B League Picayune
Often in error, never in doubt.
Volume 7, Issue 56 – October 2, 2025
Department of Corrections: It was Greg Lloyd, not Chunky Wright, who pitched for Green on Monday.
Games of Thurday October 2:
10:30 a.m., Red (3-4) at Maroon (5-2):
1 2 3 4 BUFFET FINAL Red 2 0 4 2 8 16 Maroon 5 0 5 1 2 13 Pitchers: Red – Joe Bernal; Maroon – Tom Kelm. Mercenaries: Maroon – Ray Pilgrim and Boo Resnick. Umpires: home – Jack Crosley; bases – George Romo and Tommy Gillis. Perfect at the plate: Red – Joe Bernal (4 for 4 with a double; Ohtani Award) and Dale Fugate (3 for 3); Maroon – Ivan Budiselic, Tom Kelm, and Ray Pilgrim (all 3 for 3). Home run: Bobby Miller (inside the park) (6).
Dave Berra’s weather report: 85 degrees, felt like 85. Humidity 40%, wind from the SSW at 4 MPH. Sunny – summer still with us!
Red had almost its entire roster present, missing only vacationing Jack McDermott and still-injured Gil Delossantos, and not drawing from the bucket for the first time in quite some while. The lineup was slow to gel, putting across two runs on five singles in the top of the first and no runs on three singles in the top of the second. In the first, both Jack Spellman and Mark Dolan were caught looking at called strike three pitches by Tom Kelm, who also fanned Donald Drummer looking in the second. The third out in the top of the first came on a nice 8-6-4 relay, Bobby Miller to Tony Garcia to Tommy Langa, that gunned down Anthony Galindo trying to stretch his hit into a double. The top of the second ended with a lineout double play: with the bases loaded, Peter Sundquist lined a ball that shortstop Tony Garcia caught going to his left; Dale Fugate moved only a step or so toward third, but couldn’t get back before Tony flipped to Tommy Langa to double him up – score it L-6, 6-4.
Meanwhile Maroon took the lead in the bottom of the first with five runs on six singles and walks to Tony Garcia and, with two out, the bases loaded, and four runs in, Boo Resnick. Maroon actually sent all ten players in its lineup to the plate in that inning. Its leadoff batter, Ken Brown, opened the bottom of the second with a single, but was erased when he tagged up and tried for second on Bobby Miller’s fly to left field, an outstanding 7-6-4 relay, Peter Sundquist to Donald Drummer to Jack Spellman, beating him to the bag.
Red got untracked in the top of the third, scoring four runs. Anthony Galindo’s long double to the fence in left-center scored Jack Spellman with the first run. Joe Bernal’s single drove in Anthony with the second. Rolando Rodriguez’s single and a two-out walk to Don Williams loaded the bases for Dale Fugate, who lined a clutch two-run single.
But Maroon still wound up winning the inning, scoring five times in the home half on six singles and Bobby Miller’s run-scoring double, the two-bagger and RBI singles by Ken Brown and Tony Garcia all coming with two out.
Red finally won an inning in the fourth, scoring twice in the top half on two-out RBI singles by Gary Coyle and Joe Bernal, Joe then limiting Maroon to a single run in the bottom of the frame, on one-out singles by Tom Kelm and Ivan Budiselic, each completing 3-for-3 games, and a sacrifice fly to Anthony Galindo in left-center field by Tommy Langa.
Maroon led 11-8 entering the buffet. Red came up and commenced to hit and hit. The first four batters singled, one run scoring on Dale Fugate’s third hit in as many at bats, then a second coming in on Donald Drummer’s sacrifice fly to Bobby Miller in left-center field. That brought up the top of Red’s lineup with two on, one out, and Red down by a run. Peter Sundquist singled in Dale’s runner – Mark Dolan, I think, not 100% sure – with the tying run. Jack Spellman grounded a single to right-center to score Jim McAnelly’s runner – Rolando Rodriguez, I believe – with the go-ahead run. Anthony Galindo knocked his second double of the game, Peter scoring. Gary Coyle’s sacrifice fly to Bobby Miller brought in Spellman. Joe Bernal doubled in Anthony – that was Red’s seventh run of the inning. And Rolando Rodriguez singled in Joe (or a pinch-runner, not sure) with the eighth. Mark Dolan came up for the second time in the inning and knocked his second hit, but the inning finally ended with Tom Kelm making a good play on Don Williams’s hard grounder up the middle, knocking it down and throwing to Tommy Langa covering second for the force there.
The eight-run outburst put Red ahead by five entering the bottom of the buffet. Ray Pilgrim led off with a single, completing a 3-for-3 game. Ivan Budiselic ran for Ray. Boo Resnick came up and lined a ball up the middle, but Joe Bernal made a terrific play to snag the ball, then snapped a throw to first, where Dale Fugate had maneuvered himself around Ivan and back to the bag, making the catch before Ivan could scramble back to complete a crucial L-1, 1-3 double play that left Maroon down to its last out, the top of the order coming up with no one on base. Ken Brown doubled. Bobby Miller came up and drove a ball over the head of right fielder Mark Dolan and circled the bases for a two-run inside-the-park home run, his sixth of the season. Here’s Bobby taking his cut:
That cut Red’s lead to three runs. Tony Garcia was next. He stepped up and slashed a hard one-hop grounder down the first-base side, but was robbed of a hit by Dale Fugate, who made a tremendous play to his backhand to snag the ball cleanly on the short hop. This AI recreation does not do it any justice:
(Rest in peace, Jane Goodall.)
Dale was about even with first base when he made the play, only had to move a step and a half to his left to tag the base and put out Tony, who’d barely gotten out of the box, for the final out.
Final score: Red 16, Maroon 13 – I didn’t realize till I worked up the end-of-day standings, but Red has kind of had Maroon’s number this season. Maroon is 24.5—13.5 against the rest of the league, with a better-than-.500 record against every other team, including Orange, but is 3-6 versus kind-of-mighty Red, which is a less-than-mighty 13-26 (.333 winning percentage) against the rest of the league.
Joe Bernal receives his fourth Ohtani Award of the 2025 season.
11:30 a.m., Gray (2-4) at Purple (3-4):
1 2 3 4 5 6 BUFFET FINAL Gray 2 1 1 0 0 1 4 9 Purple 1 0 2 0 2 4 1 10 Pitchers: Gray – Jack Kelly; Purple – Spike Davidson. Mercenaries: Purple – David Brown and Gary Coyle. Umpires: home – Dave Berra ; bases – Tommy Langa. Perfect at the plate: Purple – Raul Deleon (4 for 4) and Larry Fiorentino (4 for 4 with three doubles).
This briskly played defensive battle went a full seven innings, neither team managing to score more than two runs in an inning until Purple put across four runs in the final five-run frame.
Gray broke on top with two runs in the top of the first, George Romo knocking a two-run single after singles by Tommy Gillis and Paul Rubin and a walk to Adam Reddell loaded the bases. Spike Davidson got out of the inning by getting Mike Malay to ground to shortstop David Brown, who turned a 6u., 6-3 double play.
Purple got one run back in the bottom of the first: Larry Fiorentino led off with a double to right-center and scored on Raul Deleon’s line single up the middle. Larry and Raul played variations on this sequence four times in the games, both of them going 4 for 4 and Larry scoring after each of his hits – he scored four of Purple’s first six runs in the game. Here they are, evidently taking advantage of having discovered an enormous cache of four-leaf clovers…
…which they evidently declined to share with their teammates, who were a combined 12 for 30, scoring six runs.
But I digress. Gray scored single runs in the second, on Jack Crosley’s two-out RBI single, and third, on another run-scoring base hit by George Romo. That inning ended with David Brown again turning a 6u., 6-3 double play on a Mike Malay grounder. The top of the second ended with Richard Battle catching Tommy Gillis’s very deep drive to left field, a ball that probably would have hit or gone over the fence at Krieg 3.
Jack Kelly threw a (softball) immaculate inning in the bottom of the second, retiring Purple on three pitches, resulting in a pop to shortstop Georg Romo, a pop to second baseman Mike Malay, and fly to left-center fielder Paul Rubin. Purple put across two runs in the bottom of the third: David Brown singled and scored from first on Larry Fiorentino’s second double to right-center, and Larry scored on another line RBI single to center by Raul Deleon.
Neither team scored as both turned double plays in the fourth inning. Purple turned a 1-4-3 double play, Spike Davidson to Rick Jensen to Larry Young, in the top half; Larry then hit into a 4-6-3 double play, Mike Malay to George Romo to Johnny Lee in the bottom half.
Gray didn’t score in the top of the fifth, either. Spike Davidson gave up one-out singles to Jack Crosley (a pop behind second base that Rick Jensen got a glove on but couldn’t hold) and Tommy Gillis (liner through the 5-6 hole), but escaped the jam by getting Paul Rubin to hit into a 6-unassisted force to shortstop David Brown, who then caught Adam Reddell’s pop.
Purple took the lead for the first time in the bottom of the fifth with two runs on three singles and Fritz Hensel’s sacrifice fly to Paul Rubin in left-center. Larry Fiorentino and Raul Deleon each picked up his third hit in the inning, which ended with over five minutes left on the clock, meaning this game would go a full seven innings.
Gray tied it up with a single run in the top of the sixth. Mike Malay ripped a one-out double to left field, just fair, and scored on Johnny Lee’s third single. Jack Kelly also singled, but Spike Davidson got both Hal Darman and Dave Jaffe to ground into force outs to end the threat.
Purple broke through with four runs in the bottom of the sixth. With one out, Larry Young and mercenaries Gary Coyle and Dave Brown singled, Larry’s pinch-runner coming around to score. Larry Fiorentino drove a pitch to left-center that Paul Rubin, moving to his right, got a glove on, but couldn’t corral, the ball falling in for Larry’s third double and fourth hit, both Gary and Dave scoring. Richard Battle lined out to Tommy Gillis in left field for the second out, but Raul Deleon drove in Larry with his fourth hit in as many at bats.
Entering the buffet, Gray needed four to tie. Jack Crosley grounded out to shortstop David Brown to open the inning, but the next five batters hit safely: Tommy Gillis lined a double down the third-base side, fair by inches; Paul Rubin doubled to left field, driving in Tommy; Adam Reddell singled to left-center, driving in Paul; George Romo lined a single past third base and into left field, Adam taking third; and Mike Malay lined a double to right field, driving in Adam. That cut Purple’s lead to one run. Johnny Lee’s sacrifice fly to Larry Fiorentino in right-center brought in George, tying the game. Jack Kelly followed with an infield hit, a grounder to the left side, between the pitcher and first base, no play to be made on either Jack’s pinch-runner Paul Rubin or Mike Malay advancing to third. But Spike Davidson got out of the jam, getting Hal Darman to hit a two-strike foul for the third out.
Purple entered the bottom of the buffet needing one run to win. Fritz Hensel, David Brown running for him, led off with a line single to center field. Jack Kelly got Rick Jensen to hit a two-strike foul for the first out. Henry Flores knocked a clean single to center, David stopping at second. Larry Young stepped up, having adamantly declined to take a runner from home. Here’s what happened:
October 2, 2025: Purple defeats Gray 10-9 on Larry Young’s walk-off RBI single
Larry lined the ball to center; Paul Rubin charged in, but had no chance to catch the ball, which fell in and skipped past him, David easily scoring the winning run.
Final score: Purple 10, Gray 9
12:30 p.m., Green (3-4) at Blue (2-5):
1 2 3 4 BUFFET EXTRA FINAL Green 5 3 0 0 2 0 10 Blue 5 0 0 2 3 0 10 Pitchers: Green – Greg Lloyd; Blue – Tommy Deleon. Mercenaries: Blue – David Brown (entered for George Brindley in the fourth innings), Anthony Galindo, George Romo, Jack Spellman, and Peter Sundquist. Umpires: home – Larry Fiorentino; bases – Spike Davidson. Perfect at the plate: Green – Greg Lloyd and Johnny Wimpy (both 3 for 3); Blue – David Brown (2 for 2) and David Pittard (4 for 4).
Dave Berra’s weather update: 93 degrees, feels like 93. Humidity 29%. Wind from the SW at 5 MPH. Sunny. Like being in the desert.
The third hard-fought, well-played game between evenly matched teams today. There was no way one was going to go seven innings, as just the first inning took almost 20 minutes, each team scoring five runs – Green on Ralph Villela’s lead-off double, six singles, and Billy Hill’s walk; Blue on George Brindley’s lead-off walk, five singles, Jim Foelker’s double, and a bases-loaded walk to Jack Spellman that forced in the fourth run (George Romo followed with a single to deliver the fifth).
Green scored three times in the top of the second on four consecutive one-out hits by its 1-4 hitters – three singles and Mike Garrison’s line-drive double down the third-base side, inches fair. After that, though, the defenses took over. Tommy Deleon got out of the top of the second without further damage, retiring Steve Browne on a foul pop grabbed by Rip Wright – Doc Hobar alertly tagged and took second on the play – and Chris Waddell on a fly to left, good play by Peter Sundquist.
Blue didn’t score in the bottom of the second, Greg Lloyd working around two-out singles by David Pittard and Jim Foelker.
Green didn’t score in the top of the third, Tommy Deleon working around two-out singles by Greg Lloyd and Johnny Wimpy.
Blue didn’t score in the bottom of the third, Greg Lloyd working around singles by Rip Wright (leading off) and Jack Spellman (with two out).
Green didn’t score in the top of the third, Tommy Deleon stranding Ralph Villela at second after Ralph doubled to start the inning. Tommy got Phil Stanch to line back to the box, Mike Garrison to fly out to Peter Sundquist in left field, and Doc Hobar to pop out to first baseman Steve Guzman, who moved into foul territory to make the catch.
Blue finally broke through in the bottom of the fourth, scoring two runs on singles by the first four batters – Peter Sundquist, David Brown (who’d entered in place of George Brindley, who’d left for an appointment), David Pittard, and Jim Foelker – to cut Green’s lead to 8-7. With two on and two runs in, Greg Lloyd escaped the jam by getting the next three batters to hit into ground outs.
On to the buffet. Green got two runs across in the top half to increase its lead to 10-7. Chris Waddell and Donnie Janac knocked one-out singles. Billy Hill hit a sharp grounder to the 5-6 hole that Jack Spellman managed to corral, then beating Ralph Villela, running for Chris, to third for the force there. Greg Lloyd and Johnny Wimpy followed with run-scoring singles, each completing a 3-for-3 day at the plate. A walk to Chunky Wright loaded the bases for Ralph Villela – a very dangerous situation, but Ralph’s high, deep fly to left was caught by Peter Sundquist, perfectly positioned.
Blue came up needing three to tie, four to win. Anthony Galindo drew a lead-off walk. Jack Spellman got under a pitch and flied out to Donnie Janac in right field, Anthony tagging up and taking second. George Romo’s single drove in Anthony. Peter Sundquist followed with a double, putting the tying run in scoring position for the top of the order. David Brown came up and knocked a single to left field – here’s the video:
October 2, 2025: David Brown ties the Green-Blue game with a two-run single
Tie game! David Pittard’s single sent the potential winning run to second, but Greg Lloyd got Jim Foelker to pop out to shortstop Ralph Villela and Steve Guzman to hit a two-strike fly to left that landed foul, sending the game into extra innings.
Overtime started with Ralph Villela, Green’s fastest runner, on second, one out, one-pitch rules in effect. By some sort of voodoo, Tommy Deleon kept Ralph from advancing, getting both Phil Stanch and Mike Garrison to foul off his offerings.
On to the bottom half, with Jim Foelker, who’d been running from home for Steve Guzman at the end of the buffet inning, starting at second base. But Greg Lloyd came up aces, too, getting Rip Wright to fly out to Steve Browne in left-center and Tommy Deleon to fly out to Mike Garrison in left, the game ending in the season’s third tie.
Final score: Green 10, Blue 10
Session 4 standings:
| Session 4 | Games | Runs | Runs | Runs dif- | W/L | |||
| Wins | Losses | Win %: | behind: | for: | allowed: | ferential: | streak: | |
| Orange | 6 | 1 | .857 | 0 | 97 | 61 | 36 | W3 |
| Maroon | 5 | 3 | .625 | 1.5 | 88 | 80 | 8 | L1 |
| Red | 4 | 4 | .500 | 2.5 | 98 | 93 | 5 | W1 |
| Purple | 4 | 4 | .500 | 2.5 | 89 | 91 | -2 | W2 |
| Green | 3.5 | 4.5 | .438 | 3 | 83 | 87 | -4 | T1 |
| Blue | 2.5 | 5.5 | .313 | 4 | 72 | 101 | -29 | T1 |
| Gray | 2 | 5 | .286 | 4 | 64 | 78 | -14 | L3 |
| Home | Visitor | Walk-off | Extra-inning | Flip-flop | 1-run games | |||
| W-L: | W-L: | wins | W-L: | W-L: | W-L: | |||
| Orange | 4-0 | 2-1 | 0 | 0-0 | 2-0 | 0-1 | ||
| Maroon | 3-1 | 2-2 | 0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1-0 | ||
| Red | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 1-0 | ||
| Purple | 2-2 | 2-2 | 1 | 0-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 | ||
| Green | 2-2 | 1.5-2.5 | 1 | 0.5-0.5 | 0-0 | 2-1 | ||
| Blue | 1.5-2.5 | 1-3 | 0 | 0.5-0.5 | 0-1 | 0-0 | ||
| Gray | 1-2 | 1-3 | 0 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-2 |
2025 total victories (read across) and losses (read down):
| Blue | Gray | Green | Maroon | Orange | Purple | Red | TOTAL | |
| Blue | X | 2 | 6.5 | 2 | 3.5 | 4 | 5 | 23 |
| Gray | 5 | X | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 20 |
| Green | 3.5 | 5 | X | 3.5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 22 |
| Maroon | 4 | 5 | 6.5 | X | 4 | 5 | 3 | 27.5 |
| Orange | 5.5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | X | 4 | 4 | 26.5 |
| Purple | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | X | 7 | 24 |
| Red | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | X | 19 |
| TOTAL: | 24 | 25 | 24 | 19.5 | 18.5 | 22 | 29 | 162 |
Green and Maroon tied their game of August 7; Orange and Blue tied their game of August 28; Green and Blue tied their game of October 2; these are counted as half a win and half a loss for each team.
2025 season home run leaders:
David Brown – 7
Bobby Miller – 6
Tim Coles – 5
Mike Garrison – 5
Ralph Villela – 5
George Brindley – 4
Anthony Galindo – 4
Tommy Gillis – 4
Larry Fiorentino – 3
Doc Hobar – 3
Mike Malay – 3
Jack Spellman – 3
Tim Bruton – 2
Rex Horvath – 2
Matt Levitt – 2
Terry O’Brien – 2
George Romo – 2
Paul Rubin – 2
Pat Scott – 2
Jimmy Sneed – 2
Scott Wright – 2
Jim Aaron – 1
Peter Atkins – 1
Tom Bellavia – 1
Ken Brown – 1
Gary Coyle – 1
Donald Drummer – 1
Tony Garcia – 1
Buddy Gaswint – 1
Jack McDermott – 1
Ken Mockler – 1
Ray Pilgrim – 1
Jeff Stone – 1
Mike Velaney – 1
Chris Waddell – 1
Chunky Wright – 1
Hit for the cycle:
Scott Wright – June 5
Walk-off grand slam:
David Brown (inside the park) – August 4
Ohtanis (winning pitcher + perfect at the plate):
Jeff Stone – 9 (March 20, April 17, July 17, July 21, July 28, September 11, September 15 (2), September 29)
Spike Davidson – 7 (June 19, June 30, August 4, August 7, August 14 (2), September 8)
Tommy Deleon – 6 (March 3, March 13, April 14, April 28, May 12, September 8)
Joe Bernal – 4 (March 3, April 3, June 5, October 2)
Tom Kelm – 4 (March 3, March 13, May 1, June 16)
Ray Pilgrim – 3 (April 14, August 4, August 7)
Terry Thompson – 3 (July 31, September 15, September 29)
Donald Drummer – 2 (May 1, August 11)
Jack Kelly – 2 (March 10, May 12)
Greg Lloyd – 1 (June 26)
David Pittard – 1 (June 2)
Chunky Wright – 1 (June 9)
Schedule for Monday October 6:
10:30 a.m.: Purple (4-4) at Orange (6-1), Maroon umpiring
11:30 a.m.: Maroon (5-3) at Blue (2.5 – 5.5), Orange umpiring
12:30 p.m.: Gray (2-5) at Green (3.5 – 4.5), Blue umpiring
Red has the bye, with priority for its players out of the bucket.
Preview: Orange, idle today, actually saw its session lead increase by half a game. They return to action at 10:30 Monday against a Purple team that has won its last two games. Blue ended its losing streak today, looks to start a winning streak Monday, but at 11:30 faces a tough Maroon team that’s looking to gain ground on or at least keep pace with Orange. Gray and Green both played well today, but weren’t able to come away with a W; one of them will on Monday. On October 6, 1917, Canadian troops recaptured the high ground from the Germans in the village of Passchendaele in West Flanders, Belgium, each side suffering over 200,000 casualties. Will the toll at Krieg 2 be equivalent? One thing is certain: Only time will tell.
Keggy’s Korner:
Johnny Lee and Arctic Blues Band will be at Lighthouse on the Lake, 513 Sleat Drive in Briarcliff, this Saturday night October 4 from 6:00 to 9:00 – super opportunity to avoid the ACL crowds and hear some great music!