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  • June 8, 2015 at 10:06 am #26006
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    Rams Hold Annual Charity Softball Game

    (KTVI) –On Sunday night, Rams coach Jeff Fisher hosted his fourth annual celebrity charity softball game at TR Hughes Ballpark in O’Fallon, MO. The game features a celebrity home run derby, softball game and post-game fireworks show. Proceeds from the game will benefit: BackStopppers, The Jack and J.T. Snow Scientific Research Foundation, Mercy Ministries, Wounded Warrior Project and Catch-A-Dream Foundation. Fox 2 Sports reporter Charlie Marlow talked with the players, while Sports Director Martin Kilcoyne caught up with the host, Rams head coach Jeff Fisher.

    http://fox2now.com/2015/06/07/rams-coach-jeff-fisher-host-annual-celebrity-charity-softball-game/

    June 8, 2015 at 3:44 pm #26020
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    from off the net

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    Laurenaitis can really jack the ball…Keenum looks and hits like a good softball player..ditto Reynolds

    biggest applause went to Hayes and Long…

    looking at Havenstein brought back some Dave Butz memories…Butz is the biggest football player I’ve ever seen..Havenstein runs close 2nd

    Miller has the huge square body of a guard..will say Robinson does look 20+ lbs lighter…trying to slim down to play lt..last year looked like a guard looks like a lt now

    stadium looked to be 1/3 full..obviously trying to make a pr statement Fisher brought out Jake McQuade, Isiah Pead, Chase Reynolds, Justin Miller?, Brad Smelly, Case Keenum and Austin Davis…

    after a player hits a home run all the players run out of the dugout to offer congratulations…when Austin Davis hit his looked like many of the players stayed in the dugout…

    game had a Kansas City Monarchs vs St Louis Browns feel to it…not sure if that’s normal…coach Fassel, Ogletree, Quinn, Hekker, Britt, Keenum, Smelly and Brockers were running around with big grins…lot of nice kids having fun

    June 8, 2015 at 3:58 pm #26022
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    Surprise! Fisher’s team wins charity softball game

    By Jim Thomas

    http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/surprise-fisher-s-team-wins-charity-softball-game/article_831c553b-5e57-587d-92c0-8239fd5d3b1c.html

    It took a Bump Bailey type effort in the outfield by punter Johnny Hekker, but coach Jeff Fisher’s squad (surprise!) won again in the fourth annual “Coach Fisher & Friends” celebrity softball game.

    Fisher’s squad held off a squad coached by special teams coordinator John Fassel 20-17 Sunday night at T.R. Hughes ballpark in O’Fallon, Mo. With a runner on base in the seventh _ and final _ inning, a running catch by Hekker crashing into the fence in right-center field robbed wide receiver Kenny Britt of a home run.

    Hekker knocked over a section of the fence making the catch, but unlike Bailey in the Robert Redford movie _ The Natural _ he lived to tell about. Hekker had seven RBIs and three home runs but the night’s MVP award, as awarded by Fisher, went to Hall of Famer and softball game participant Aeneas Williams.

    The night’s hijinks included a bench-clearing “brawl” and the usual bending of the rules by Fisher.

    Earlier, linebacker James Laurinaitis repeated as home-run derby champion. Although he didn’t win the home-run contest, backup quarterback Case Keenum, who looks like he’s played slow-pitch softball a time or two, hit four out in the first round.

    At the end of the evening, as Fisher and the players headed off the field, a couple of fans could be heard yelling: “Stay in the Lou,” and “Stay in St. Louis.” One young fan walked around with a sign that read: “Keep the Rams in St. Louis.”

    The event raised money for five charities: The Backstoppers, the Jack and J.T. Snow Scientific Research Center, Mercy Ministries, the Wounded Warrior Project, and Catch-a-Dream Foundation.

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