Recap
But Team Picks up Sponsorship after Loss
May 18, 2011
After a week 1 rainout, the 2011 Sea Kittens stumbled in their opener, as Pedro’s Mexican restaurant rallied from an early deficit and cruised to a 22-3 win. An 11-run Pete first put the Kits into a hole, and this time they couldn’t claw their way out of it. The team tied records for fewest runs and hits in a game, and took its worst loss in team history, setting the stage for certain improvement in the next 9 games. And dammit, the team had fun, anyway.
Dave Rowe tripled in his first Sea Kittens plate appearance, and Matt Kornis brought him home with a single one out later to give the Kits a 1-0 first-inning lead, but it was all the scoring the team could muster until the 5th. Pedro’s answered with a barrage of crisp hits, and a few unlucky bounces conspired to keep the home half of the inning going for a good long while. The Kittens tried to get off the mat in the second, but a lead-off triple by Joe Hennessy was squandered when he mimicked Brewers-esque baserunning and got thrown out at home trying to stretch the hit. The team wouldn’t put another runner past first base until the 5th, when an error, a Matt Kornis double, and a 2-out single by Hennessy plated 2 runs. Sea Kittens rookies Sonya Rowe and Audrey Pescitelli collected the teams only other hits in the ballgame.
Despite the loss, the team had a successful afterparty, which ended with Harmony Bar sponsoring the Sea Kittens for the remainder of the 2011 summer season. No uniform changes are expected, but the team will be referred to in official literature as the “Harmony(ious) Sea Kittens” and make postgame appearances at 2201 Atwood Ave., and will compete in the August 22 All-Harmony softball tournament. “They gave us $180!” an exuberant Hennessy exclaimed on social media after the deal was completed.
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