From the Fall of 1987 until the team's final season in 2000, AWA played its league games at the 10-field softball complex at Twin Creeks in Sunnyvale. Located just off San Francisco Bay, a strong breeze from off the bay each of the 10 fields its own personality. Fields 4, 5, and 7 had the steady breeze come right in from left center field. These games tended to be lower scoring, especially before the sun went down. Fields 2, 3, and 10 favored right-handed hitters with its right foul pole to left foul pole presence. The opposite was true on fields 6 and 8, in which the prevailing wind blew out to right field. The hitters' delights were fields 1 and 9, where the wind blew straight out to center field. A slugfest was virtually guaranteed when games were scheduled on these two fields. So how did AWA fare over the years?

This wasn't just a league playoff game that AWA lost on June 13th, 1984 at Mise Field in San Jose. This was the longest game in team history as AWA and E&H Auto Wreckers battled each other and the elements for 15 innings before E&H Auto Wreckers finally emerged with the win.

The first half of the league season had ended with four teams in a flat-footed tie for first. The San Jose leagues didn't employ tiebreakers such as head-to-head play or run differential to determine its pennant-winner. Things were settled on the field, and on this night the four combatants squared off, with AWA and E&H Auto Wreckers leading things off in the single-elimination tournament.

The wind at Mise usually blew out to left field, but on this evening the winds were kicking up and blowing straight in from center field. Drives to the outfield were hanging up for easy catches and neither side could generate much action through five innings of scoreless play. But in the top of the sixth, E&H pushed across the first run of the game, though an inning-ending double play prevented any further damage. It stayed that way until two were out in the bottom of the seventh, and AWA was facing the prospect of a dreary 1-0 defeat. But Brian Christie stroked a hit to left, which he daringly stretched into a double, sliding around the tag at second. Greg Brown then roped a drive to left center. The left fielder ranged far to his left as the ball knuckled in the wind. He threw up his glove at the last moment and the ball popped out of his glove for an error. Brian scored the tying run and Greg ended up at second. Joe Sammut was intentionally walked, but Steve Barrett, with a chance to be the hero, lined out to left.

Neither team mounted much of a scoring threat until AWA batted in the bottom of the 10th, but with runners at first and third and one out, Dave Jackson grounded into a double play. In the 12th E&H Auto Wreckers pushed across a run to take the 2-1 lead, but AWA responded to tie it with two out in the bottom of the inning. Brian legged out an infield hit, and when Greg doubled to left, Brian was able to score when the throw back to the infield took a bad hop. With Greg now at third, Joe and Steve were intentionally walked, leaving it up to Dave for the final heroics. But the AWA first sacker grounded out, and the game continued on. AWA loaded the bases for Steve in the 14th, but he failed to convert in his moment of glory by flying out.

All these failures to come through in the clutch finally caught up with AWA as E&H Auto Wreckers scored in the top of the 15th, and this time AWA did not have an answer. It was a brutal loss, termed by Neil Christie as "The Demise at Mise", but the real crying came later when all the guys saw what this game did to all their batting averages.