Game Summary
The theme of the night? Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers. Right from the jump, the Snakepit knew we were walking into a 3-hour infomercial when Bert and Bob greeted us from their improvised booth high above the left field grass. Such is life when your team is nowhere near the playoff race at the beginning of August. While the topic of specialty cheeseburgers, frosty beverages, and monstrous desserts would be an interesting diversion for Bert, Bob, and the Pitters to discuss during the game, it wouldn’t lessen the sour taste in our mouths if we got another stinker from the offense or a bad outing from the Milk Man.
Fortunately, neither of those happened. Gallen was inefficient, especially early, but he did get his footing after the third inning and more or less cruised for a Qual