JL Sluggers @ Cooley Godward Kronish

Are you kidding me? Two wins in one night? You better believe it!

Still giddy from their first win, and exhausted due to the heat, it looked like Game 2 might be a letdown for the Sluggers. Trailing 3-1 after the second inning, the water cooler had emptied and the team was running on fumes. Yet, as the sun went down and the lights came on, the show finally began. Downtown and Special K led off the third inning with back-to-back singles, followed by back-to-back doubles by Greased Lightning and Wicked Hittah out of the three and four spots in the order. Law Dawg knocked in the final run of the inning with an RBI single to put the Sluggers up 5-3 with Cooley still to bat in the bottom of the inning.

Cooley got one back in the third, but the Sluggers exploded for six more runs in the fourth as Downtown, Special K, Greased Lightning, Fluffy, Ringer, and Squirt all rounded the bases for the Sluggers. Great pitching and stellar defense shut down Cooley in the fifth, leaving the score at 14-8 in favor of the Sluggers. The game was called as the lights went out, literally, in the bottom of the sixth inning, leaving the Sluggers once again victorious, for the second game in a row and clinching the season series 2-1 against Cooley. They'll be trying for three wins in a row as they face the IRI Mariners, Thursday - 7pm at Bready Park.

Player of the game honors go to Downtown, who reached base safely four times (8 times total on the night), and Fluffy who hit his second and third triples of the night, breaking out of his offensive slump at the most opportune time.

Pictured: (Top) The evening was all a blur for Wicked Hittah and the Sluggers, as they scored 38 runs, surpassing their season-to-date total by 22 runs. Squirt (Right) takes over catching duties after Walk Me tried to barehand a ball fired in from the outfield during a close play at the plate. Walk Me would gut out the final few innings in right field, despite some massive swelling.