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Orange Crush, final Round

This was our last series against Orange Crush, and I wish I could say we won at least one game, but they ended up creaming us both games. And I also wish I could say we just played poorly; but I can't do that either. We played well considering the circumstances; they just played that much better this week. Which makes it that much harder to swallow.

We decided to change some things up this week. I ended up playing right and right-center both games instead of my usual 1B. An interesting move for me since I haven't played outfield in over a year now, but it seemed to work out alright I suppose after I shook the dust off. The first game a pop fly came almost right to me, but I missed it. It hit my glove but I took one step to many forward and the ball grazed the top of my glove and rolled out. That was the only one I dropped, but still pretty disappointing. We also changed up some of the infield, moving our 2B over to first and one of our right fielders to 2B. It was working alright until they started to find the holes.

One of our weaker players who normally plays in right got moved to 3B in the second game, she has tried to play there before. We try to close up the whole in the outfield, and just have our shortstop cheat over a bit and cover 3rd as well. Now I didn't find this out till the ride home, but The Fiancee (and score keeper) said that the other team tried to get us to remove this player from 3rd since they were scared of hurting her. Now she doesn't have the most athletic stance in the world while playing ball, but she knows that a risk of playing ball is potentially getting hit. We say we aren't going to remove her, that she is on our roster and signed the waiver and she wants to play. So after this dialog with the Ump and our other team captain a batter comes up, who we know can hit, intentionally hits a little dribbler to her as if to prove their point. And I wish I could say she scooped it up and got him out at first, but she didn't. I think he may have even gotten to second on that.

For some reason I felt more detached from this game. Maybe it was because I was not playing the infield so I missed a lot of stuff. Maybe it was because they just rolled over us. Maybe it was because I was fed up with all the high school drama that has been floating around these past few weeks. I dunno but it was weird.

With those two wins Orange Crush are now the league champions. There are a few more games to play, but they have won it. No team can catch them now. My hat is off to them.

Next week we play another hard team, the Tornados. These guys were the only other team to beat Orange Crush. So we'll see how we do this week.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 7/29/2008