It has been a long time between wins, but our heroes finally got theirs on Sunday, winning in convincing fashion against the Brokklyn Dodgers 11-1 at South Orange. The mercurial Steve Haugh graced us with his presence, and promptly twirled a gem, 7 innings of 4 hit, 1 run mound craft. Jose Taveras also showed unexpectedly, and the results were fun to be a part of! Even with a stretched 14-man lineup, everybody had great at-bats, and the defense made all of the plays, with a lone meaningless error late. 

Other great performances of note included Eddie Rubiera, who provided the walk-off run-rule by getting hit by a pitch, adding to his long-standing league record in that department, yet perhaps his first of the "limp" off variety, in a ddition to a single and a double. Craig Feeney crawled out of a sick bed to collect 2 hits, Guy Robinson singled, walked twice and scored a couple of runs, one in interesting fashion, tumbling between 3rd and home, getting caught in a rundown, then scoring when the Dodger catcher reported little interest in a play at the plate. Juan Figueroa made some great plays at short, and had a pair of hits, and Vern Ramassar had one of the longer singles in recent memory.

It was fun to win a game, and to be competitive, and to play well. We may have been a little over-exuberant about our brush with success, (apologies to the Dodgers, a great bunch of guys caught on an off-day, we know all about that), but who can blame us, it had been a while since we won a game. (almost 9 months, but who is counting...)

In any event, we're back at it next weekend, a doubleheader at Trotters Park against the DC's and 25+ Pirates. It would sure be nice to see the same effort and luck go our way! Hope to see you then!