Hot,Heated And Treated

If you go to enough baseball games I don't care how many you have ever been to every now and then you come home  and say "I've never seen that at a baseball game before".  Tonight Post 58 traveled to Wilson Post 13 to meet for the final time during the regular season.  Post 58 already has clinched first after P13 split a double header earlier this week so tonight night's game has no bearing what so ever on the out come of the standings other than the fact Rocky Mount and Wilson are playing and Wilson wants to keep P58 from sweeping P13 during the regular season.

Even at 7PM the thermostat sat at 98 degrees and by the games end  it was still over 90.  I can't remember if ever I have seen a game end after dark and the temp still in the 90's.  Whether it was the heat, but tempers flared and at one point Wilson's catcher is tossed from the game.  As the game  continued the umpire behind the plate went the ground and had to have medical attention.  Don Johnson came out of the stands to umpire the bases while the umpire on the bases went behind the plate.  Can this game get any weirder or what?

Now for the game, Rocky Mount opened the first by scoring three times and P 13 got two back in the bottom of the first. P 58 got another in the second but Wilson plated four in the bottom of the second to lead 4-6.  Rocky Mount scores twice in the third to tie the game at 6 all after three.  P 13 finally kept P58 off the score board in the fourth but added three more themselves in the bottom of the fourth to lead 9-6.  Rocky Mount hits P13 with a five spot in the fifth to retake the lead 11-9.  P13 gets one more in the sixth to cut the Coleman Pitt lead to 11-10.  Wilson scores twice in the seventh to retake the lead 12-11 and then the ump went down.

Rocky Mount scores twice in the eighth and  and Jordan Taylor who is now pitching for P58 holds P 13 scoreless with the score now 13-12 Rocky Mount.  P 58 adds three more in the ninth and Taylor finishes off Wilson with the final score of 16-12.

John Spears was the umpire behind the plate   tonight and as far as we know at this hour  is waiting to be carried home to New Bern as suffering from dehydration.  We pray that everything will be fine. The game ended near 11pm and the game ending temperature was 94 degrees.  All those who stuck to the end tonight were able to go home and tell others "you will not believe the game I saw tonight".