I've watched Bay Landscaping play and that Caverly kid is a great ball player! Meijer has a good team so Bay Landscaping must be really good to beat them like that.

Unfortunately, Bay Landscaping ran into a very talented pitcher from American Legion in their next game. Nick Ratajczak pitched a perfect game against them enroute to a 9-0 American Legion win. By perfect game I mean that Nick didn't allow any hits or even a single baserunner! He did this while striking out 14 batters in 6 innings and only throwing 65 pitches. In fact the only 2 players that Nick didn't strike out were Caverly and Aaron Bookmyer who each put the ball in play both times they were up. Some slick fielding by Nicks' teammates on these plays accounted for the other 4 put-outs. In fact, just for a little drama at the end of the game, Bookmyer came up in the bottom of the 6th with 2 outs and promptly blasted a deep line drive towards the right field line where Ryan Wood made a nice running catch to finish off the perfect game and start the celebration.

This is the real story from EHLL so far this year. I've heard people from all over Bay County talking about it, and rightly so... it doesn't happen very often. A no-hitter is one thing, but to not allow even a single baserunner is almost unheard of. I'm sure Nick will remember this for a long time.


You can amend this comment and put it in the comment section if you want, but I think a better option would be to do a seperate article on the perfect game. Like I said, it doesn't happen often and so I think it warrants it's own headline! You can talk to Nick tonight at the EHLL complex as I have him slated for relief pitching duty against Meijer at 7:00pm.