Next Game Tuesday night Aug 18th 745pm start

Gents:

We had an enjoyable scrimmage game on a hot muggy day up in Naugatuck.

There were a number of firsts in this win some of which noted here:

1) I played right field and there were no chances handled poorly

1a) ok there were no chances at all but there was always the threat of a ball wandering out there

2) Mike made his catching debut handling me for a couple innings and Tim

3) Bobby U made his catching debut

4) Tim S and made his catching debut handling Travis in the closer role

5) Travis came in for the 9th and struck out all three hitters he faced

6) Tim C made grab of sinking liner with slide catch in LF

7) Jim made his debut in CF and caught a fly ball

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Anyway Tuesday night we play a team from danbury at 745pm start. we have the lights until 1030pm. Jim will pitch the first 2 innings followed by me. Tim will pitch 2 and Mike 3 as he gave Travis an inning sat

Please let me know if you can't make this game . i hope everyone can make it to get some work in before the playoff game which will be sunday August 23rd and it looks like we will face the Mets. if you can not make the game and we are light i can grab a couple guys to fill in but i prefer we do the playing tuesday night.

We know Charlie is in North Carolina and thus unable to attend both this game and sunday's game. Please let me know if you are not planning to be there Sunday as well.

if we meet Tuesday and decide a sat am practice will be helpful we may try to weave that in as well for those that can workout for an hour early sat am

The first round of the playoffs is single elimination so we want to jump on the Mets early and pull away from there.

I am excited to approach the playoffs and know we have a great shot. If we put all the facets of the game together we can beat anyone. We need to pitch well, hit the ball run the bases and make the plays . We have done all of this during the year and everyone has contributed to our successes. We can do it now when it counts.

see you Tuesday night

Dave