Singapore River Rats

An occasion that celebrates all the majesty of old guys running around bases in the hope of finding beer at the end, the final event of the Singapore softball league is the end-of-year tourney.  Over the past few years the Brewerkz River Rats have won the regular season crown only to fall flat on their collective faces in the tournament.  Would the Rats pen a different ending for the culmination of the 2008/09 season story?  Perhaps.
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Once again the Brewerkz River Rats descended upon Jakarta like flesh-eating bacteria on an open wound, the occasion being the annual tourney in said fair city.  In contrast to the normally rowdy Rats entourage, this year’s edition of the event saw the Rats in a more sedate and contemplative mood as many guys were celebrating birthdays in and around that time, including Senor Mumbles pushing past the big 5-0 barrier.
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It started out to look like a rough day for The RATS.  The games were changed from The Terror Club to The American School. The weather didn’t look good with ominous rain clouds starting to form and delaying the starty of the games for rain. The RATS were missing two big guns with Capt Ronbo sweating it out in Bali and Jay in the emergency room looking after his son.  we hope he is OK!  Also The Fattboys brough in two ringers who were on their way to the Jakarta Tourney, while The RATS countered with Russ ” Youngblood” Kreutter. We obviously had the better RINGER!!

The OLD MAN, Coach Mumbles had to take to the mound and the RATS got off to quick start taking an early lead. The Fattboyss countered to tie the score at 1 but the RATS put up 4 runs in the 3rd to take a 5-1 lead. The Fattboys again countered with 2 in the 4th to reduce the deficit to 5-3.  The pitching and defense held with some great plays all around.  The RATS added two more insurance runs in the top of the 7th.  In the bottom of the 7th, The Fattbiys got two men aboard and with 1 out the batter hit a screamer down the thrid base line which Phil G backhanded, stepped on 3rd and then threw th runner out for a game ending double play!!  The RATS won 7-3!

Game two was more of a hitters game and The RATS really brought out the lumber going up 7-1 after the first inning.  The RATS bats continued their torrid hitting adding 5 more in the second taking a 12-1 lead.  But The Fattboys responded  with 7 runs in the top of the third cutting the lead to 12-8.  The RATS showed they were ready for anything and scored 11 runs in the bottom of the thrid taking a commanding 23-8 lead.  The game ended with The RATS winning by the mercy rule 25-9 after 5!  A glorius day for The RATS and a great way to get ready for Jakarta!!

Hitting Stars:

Steve Davis - 7-8

Phil G - 7-8

John Cappetta - 4-7 and a Big 3 run Dinger!

Willy Wahba - 4-6 and played a lovely LF!

Mark Bennick - 3-3

Eric Levy 3-4

This past Sunday the Brewerkz River Rats softball squad fought a pitched battle against our arch-rivals, the VBears.  These games were noteworthy for several reasons:
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