Wednesday night baseball at McCaskey, the Jr. Tornado hosted Cocalico in a game rescheduled from June 8. Cocalico represents the school district of the same name based in the northeastern part of the county in the borough of Denver. On this night the weather was of no issue whatsoever, it was 77 degrees and sunny with just a slight breeze out to right field. The game was scoreless into the bottom of the fifth inning when the JrT exploded for five runs. Kye Watson started the rally with a triple, Orion Frailey was hit by the pitch and Alex Ruiz walked to load the bases. Nolan Book's RBI single scored Watson, Frailey raced home on a wild pitch to make it 2-0. Alex Rodriguez drew a walk to reload the bases, Ty Jenkins followed with a base hit scoring Ruiz. Dean Davis walked to force Book home with run #4, Chase Travitz hit a sacrifice fly scoring A-Rod to make it 5-0. The JrT added a run in the sixth when Ruiz tripled and scored on an error, the final score was 6-0. Lars Holland pitched five innings for the win with Ruiz working the last two in relief. It was a great victory for the ballclub but I'll probably remember it for an altogether different reason. When I went to the visiting dugout before the game they told me the head coach had not yet arrived and he had delegated no responsibility to anyone else. The de-facto assistant coach had no idea what the starting lineup would be, I asked him to have someone bring it to me when it was established. After the head coach arrived and the game started (ten minutes late) nobody from their side favored me with any information of any kind. I did the only thing I could do: when the JrT was at bat it was business as usual, when the visitors were up it was the PA equivalent of Radio Silence. I would have been very happy to introduce their players and acknowledge them but I couldn't because I didn't know who any of them were. I realize it was an amateur athletic event but that doesn't mean you should take an amateur attitude about it, I guess it didn't matter that their kids played in anonymity while the other team got all the attention. To borrow an old expression: "Que Sera Sera" Take care, thanks for reading.
