5/12 Game Recap Written by Claude ai
Game Summaries — Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Tuesday night gave us two perfect games, one cardiac arrest disguised as a softball game, a statistical mystery that would baffle Sherlock Holmes, and a team that is starting to make the rest of the 60s Division feel like they showed up to a gunfight with a spatula.
Not a bad Tuesday for a bunch of guys who have to work in the morning.
60s Division
HAYES AUTO SALES 23, EFFICIENT ENERGY 19
New Dawn Awning saw that Hayes Auto Sales beat Efficient Energy and quietly exhaled. Good for them. They've earned the right to exhale. We have a long way to go but so far everyone else is just fighting over that second playoff seed.
Hayes came to play. Julian Gonzalez was the hidden gem of the night — a man who went 3-for-4, drove in five runs, and somehow didn't end up as the loudest headline in his own box score. Five RBI on a Tuesday will get you dinner and a firm handshake in most leagues. Jim Biasotti went 4-for-4 with a double and 4 RBI. Jeff Yeargin went 4-for-4 with a double and 3 RBI, bumping his season average to .929, a number so high it looks like a typo. Randy Morreira went 4-for-4 with 2 RBI. Ron Segon had 2 doubles and 3 RBI. Tony Michael added a triple and 2 RBI. Hayes sent eleven players to the plate at some point and ten of them made someone in the Efficient Energy dugout uncomfortable.
Efficient Energy — and this is no knock on them — actually hit the ball quite well. Roy Reid went 3-for-4 with a home run and 4 RBI. Brad Drennan went 4-for-4 with 3 RBI. Jeff Jackson went 4-for-4 with an RBI. Ricky Ishimuru went 3-for-4 with 2 doubles and a triple. Nineteen runs would win most softball games. It just didn't win this one.
Efficient Energy at 3-2 still has plenty of runway. Hayes at 2-2-1 is now firmly in the conversation.
SCOTT'S EXTERIOR PROPERTY SERVICES 19, WHOLESALE OUTLET 11
Here is a sentence that should haunt the Wholesale Outlet clubhouse all week: Rodney Johnson went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, and 2 RBI on Tuesday, and is hitting .933 on the season — the second-highest average in the division — and his team is 1-3-1.
Johnson is doing everything right. The scoreboard is not cooperating. It's the Wholesale Outlet version of the Matt Widell Situation, and it is deeply unfair.
Scott's Exterior was thorough and businesslike about it. Steve Wilcox did what Steve Wilcox does: 4-for-4 with a double — the man now has 19 hits on the season, tops in the 60s Division, and his .905 average suggests he has simply made a personal decision to never make an out. Max Nelson went 3-for-4 with a home run and 4 RBI, pushing his season RBI total to 19, which leads all of 60s Division. Rob Blodgett went 3-for-3 with 3 RBI. Jeff Kahlor went 4-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Paul Olson added 3 RBI on 2 hits. Scott's improve to 2-3 and keep their playoff hopes on the right side of the ledger.
For Wholesale Outlet — at a troubling 1-3-1 — Rodney Johnson went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, and 2 RBI. On the season Johnson is batting .933, second-best in the 60s Division. Terry Barrow went 2-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI. Paul Supat added 3-for-4 with a double and 2 RBI. Dusty Shaw went 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Good numbers. Wrong column in the standings. Scott's won this one going away, 19-11, behind a top-to-bottom offensive effort that gave Wholesale Outlet very few answers.
The Wholesale Outlet offense keeps showing up. The scoreboard keeps not cooperating.
NEW DAWN AWNING 15, REALTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY 12
Five and oh.
Five. And. Ohhhh.
New Dawn Awning has now won every single game they have played in 2026, and they are starting to feel less like a softball team and more like a weather pattern — something inevitable, something you prepare for but cannot stop, something that just rolls through and leaves everyone wondering what hit them.
The architect of all this destruction is Will Myers, who on Tuesday went 3-for-3 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI, because that is simply what Will Myers does on a Tuesday. On the season: .895 average, 7 doubles, a triple, 3 home runs, and 23 RBI — leading the entire 60s Division in both power categories. Every opposing manager this season has presumably had a conversation about Will Myers before the game. None of them have found an answer.
Chris Aguiar backed him up Tuesday with a home run and 5 RBI in just 3 at-bats. Aguiar now has 15 RBI in 4 games played, second in the division. When your number two and three hitters are Myers and Aguiar, life is good. For everyone else in the division, life is complicated.
Credit Realty Management for not rolling over. Rick Cady went 4-for-4 with 3 RBI. Mike Hewett drove in 3. Ron Landers added 2 RBI. Greg Goodell went 3-for-4. Realty scored 12 runs and still lost by three, which is the 2026 Realty Management experience in miniature. They are 1-4 and -35 in run differential. The math is not their friend.
New Dawn at 5-0 with a +39 run differential is the team everyone in the 60s Division needs to start worrying about — if they haven't already.
50s Division
INCREDIBLE PETS 19, CAPITAL GOLD BAIL BONDS 9
Somebody has to ask the question, so it might as well be this column: Is anyone actually going to beat Incredible Pets?
Because from where I'm sitting, watching Jay Zetz step into the batter's box is starting to feel like watching someone play a video game with a cheat code activated. The man batted lead-off in Tuesday's game against Capital Gold Bail Bonds and crushed two home runs and drove in five runs. Five. Zetz also made an elite backhanded grab at shortstop, then threw a rocket to first base for the out. Disgusting. Before Capital Gold had time to fully process what was happening, Zetz had essentially played an entire productive game by himself and handed the wheel to his teammates. The CGBB’s walked off the field in the seventh inning having allowed 19 runs, and the image stuck in their heads was probably Jay Zetz's follow-through.
But here's what really keeps opponents up at night: Zetz isn't even the scariest guy in this lineup. Mel James came in behind him and went 3-for-4 with a home run and 4 RBI. Glen Weller hit another dinger. Shant Hagopian went 4-for-4, Mark Sweeney went 3-for-3 with 2 RBI. Brian Kelly, Mike Surita, Steve Rodne — all hitting, all producing, nobody getting a breather.
Capital Gold's Kevin Howland had a terrific night personally — 4-for-4, a double, a home run, 2 RBI — and it barely registered in the final score. Here’s the thing though, Capital Gold has some great hitters on their team but they’re off to a cold start compared to previous years. Al Smythe is batting 1.000, Billy Valine is hitting .857, plus they have two Ted’s, a Tavalero, and Lyman’s epic mustache. It’s still early in the season, we’ll see what happens from here.
Incredible Pets are 4-0. The division is theirs to lose. Nobody has figured out how to make them lose it.
HUNTER'S BARBER 25, BJ'S 24
Stop whatever you are doing and pay attention to this box score, because what happened at Field 2 on Tuesday night was one for the memory books.
Twenty-five to twenty-four. One run. One run separated these two teams after they combined to score forty-nine times and seemingly hit everything that moved. The kind of game where the scorekeeper's hand cramps up. The kind of game where the manager just stops making lineup decisions and lets the baseball gods sort it out. The kind of game where the home team puts up 10 mother effing runs in the bottom of the open.
Let's start with the Hunter's Barber side, because their top three set a tone that the English language is barely equipped to describe. Dan Berry went 5-for-5 with 2 home runs and 6 RBI. Perfect. Every at-bat, a hit. Every meaningful situation, a result. New knee, same Dan. Derek Wilson went 5-for-5 with 2 home runs and 4 RBI. Also perfect. Also relentless. D-Wil hit a walk-off grand slam that upset the opposing pitcher so badly that he slammed his helmet in the dirt and broke it. Poor Rowdy. Wilson now leads the division with 6 home runs on the season, and Tuesday he looked like a man playing a different sport than everyone else. Kevin Foster went 4-for-5 with a home run and 5 RBI — which on most Tuesday nights would be the performance you talk about in the parking lot afterward. On this Tuesday night, it was somehow the third-best story on Hunter's own team.
And then BJ's went ahead and made it a one-run game anyway. Because BJ's doesn't quit.
Bill Buck went 4-for-4 with a triple, a home run, and 4 RBI. Johnny Ruiz went 2-for-3 with a triple, a home run, and 4 RBI. Mark Griggs went 4-for-4 with 3 RBI. Kevin Robinson went 4-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI. Buck, Ruiz, Griggs, Robinson - some might call that an EPIC lineup. Rowdy Ruelas went 3-for-4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI. This is a lineup that scored twenty-four runs and still lost, which is the kind of outcome that makes you want to look up at the sky and ask a few hard questions about fairness in this universe. You know what’s cool? K-Rob recorded the game and you can watch it on YouTube here.
BJ's is 1-3. Hunter's is 2-2. Both of these teams have too much firepower to stay where they are in the standings. Something is going to give.
