60-and-over baseball
The 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers continue to play the game of baseball despite the coronavirus.
The TOTS have managed to log in 52 games in seven months. Under normal circumstances, the TOTS would head into their August schedule with 84 games in the books, but not this season as the members of the 53-year-old organization has more to worry about than getting their swings in.
The organization has weathered the storm, so to speak. With plenty of safety rules in place to keep the virus at bay, the TOTS managed to play 12 games in June, but just seven games in July.
The most at bats by a player in July was by Ken Nebesny, who went 12 for 30 for the month, a .400 average, while John Mathews was next in line with a 14 for 26 effort, a .538 average, to go along with the most RBI for the month at 13 and Reed Palmer went 12 for 26, a .462 average.
Thunder Tim Tolson carried the best average for the month at .720 with a team-high 18 hits in 25 trips to the plate, while Doc Thompson went 15 for 22, a .682 average, and finished second in runs-batted in with nine.
Jesse Ochoa, Bob Daliege, Joe Opocensky and Ron Ryan, all played in five games or less, but made the most of their at bats. Ochoa went 10 for 14, Opocensky went 11 for 18, Daliege went 10 for 19 and Ryan went 9 for 20.
Only seven players played in all seven games in July. The seven: Tolson, Palmer, Nebesny, Mathews, Thompson, Pigpen Price and Joe Aparicio. Price, 75, went 7 for 23 and knocked in five runs, while the 86-year-old Aparicio walked once and scored a run.
Six pitchers saw action during the month. Daliege and Opocensky led the TOTS' pitchers with two wins apiece.
The TOTS' next game is Monday -- August 3. Game time: 8:30 a.m.
Way to go, TOTS!
Note: The TOTS have 45 active members and 27 players saw action in July. The TOTS' members are virus-free and continue to play for the love of the game.
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