Spiders on the Web: Record & Highlights

The spectacular plays, the postgame pizza consumption, the generally odd but well-meaning behavior — it’s all here.

Spiders on
the Web

Game 5: CXO 30, Lois Paul & Partners 6

Highlights:

The Spiders plate their 30 runs in the first four innings — topped by Lenny’s grand slam in the second — before the game is called midway through the fifth as the skies grow dark.
Refusing to quit after several leg beanings in previous games, Hef shows up in full Darth Vader-style protective gear. When a Lois Paul batter nearly hits him with a ball, Lord Coffin points and says, “Don’t fail me again.”
Jeannette Gonzalez and “Side Salad” Lynch, visiting from San Fran, make big contributions in the onslaught.
Teammates decide that Bethany will forever be known as “Scoocharelli.”

Game 6: CXO 21, Courion 7

Highlights:

Knitting will have to wait: The Supah Fans are back in full force with the triumphant return of Co-Captain Lisa D.
Danielle takes a liner off the leg — and only six games into the year, the Spiders set a new single-season record with 51 bruises. Sadly, they also set a record low by ordering only one pizza at Pepperoncini’s.
An already-legendary new term of measurement, “a centimeter of an inch,” is invented.

Game 7: Swamp Rats 13, CXO 8

Highlights:

Though the offense struggles the rest of the way, the Spiders open with a fury in a six-run first inning.
Danielle continues to turn in defensive gems at second base.
Realizing that his team is in danger of making it an entire game without an injury, Tony takes a liner off the leg, instantly swelling into a bruise the size of ... well, a softball.
The postgame crowd goes ballistic at Pepperoncini’s for the Vaver/Heller family when they light up the karaoke stage and holler out a tribute to the Spiders.

Game 8: CXO 33, IDC 21

Highlights:

The Spiders slug five homers and post an 11-run inning in the sixth en route to their biggest offensive showing in years.
No fewer than five fielders try to catch a popup late in the game — and they all manage to miss, leaving the bases uncovered for IDC runners, who went on a virtual merry-go-round.
As if all this weren’t entertaining enough, mosquitoes engage in a mating ritual, artfully narrated by Lynn, in one of the many puddles lingering on the field after a heavy rainstorm.
For all his commitment and team spirit in spite of a series of line drives off the leg, Hef takes home the Zima Excellence Award for the first half of 2008. You da man, Hef!