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Tuesday 8:00PM June 17th, 2025

With the first, second, and third string shortstops all signed out, Dunner stepped up and blew right past his goal of "not terrible" making play after play and cementing his status as Certified Fourth String Shortstop in an 18-6 weekday night win over Glorious Dan and the Inglorious Batters.

At least we didn't need to borrow a catcher.

Coming off a pretty good offensive performance to close out the Sunday doubleheader, the Falcons hoped that momentum carried into Tuesday. Because the line up was crafted by SLF, it didn't. It never does. Every time. It's the fifth bloody inning AT LEAST before anything happens.

And so it was: the Batters and Falcons exchanged deuces for the first couple innings with neither team really able to get anything going. No one came within a sniff of a dinger all game. The balls are anti-juiced. Are these the ones that sat in Joey's trunk all winter? Investigate?

The story of the night was Dunner at short, gobbling up anything that came close and only showing off the outfield arm once, and even Greg "Bird" Elcich wouldn't have been able to grab that one. He even turned a double play by himself, corralling a ground ball before stepping on the bag at two and firing to first for the twin killing. The future is bright at short, if the unfathomably unlikely carpool of Handsome Jer, Grahambo and Poutine drove off a bridge at some point.

Game Notes: Dr J is batting .706 over the last six Falcons games, and will bat leadoff for the Falcons on Friday against Storm... Shohei, batting .640 over that same period, will bat second...

BOXSCORE

BATTING:
2B: Miner Leaguer (2), Million Dollar Bill, SLF
3B: Cowboy
HR: None
HR-OUTS: None
RBI: Cowboy (4), Dunner (3), SLF (3), Goliath (2), Million Dollar Bill (2), Miner Leaguer, Teets, Barry Guerrero Jr, Dr J

FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: Dunner-Barry Guerrero Jr

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: 40

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K2 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 2 (10% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

Boxscore:

Statistical Highlights