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MONDAY MORNING MUSINGS: Middletown Legion playing near-perfect ball

There’s a lot of baseball yet to be played, but so far the play of Middletown Post 75 has been impressive. After Sunday night’s doubleheader with Meriden (see results on page two and online), the Post 75ers are 10-1 overall and leading Zone 3 with a 8-1 mark. Going into this weekend’s play, Cheshire was 6-2 and Westbrook was 4-2. They were the only other Zone 3 teams over .500. Middletown has been doing it with good pitching -- sometimes great pitching -- and steady defense. In its last five home games (outside of Sunday’s first game) and its road game at Berlin Friday, the team didn’t made an error. One pitcher, Tommy Ryan, has thrown a no-hitter, there have been two 1-0 shutouts on the road at East Haddam and Guilford -- both by Colin Sledzik (3-0) -- the 3-0 no-hitter, a 3-2 win over Madison, a 5-3 win over Cheshire and a 2-1 win over Berlin. The lone high-scoring game was a 11-3 romp over Westbrook. Same thing up the road in Cromwell. RCP is home tonight and tomorrow at 5:45 p.m. Jay Hickey’s kids play sound, fundamental baseball. They too, have a crazy schedule, but that’s the way the state Legion plays it. Just about everyone else has to do it, so the playing field is pretty level. Baseball is, after all, an every day game. Play every day and the best team wins. It’s a rule. According to published reports in Sunday’s Hartford Courant, Middletown native and NASCAR driver Joey Logano is in a bit of trouble in his racing career. He currently sits in 23rd place in the Sprint Cup Standigns and according to Courant writer Shawn Courchesne, Logano’s crew chief, Greg Zipadelli of Berlin, could be looking to replace Logano, saying he’s not happy being 23rd in points. The nomination form can be found on the organization’s website, www.middletownhalloffame.com . Once the information is put together, it can be mailed to: Middletown Sports Hall of Fame, P.O. Box 338, Middletown, CT 06457. Or, if you know a member of the Board of Directors, you can hand-deliver it. But the deadline is a final one and trust me, the documentation necessary to support a nominee takes time to collect and is considerable. There is nothing better than going to a baseball game with your kid. Mine is 32 years old, but age is irrelevant. Saturday we went to the Yankees vs. Rockies game at the Palace in the Bronx and had a wonderful time.

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