Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
Lefty John Mathews, 60, and right-hander Pigpen Price, 71, were locked in a pitching duel at Udall Park this morning -- at least until the bottom of the fifth inning.
It was at that point when things begin to unravel for Price. Two walks, a couple of errors and a couple of key hits and Price went from a 2-1 lead to trailing 6-2 as Team White plated five runs and sent Price to the showers (well, to the dugout anyway, there are no showers at Udall).
The big hit in the fifth came from Danny Boxberger, 66, who timed one of Price's fastballs and sent the ball up the middle. The ball got by two outfielders and went all the the way to the fence, allowing two of the five runs to score.
Team Blue's leadoff man, Brian Reilly, tried his best to keep his team in the game with three hits in four trips to the plate. Unfortunately, for 65-year-old Reilly and Team Blue, his last at bat turned out to be a ground out to second base in the seventh inning and Team White survived a hard-fought game, 7-5.
Mathews went the distance to pick up his first pitching victory of the year. While Price fell to 2-3 and needed relief in the bottom of the fifth and sixth inning from 66-year-old right-hander Pete Maldonado.
Still, a competitive oldtimers' game, which once again went down to the wire. Team White scored an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth, while Team Blue plated three runs in the seventh and had the tying run at the plate with two outs.
The catch of the day: a running catch by Team Blue's 83-year-old Joe Aparicio, who made a back-handed stab in left field on a hard hit ball off the bat of 78-year-old Bob Stofft.
The old-timers will be back in action on Friday at Udall. Game time: 10 a.m.
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