Posted on behalf of Falcons Correspondent Andrew Cornish (#7)
With spirits running high before the day’s baseball, due to Kimiyoshi ‘Kimi’ Saionji’s birthday, the Falcons were hopeful to keep their momentum into the game. This was dashed slightly when the Milton Keynes took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first due to a home run with one runner on base. The Falcons managed to plug away against the Hurricanes with a highlight being Greg ‘The Motion’ Bochan laying down a perfect squeeze in the third, which tied the defensive team up, scoring a run and getting all runners safe.
After great fundamentals, and another no-error game, the Falcons rolled on with a 12-2 victory after 6 innings of play. Nic Goetz wrote up another successful victory, already taking his season to an impressive 3-0 with an exciting 3.79 ERA.
Game 6 of the season was a game of firsts with promoted Tim Elkins making his first start in centre field and Aspi Dimitrov making his first start on the mound. Anticipation was high and hoping to continue on the same run of form, the Falcons, fuelled by the blue Powerade sold on the fantastic new fund-raising concessions stand, rampaged to a 6-0 lead in the second inning concluding in a monster home-run by ‘maturing’ Kimiyoshi Saionji. The impressive Aspi Dimitrov ended the game allowing 1 earned run in 6 strong innings, striking out 6 and stranding 8 opposing runners.
Tidbits: On his 34th birthday, Kimiyoshi Saionji collected the first Falcon home run, adding another team leading 8 RBIs…… Tim Elkins went 1-3 scoring 2 runs…… Andy Cornish scored 5 of the 23 runs on the day.
GAME 1, 12:00pm
| MK Hurricanes at Herts Falcons | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score By Innings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E |
| MK Hurricanes | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Herts Falcons | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| Herts Falcons 12, MK Hurricanes 2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herts Falcons | MK Hurricanes | ||||||||
| ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
| Andy Cornish ss | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | A. McVay ss | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jason Greenberg c | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | G. Sheppard 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kimiyoshi Saionji 2b | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | D. Larwell p | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Marty Cullen 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | S. McVay 3b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Greg Bochan lf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | K. O'Sullivan c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nick Goetz p | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | M. Philpot cf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Darrin Ward 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | E. Wilmot lf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aspi Dimitrov cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | P. O'Sullivan 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lee Manning rf | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | C. King rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| TEAM TOTALS | 26 | 12 | 12 | 5 | TEAM TOTALS | 22 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| LOB: MK Hurricanes 3, Herts Falcons 7. 2B: Kimiyoshi Saionji, Aspi Dimitrov, S. McVay. HR: D. Larwell. SB: Kimiyoshi Saionji, Andy Cornish, Nick Goetz. |
| Herts Falcons | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Nick Goetz W | 6.00 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| MK Hurricanes | ||||||
| D. Larwell L | 5.33 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| HBP: by D. Larwell (Andy Cornish). . , by D. Larwell (Lee Manning), by D. Larwell (Andy Cornish). . WP: D. Larwell(5). PB: K. O'Sullivan(5). T: 2:30. A: 58. |
GAME 2, 2:30pm
| MK Hurricanes at Herts Falcons | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score By Innings | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | R | H | E |
| MK Hurricanes | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Herts Falcons | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
| Herts Falcons 11, MK Hurricanes 1 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herts Falcons | MK Hurricanes | ||||||||
| ab | r | h | bi | ab | r | h | bi | ||
| Lee Manning lf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Player 1 p | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Andy Cornish ss | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Player 2 c | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| (b5) Greg Bochan 3b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Player 3 1b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimiyoshi Saionji 2b | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | Player 4 2b | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Jason Greenberg c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Player 5 3b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Marty Cullen 1b | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Player 6 ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nick Goetz 3b-ss | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Player 7 lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Darrin Ward dh | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | Player 8 cf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Elkins cf | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | Player 9 rf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rodney Naghar rf | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Aspi Dimitrov p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| TEAM TOTALS | 33 | 11 | 14 | 7 | TEAM TOTALS | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| E: Player 6(3), Player 1(2), Player 2, Player 8. LOB: Herts Falcons 7, MK Hurricanes 8. 2B: Lee Manning, Player 4. HR: Kimiyoshi Saionji. SB: Darrin Ward(2). CS: Jason Greenberg. |
| Herts Falcons | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Aspi Dimitrov W | 6.00 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| MK Hurricanes | ||||||
| Player 1 L | 5.33 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| HBP: by Aspi Dimitrov (Player 2). . , by Aspi Dimitrov (Player 2), by Aspi Dimitrov (Player 3). . . . PB: Player 2. T: 2:10. A: 58. |