FOG turn back the clock 7/29/99, Last Game at SPU & with Mikey G

Seattle, WA - AP
The Fog lost in the championship game. Hatted rivals 318 beat them 8-1 to win their second championship in 9 years. The Fog was playing in their third straight championship and we going for the threepeat.
It was a long day for The Fog. In their earlier game they had to work much harder than they had expected. Facing a team that had forfeited to them twice the Fog expected to coast into the championship, but that wasn't the case. Down 4-3 they rallied back to take a 12-4 lead only to see the game tied at the end of six, after taking a one run lead into the bottom of the seventh, the other team immediately put two runners on without any outs, but a critical double play, Nolte to the bag at third to Darin at first, really took the wind out of their sales, the next batter, grounded out to Joey and it was time to play for t-shirts.
Maybe it was the fact that The Fog played a long hard first game in the sun and were drained or maybe the mush ball god finally caught up with them, either way they couldn't hit, their lone run coming after Nolte had walked, advanced to second on a grounder and scored on a shallow single. The 318 used small ball to return to the promised land, singles and advancing runners was the name of their game, and the end of the game was only fitting. Leadoff hitter, Eric Jimmy Dean Nolte, was up with two outs and had already walked twice, but it was obvious that the opposing pitcher had gained a second wind by starting him out strike one, after a ball, Nolte fouled off a pitch, then a ball, then the pitch that would end The Fog was thrown. It floated to the plate like a big ham sandwich, it was meant to be hit into play, hit to a defense that had played an errorless game, hit hoping that it would make an out, but then it happened, Nolte swung and missed. Mighty Nolte (Casey) had struck out.
After the first game, Mikey G confided in me that that was the first time he was ever nervous that we might actually lose a softball game, he said it was weird and needed a hug, I wasn't sure if he was serious or wanted to touch me but I hugged him.
The highlight of the evening occurred in the first game when a runner attempted to score from second on a single, Mikey G loaded his howitzer and fired a strike to Boyd who applied a great tag on the diving runner.
The lowlights of the game, how about Watson being 0-7 with a walk or that Watson and Mukai had all the canal duty for the championship game. It is over, The Fog will never play another game at SPU, and I for one have to say thank goodness. Next year The Fog will move into a real summer softball league with actual balls and real infields.