Fog Split, Earn 5th Seed

AP - Magnolia, WA

In typical Fog fashion they split their third double header of the year. Crushing yet another undermanned opponent, Quellos, 24-5, while dropping the night cap 6-5 to Bacardi's Bombers. The lost to the Bombers was crushing as it caused the Fog to drop from the #2 seed to the #5 seed.

Joe's earlier recap hit all of the highlights and I will include it again for those that don't read Joe's emails. One point Joe failed to mention was Nolte's called strike three with the bases loaded in game 2. Ouch.
"As I iced my arm last night after our game, I thought to myself: do i play softball for the victories, or for the memories?
Then I considered that, 20 years from now, I'm not going to remember if we won our second game last night.
What I will remember is this:
- Nolte living up to his Pizza Time billing, and falling down while making the catch at 2nd.
- Boyd throwing out the "Come on" taunt to the baserunner on 3rd, bringing a few "easy, catcher"s from the other bench.
- great plays by Pete Watson and Any Given Monday
- Cook and I talking on the bench. It's time to take the field. As he finishes talking, Cook puts on my lefty glove backwards on his left hand. He then realizes his mistake and finds his own glove.
- Gouge, making a great catch, and then yells out in a high pitched, Punky Brewster-like voice to Watson at first: "NATHAN!"
- me, asking a few guys on the other team before the game started if the brand-new gleaming white softball was white enough for them. They took me seriously and gave me their approval.
- another successful play at the plate for my battery mate and #1 on my booty call drunk dial, Steve Boyd."

2005 Offensive Leaders:
BA - .647, Joe Gerlitz
HRs - 2, tie, Eric Nolte and Graeme Hanson
RBIs - 14, 4 way tie, Nolte, N Watson, P Watson and Hanson
Runs - 15, tie, Dan Houser and Eric Nolte
Walks - 6, Peter Watson
Hits - 18, Eric Nolte
Doubles - 4, Steve Boyd
Triples - 2, 3 way tie, Nolte, Houser, Hanson
GIDP - 2, Steve Boyd
SF - 2, Peter Watson
Total Bases, 31, Eric Nolte
Slugging Percentage, 1.048, Hanson
On-Base Percentage, .667, Peter Watson
OPS, 1.656, Hanson

2005 FOG REGULAR SEASON STATS

Player	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SF	GIDP	AVG	Total Bases	Slugging Percentage	On-base Percentage	OPS
Eric Nolte	32	15	18	3	2	2	14	3	1			0.563	31	0.969	0.600	1.569
Steve Boyd	31	12	15	4			5	3	1		2	0.484	19	0.613	0.529	1.142
Nate Watson	29	14	16	3		1	14	2	1	1		0.552	22	0.759	0.563	1.321
Dan Houser	28	15	15	2	2	1	12	2		1		0.536	24	0.857	0.548	1.406
Matt Cook	24	7	10				3	4				0.417	10	0.417	0.500	0.917
Daunte Gouge	23	7	10				5	1				0.435	10	0.435	0.458	0.893
Mike Carlson	23	7	11	1		1	9	1	1			0.478	15	0.652	0.500	1.152
Brent Amsbary	22	9	14		1		13					0.636	16	0.727	0.636	1.364
Peter Watson	22	11	14	2	1		14	6	1	2	1	0.636	18	0.818	0.667	1.485
Graeme Hanson	21	11	12		2	2	14	2				0.571	22	1.048	0.609	1.656
Joe Gerlitz	17	2	11		1		10					0.647	13	0.765	0.647	1.412
Jody Wilkins	15	3	3				0					0.200	3	0.200	0.200	0.400
James Owen	8	0	2				2					0.250	2	0.250	0.250	0.500
Kris Browne	8	1	4	1			1					0.500	5	0.625	0.500	1.125
Craig Weaver	7	3	3				4					0.429	3	0.429	0.429	0.857
Curtis Feddern	7	3	3				0					0.429	3	0.429	0.429	0.857