Well, Cobra Kai’s I can’t say enough of how proud you made Cobra Kai nation this past Friday Night. The kai’s played a great game all of you. We can’t expect to win em all but we are definitely in em all, and this one we came through on. Maybe we need a cause to fight for, and Friday night we definitely had one. Our team Captain and inspirational leader was missing and we all felt it. Capt. Tucci needed a reason to smile and nothing was going to stand in our way especially not the Black Sox. He told us he wanted an update after the game and I didn’t want to tell the Captain we didn’t come through for him and his family.

Our team has been battling many things this year especially dropping games in one inning after being ahead the whole game. We had some injuries and were missing our captain but you could just feel it in the dugout before the game we were not going to let this game get away from us. We had to come together as a team, make some changes, and adapt to those changes to have a chance. JW moved to the Infield, Keith moved to the OF, Matt moved to 1st and everybody pitched in any way they could.

Koko took the mound with a heavy heart but not a heavy arm as he pitched a gem of a game and held down the Black sox in the first 4 innings. Our bats woke up early as we jumped out to a 6 run lead to start the game. Mikey stepped up to take the reigns at leadoff position one he is very familiar with. “I just knew I had to do everything in my power to help spark the team tonight and I wasn’t going to let the team or Captain down” said Lemieux after the game. The defense was running on all cylinders lead by our emerging team leader Johnny Blaze at Shortstop. I’m a man of few words, I just try to let my play speak for itself” Blaze said.

Big Daddy Gutierrez had a hell of game guarding home and stepping up at the plate. However, Big Blue was not his Boy on that night. Blue had a vengeance out for Rich and even called him out in a crucial play at third one in which Rich was clearly safe. In the past this unfortunate play of events would have detracted our momentum, but not last Friday. The team banded together and kept playing on and regained our momentum the following inning racking up an 11-4 lead. We moved Gutierrez to 2nd to get him away from Blue who was now even punishing Koko for having Rich behind the plate continuing his bad calls. This proved to be a clutch move as Richard made a game saving out at 2nd base by diving with his hand to force an out in a clutch situation. “Hey, Momma never told me I was pretty, so I don’t try to play pretty I just do what I have to do and the ladies seem to love it….and its effective” Richard said at the post game press conference.

Johnny Blaze was pitted in the clean-up spot and came through time and time again at the plate as Mad Dog and his son made an effective 1-2 punch to get on base. DonJuan managed to increase his league leading OBP to .992% as everybody pitched in at the plate and made damn sure we weren’t going to let this one slip away. In the bottom of the 6th Koko told the dugout, “Get Me 2 more Runs and I will close this game out Mariano Rivera style, guaranteed!.” Well, we got him three and he did just that and we got our first win of the year. It was an impressive win as everybody pitched in and in light of everything that was going on we were able to come together for that night in a common cause to not only win, but give the Captain and his family a reason to smile which sometimes in life can make all the difference in the world. I don’t think I have to say it, but we won one for our Captain and we would do anything in our powers just to see him smile. The Team’s thoughts and prayers are with our leader this week.