The Stats of the Philadelphia Zoo Softball Team 2003

Team Statistics

These are team statistics through August 7, 2003 (fifteen games).
For individual team member stats, go to the players page.

Team Totals :

2003 GP RF-RA AB H AVG 1B 2B 3B HR OB OB% SAC K LOB W-L
TOTALS 14 145-207 532 274 .515 212 37 13 12 302 .568 14 0 101 6-9
5/13/03 @ PCVB 1 5-10 37 16 .432 12 2 1 1 16 .432 0 0 11 L, 0-1
5/20/03 vs. PBJ 1 12-27 44 24 .545 18 5 0 1 31 .705 0 0 9 L, 0-2
5/27/03 vs. Franklin 1 9-8 30 15 .500 11 3 1 0 15 .500 1 0 2 W, 1-2
6/3/03 vs. Daily News 1 13-12 35 18 .514 11 3 2 2 21 .600 0 0 4 W, 2-2
6/10/03 @ Commerce 1 5-21 32 12 .375 9 3 0 0 14 .438 0 0 5 L, 2-3
6/17/03 vs. Academy 1 11-10 45 23 .511 20 2 0 1 26 .578 1 0 8 W, 3-3
6/23/03 vs. Board 1 7-18 32 14 .438 10 2 1 1 15 .469 1 0 4 L, 3-4
6/24/03 @ Board 1 11-14 40 20 .500 16 3 1 0 21 .525 1 0 7 L, 3-5
7/1/03 vs. PCVB 1 24-8 48 32 .667 23 4 3 2 34 .708 1 0 7 W, 4-5
7/7/03 @ PBJ 1 8-26 34 17 .500 13 1 1 2 17 .500 3 0 8 L, 4-6
7/15/03 @ Franklin 1 14-15 41 24 .585 17 6 0 1 26 .634 3 0 9 L, 4-7
7/22/02 @ Daily News - Won - - By - - F o r fe it - - W, 5-7
7/29/03 vs. Commerce 1 3-15 32 12 .375 11 0 1 0 15 .469 1 0 10 L, 5-8
8/5/03 @ Academy 1 12-13 39 24 .615 20 2 1 1 26 .667 3 0 10 L, 5-9
8/7/03 vs. Daily News* 1 11-10 43 23 .535 21 1 1 0 25 .581 2 0 7 W, 6-9
* non-league exhibition game in Veterans Stadium

Team Per Game Averages and Single Game Extremes :

Stat Per Game Team Game High Team Game Low
Runs For 10.4 24 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 3 ~ 7/29/03 vs. Commerce
Runs Against 14.8 27 ~ 5/20/03 vs. PBJ 8 ~ 5/27/03 & 7/1/03
At Bats 38.0 48 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 30 ~ 5/27/03 @ Franklin
Hits 19.6 32 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 12 ~ 6/10/03 & 7/29/03
Batting Average .515 .667 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB .375 ~ 6/10/03 & 7/29/03
Singles 15.1 23 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 9 ~ 6/10/03 @ Commerce
Doubles 2.6 6 ~ 7/15/03 @ Franklin 0 ~ 7/29/03 vs. Commerce
Triples 0.9 3 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 0 ~ multiple
Home Runs 0.9 2 ~ multiple 0 ~ multiple
On Base 21.6 34 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB 14 ~ 6/10/03 @ Commerce
On Base Percentage .568 .708 ~ 7/1/03 vs. PCVB .432 ~ 5/13/03 @ PCVB
Sacrifice 1.0 3 ~ 7/7/03 & 7/15/03 0 ~ multiple
Strikeouts 0.0 0 ~ multiple 0 ~ multiple
Left On Base 7.2 11 ~ 5/13/03 @ PCVB 2 ~ 5/27/03 @ Franklin

Team Zoo Fun Facts:
[Defensive]
Team Zoo turned 7 double plays.
[1] Third baseman Greg O'Neill caught a fly ball and forced out a Franklin runner at second (holding the ball himself) who had left the bag in inning 1 of game 3 for our first double play.
[2] Short stop Ken Pelletier turned his own double play 3 innings later when he fielded the ball, stepped on second for a force and threw to first baseman Sal DiStefano for the second out.
[3] Ken Pelletier, Amy Ivins and Sal DiStefano turned a classic 6-4-3 double play in inning 4 of game 6 vs. Academy.
[4] Third baseman Greg O'Neill got a force at third and threw to Becky Wolf at first for a DP in inning 2 of game 7 vs. the Board.
[5] Two innings later vs. the Board in game 7, Ken Pelletier, Amy Ivins and Becky Wolf turned another textbook 6-4-3 double play.
[6] In game 8 vs. the Board, Greg O'Neill fielded a grounder at third, stepped on the bag for a force and threw to Sal DiStefano at first for a double play in the 5th inning.
[7] Greg O'Neill caught a sharp line drive at third and threw to Sal DiStefano at first for a force on a baserunner who didn't tag, in inning 4 of game 13 vs. Commerce.
In the first inning of game 7 vs. the Board, left fielder Chris Law threw in to short stop Ken Pelletier (cut-off), who rifled to Kristen Lewis at home who tagged out a baserunner that was trying to turn a triple into a home run - perhaps our best team-defensive play of the season.
Catcher Bob Williams caught a ball thrown from short stop Ken Pelletier while guarding the plate and got trampled by a Franklin baserunner at home in inning 1 of game 11, but held on to the ball for the tag and one hell of a play.
Left fielder Chris Oberlin fielded a base hit in left and threw to third baseman Greg O'Neill who tagged out a Board baserunner trying to advance for a great play in the second inning of game 8.
Third baseman Greg O'Neill made 2 diving catches in game 10 vs. PBJ (1 grass, 1 dirt).
Outfielder Ron Fricke, playing in his only Team Zoo game this year at the Vet, made a full-out, airborne diving catch (on TURF) for a fantastic play in the 6th inning of game 15 vs. Daily News. Coincidentally, he made a full-out, airborne diving catch in the outfield of the only game he played in the 2002 season, as well.
In the fifth inning of game 15 at the Vet vs. Daily News, left fielder Chris Oberlin threw a rocket to home trying to get a baserunner out at the plate. Sensing it would be slightly late, pitcher Pete Hoskins cut it off near the mound and picked off the batter trying to sneak into third, where he was tagged out by Greg O'Neill.
Chris Oberlin assisted on 2 force outs at second base from center field (game 8 vs. Board & game 10 vs. PBJ).
Chris Law assisted on 1 force out at third base from left field (game 10 vs. PBJ).
Pitcher Donna Ialeggio Pelletier struck out three batters.
(Including the same batter, twice, in the same game, in the same inning (2), vs. Commerce in game 5).
We held all opponents to a total of 29 scoreless innings in 97 played in the field.
We held Commerce scoreless for 4 innings in game 13; vs. Daily News in game 15 we held them to 5 scoreless innings out of 8; in game 3 vs. Franklin & in game 9 vs. PCVB, we held them to 3 scoreless innings; vs. Academy in game 6 we held them to 4 scoreless innings out of 9.
In game 2 vs. PBJ, game 5 vs. Commerce & game 10 vs. PBJ, we did not hold them to any scoreless innings.
Team Zoo gave up more than 4 runs in any given inning only 14 times (out of 97).
Our worst defensive inning was a 9-run trouncing (which happened three times!) in inning 5 of game 2 vs PBJ, inning 2 of game 5 vs Commerce & inning 6 of game 10 vs. PBJ.
[Offensive]
No team member struck out.
Our best offensive inning saw us score 7 runs in inning 4 of game 9 vs. PCVB, in which we sent 13 batters to the plate (the entire lineup plus two) - the first 7 batters scored and the first 8 reached on base hits, and we even left the bases loaded.
In that game vs. PCVB, Team Zoo scored 24 runs (in only 6 innings at the plate), being held scoreless only 1 inning, scoring at least 3 runs in every other inning, and besting our career league record total by 6 runs.
Every team member in game 9 vs. PCVB had : at least 2 hits (10 of 11 had 3 hits), at least 1 run scored (10 of 11 had at least 2 runs scored), and every batter reached base at least 3 times. Also, 8 of 11 batters had at least one RBI. Damn.
Every batter in game 2 vs. PBJ reached base safely, 11 of 12 reaching on base hits.
12 of 13 hitters got hits in game 14 vs. Academy, 11 of 12 batters hit safely in game 1 vs. PCVB, 10 of 11 batters got base hits in game 7 vs. Board & 8 of 9 batters hit safely in game 10 vs. PBJ.
Team Zoo came from behind in the bottom of the 7th in game 3 vs. Franklin, scoring 2 to overcome a one-run deficit (and overcoming 2-4 and 4-6 deficits during the game).
Chris Oberlin hit the game-winning RBI in that game, in the bottom of the 7th with one out, and Todd Sinander on third (who had hit a triple to score Chris Law and tie the game).
We came from behind again in game 4 vs. Daily News, scoring 3 in the bottom of the 6th to take a 13-12 lead (courtesy of a 2-run home run by Chris Oberlin) and ending it with our excellent defensive stop in the top of the 7th.
Team Zoo needed 2 extra innings to beat Academy in game 6, where we came from behind yet again to win 11-10 by scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth, after they went ahead 10-9 in the top of the inning.
Donna Ialeggio Pelletier hit the game-winning single in the clutch in game 6 to score Kristen Lewis for the final run.
Team Zoo fell behind 0-2 after the first half-inning vs. PCVB in game 9, but never trailed after that.
In game 9 vs. PCVB, Sal DiStefano had the game-winning RBI (in the second inning), scoring Todd Sinander for the ninth run with a triple.
We continuted tradition in game 15 vs. Daily News by winning by 1 run yet again, this time coming from behind twice, scoring 2 runs in the bottom of the 7th to send it to extra innings and scoring 5 runs, with 2 outs, in the bottom of the 8th to win by 1 run.
Team Zoo finished game 15 by making 6 straight hits with 2 outs to win the game.
Ken Pelletier scored the winning run in game 15 on the game-winning RBI single by Sal DiStefano.
In the game 3 win vs. Franklin, Todd Sinander, Greg O'Neill & Chris Oberlin combined to go 10-for-10 with 7 singles, 2 doubles and 1 triple, score 6 runs and rack up 5 RBI.
Versus Daily News in the game 4 win, Chris Oberlin, Sean Martin & Todd Sinander went 9-for-10 with 3 singles, 3 doubles, a triple and 2 home runs, with 10 RBI and 7 runs scored.
In spite of the loss to PBJ in game 10, Chris Law, Chris Oberlin & Greg O'Neill combined to go 11-for-13 with 8 singles, 1 triple, 2 home runs, 6 RBI and 7 runs scored.
Ken Pelletier had a whopping 7 RBI in game 2 vs. PBJ, going 4-for-4 with 2 singles, 1 double and 1 home run.
Todd Sinander had a 7-straight-hits streak over the entirety of games 2,3&4 and another 8-straight-hits streak through games 10,11&14 (DNP game 13).
Chris Oberlin had 7 straight hits during games 2,3&4 as well.
Sean Martin also had 7-straight-hits spanning games 2,4&5 (DNP game 3).
Four batters (out of 10) went hitless in game 3 vs. Franklin and 4 of 11 were skunked in game 13 vs. Commerce.
We were held scoreless in 41 of 99 innings played at the plate (10 of those in the 2 games vs. Commerce).
Team Zoo hit into 9 double plays.
[Things That Could Have Been...]
Against the Board in game 8, we held an 11-9 lead going into the bottom of the 6th, but gave up 5 runs in that inning and were skunked in the top of the 7th to lose the lead and the game.
Team Zoo led Franklin 14-7 in game 11 going into the fifth inning, but went scoreless over the last 3 innings and gave up 8 runs in those innings, including the last run in the bottom of the seventh inning with 2 outs (a triple that scored on an error).
We were only trailing Commerce 3-5 going into the top of the 5th inning of game 13, but gave up 10 runs in the next 2 innings and managed only 4 hits of our own in the last 3 innings.
Team Zoo led Academy in game 14 by 4 runs going into the bottom of the last inning. We had led the entire game. Chris Oberlin misplayed 2 balls in left field that got over his head, scoring 5 runs (1 was a grand slam) to lose the game almost singlehandedly.
[Miscellaneous]
Team Zoo played 6 games in 2003 that were decided by 1 run. 5 of those were decided in the very last at-bat, with 1 win and 1 loss each decided when there were 2 outs. The 4 we won were all come-from-behind wins, and the 2 we lost were all come-from-behind wins by the other team. We won the first 3, lost the next 2 (which would have made us a play-off team) and won the final game at the Vet, which was a nice capper to a decent season full of exciting finishes. And a lot of water.
Game 3 vs. Franklin was played in a light but persistantly annoying rain.
In game 4 vs. Daily News, the rain was slightly harder but exponentially more annoying.
Our first game in sunshine, game 5 vs. Commerce, produced a team who forgot how to hit a dry ball in daylight.
Game 6 vs. Academy was bright and warm until around the 7th inning, when it started to sprinkle... of course, guaranteeing our eventual victory.
It was overcast the entirety of game 15 vs. Daily News at the Vet, but it finally started to really rain about the 7th inning... which is when we started our first of 2 rallies that eventually won the game in extra innings.
It should be noted that vs. PCVB in game 9, they played with only 8 players who were all women - we supplied a catcher.
In game 10 vs. PBJ, Team Zoo played with 9 players, our first game with only 3 outfielders.
In inning 7 of game 1 vs. PCVB, the first four batters were Kristen, Chris L, Chris W, and Chris O.
Team Zoo handed out one black eye, courtesy of a ball off the bat of Bob Williams in game 1 vs. PCVB.
The very last game of 2002 vs. Daily News and the very first game of 2003 vs. PCVB very coincidentally had the exact same number of runs scored for (5), at bats (37), hits (16) and the same result: a loss.


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