Kyle Lobstein warms up Friday night in Syracuse. Don’t say I didn’t do something nice for you during the bet, Beth.
The great, big bloggers baseball wager is all tied up.
And I saw Syracuse fall to Toledo right before my very eyes Friday night.
Boo-hoo.
Mud Hens pitcher Kyle Lobstein had a startling fastball when you compared it to his back-breakingly slow change-up. Lob-stein indeed. Third baseman Mike Hessman clouted a homer over the deepest part of the center-field fence. Three Hens singled to plate a run in the seventh. Enough runs and ’nuff said on a dark and rainy night in Syracuse’s NBT Bank Stadium.
TOLEDO 2, SYRACUSE 1
The best-of-eight wagering series between me and Beth of Ann Arbor, author of I Didn’t Have My Glasses On, is tied 1-1.
Night, Chiefs fall.
It’s a dark night outside NBT Bank Stadium.
The Syracuse half of the eight-game Chiefs-vs.-Mud Hens blood match continues today. The four games in Toledo are the second week of May. The loser of the wager … You’ll see on our blogs after the eight games.
Mark Bialczak 
Well, Mark, you did it again. Another sports post! I barely understood it, but I think saying Good Luck is in order, yes? 😀
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This was another fun post, where I enjoyed every bit the competitive spirit of the games and your banter back and forth with your readers, also so fun!
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Glad I read this after I read the one where ‘my’ team is up in the wager! I’ll not be one of those fair weather fans anyway. I’ll cheer them right through to the next game!!!!
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Tonight is definitely another night… I think we have this.
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Fun, friendly competition! I have a nephew who was drafted in the second round by the Tigers last year and is playing for one of their leagues in West Michigan. He played for Vanderbilt prior to being drafted. It’s been fun following him and we of course, hope he will do well and go pro. 🙂
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If he goes up through the Tigers ranks, Mrs. Brickhouse, he would someday be a Toledo Mud Hen! Hear that, Beth?!
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LOL. I better keep up with all of this!
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yep, and i wonder if he is a whitecap or a lug nut at this point in time? both teams have fabulous names, and i look forward to watching him rise through the ranks to the hens )
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I would seriously want to wear a T-shirt for a team by the name of the White Caps or the Lug Nuts, Beth! Great team names, they are. Please tell me the White Caps only wear white hats.
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He’s a Whitecap! LOL. Pitches tonight. 🙂
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That is very cool, Mrs. B!
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excellent – go caps! best of luck to him in his whitecaps pitching debut )
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Oops, I haven’t heard of Lobstein, but your post has enlightened me a bit! 🙂
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He impressed me, Sophie. Fastball crackled the catcher’s mitt, change-up had the Chiefs batters swinging way ahead of the ball. Deadly mix, that.
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‘Toledo’s Mike Hessman took another step closer to the history books on Friday night as his homer helped lift the Hens past Syracuse 2-1.’ just saying………
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Yes, he is becoming the real life Crash Davis. That’s what happens when you never get called up to the big leagues, Beth. Just saying ……….
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and just remember when ordonez got sent down to toledo for a bit of rehab and attitude adjustment, and he hit a ball that knocked an 18 year old boy in the stands out cold, with one of his homers there. just saying….
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Was that a good thing or a bad thing, Beth, just wondering ………
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not good for the boy in the stands who ‘caught’ his ball, but the crowd all cheered as he returned to the stands and fine after a once over from the medics, and i’m just saying, our hitters have some power even they find themselves south of detroit at times…
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yep, i talked to the lobstein and told him i had a lot riding on this and he came through, in true hens’ style
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