July 22: The Black Sox advanced in the B League playoffs by putting down Joe's Place, 17-3 in 5 innings. The game started off slow offensively with the Sox down 3-1 until Fisher smacked a game tying 2-run bomb in the third inning. Then in the fifth, the flood gates opened for the Sox who put up a 14 spot ending the game by the mercy rule. The game ended with a triple by Carrell that scoried 2 runs. The Sox advanced in the Loser's Bracket to face JMP.
Sox Fall to Unity in Playoff Opener
July 16: Sox lost 8-4 to the third seed, Unity.
Sox Out Score Unity
July 03: The Black Sox ended the regular season with a thrilling 23-21 victory over thrid place Unity.
Sox Finish Second
B League, Division 2 - Standings
# Team W L
7 Generals 11 7
8 Blacksox 10 8
11 Unity
9 Joe's Place
10 JMP
12 Vaness
Sox Snap Skid
July 01: The Black Sox ended their season-long, three game slide with a 7-6 win over the first-place Generals, moving their record to 8-9. The Sox were patient at the start of the game, playing pepper while waiting a solid half hour for the Generals A-league team to finish up thier 7:45 game on field #5. Once the game did start though, the Sox came out swinging and scored 4 and 3 runs in the first two innings respectively to open up a 7-2 lead. The offense was all Fisher (3-4, 2HR, 2B, 5 RBI) who also played a solid game at third after shaking off an injury on a play at the plate.
Sox Edged by Unity
June 26: This game was a defensive battle with neither team tearing the cover off the ball. In the end, Unity escaped with a 4-3 victory. The Sox did spin a couple double plays, one started by lefty second baseman Phat Al. The Sox dropped to 8-8 on the season with a season high, three-game losing streak.
Oasis Drowns Sox
June 25: The Sox didn't show up for this one, giving up 11 runs in the first inning, in route to an 18-1, four-inning pounding at the hands of Oasis.
Two Games Added to Schedule
June 23: Two division positional games were added to the Black Sox regular season schedule. The Sox will play two 9 PM games against the first place Generals and third place Unity on July 1 and 2 respectively.
B League, Division 2 - Standings 6/23/2008 Team # Team W L Win %
7 Generals 7 5 0.583
8 Blacksox 8 6 0.571
11 Unity 6 8 0.429
9 Joe's Place 6 9 0.400
10 JMP 5 9 0.357
12 Vaness 3 12 0.200
Sox Fall to the Genrals
June 19: The Black Sox dropped a close one to the Generals, 10-8.
Black Sox Take Out JMP
June 17: The Sox won another defensive battle, 8-5 over JMP. The Sox swept the season series with JMP and moved to 8-5 on the season. The offense got started early with a 4-run first inning. JMP tied up the game in the third. A Syntcha bomb in the fifth gave the Sox a three-run cushion, that the defense held up. Solid victory for the Black Sox.
Game #15 Moved
June 13: The league director has made a schedule change; Game #15, v. Unity has been moved from Tuesday June 24th to Thursday June 26th at 7:45 PM.
Liberty Takes Down Sox
June 11: The Sox dropped a heart breaker to a solid Liberty-M team by the score of 12-11. The Sox took a one-run lead into the bottom of the seventh, but Liberty-M came through with some clutch hitting. Schaefer was the offensive star for the Sox, who fell just a HR short of the cycle.
Sox Get by JMP
June 10: The Black Sox survived against JMP winning the game 10-9. It didn't look like JMP would have enough players, but they picked up the Union High School JV team that happened to be at the field and almost stole a game from the Sox. The Sox took an early lead, but then the bats fell silent again. The defense was able to hold on to take the one-run victory, their second straight.
Sox Win 10 - 4
June 05: The Black Sox swept the season series with the Vanness by taking the second game 10-4. It was a solid night for the Sox defensively again as they only allowed one run until the bottom of the seventh. The offensive highlights are coming soon.
Sox Out Hit by Joe's Place
June 04: The Black Sox lost their second straight game, 13-5 to Joe's Place. The Sox got some help from Ed, Cap, Matt, & Mike to fill up the line-up. But, the Sox bats didn't do much again. Sues hit a leadoff bomb in the sixth. Joe's Place just had too many hits for the Sox to keep up.
Captain Nimrod Strikes Again!
June 02: The make-up game scheduled for June 02 at 7:45 PM was inadvertantly canceled by the league director without officially telling the Black Sox. It was a miscommunication that will hopefully not happen again. The sad part was that Liberty-M was at the field for a 6:30 PM game, but just grabbed their stuff and left after a futle attempt by the league director to get them to play.
Black Sox Fall to Stable
May 29: The Sox four game winning steak game to an end with a 5-4 loss to Stable. It was a defensive battle that the home team eventually won. There really were no offensive highlights as the Sox bats stayed quiet again. The Stable pitcher actually took a perfect game into the fourth inning when Celgene Diddy broke it up with a double to right. The defense kept the Sox in the game. Kandell made the catch of the year in left, a running over the shoulder grab before crashing into the fence that saved at least two runs.
Game #7 @ Liberty-M, Monday June 2nd
May 27: The rain out from May 20th will be made up on Monday June 2nd at 7:45 PM on Field #5. We will be the away boys against Liberty-M.
Sox Get by Unity
May 22: The Black Sox won their fourth straight game last night to move to 5-2 on the season. The Sox beat a scrappy Unity team by the score of 7-6. The Sox bats were silent in all but the fourth inning, where they busted out all 7 of their runs for the game. Carrell lead off the inning with a triple and later singled in a run in his second at bat of the inning. The defense was again the story for the Sox. Birthday boy, Syntscha, made a several nice catches in right center and Skilo made a play or two over at third. Good times for the Sox, who will look to enjoy the long weekend after two 9PM games this week.
Rain Out
May 20: The weather kept the Sox off the field for their game against Liberty-M. No make-up game has been scheduled as of this posting.
Sox Smoke Joe's Place
May 19: The Black Sox extended their winning streak to three games by defeating Joe's Place 16-4 in five innings. Jarrett put the Sox on the board with a three-run jack in the first inning. Syntscha had another solid night at the plate with four hits. And birthday boy, JC, kept up his hot hitting and turned 2 double plays at short. It was a solid victory for the Sox, who move to 4-2 on the young season.
Sox Win Second Straight
May 15: The Black Sox held off a decent Fresh Squeezed team 8-7 to record their second straight win and third on the young season. Also, it might have been the Sox very first win on field #1 in four years. Big thanks to Ed B for filling out the starting roster on late notice and for chipping with a couple hits. The Sox bats again did just enough to get the win. Ths Sox have a busy week coming up with three 9 PM games all as the ways boys.
Sox Pitcher Issues Apology
May 15: Sean T would like to apologize to all who witnessed his embarrassing act of frustration at the Sox 8-7 win against Fresh Squeezed, where the pitcher yelled a "bad word" at his favorite umpire after a close call in the sixth inning. The sad part is if he had slid into second base, the play never would have happened. The pitcher has vowed to "keep it clean" from here on out.
...Sorry, Sox - SeanieT
Sox D Up Blazers
May 13: The Black Sox (2-2) got back to .500 by taking down the Blazers by the score of 8-4. Fish set the tone early with a two-run bomb in the top of the first. And later he knocked down a seed off a Blazer bat with his forearm at third base and still got the out at first. The defense was the story for the Sox. The Blazers got 4 runs in the first two innings, but were shut out the rest of the way. And the Sox bats did enough to double up the Blazers for their second win of the season.
Sox Fall to Glendale
May 08: The Black Sox dropped their second straight game last night, this time to Glendale by the score of 11-6. The Sox again owe a thanks to the Blackthorn Brewers and Jarrett for filling out the roster. The Sox bats stayed fairly quiet again, hopefully the the bats will show up next week against the Blazers and Fresh Squeezed.
Sox Beat Up by the Generals
May 07: The Black Sox dropped thier first game of the young season to a beatable Generals team, 17-5 in six innings. The Sox had to delay the start of the game to bring the Brew Crew over from Field #4, big thanks to Donahue, Bitner, and Nicastro for helping us out! The Sox threatened to put a big number a few times in the game, but never delivered.
Sox Take Down Vaness
May 01: The Black Sox got the 2008 season going with a 16-2 victory over Vaness in only 4 1/2 innings. Rain threatened to turn the Sox away from their second straight game, but the weather held off and the Sox started hitting. An eleven-run second inning put Vaness on the ropes early, but it was the Black Sox defense that keyed their first win of the season. There were several nice plays, but the running catch with a spike throw to first to double off a Vaness runner by rookie Mike Syntscha was the highlight. It was a solid victory to open up the season for the Black Sox.
Game # 1 Re-scheduled
May 01: The make-up date for the Black Sox rained out opener from April 28th is now scheduled for May 19th at 9 PM on Field #5.
Black Sox Opener Posponed
Apr 28: The season opener for the Black Sox was cancelled due to inclement weather. No make-up date was scheduled for the game against Joe's Place as of this posting.
League Format Update
24-Apr: The league director reports that there are 3 divisions on the league schedule posted. Teams 1 through 6 are the "first B" division. Teams 6 through 12 are the "second B" division. And teams 13 through 17 are the "A" division. We are team 8, we will play each team in our league, the "second B" division, twice and each team in the "first B" division once. The typos will be addressed in the posted schedule to the left shortly. For the playoffs, each B division will have playoff for a champ, and the two division winners will play for the "B-Division" title and prize money. The "A-Division" will have a separate playoff.
2008 Schedule Posted
April 23 - The first week of the 2008 season will feature a game on both Monday and Thursday both at 9 PM. Also, the 2007 and career stats have been updated, check the Black Sox Archive.
2008 Season Update
April 10 - The managers meeting for the 2008 season was held on Thursday April 10th. The schedule was, of course, not ready. The latest I will get the schedule is April 21st and the start of the season is set for the week of April 28th... plenty 'o time, Rich, good work. We'll be back in the second best division. The A-league is back down to 4 teams, which we'll play once each, like we did a few years ago. I'll send out an email about possible BP sessions soon.
2008 Babyfest Update
Congratulations to the Parenti's!
Babyfest 2007 for the Blacksox
Congratulations to the Bobal's, Kandell's, Sciarillo's, and Thompson's