As the city saw it's ninth straight day with some level of rain, teams were not optimistic that yesterday's games would be played. The commissioner was stressed. Weather.com's local radar map was open on tabs across the city. A 6 minute downpour on 34th Street and 10th ave led to a single one word ("oops") email by the league office that all but gave up hope for SLAM action on Monday, May 23rd.
But then there was the power of 9. As has been well documented on this blog, Ennead Architects (EA) was named after 9 dieties coming together as one. Perhaps those dieties fended off the rain and were the reason softball was played on this day. The 5:30pm match up on the Great Lawn pitted EA against TPG Architecture (TPG), and something in the air (humidity, fog, deadlines in the office) was causing players to drop like flies. Last minute cancellations and late in-house meetings led to a starting lineup of 9 vs. 9 as both teams took the field.
The power of 9 was with TPG last night as they scored 5, 5, and 4 runs in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd innings to take a commanding 14-1 lead going into the top of the 4th inning. After three more EA outs, the game was over, final score 14-1, mercy by the power of 9.
Even David Solomon - our esteemed commissioner - came out to take in this game. And his awesome videography skills (spygate anyone?) led to the above rare footage of an RBI single by TPG Manager Josh Ginsburg.
Game balls for this win go to everyone who showed up at the field on a day when it seemed nobody would (Thank you Derrick Blocker, Princess Salvacion, Adam Woods, Alison Hopke, Tony Franzese, Ray Dominguez, Justin Aharoni, David Beauchamp, Josh Ginsburg, and a late arrival by Omar Bustamante).
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