Dave Rosengard's "View From The Mound" - 2001

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HEWES WINS THE OPENER IN THEME GAME  20-14   NOVEMBER 11,2001

18 PLAYERS COMPETED IN THE THEME GAME -BORN IN NEW YORK CITY VS BORN OUTSIDE

NEW YORK CITY. HEWES PITCHED FOR THE NEW YORKERS (HOME TEAM PLAYING IN THE

PROVINCES I MAY ADD) AND PROVINCIALS AS VISITORS  HAD CONNORS ON THE MOUND.

IN THE FIRST JOSH GELLER HOMERED AND VINNIE D'ALLESSIO DROVE IN THE 2ND RUN

SO VISITORS LED 2-0. HOME TEAM CAME BACK WITH 3 BY HOMER BY HONIGMAN AND

DOUBLE, SINGLE, SINGLE AND DP BY MELENDEZ, VERNICK, LIBMAN AND HEWES. IN THE 2ND

VISITORS DID NOT SCORE ALTHOUGH HOME TEAM COMMITTED 2 ERRORS. IN HOME

HALF THEY SCORED 2 ON ERRORS AND SINGLES. IN THE 5TH AND 6TH VISITORS PUT

UP 11 RUNS WITH HOMERS BY D'ALLESSIO, O'BRIEN, JOSH GELLER, HOLZWASSER, BALENTO,

ROWLANDS, R., AND CONNOR, A. IT WAS NOT ENOUGH. AFTER 3 CONNORS LEFT THE GAME

GIVING UP 11 RUNS AND WITH THE SCORE 11-3 I CAME IN, A PROVINCIAL FROM

PROVIDENCE AND PITCHED A MOP UP THE 4-7TH INNINGS. AT THE END OF 6-1/2

IT WAS 18-14 SO WE WERE GOING 9 IF HOME TEAM WAS HELD TO ONE BUT THEY

QUICKLY PUT UP 2 WITH MELENDEZ DOUBLING AND VERNICK HOMERING TO END IT.

HERE IS THE LINE SCORE.

                 IP      R      H      SO    BB

VISITORS

CONNORS  L       3       11     11      0     0

ROSENGARD        4       9       11     0     0

HOME

HEWES  W         7       14      15     2     2

                 R        H     E

VISITORS         14       15    5

HOME             20       22    5

HEWES WINS THE 2ND GAME AND SWEEPS A DOUBLE HEADER WINNING 28-10 IN 7

THE THEME CONTINUED WITH PITCHERS BEING TRADED. IT WAS A CLOSE COMPETITIVE

GAME AS IT WARMED UP IN DOBBS AND THE WIND DIED DOWN. THE LEAVES COVERED THE

INFIELD AND THE SCORE WAS 9-8 WITH VISITORS IN THE LEAD. BUT IN THE BOTTOM OF

THE 6TH I GAVE UP 20 RUNS, THAT IS RIGHT 20 RUNS AND BY THE NED OF THE LONG

INNING THE SCORE WAS 28-9. BALENTO HOMERED 2 TIMES EACH 3 RUN HR WITH

HOLZWASSER AND O'BRIEN ALSO HOMERING. 2 PLAYERS HOMERED WITH DOUBLE FIGURES IN

THE GAME. HOLZWASSER 2 HR, BALENTO 4 HRS, AND O'BRIEN 2 HRS. BALENTO HAD 9 RBI

IN THE GAME AND 5 HOMERS FOR THE BOTH GAMES. ROSENGARD FACED 49 PLATE

APPEARENCES IN 6 INNINGS AND HEWES HAD 37 PLATE APPEARANCES IN 7 INNINGS.

HAVELOCK THOUGHT THE 20 RUNS WAS A RECORD BUT I RECALL IN DOBBS FERRY A

NUMBER OF YEARS AGO HAVELOCK GIVING UP 27 RUNS IN THE 9 INNING TO LOSE AND I

REMEMBER LEE LOWENFISH GIVING UP ALOT OF RUNS  RIVERSIDE IN ONE INNING. HEWES'

TEAM SENT 23 BATTERS TO THE PLATE IN THE SIXTH. SO THOSE THAT DID NOT MAKE IT

MISSED A GREAT GAME. WE HAVE FANS WATCHING AND THEY WERE CHASING DOWN

BALENTO'S BOMBS. AT ONE POINT I THREW 3 INTENTIONAL BALLS TO BALENTO IN HIS

2ND APPEARANCE IN THE 6TH AND THEN SNUCK IN A STRIKE AND THEN ANOTHER STRIKE

AND I THOUGHT I HAD HIM AND THEN I PITCHED HIM AN OUTSIDE PITCHED AND HE GOT

ALL OF IT. IT WAS A THRILLING 6TH INNING AND FRUSTRATING FOR OUR TEAM.

HERE IS THE LINE:

                   IP       R        H        E       SO      BB     HR

VISITORS

ROSENGARD L(6-13)   6       28       30       1        1       2     9

HOME

HEWES   W           7       10       9        2        4       2      2