Post 334’s best day resulted in a split
It was by far Post 334’s best day of the summer season, a effort that netted a 4-2 victory over Cheyenne,Wyoming in game two and a 6-5 heart-breaking loss to West Warwick, Rhode Island in game three of the Rapid City Firecracker tournament.
In the win over Cheyenne, a team which had 32 wins in 39 games, right-hander Joe Brinda threw an 89-pitch masterpiece. Brinda gave up six hits, but was able to get opposing batters to fly out 13 times. In fact, it would have been 16 fly outs had not the first ball hit by Cheyenne in the first inning been misjudged and two other first-inning fly balls dropped.
Meantime, Tony Remund enjoyed a 3-for-3 day at the plate with his last hit a solo home run off the Fitzgerald Stadium scoreboard in the top of the seventh inning that gave Post 334 a 4-2 cushion.
In the game which followed against West Warwick, Remund had three straight hits, including a double, to start the game for a 6-for-6 run as the Post 334 lead-off hitter. He finished the game 3 for 4 and the day 6 for 7 with a walk. Remund’s lead off single to ignite a 3-run first-inning rally and singled and scored in the second, too.
Lefty Doug Pouliot followed up the pitching performance of Brinda with a solid effort, but was tagged for a 3-run homer in the third. Still, Pouliot, who pitched the best game of his career as a Post 334 player, maintained a slight advantage right into the last of the seventh inning.
Leading 5-4, Pouliot issued a walk, a West Warwick bunt and subsequent throwing error, put runners on second and third and the next batter hit a ball up the gap to end the game with a walk-off single…
Posted: July 1st, 2009