Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)
60-and-over baseball
Pete Peters, Mike Dawson and Ray Garcia combined for 10 hits and six RBI to lead Team Blue to a 10-7 win at Udall Park today in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game.
The game was tied at 6-6 in the top of the sixth inning when Dawson doubled in a run and Garcia followed with an RBI-single off Team White's starting pitcher Pete Maldonado. Pigpen Price reached on an error and another run crossed to plate to put Team Blue up, 9-6. Team Blue would add an insurance run in the top of the seventh.
Team White scored a run in the bottom of the seventh and could have plated another run when Ken Nebesny, who had two hits and four RBI on the day, hit a shot up the middle, but Peters moved quickly to his left and gloved the ball behind second base. Peters' off-balance throw to Price at second base was in time to nip the runner for the second out of the inning.
Nebesny smiled and shook his head after the game.
"That was probably my best hit of the day," Nebesny said. "I thought the ball was through and on its way to the fence." The "play of the day" by Peters ended Team White's chances of a come-from-behind win.
Still, another competitive ball game in the books. Dawson pitched all seven innings for Team Blue, while Maldonado, a workhorse on the mound this week at Udall, went the distance as well and was saddled with the hard-luck loss.
Maldonado, 67, had pitched seven strong innings 48 hours earlier on Wednesday at Udall and walked away with a 6-1 win, allowing just four hits and no earned runs.
The TOTS will take the weekend off and return to action on Monday at Udall. Game time: 10 a.m.
Photos: Mike Dawson (top), Ray Garcia (middle) and Pete Peters (bottom) combined for 10 hits today as Team Blue edged Team White, 10-7.
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