Sunday June 29 th was another lovely day for Softball at Jimmy's field of dreams in Jomtien (near the small plane airport just off soi 15 and sukhumvit). The sun was shining, the beers were chilled, and the local ice cream vendor enjoyed the action so much, he came by twice. It truly was a wonderful day to play softball.

Alan and Perry yet again did a great job of picking fair and even teams. Alan's allies were nicknamed “Jerry's Kids” due to most of his teammates sprouting a series of injuries as the day went on (with Jack's and his bad ribs taking top honours for most often injured). Perry's cast of characters were aptly called the “Cuckoo Kids”. The day also saw two tightly fought games, and the emergence of a new softball hero.

It was the bottom of the 6 th inning when the fire was put inside Rocky's belly. He had just flied out to Beck in left field for the second time in the same inning, when Rhys (playing 3 rd base for Jerry's Kids) put down our soon to be softball hero. He screamed out to Rocky, that hopefully our team could bat through the order once more, so that Rocky could do the unattainable, collect all 3 outs in the same inning. Unfortunately, Mark's long hit to right field was caught by Ron and the Cuckoo Kids went to the bottom of the seventh up by the score of 9 to 7 .

Give Jerry's kids credit, they got their bats red hot in the seventh and got clutch hits from Beck, Greg, Jack and Alan. They scored 3 runs and went to the bottom of the last inning ahead 10 to 9 . All they had to do was keep the Cuckoo Kids from scoring and they would be the winners of game two. Phil popped out, but Diego hit a hard double to left and was knocked in by Scotty's smart single. The setting was then set for Rocky to show us his batting prowess. With the outfield in, and the infield looking for a ground ball to turn into a double play, the Rock hit his hardest shot of the day to left center field, over the head of a sprinting Beck. Scotty rounded the bases and touched home, Rocky let out a belly laugh, and the Cuckoo kids had won both games of the double header.

Below are the team line ups, batting orders and the box scores for the 2 games. Enjoy, and remember that all our welcome to join us every Sunday. So hopefully we will see you next Sunday at 1pm on Jimmy's field of dreams.

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2

By: Diego Wells

Double Header Winning Softball team for Sunday June 29