Pigpen pops a hammy

Men's Senior Baseball League World Series

73-and-over division

Arizona Scorpions

Game 5


There were just minutes left in Game 5 for Pigpen Price. In another thirty minutes, Pigpen, after playing 13 games in 14 days at the MSBL World Series, would pack his bat bag, hit Interstate 10 and head back to Tucson.

Price had dove and caught a line drive the inning before. He tried for another in a game that was already decided as the Arizona Scorpions (1-4)  lost to Team Cambria, 29-8, in the final round-robin game in the 73-and-over division of the MSBL World Series. "One too many dives," Price said, after the game.

Nursing an upper hammy for two weeks, the last dive between third and short proved costly. "I heard the pop and I was done," Price said.

Price didn't get a chance at two at bats and it cost him in his "friendly battle" with teammate Arnie White. Pigpen went  0 for 2 and finished his second week at the MSBL World Series with a .441 batting average (8 for 18). Arnie, a teammate of Price's on the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers, singled up the middle in the fourth inning and went 1 for 4 today to finish the five-game round robin with a .500 batting average (9 for 18).

As for Team Cambria (5-0), they belong in another planet...well another division, anyway. In five games, Team Cambria scored a total of 126 runs. Actually, the eight runs scored by the Scorpions today was the most runs Team Cambria has allowed an opponent all week.

It's over for White and Price. The two Scorpions will hand in their uniform jersey and return home to Tucson, back to Udall Park on Monday, Wednesday and Friday...back with the 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers.