Team White edged Team Blue 8-6 in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers (TOTS) baseball game at Udall Park tonight in front of 118 fans as the organization played its first-ever night game.
Lloyd Barzell started and pitched five innings for Team White, while Ed Rife hurled three innings for Team Blue and was saddled with the loss. Doc Thompson logged four innings in relief, while Dan Lundwall went two innings in relief.John Misiaszek led Team White offensively with three hits in three plate appearances and knocked in three runs, while Pete Peters went 2 for 3 and scored a run for Team Blue. Ed Seelbinder and Denny Leonard combined to drive in four of Team Blue's six runs. Barzell helped his own cause with a three hit night and scored two runs. The top four batters in the Team White lineup -- Jim Sears, Pigpen Price, Bob Daliege and Barzell -- plated all eight runs as the four combined for three runs in the first inning and three more in the third, giving Team White a 6-4 lead after three innings of play.
Team Blue loaded the bases in the bottom of the seventh and final inning, but Barzell struck out two batters and caught a line drive off the bat of Jesse Ochoa to end the game.
The first-ever night game for the TOTS was a huge success. TOTS' co-managers, Jeff Rein and Ron Carlson, were happy with the turnout and would like to schedule another game under the lights in the near future.
"I think everyone had a good time and the weather was great," Rein said, after the game. It was a beautiful night. I think it went well."
As for the players themselves. It was quite different playing under the lights. "It was hard to pick up the ball at times, but I think we all adapted pretty well," said Team White shortstop Pigpen Price.
The TOTS under the lights on a Friday night...on November 8, 2013.
TOTS Boxscore:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H
TOTS Team White 3 0 3 0 0 2 0 8 9
TOTS Team Blue 2 2 0 0 0 0 2 6 8
TOTS Team White AB-R-H-RBI
Jim Sears 3-2-2-0
Lloyd Barzell 3-2-3-1
Pigpen Price 2-2-0-1
Bob Daliege 2-2-0-0
Dave Rhoades 3-0-0-2
John Misiaszek 3-0-3-3
Floyd Lance 3-0-0-1
Jerry Hamelin 3-0-0-0
Carl Brutovsky 3-0-0-0
Joe Aparicio 3-0-1-0
Jerry Smarik 3-0-0-0
Bob Katz 2-0-0-0
Doc Thompson 1-0-0-0
TTLS 34-8-9-8
TOTS Team Blue AB-R-H-RBI
Dennis Crowley 3-1-1-0
Jeff Rein 3-1-1-0
Ed Rife 3-1-1-0
Pete Peters 3-1-2-0
Bob Stofft 3-0-1-0
Ron Carlson 2-0-0-0
Brian Reilly 3-1-0-0
Ed Seebinder 3-0-1-2
Jessie Ochoa 3-1-0-1
Dick McAnally 2-0-0-0
Denny Leonard 2-0-1-2
Dan Lundwall 2-0-0-1
Doc Thompson 1-0-0-0
TTLS 33-6-8-6
WP Barzell (1-0) LP Rife (0-1)
Pitching battery: Team White - Barzell, Thompson and Daliege; Team Blue -Rife, Thompson, Lundwall and Seelbinder, McAnally.
HP Price (Rife)
Umpires: Chico Bigham (HP), Denny Heath (1B), Bob Royer (3B)
Scorekeeper: Jim Pagels
Site: Udall Park
Attendance: 118
Note: To all my friends and readers out there...this game was played on November 8, 2013. My mother attended that game...the only TOTS' game she ever saw. Five players on the field of play that night, along with the umpire and the scorekeeper, are no longer with us and are in heaven playing on the big field where fans enter through the turnstiles everyday and watch a baseball game. I'm sure my mom is wearing a summer hat and is sitting in the box seats and sipping on a cool ice tea.
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