FUTURE SO BRIGHT, HAVE TO WEAR SHADES

Yes, it took a while, following a narrow loss to the Art Museum and a week off for Memorial Day, but it was finally time to get back on the sunny side of the street and continue the long Pen & Pencil softball tradition of winning.

And Dairy 2 is definitely the sunny side of the street. The P&P offense wasn’t blinded, however,

We need those double bases for the
league next season, right?

banging out 25 hits on the way to a 17-5 win and a season sweep of the National Constitution Center. That win improved our record to 5-1 and erased the memory of the 9-6 loss to the Griffons or Griffins or Andy Griffiths or whatever it is the Art Museum team is calling themselves these days.

Back from out west.

The win over NCC had a little bit of P&P Classic. There were foul balls from George Miller, like this one that nearly tracked down Ron as he coached third base. There was a near-collision involving manager Mark Nevins at first base. Wasn’t his fault, as you can tell from this video, but is it ever? And there was our usual spritely base-running, as demonstrated by Dan Rubin, described in a previous blog post as running like a man touching lightly across lily pads and determined to touch them all. Looks kind of like thishere.

That’s the video portion of our show. Back to mathematics. Against NCC, Jon Snyder, Kate Hagedorn and Chris Yasiejko had two hjts each. Three hits for Miller, Chip Proctor and Jim Vecchione. Four

hits including two doubles for Nevins and four hits with six runs batted in for Brian Donlen.

That’s a fair amount of hitting and we’ll need all of it and more on Tuesday against the South Philly Tap Room, which has struggled a little thus far, but will want to regain its form in this ancient rivalry.

See you then. Get your running in.

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