HONEY, COME QUICK. OUR BOY IS HOME.

And he's still filthy.

A very nice week for the forces of good in the Center City Softball League, with back-to-back wins over the Zoo and Honey Badgers that helped erase the memory of our paddling by the Tap Room.

It was especially nice to see leftfielder Russ Krause come crawling back to us for the Badgers game. He made up this incredible story about having a wife and a child to explain his absence, but we know Russ. He’s a lawyer. He makes up stories for a living, and nobody’s gonna marry him.

The win over the Zoo was pretty straight-forward, but we survived a back and forth game against the Badgers, thanks mostly to a 12-spot in the sixth inning that might be the largest single inning in P&P history. I’d go back through all the scorebooks, but that would be a pretty scary use of time. We also survived having the Blog Committee play third base on the moonscape of Edgeley 3, or maybe it was the other way around.

In any case, against the Zoo, manager Mark Nevins was 4 for 5 with a home run, two triples and four runs batted in. Three hits each for Jimmy V., Brian Donlen, Dan Rubin, George Miller and Jon Snyder. Courtney Sams started off a big week with a 2 for 3 night.

We scored 12 of the 15 runs in the first four innings and coasted home. Ron counted 26 hits, including seven for extra bases.

First rule of softball: 12 runs in an inning doesn't hurt.

On Wednesday, we jumped out quickly as well against the Honey Badgers and led 6-0 after three innings. We also left seven on base, but that didn’t worry us at the time. When the Badgers scored six of their own in the bottom of the fourth, it started to worry us. And when they added four in the fifth to lead 10-7, we were very worried. By that time, we had left 10 on base, and some of it wasn’t even Chip’s fault.

That brought on the top of the sixth and we finally got the hops and the placement and the luck that had been eluding us (although we still left the bases loaded). We brought 18 to the plate in the sixth, made three outs eventually, left three on, and that adds up to 12 runs coming across. There were 14 hits on Tommy DiNardo’s neat scoresheet, including two in the inning by Miller, Nevins, Rubin, Sams and Kathy Matheson. Pretty neat.

Badgers scored three in the bottom of the inning, but both teams went up and down in the seventh and that sealed the 19-13 win. Little Russ was 5 for 6 and Miller also had five hits, all of which landed in fair territory. Four hits each for Nevins, the Blog Committee and winning pitcher Chris Yasiejko. Three for Rubin, Sams and Matheson. Thirty-four hits in all, in 53 at-bats. And, yes, 13 runners left on.

We could complain about that last part, but it wasn’t a week to complain.

Hoagiefest! © is on Tuesday at Dairy 2, hosted by the Bishop’s Cheaters. We are playing at Dairy 4 against Franklin, so it will be an easy walk to the festivities. It’s usually a tough walk back, of course.

As you were.

Beer bongs, bonfires, body shots, naked bocce, extremely bad dating decisions and usually a lot of dogs pooping everywhere. Hoagiefest! (c), the annual celebration of CCSL camaraderie and foolishness is Tuesday following the games.