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The Tornadoes and the Newbies

So, you may have noticed that I haven't posted about last week's game. We played poorly and lost against the Tornadoes, and that's all I'm gonna say.

So we shake it off and played today against the Newbies. And we had a couple of great games.

We won the first game, and it was close one. They were up to bat first and we gave up a few runs because of an error or two and things like that, and then we had a scoreless first inning. Second inning I was up first and hit a home run. Normally it would have only been a triple but they let it get over their heads and I was able to slide into home. We were trailing the most of the rest of the game, and we were batting last in the final inning and tied up the game with two outs (at least I think there were two outs, but that may be just me making it sound all that much cooler). I was at bat and the bases were loaded. So in this league if you walk a guy he can take two bases. And since the bases were loaded that would have forced two runs at home. So the other team, and my future father-in-law are heckling me and saying that the "manly" thing would be to hit, the first two pitches were balls, and third pitch was close but the was called a ball to win the game (this league also starts with a 1-1 count, so there is only two strikes for an out and 3 balls to walk). May not have been the manliest thing to do or look the coolest but we won the game cause of it so i consider it a good thing.

The second game we lost, but it still was a very good game. They pretty much did to us what we did to them in the first game. They had home field advantage and were up to bat last and scored the winning run on a walk too I think. I hit well in this game too but only got on base once. My other at bats were fly outs...but I made solid contact and drove 'em to the fences. The time I got one base was a pretty good line drive for a base hit. The sweet part about that on base for me was sliding into third. I got a pretty good little scratch on that one so that kinda made up for my not taking a cut for the win of the previous game.

I think that this weeks games were ones for the books. We were pretty evenly matched against this team and both teams played well. Since this is the first time we played them we will be playing them one more time this season and I'm looking forward to it.

Next week we play the interior guys.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 6/15/2008