East Rowan game was fantastic and it proved the old axiom that baseball is a game of inches. The game was well played by both teams (as expected)...only flaw was East putting several runners on base by hit batsmen, including the winning run. East hit two other batters, but the plate umpire ruled that the batters did not attempt to avoid contact with the pitch. In both cases, the pitch was a high inside curveball that the batter turned his back to and the ball clipped the shoulder of the batter...blue may have ruled that the batter turning his back to the ball actually put the left shoulder out into the path of the slow moving pitch...called it twice in the same inning much to the vocal dismay of the LN fans (once taking the tying run off the board for LN). East got their three runs on a towering home run by Zach Smith that just got beyond the glove of the left fielder as he tracked the ball to the fence in the left field corner.

The winning rally in the bottom of the 7th started with a clean single to left center and then a hit batter. After a strikout looking and a ground out to first that advanced the runners, Nick Keith stepped to the plate. With two outs, bottom of the 7th and after looking at a center-cut fastball from Shive, he drove the next pitch hard in the hole between third and short. The third baseman for East made an all-out diving effort to catch the ball. If he had been able to catch it, the tying run would have scored anyway. His deflection of the ball caused it to die in shallow left field and the winning run slid in safely as the Lake Norman fans erupted.

So, East scored three on a home run that clears the glove of the left fielder by mere inches and the winning run for Lake Norman scores on a sharp single that evades the glove of the East third baseman by just inches as well.
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Great points!!!!!!!!!Dont think it could have been explained any better.....

BaSeBaLlLoVeR11 · May 28, 2009 at 2:03 PM

Shane goes to lkn but does not play there.

Elric · May 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM

The disappointing end to another season... bah.

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