Wednesday 8:00PM July 22nd, 2026

In what has become a theme of late, and not exactly a welcome one, the Falcons played a tight game and came out on top with a 15-14 win over Coulas.

Six of the past eleven Falcons games have been decided by one run or less, so if you're not coming to watch you're missing out on some exciting ball. The team is 6-4-1 in those same eleven games. We fumble as much as we cross the goal line, is what I'm trying to say (seven weeks until football season!)

In this weeknight tilt against the struggling Bone Crushers -- who were rocking new uniforms for the first time since Obama was president -- the Falcons also displayed some previously unwanted Falcon behaviour: Not bothering to score early.

Coulas came to play, and showed it early. They plated 4 in the top of the first, and after holding that lead, and the Falcons, to two runs in the bottom of one, scored 5 more in the second. In response, the home side sent five men to the plate and couldn't squeeze a run across. After two, Coulas was up 9-2.

The visitors didn't quit either. They kept adding to the lead, scoring a run in the third and another in the fourth, while holding the league's #3 seed to only a single run in response. Going into the open inning Coulas was ahead 11-3, and the home fans were talking about selling.

For the unc's in the audience:

Selling (v): Sucking; being terrible. In this game, the Falcons were selling.

The fans were also talking about trading draft picks, and as it turns out they were talking about the Jays. That didn't stop the team from discussing a potential trade of Poutine involving draft picks, ie: maybe we could get someone to take him if we included some draft picks.

The momentum shifted in the fifth inning. Coulas put up their first doughnut of the night, and in the bottom half, the Falcon bats finally arrived. Speed Bump and Dunner both singled, and Three-League (trying something new here for John) knocked in a run with a double. Goliath followed with an RBI single, with Poutine matching. SLF sacrificed a run home for the first out of the inning, and Shohei got it back going with an RBI single. After a Taxman single, Glorious Dan doubled home a run, turning the lineup over. Speed Bump scored two more with his second single of the inning, and when it was all said and done the home side had plated eight runs to tie the game.

The Falcon defence got the meat of the Coulas order to go down without scoring in the top of the sixth, then the bats got going again to score four in the bottom of the sixth.

With a four-run cushion, the only thing left to determine was whether the Falcons would blow the whole lead, or win by one run. Coulas sent eight men to the plate, but could only score three of them to come up a run short.

GAME NOTES: Thanks once again to Glorious Dan for playing, making some fine put-outs behind the dish in addition to scoring a run and getting an RBI... Nine fans on a Wednesday night is pretty good... Three-league left his shoes at two-league, but didn't realize it until after the game... Shohei was Sho'ing off (HA!) some sweet pitching moves, striking out two and getting some wild swing-and-miss... For the second game in a row, we ran a guy out at 1B who doesn't usually play there. Where for art thou, Barry Guerrero Jr?

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Sunday 9:30PM July 19th, 2026

Let's go back in time a week, July 12, Falcons humming along in a Sunday nighter against the Crew, up 8 with one inning to play, should be easy, right? Wrong! We give up 8 runs and it's a tie. Surely nothing like that could come close to happening again a week later right?

It almost did! Up 15-8 bottom 7th, the wheels started to fall off, and we gave up 6, got a big out to squeak out the W at 15-14. A win's a win, right guys?!

BOXSCORE

BATTING:
2B: F9 (2), John (2), Dunn, Miner Leaguer
3B: Cowboy, Dunner
HR: none
HR-OUTS: none
RBI: Taxman (4), Dunner (3), Grahambo (3), F9 (2), John (2), Miner Leaguer

FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: None I think

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: ??

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 1 (5% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

GAME NOTES: We don't have nicknames for John or Kevin yet, do we?... Time-out arrived for this 9:30pm Sunday evening game, sending spare Dwayne and his delicious sunflower seeds home for the night... It was Arbour's turn to play his 2nd career game at 1B, and let's just say he wasn't exactly a natural...

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Sunday 8:00PM July 19th, 2026

After a 4 pitch leadoff walk and Duran bomb to open the game, it looked like it might be a long night. Alas, it was not! 2 runs was all the offence Storm could muster in the first.

Apart from a 3 spot in the 5th, Storm scored doughnuts or one run innings the rest of the way. The Falcons won or tied every inning, (making Grahambo proud) with a 5 spot in the 5th and a 4 spot in the 6th.

15-8 was your final for the good guys.

BOXSCORE

BATTING:
2B: Grahambo, Dunner, Chad, Poutine
3B: Poutine
HR: none
HR-OUTS: none
RBI: Grahambo (3), Dunner (3), Taxman (3), F9 (2), Cowboy, Miner Leaguer, Kevin, Dwayne

FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: None I think

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: ??

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 1 (5% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

GAME NOTES: Thanks to Dwane from The Expos for coming to play for us, playing catcher most innings for Storm, and bringing literally 8 different flavoured bags of sunflower seeds...

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Tuesday 8:00PM July 14th, 2026

As Bill eloquently put it: "The write up is simple, we played short for 4 innings before Matt showed up. We shit the bed. Scoring 7 runs in 7 innings in slopitch never ends well."

GAME NOTES: We had the score 13-7, Greenthumb inputted it on the league site as 13-8... I have no idea why the write up title starts with "assignment"

BATTING:
2B: Dunn, Billy, Labrecque
3B: Labrecque
HR:
HR OUTS:
RBI: Paul (2), Beatty, John, Dunn, BIlly, Labreque
FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS:

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED:

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE:

Boxscore:

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Wednesday 9:30PM July 8th, 2026

The Falcons took care of weekday business with a 23-5 victory over Dan's Inglorious Batters on Wednesday night.

The Falcons scored in every inning. They also accumulated another $15 towards pizza thanks to Goliath (SR3B), Speed Bump (FK), and SLF (GIDP).

Blowout wins don't deserve long recaps.

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Sunday 6:30PM July 5th, 2026

It was yet again time to cap off everyone's favourite weekend double header combo Storm-Triple Play. Somehow Triple Play still hasn't lost a game.

You know who can hit dingers? Kevin can, that's who! Kevin cranked a three run shot as part of a 4 run Falcons first inning, which also included a Barry dong. Triple Play hit three of their own in the first inning to score 5. Both teams traded donuts in the second.

Beatty cranked his second 3 run tater of the evening in the third. Kevin added a "Duncan" for his second long ball of the night, and the Falcons plated the max 6. With two run dinger by the home team it was 10-7 good guys after three.

The Falcons won the next inning 3-2, and traded donuts in the 5th. Kevin did as Kevin does, and hit his 3rd (!!) long ball of the game, making it 15-9 Falcons mid 5th inning.

One started to wonder, could this be the first L for Triple Play on the year? Personally I tried not to think about it but couldn't really help myself. With two down, a force out play was not to be, as the ball bounced past the Falcons defender into the outfield. A crap ton of two out hits and 9 runs later, it was 18-15 Triple Play. A 7th inning Falcons donut, and that's your final.

It's a stupid game anyway, right guys?

GAME NOTES: Shout-out to John for coming out to coach third and score both games Sunday nursing an oblique injury, John if you want to use more scoresheets to score the other team, you can grab more blank sheets in the black clipboard so you don't have to draw the grid yourself on the back of the page LOL... Congrats to Labrecque on taking his first walk of the season... Do we have a name for a three homer game? If not I guess it's a Wallace!

BATTING:
2B: Arbour, Beatty, Matt, Labrecque
3B: none
HR: Kevin (3), Barry, Beatty
HR OUTS: none
RBI: Kevin (6), Beatty (3), Arbour (2), Barry (2), Matt, Paul
FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: none I think?

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: ???

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K1 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 1 (5% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

Boxscore:

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Sunday 5:00PM July 5th, 2026

Basically the same title of our last recap vs Storm.

The top of the 1st saw Grandpa Beatty putting on a show for the fam, crushing a two run dinger, with the Falcons plating 4. We didn't win the inning though, with Storm plating 4 of their own including a 3 run dinger to make it 4-4. Pretty sure the Storm dinger was hit by Joey's kid, who I know as "Oh crap, not this guy", since that's what runs through Arbour's head whenever he comes up to bat, after hitting a dinger in our first PA a year or two ago lol.

The second saw some dinks and dunks and a Falcons two spot. A Storm delicious donut and it's 6-4 good guys after two. Falcons scored two again in the 3rd. I forget who it was, but someone from Storm hit another dinger as part of their 5 run 3rd, 9-8 formerly very orange team, now they're just kinda orange. Who else prefers their older jerseys?

The Falcons scored another two in the 4th, and won the inning over Storm's 1 one run sac fly, taking a slim lead at 10-9.

You know what, let's just skip right to the 7th. The good guys are down one. Labrecque and Arbour get on base with singles. The Taxman drives one home with an RBI single (I think, it wasn't marked, could've been a double?). Billy FCs Arbour over to third. Cowboy brings him home with a single. Alas, that was all the runs the Falcons could muster, moving into the bottom half of the 7thin a 13-13 tie.

It's the bottom three of the Storm batting order. Storm single, Storm single, runners on first and second. Mills comes to the plate hitless for the day, having joked about finally getting on base earlier pinch running for someone. Mills hits one just high enough to kiss off the top of a Falcons glove, and touch green for a hit. Run scores, game over, Falcons lose 14-13.

GAME NOTES: Check the Falcons chat today for some affirmations to get over a walk-off loss...

BATTING:
2B: Steve, Matt
3B: none
HR: Beatty
HR OUTS: none
RBI: Beatty (4), Dunn (2), Matt (2), Paul (2), Steve, Labrecque, Kevin
FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: none I think?

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: ???

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K1 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 6 (30% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

Boxscore:

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