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The Juggernauts

So after our first game getting rained out, we finally played our season opener against the Juggernauts, and they did live up to their namesake as they were unstoppable.....kinda.

Let me explain. Our defense was killer this game, they were raining balls into the outfield but we didn't let anything get passed us with quite a few great catches. The infield was equally as good, even though we let a few balls get passed us (I played 1B) the outfield scooped them up and held them to singles or doubles at the worst.

Our problem came with pitching. We are breaking in a new pitcher (our old one got snaked by someone from our team last year...but that's another story), so he had to get zeroed in. They were up to bat first and we walked almost all of the 9 runs they scored that inning. But we came back and almost tied it up the subsequent innings of that game.

The next game, we always play double headers, started off pretty much the same and had the same end result. Good defense, but our pitching still needs some work.

We, and by we I mean our scorekeeper and my girlfriend, are keeping stats this season too. Currently my bating average is .750, which is pretty damn good if I do say so myself. But that is only with 4 at bats, but it sounds good. I currently lead the team in triples too. Whoohoo!

It was a good game over all though, but we just need to shake the dust off and get ready for our game next weekend, against Ro's Hard Hitters. A team that we have played against for the past few seasons. They are a pretty good team. I think that the past few times we have been up against them we have split the series. So I think we have a pretty good chance of winning if we can just get our pitcher zeroed in.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 4/14/2008