Morning mail No. 21

Good morning. The Comets took two of three in Ostheim, stand at 39–28, and come home on Thursday for the last series of the year at Kettle Lane.

Three games against the Gulls, then three at Riverside, and then it is soup and arguments until spring.

The week

Friday was the best game on the road all year: fourteen hits, four for Tamura, and a coach home that sang most of the way. Saturday ended in the tenth on a bad hop, which June has written up so I do not have to. Sunday Whitaker was fine and the bats were better than fine, 7–3.

The lamps

Ruane lost a fly ball in the lights again on Saturday, the third time this season, and it is always the same bank on the left-field tower. We wrote to the club. The club says the lamp company comes in December. Bring sunglasses to a night game, I suppose.

Saturday at Kettle Lane

Season pins at the gate until 18:30, the last home game until April, and the supporters' club does a collection for the groundskeeper in the fifth innings. He has had a hard year with the drains. Put in a coin.

See you on Thursday. Section 4, row C, as ever.

Lou