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The Pros, doubleheader

So this week, as I mentioned, we had a double header, and we won both games. The first one we kinda rolled over on them, but the second one was quite the nail biter in the last inning.

After the first inning I thought that we were going to just have a huge slug fest of a game. They scored 3 runs very quickly the first inning, and we weren't fielding all that well at first. I blame the sun, which was shining in the eyes of anyone to the right of second base. But at the bottom of the first we scored 14 runs. And that pretty much set the tone for the game. Their pitcher seemed a bit disheartened, and it is understandable we have been there before. But they came back with 4 runs in the second, and held us pretty much for the rest of the game. I think the final score was like 16-9 or something like that.

The second game was a bit more interesting. We didn't have that big first inning, and they came out swinging the second game. They have some very big hitters on their team. A few consistently hit it to deep deep left, which we aren't really used to in this league. So the game went on with nothing all to interesting (other than my *HUGE* wiff, I ended up getting walked but it was a bad swing) till the last inning. Since we were ahead by 5 they flipped the innings around so they batted twice in a row. They do this to make the games shorter. If they had come ahead we would have gotten our last at bat, so it is fair. I'm not a huge fan of it, but whatever.

They scored four runs in that last inning, and it was hard fought. The go ahead run was at the plate, and our pitcher struck her out. It was tense....full count and the whole nine yards. Only thing that would have made it better would have been the bases loaded.

Next week we have the late game (8:30) against Big League Chew.

Labels: Softball

posted by Tom Becker at 7/01/2009