5/19 Game Recap Written by Claude ai
Game Summaries — Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Before we get into scores and standings, we need to pause and acknowledge something rare. Not "rare for a Tuesday night in a recreational softball league" rare. Rare, period. Rare the way a solar eclipse is rare, the way you see it once and tell people about it for years.
Jeff Braskamp hit for the cycle.
A single. A double. A triple. A home run. In one game. In the correct order or not — it doesn't matter. All four. Every hit type on the card, checked off in one evening. Braskamp went 5-for-6 with four RBI as Elite/Onyx rolled over Legacy Sports Bar 27-14, and somewhere in that box score is a line that belongs in the permanent record. We will get back to this — but it isn’t the only interesting thing that happened Tuesday night, as we saw two undefeated teams each lose their first games of the season, plus three one-run thrillers in the 60s.
Let's begin.
60s Division
Hayes Auto Sales 19, Scott's Exterior Property Svc 18
Three one-run games in the 60s on Tuesday. All three decided by late-inning execution. All three worth talking about.
This one might have been the most dramatic. Scott's Exterior came in at 2-4, trying to reestablish some relevance. Gary Myas was determined to carry them there — he hit two home runs and drove in six runs, one of the biggest individual offensive nights in the 60s this season. Max Nelson, who now sits second in the division in RBI with 24, went 3-for-4 with five RBI. Nelson has been producing at an elite level for three weeks running, and yet his team keeps finding ways to lose close games.
For Hayes, Jeff Yeargin went 5-for-5 with five RBI. His season batting average now sits at .947 — the best mark in the 60s division, and one of the finest you'll find anywhere. Yeargin has now gone 4-for-4 or better in four of his five games this season. That is not a hot streak. That is a lifestyle. Randy Morreira added four hits and three RBI. Hayes gets the win by one and moves to 4-2-1.
Wholesale Outlet 19, New Dawn Awning 18
Oh how the mighty have fallen! New Dawn Awning was 5-0 coming in. New Dawn Awning is 5-1 leaving. And the teams below them are beginning to smell blood.
Will Myers had a monster night — four hits, including 2 doubles and a home run, plus six RBI — pushing his season RBI total to 29, best in the 60s division by a comfortable margin. If Myers keeps this pace, he will finish with numbers that people talk about for a long time. But his team lost. By one agonizing run.
Wholesale's win was a collective effort, as they batted .757 as a team. Terry Barrow, Paul Supat, Rodney Johnson, Les Bevis, and George Lamb ALL went 4-for-5 with a collective 15 RBI’s — not a home run in the bunch, just relentless contact hitting with runners on base at the right time. Les Bevis had 6 RBI all by himself, he was in the zone. When three players each drive in three or more runs without anyone going deep, that's a team swinging together.
RMC 17, Efficient Energy 16
Realty Management Company was 2-4. They needed this win and they got it. Trailing by five going into the bottom of the open, RMC brought 10 batters to the plate and 8 of them hit singles to score the 6 runs they needed for the win. That’s how you do it. When everyone hits, you bleed the other team to death and take their souls home as trophies.
Mike Holt went 4-for-4 with three RBI. Marty Bitting and David Koch each went 4-for-4. Tom Carbajal was 3-for-3 with two RBI. RMC put together one of their best offensive performances of the season to squeeze past a stubborn Efficient Energy squad.
For Efficient, Jeff Jackson went 3-for-5 with a home run and five RBI. Jackson has been one of the 60s' most consistent performers all season — .714 average, 13 RBI, always in the middle of big innings — and he gave his team every chance on Tuesday. Roy Reid went 4 for 4 and knocked in 2 RBI, raising his average by an impressive 50 points.
60s PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jeff Yeargin, Hayes Auto Sales. Five-for-five, five RBI, and a season batting average of .947. That number bears repeating: .947. In a full season of 19 at-bats, Jeff Yeargin has a hit in all but one. He went 4-for-4 the week before. He went 4-for-4 two weeks before that. For three consecutive weeks — 13 hits in 13 at-bats going into Tuesday, then 5-for-5 — Yeargin has been functionally untouchable. His team is winning because of it. The 60s division is tighter than it looks. Yeargin is a big reason Hayes is still firmly in the race.
THE HOT HAND — WHO'S SCORCHING RIGHT NOW (60’s)
Three weeks of data, May 5 through May 19.
Will Myers (New Dawn Awning) — Nine hits in his last nine at-bats. He went 3-for-3 on 5/12, 4-for-4 on 5/19, and has driven in nine runs over those two weeks alone. His season totals now stand at 21 hits, 29 RBI, and a .913 average. Myers is not just the 60s' best hitter right now — he may be the best hitter in either division when you factor in run production. The only problem is his team is starting to wobble.
Jeff Yeargin (Hayes Auto Sales) — Already covered in Player of the Week. Worth repeating here: 13 hits in his last 13 at-bats before Tuesday, then 5-for-5. You don't need a chart to understand that. That's dominance.
Rodney Johnson (Wholesale Outlet) — Hit in 10 of his last 12 at-bats across the final three weeks, with a .833 average in that stretch. Johnson has quietly built one of the better offensive seasons in the 60s — .900 batting average overall, consistent production every week — without making anyone's highlight reel. He just keeps getting hits.
Rick Damon (Efficient Energy) — His last four games before Tuesday: 4-for-4, 4-for-4, 3-for-3, and a 2-for-3 on 5/19 to bring the run to a close. His three-week average was .900. Damon is at .783 for the season, which is good, and he's been Efficient Energy's most reliable bat during a stretch that has seen his team lose three of four.
50s Division
🏆 GAME OF THE WEEK
BJ's 25, Capital Gold Bail Bonds 27
Capital Gold Bail Bonds came away with the win, 27-25, in a high-scoring game that produced 7 home runs and 52 runs -the pitchers involved should probably be given the rest of the week off and told not to think about it. BJ's had no business losing this game by the numbers — and yet 25 runs just wasn’t enough this week. BJ’s trailed by 15 going into the last five, which they got, then they flip-flopped and put up 10 runs to tie the game. “Lefty Ted” came up in the bottom of the open for Cap Gold and hit a walk-off 2 run bomb to win it for the team sporting LA Rams jerseys. A truly incredible game
Ted Ursino led the Capital Gold assault with one of the great individual games of the year: 5-for-5, two home runs, a double, and six RBI. SIX. Ursino had been quiet in the prior week — one hit in four at-bats on 5/12 — and came back with a vengeance that left skid marks on the field and in his opponents shorts. Teammate Billy Valine went 4-for-4 with a home run and five RBI. Capital Gold’s leadoff batter got a handful of hits with three RBI, plus Lee Nunes chipped in four hits and three RBI for his best outing of the season.
Notable performances for BJ’s: Chris Feeney was 4-for-4 with a home run and six RBI. Kevin Robinson went 4-for-4 with a homer and five RBI. Bill Buck delivered 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI. Kenny Smith added three hits and four RBI without going deep. BJ's scored twenty-five runs and lost. Let that sit with you. That is the most BJ's-2026 sentence possible.
Elite/Onyx 27, Legacy Sports Bar 14
This was the game that contained the cycle, which makes everything else secondary — but Elite/Onyx's performance was dominant enough to stand on its own. They came in at 3-1. They leave at 4-1 and are now in first place with a run differential that is rapidly growing with each explosive week of offensive production.
Beyond Braskamp's historic night, Dan Arevelos went 4-for-5 with four RBI. Mike Tobin — who leads the 50s in RBI at 19 and is arguably the division's most complete offensive player — added three hits and four RBI in yet another excellent performance. Mel Martin was 5-for-5 with three RBI, pushing his season average to a staggering .933. More on him in the “Hot Hand” section below.
For Legacy, Mikey Rodriguez hit two home runs and drove in four. Rodriguez is tied for first place in home runs this season with six — tied with Derek Wilson and Matt Widell — and he continues to be one of the more confounding stars in the league: elite production, 0-5 team record. Maybe another team wants to talk trades since Legacy can use an outfielder and certainly there’s a manager out there desperate for a slugger? Hmmmm…
Epic Sports Cards 21, Incredible Pets 20
Incredible Pets entered at 4-0. Epic Sports Cards entered at 3-1. One run separated them at the end, and Epic gets the victory that reshuffles the top of the 50s standings.
Kenji Kishimoto was the hero for Epic, hitting a game winning walk-off home run in the open to give Incredible Pets their first L of the year. Gil Rodriguez (Epic) was clutch, going 3-for-3, including a home run and 4 RBI. Joe Johnson went 4-for-4 with a double. Travis Hale and Dean Prior each went 3-for-3. Epic was dialed in, precise, and relentless.
For Incredible Pets, without Jay Zetz in the lineup, this loss stings because the offense showed up. Brian Kelly went 3-for-4 with five RBI — his third consecutive strong week, and more on that below. Glen Weller added three hits and four RBI. Shant Hagopian was a perfect 4-for-4. The Pets put up 20 runs and still came up short. That's the kind of loss that can haunt a team or galvanize one. We'll find out which next week.
50s PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jeff Braskamp, Elite/Onyx. We already gave him a whole section at the top and he deserves every word of it. Five hits, four RBI, and all four hit types. .809 on the year — very good by any measure — and now the owner of the single most extraordinary individual game this column has covered. The cycle belongs to him.
THE HOT HAND — WHO'S SCORCHING RIGHT NOW (50’s)
Three weeks of data, May 5 through May 19.
Mel Martin (Elite/Onyx) — 11 hits in 12 at-bats over the last three weeks, .917 average in that stretch, with six RBI. His season mark of .933 is second-best in the entire 50s division and he has shown zero signs of cooling off. Martin isn't a power hitter — zero home runs on the year — but he is simply one of the most reliable contact bats in the league. He goes 3-for-3, then 3-for-3 again, then 5-for-5. Week. After. Week.
Kevin Robinson (BJ's) — Four of his last five at-bats were perfect — 4-for-4 on 5/12 and 4-for-4 on 5/19 — with a home run and five RBI Tuesday. Robinson is hitting .824 on the season, which is excellent, and he's currently statistically the best offensive player on a team that desperately needs good things to happen. He's providing them. BJ's still can't win a game.
Brian Kelly (Incredible Pets) — Three RBI-heavy games in three weeks: 3-for-4 with two RBI on 5/5, 3-for-4 with two RBI on 5/12, 3-for-4 with five RBI on 5/19. Kelly is up to 21 RBI on the season — second in the 50s division — and is one of the most consistent run producers in the league. He has at least three RBI in every game for the last month.
Kevin Howland (Capital Gold) — He has gone 14-for-14 across three consecutive games.
