Moto Miller deserved to catch the fly ball that ended this game.
He also deserved the game ball.
Miller had three hits and drove in two runs as gray beat green 14-9 on July 11 at field 2 in Brahan Spring Park. They play in the 55-and-over Rockets league in Huntsville Senior Softball.
“This is only our second win in seven games so it’s something we needed,” Miller, the cleanup hitter and right fielder, said. “We needed a win tonight because we had lost five of the last six. And of course, it’s good to contribute to that.”
He went 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored for gray (8-10).
Defensively he made two putouts, including a diving, sprawling catch on Dee Benson’s sinking line drive which ended the fourth inning.
“I did make two good catches, so I guess that makes up for my two outs (at the plate),” Miller said.
The 67-year-old from Topeka, Kansas, is in his 11th year with the league. He resides in Royal, an hour’s drive from Huntsville in Blount County.
Dave McNeill, pitcher Jackie Dollar, player/coach Rick Anthis and Reid Pincomb had three hits apiece. Jerry Bevel, Jim Bean, Ron Baer and Ken Valine had two hits apiece. Dollar scattered 14 hits and two walks in seven innings for the win. Gray turned a 4-6-3 double play in the second.
“We just played exceptionally well tonight,” Anthis said. “There might have just been a couple of errors, and everybody was hitting the ball. We just played better (than previously), that’s for sure.”
Randy Keffer slugged two home runs, one inside-the-park, for green (7-11). Player/coach Derek Santiago hit a three-run homer. Keffer and Don Shook had three hits apiece. Leadoff hitter Shawn Gordon had two hits and scored two runs. Jim “Hitman” Myers took the loss.
“We weren’t hitting the first few innings,” Santiago said. “We played good defense, but we were just not scoring runs.”
