Game Summary

• Originally scheduled for July 4th against 88's of the upper division.
• Game #18, played at Complex #1 as the second game of a double header.
• After holding the opponents off the board in the top of the 1st inning, the Flaming Moe's jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the 1st inning in part to a 3 RBI inside the park home run by #5 Mike Frank.
• The opponents got 3 runs back in the top of the 2nd inning but the Flaming Moe's responded with 2 in the bottom half pushing the score to 6-3 after 2 innings.
• Single run in the bottom of the 3rd inning for the Flaming Moe's and in the top of the 4th inning for the opponents made the score 7-4 heading into the bottom of the 4th inning.
• From there on it was a barn burner for the Flaming Moe's, scoring 7, 6 and 6 runs in the 4th-6th innings and not surrendering any more runs.
• The 7-run 4th inning resulted from an inside the park grand slam for #28 Darryl Palmer for 4 of his 8 RBIs in the game.
• The opponents needed to score 11 runs or so in the top of 7th and final inning to avoid a mercy loss.
• The Flaming Moe's score their first win of the season and now sit at 1-13 (ahead of this opponent for 7th place in the lower division) and are now 1-1 in the lower division.

Scoring Notes:

• 7 inning game.
• The Flaming Moe's hit into 4 fielder's choices for an actual batting average of 0.714
• An inside the park home run by #28 Darryl Palmer in the bottom of the 4th inning resulted in a 7-run inning (counted as it did not affect the outcome and the batter wasn't told his run would not count prior to the at bat).