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Monday 8:00PM June 23rd, 2025

Former Falcon Junior Tennant came out to watch, and didn't leave embarrassed as the Falcons edged out Greenthumb 18-16 on Monday evening.

Junior's regretted coming to watch in the past.

With a nearly barren sign out sheet, that meant the Falcons dugout was bursting at the seams with FOURTEEN players attending, and making it look like a Hanet playoff game. You'd have needed a program to identify who was playing where on defence, so that everyone got equal playing time in this one. Teets made his debut on the mound, and threw almost half his pitches for strikes. The biggest deal of all, especially if you're SLF, is that all 14 Falcons were in the new uniform. It was a beauty to behold, and definitely the reason we won.

Greenthumb, however, could only muster eight of their own, plus Scott Sonley, dressed in a Chris Bassitt camo giveaway shirt. They were surely trying to channel the Falcons from last Friday who, it must be repeated, beat Storm even though only 7 Falcons attended. I'm glad I won't be at next year's rule change meeting. Look at me, I digress...

So, getting on with it: With almost everyone in attendance, ABs were going to be scarce, so you had to make the most of the ones you got. This memo was not sent to Barry Guerrero Jr, who went 0-for-3, ending his 95-game on-base streak. Pour one out for that streak! Cowboy led off the game with a triple, and was scored two batters later by a Grahambo "rarity" (a home run with runners on base). Beatty, who hit four balls over the fence on the night, hit his first of only two that actually counted right after. The Falcons scored 3, and shut down Greenthumb in the bottom of one.

In the second, the bottom half of the dictionary made themselves known, with six hits, including a Miner Leaguer two-bagger, to score four. Greenthumb came right back with four of their own in response. After two, Falcons led 7-4.

Greenthumb narrowed the lead in the third, holding that Falcons scoreless but putting up a singleton of their own. In the fifth, the visitors scored five on five hits including two on Bill's fielder's choice (something I wouldn't typically believe, but here it is on the scorecard). Greenthumb, angry, came right back with five of their own to keep it to within two runs. After four, it was 12-10 Falcons.

The Falcons offence didn't quit. In the fifth, Beatty highlighted a 3 run effort with his second homer of the game that actually counted. Greenthumb answered with two. Going into the sixth inning with the clock ticking, the Falcons were up three, 15-12.

Three more for the uniformly-dressed visitors in the sixth on three hits. Greenthumb closed the gap, again, winning the inning and scoring four to bring it back to a two run margin. In the top of the seventh, the Falcons went Cowboy triple, Barry Guerrero Jr single, Grahambo single, and Beatty's fourth ball over the fence to start the inning. The clock struck midnight (well, 9:25), so none of that counted. Not the triple that would have given Cowboy the team lead by himself, not Barry's single to keep his on-base streak alive, and not what would have been Beatty's third home run of the game. It's as if we dreamed it all.

Falcons win, 18-16 in a great game by both sides.

Game Notes: Miner Leaguer scored once for Shohei... Teets' pitching line, in his season debut: 2.0 IP, 7R, 6H, 4BB, but he did eventually find that magic release point... Taxman quietly had a great game in his return, with two doubles and 4 RBI... It was hot.

BOXSCORE

BATTING:
2B: Taxman (2), Poutine (2), Shohei, Miner Leaguer
3B: Cowboy, Grahambo
HR: Beatty (4, but really 2), Grahambo
HR-OUTS: Beatty
RBI: Taxman (4), Beatty (3), Shohei (2), Grahambo (2), Million Dollar Bill (2), Miner Leaguer, Poutine, Teets

FIELDING:
DOUBLE PLAYS: None

PITCHING:
BATTERS FACED: 43

GAME INFORMATION:
STADIUM: K1 FIELD
ATTENDANCE: 3 (15% FULL) - % is based on regular season capacity (Falcons' side only)

Boxscore:

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