It started as a beautiful day for baseball on Tuesday in Lafayette. The Varsity Dons, on a two game win streak took on the #3 ranked North Coast Section team in Division 1, the Clayton Valley Charter Ugly Eagles. As usual the boys found themselves in another pitcher’s duel. Henry Souza started for Acalanes and pitched admirably for the first…
Sports gambling was introduced in the US in the early 19th century with horse betting, and took off when professional baseball began in 1876. By 1894, it was so commonplace that there was an article in the Washington Post that stated that the manager of the Chicago Colts bet $100 that his team would finish higher up in the race…
It felt like summer in Napa Valley on Friday when the Dons took on the Vintage Crushers on asundrenched afternoon in the valley. There was no whining in Wine Country on this beautiful day.Fortunately there was winning in Wine Country for the boys in blue. “Rubber Arm” Peter Thorn took the mound and made his team leading 14th appearance in…
There are many unwritten rules. Don’t chew with your mouth open. Don’t leave your shopping cart in the middle of the aisle. Don’t get on a train before people get off. Don’t stand on the left side of an escalator. Don’t propose at someone else’s wedding. Don’t use the urinal right next to someone if another one is available. Don’t…
Thursday was a perfect day for baseball at Ken Souza Field. The temperature was warm, the grass was avibrant green in the afternoon sun, the skies were blue and the Dons were in white for this pivotalleague game against Benicia High School. Senior Andrew Habas got the “flash the leather party” started with a strong, running, over the shoulder catch…
A doppelganger is a mysterious, exact double of a living person. The closet equivalent in baseball today is two minor league players who are both named Brady Feigl, stand 6’4” tall, have fiery red hair, wear glasses, and had the same elbow surgery performed by the same doctor in 2015. Although not quite in that category, there are a number…
The boys headed to Benicia High School to take on the Panthers on Tuesday. Henry Souza got the startand pitched a complete game for the Dons. He gave up 4 runs (3 earned) and 5 hits with 3 walks and 5strikeouts in a tight 4-3 road loss. Trailing 1-0 in the 3rd inning, Keegan Goddard got a rally started for…
Last Thursday, I profiled GameChanger and mentioned how we all “know and love” the system. On Tuesday, I was eating those words as the system went down globally just as the Dons took the field to face the Panthers. I jinxed it. Never missing an opportunity, however, I thought jinxes and superstitions would be a perfect article theme. The most famous…
The Dons took on the College Park Falcons on Thursday for the second match up of the series. The boys continue to play inspired ball. Unfortunately there is a razor thin margin of error when runs are hard to come by. The boys in blue played the Falcons even for 13 innings before coming up short 3-2 at home.The two…
The term “Game-changer” made its debut in 1982 in the sports sections of newspapers, referring to decisive plays in particular games. 28 years later, in 2010, the GameChanger technology platform we all know and love was born. Since launch, over 26 million games have been scored with it, which is about 25.5 million more than the total number of games…