Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
Bob Daliege had a good day on the mound for Team Blue today in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game at Udall Park.
Daliege goes the distance and allows just one earned run -- a memorable one when Team White's hard-hitting lefty Reed Palmer hit a moon shot over the right field fence, which rolled all the way to the new highway that connects the Tanque Verde Road/Sabino Canyon Road intersection to Kolb Road.
Okay, maybe that's stretching it a little bit. There was no moon out. It was the middle of the morning and a tree or two might have slowed down the ball. But still Palmer's solo shot-- his second of the year -- was ripped.
At any rate, Daliege shook it off and allowed just three runs the rest of the way -- all unearned, due to a couple of fielding errors by the Team Blue infield.
In the end, it was an easy win for Daliege and Team Blue. The final score: Team Blue 13, Team White 4.
Tim Tolson doubled and tripled and drove in four runs for Team Blue, while Brian Reilly also recorded a double and a triple.
Daliege tried his best to keep the ball away from Palmer. In fact, Daliege walked him once, hit him once and retired him on a ground out. As for the homer, Daliege says, "That was a blast!"
One of the highlights of the game was the return to action in the person of 76-year-old Jerry Hamelin. Jerry hasn't seen a lot of action during the last year and a half. The "injury bug" has kept him out of action.
But Hamelin played today and went 2 for 3 and scored a run. Hamelin used to get his hits in bunches. In fact, he's No. 6 on the TOTS' all-time career hits list with 1,304 hits.
"It's my knees," Hamelin said, after the game. "They don't work too well anymore."
Still, two more hits in the books for Hamelin, who joined the TOTS in 2002 at the age of 61.
Hamelin, Daliege, Palmer, Reilly and Tolson, well they'll all be back on Wednesday with the rest of the TOTS. Game time at Udall: 10 a.m.
Photos: (top), Jerry Hamelin, (bottom), Bob Daliege.
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