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Sunday 8:00PM June 15th, 2025

A short (very short) Falcons squad's lifeless bats came up short in the opener of Sunday's doubleheader, losing 18-10 to Triple Play.

Father's Day, celebrated all over the world (except at Poutine's house), is a difficult day to find on the calendar. It's only been the third Sunday in June for over a century, so honestly figuring out when Easter is every year is a cakewalk compared to setting aside time for dear ol' dad.

So it was that Arbour awoke at 8am on Sunday to pour a tasty coffee, and get to setting out the batting order and defence for the Falcons' two games later on that evening. (Who are we kidding? There's no way Mike was awake at 8am on a Sunday, but I digress). At the same time, homes all over Durham Region were stirring, wives and children rubbing the sleep from their eyes and looking at the calendar on the kitchen wall to discover HOLY SHIT IT'S FATHER'S DAY TODAY WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

At 8am on Sunday, the Falcons not only had enough players to play their upcoming games later that day, but they had enough that one player could sit on the bench each inning. A fitting rest for any dad. By 10am, however, Arbour was spamming the WMSPL equivalent of Craigslist looking for a spare body just so we wouldn't default.

With the help of Glorious Dan from Inglorious Batters, the Falcons were able to take the field for their 8pm game versus Triple Play, but still not have enough bodies that they didn't have to beg the opposition for a catcher.

The Falcons went down in order in the top of the first inning, almost as if SLF had written the lineup. They only sent 5 batters to the plate in the second, and by the top of the third, they were staring down the barrel of a 6-0 deficit. It got worse from there.

Glorious Dan led off the top of the third with a single, and was eventually cashed by a Barry Guerrero Jr single. A pathetic display that ended appropriately with an SLF FK. Triple Play responded to that outburst with a MAX6, and led 12-1 after three innings.

The Falcons bats didn't even really show up until the top of the seventh inning, when they were already down 18-4. The Falcons had seven hits and put up six runs, but that was only good enough to lose by eight.

Game Notes: Homie's scorecard notes: MIKE [Poutine] WAS EARLY *THAT'S SHOCKING*, and she isn't wrong... A tip of the hat to Triple Play's catcher playing for the Falcons making the catch on Cowboy's bullet from left-centrefield to put out his own teammate at home... Not sure how we're going to keep track of this, but we're now counting whether Miner Leaguer scores more runs for Shohei -- thanks to the league's bionic pitcher rule where you can sub out the pitcher with two out without burning a courtesy runner, as long as they have protective equipment to don -- than Shohei scores for himself... It deserves a mention that in the top of the fourth inning, Cowboy hit an inside-the-bigtop-run-home, the Little League-est Little League home run you've ever seen, and a perfect example of why the WMSPL doesn't count inside-the-parkers on the home run leaderboard tally anymore. But it counts in our books!

BOXSCORE

BATTING:
2B: Miner Leaguer, SLF
3B: Barry Guerrero Jr
HR: Cowboy
HR-OUTS: None
RBI: Barry Guerrero Jr (3), Shohei (2), Cowboy (2), Miner Leaguer (2), SLF

FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: None

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: 45

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 2 (10% FULL)

Boxscore:

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