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The Tornadoes

This was the last series of the season for me as I will be on vacation next week, so I will miss our season closer. A little sad, but I need the vacation so it will all be good.

We played the Tornadoes yesterday, and I had a very good time, not only did I play pretty well, but they are a very fun team to play. We lost both games, but I think everyone had a good time over all. We even had our biggest fans stay and watch our games after they finished. Hi Miss Piggy and Beaker!

We didn't have our full normal team, but some people who are going to play fall ball with us came out ready to play and they filled in for us. One girl in particular has a hell of a bat, she is going to be a great addition for fall ball. Even with her though we got trounced this game. I really think the Tornadoes strength is their consistency. They have a few power hitters that can knock it out of the park, but they usually don't. They all just try for a base hit, or at most a double, of course they will go for more when they can, but almost all of their team get on base every at bat. So that just pushes people around the bases and they always end up racking up big numbers. The first game I think they beat us 10-3 or something like that.

The next game was kinda a heart breaker. We are at bat first and score 13 runs the first inning. They come up and score 3 by the end of the inning. So we are feeling pretty good at this point, thinking we have it clinched, but they come back and score 13 the next inning after keeping us scoreless, so that puts them up 16-13. Last inning of the game we just have to score 3 in order to keep us alive, but we just couldn't pull it off.

I had a lot of fun at my last game and I think I played very well. I will be taking over managing the Sunday Scared Hitless team while the other captain will take the Tuesday night league for fall ball. And that season starts in a few weeks. Once I figure out how we do next week, I'll post our final league standings.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 8/04/2008