Fallen Stars
Bay City visits Wyandotte
September 12, 2009
Wyandotte, MI
Bay City 20, Wyandotte 16
Fallen Stars
The Bay City Independents took to the trails for the final time this season and made out for Wyandotte, Michigan to meet the Wyandotte Stars Base Ball Club for a match game of base ball. When the Bay Citys arrived they were taken aback to see some locals playing a cricket match near the designated field for play. One can only wonder why fine young American men would engage in a foreign game such as cricket when they could have been playing base ball. Luckily, there was more then enough room to accommodate both matches on the grounds, and so the game went on.
The match was presided over by Dr. Marcus Dickson, a member in longstanding of the La-de-dah Base Ball Club of Dearborn, Michigan. The Wyandotte gents would win the toss, and elected to take the field first, and allow the Bay Citys to take to striking. As has become the norm in these past five seasons, Tanner LeRoux would begin the scoring by tallying a run thanks to some fine striking by Branden “The Rope” Revettte. LeRoux’s ace would be the lone score for Bay City, and the Wyandotte gents would match it with one of their own. After one innings the match was knotted at one run a piece.
The Bay Citys would be skunked in the next innings, but Wyandotte would place three tallies in the ledger to take a 4-1 in lead in the contest. The Bay Citys drew one run closer in the third innings when Tanner LeRoux tallied again. Both the Stars and the Independents would be whitewashed in the fourth innings and after four innings apiece the match stood a tight scratch at 4-2.
In the fifth innings both clubs mashed the apple for seven runs each. The big blow for the Bay Citys was a howitzer to the long field by Buttons McInerney who easily made his second, and drove in Tanner LeRoux and his brother Tom “The Tomcat” LeRoux. When the fifth innings were complete this see-saw battle now stood at Wyandotte 11, Bay City 9.
In the sixth innings Bay City would draw one run closer when the Bay City Captain, Jayme “High-Steppin” Johnson, tallied thanks to some more fine striking by the brothers LeRoux. After Johnson had made his first Tanner LeRoux drove him to third with another fine daisy-cutter to the garden, and the Captain would tally on a long drive by “The Tomcat” LeRoux which would see him make his second. The LeRoux brothers would be left for dead on the bases when the next two strikers lost their hands to the Wyandotte fieldsmen. The Stars would be skunked by Ray “The Banker” Banister for the next two innings as the Bay Citys grew closer in the sixth innings, and then eventually overtook them with three more aces in the seventh innings. After seven the match was now in Bay City’s hands again at 13-11.
In the eighth innings the Stars seemed to have solved the riddle of Ray “The Banker” Banister, and “The Banker” could sneak nary a ball past the gents from Wyandotte. After a parade around the pillows the Stars snatched back the lead, and had swung their way into controlling the contest at 16-13.
The Bay Citys took to the stripe with the bottom of their order in the ninth innings, behind by three runs, and placed the first three strikers on base. One run would score on a daisy-cutter by Captain Johnson, and Tanner LeRoux would drive a cannonade to the long field for two bases that drove in the match tying runs. LeRoux, easily the star of the match, would also tally two strikers later and provide the winning run of the match. Bay City would tally three more times before ending their ninth innings, and “The Banker” would silence the Stars in their ninth to bring a close to this wild affair at 20-16 in Bay City’s favor.
The contest was heated, but the ballists for each club were congenial, and much appreciative of the fine play on both sides. Each club hinted that they look forward to meeting again next season for some more fun on the pitch.
