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The Interior Guys

So after a frustrating number of rain outs we finally were able to play a little softball this weekend. Our opponents were the Interior Guys. I'm guessing it was some sort of construction company kinda thing, but no idea. Anyway, back to the games. We logged our first two W's against these guys. Over all the games went alright, but there were a few things that annoyed me.

The first game we were batting first. And by the end of the first inning we had already won the game. Their pitcher wasn't giving us anything to swing at, she was only throwing balls. So we were just standing there, which is pretty unusual for us, we normally swing at everything. I was happy about that. We were waiting for pitches and not swinging at everything that came by. Our games last 50 minutes a piece, and that first inning lasted for 35 minutes. So that should tell you something. So they finally strike out a few people and we take the field. They score three runs, most of which came by the way of an out of the park home run, which is pretty impressive. So in pretty quick succession we get them out. And it is our turn to bat again. This is when the ump came up to us and told us that if we didn't swing at the first pitch, no matter what it was, he was going to be a jerk the next game and call everything as strikes. So next time I am up to bat, I have to swing at this pitch that hit the dirt a good 6 inches before the plate. So I felt pretty dumb about that, but hey, what can you do? The next pitch though we decent enough, and I hit a line drive over second base for a triple. The final score on that game as 20-3. I'm not sure why the slaughter rule didn't kick in...but whatever.

The second game was a bit more interesting. They switched pitchers, he wasn't much better than their first but he was getting them over the plate. The final score on this game as 7-3 us. We played some good defense and over all this game was a lot more fun since we weren't just rolling over them. I think we could have racked up a lot more points this game if the ump didn't kill our streak from the first game. I think it was all mental. Most of their team were gracious in defeat, so that was good too. Over all a good day for Scared Hitless.

Looking forward to next week when we play our rivals the Shell Shockers.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 5/05/2008