Team Blue powers its way to a 10-6 win

TOTS Senior Baseball Network

60-and-over baseball

Team Blue powered its way to a win over Team White today at Udall Park in a Tucson Old Timers (TOTS) baseball game.  Bob Daliege, 64, led Team Blue's hitting attack with three hits, a run scored, and five RBI.

Team White's starting pitcher, 76-year-old Ed Rife is well known in the league as a crafty hurler, moving the ball inside and outside with an occasional knuckle ball to keep the batters off guard. But today, helped out by some untimely errors, the middle of the Team Blue lineup had little trouble picking up pitches to their liking as hard hit balls were belted by Tim Tolson, Lloyd Barzell, Bob Stofft, Pete Peters, Chico Bigham and Daliege, as they turned a 5-2 deficit into a 10-6 win.

The big blow came off the bat of Daliege. With the bases loaded in the fifth, Daliege slashed a Rife fastball to the opposite field. The ball landed just inside the first base chalk line and spun away from the right fielder Joe Aparicio. Three runs scored on the play and Daliege ended up at third base with a big smile on his face.

Today, Team Blue had the upper hand.

Photos:  Top photo, Team White right hander Ed Rife, 76, hurls an offering toward the plate in a TOTS game today at Udall Park. Bottom photo: Speedster Dennis Crowley, 63, playing for Team White today, prepares to slash a pitch to left field. The catcher is Pete Peters, 63. The umpire is 63-year-old Chuck Sabalos, a member of the TOTS and a former Pima County Superior Court judge.