TOTS limited to 3 games in July

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Nebesny hits leader in July

Opocensky top pitcher

The 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers continue to sputter along. If it's not the coronavirus, it's a heat wave or for the month of July it turned out to be rainouts as the Old Pueblo was hit with daily thunderstorms.

Udall Park, the home of the TOTS, was underwater for the most of July --- only three official games were played.. The most at bats and hits were by Ken Nebesny, who went 6 for 12 to lead the 27 players who saw action for the month. Joe Opocensky led the club with just four RBI. Roger Beebe went 5 for 10 and also batted .500 during the month.

Slim pickings for the stat sheet.

Opocensky was the pitching star for the month. He won two of the three games.

Rain totals: a record-setting nine inches. The most rain in Tucson for a July since Arizona became a state. Well, I might be wrong about that, but the most rain for a month was close to eight inches, recorded in August of 1955.

I remember that month! I was 10 years old and my Little League game was rained out.

Now we are four days into August and the TOTS have two games in the books -- a 9-8 win by Team Blue on Monday and a 9-1 win by Team White today.

In Monday's game, Team Blue's Tim Tolson went 4 for 4 to lead a 19-hit attack, while Bobby Long and Jimmy Kinion collected three hits apiece for Team White.

In Wednesday's game, Pete Peters, Tim Tolson, Bob Long and Dave Byars went 3 for 4 and drove in five of the nine runs to lead a 17-hit attack, while right-hander Mike Dawson allowed Team Blue just one run. Dawson picked up the pitching victories on Monday and Wednesday.

Weather permitting, the TOTS will be back in action on Friday at Udall for their third game of the week. The fun begins at 9 a.m.