League Talk: IAL’s David Price pitches a perfect game

Lesson learned… always keep a neat boxscore because you never know how important the game might be. 

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I played a Skype series against Mike Bunch for our Illowa APBA League.  My Twin City Thunderchickens weren’t hitting against Mike’s Green Rock Bombers for the whole series but I certainly wasn’t prepared for what happened in Game 7.  I had rookie Scott Diamond (BZ) going and the Bombers put David Price (AX) on the mound. 

Price went on to pitch the game of a lifetime.  27 up and 27 down.  A perfect game with 8 strikeouts.  The Bombers won 3-0.

I was aware of the impending perfect game pretty early on and gauging by his stilted voice, I’m sure Mike was too.  Of course, I didn’t mention anything during the whole game though I did use carefully coded phrases when rooting my players.  “C’mon, Soto!  Get a hit, here!”  and things like that.  As frustrating as it was to lose one more game, I have to admit I was happy for Mike and hearty congratulations were given once it was over. 

How did the Thunderchickens fare for our nine-game series?  We went 2-7.  I’m beginning to realize that pitching isn’t going to carry us this season and our hitting is going to have to step up.  Perhaps I need to submit my team to “Make me a lineup” and see if someone can help ME out.

Congrats, Mike!! 

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as a frequent participant of the Chicagoland APBA Tournament. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

2 Comments:

  1. Scott Fennessy

    Congratulations on the perfect game! They are certainly hard to come by.

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