The End of Summer

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October [26], a [Wednesday] of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

--A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind"

Saturday at Westhills

This week's varsity game will be at Westhills on Saturday. Start time is 3:00 p.m. Please contact Steve Weinstock if you cannot make it.

Pants Anyone?

Someone left a pair of grey baseball pants in the dugout at Chaminade on Saturday. Check with me at practice on Thursday (or give me a call) if you think they're yours.

Practice and Game Schedule

The varsity fall ball team will practice on Thursday afternoon. Saturday's game against Montclair Prep, originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m., will be at 9:00 a.m. at the Westhills baseball complex.

Upcoming: Chaminade

Both Malibu teams play at Chaminade on Saturday. The JV game begins at noon. The varsity game follows at 3:00 p.m.

For a map to Chaminade High, click here.

Practice and Games This Week

The next practice for the varsity fall ball team will be on Thursday. Expect a change in the practice schedule next week due to Yom Kippur.

The varsity team plays at Pepperdine against Taft on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. The JV game is at Malibu High on Sunday at noon against Highland Hall.

Traded?

Stephen Williams went 3-for-3 and doubled to knock in Jacob Perrin with the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning as Highland Hall defeated Westlake High, 6-5.

No, Williams and Perrin haven't been traded. Highland Hall's manager Dave Bowman asked the two to fill in for some of his players who were unable to make today's game at Pepperdine.