Bad News Bears
We had our second softball game today. We were looking forward to what was supposed to be a good test before our early season showdown against Son of a Pitch next Tuesday. This team played SOP last week and lost 18-17 in extra innings, so our expectations for a tough game and good test before our first showdown were high.
Well, the game was the longest, most agonizing one hour and forty minutes of my company co-ed softball career, and the game only lasted five innings. In two different innings today, we scored fourteen runs. That's right, two separate times in the game, we batted around the lineup twice.
The ending was really sad. We were trying to make outs without obviously trying to make outs. We'd hit pop ups or goundballs to the shortstop, yet they'd make an error every single time. Short of intentionally striking out, we were doing everything we could do to get through the top of the fifth inning so that we could get them out in the bottom of the fifth and invoke the mercy rule. The other team was just horrible. Even the ump had pity on them. He was calling every pitch a strike once we had two outs in the fifth inning just to try and speed things up. Eventually, the ump had enough. When Hyphen-Lady hit a ground ball to third base and their player successfully fielded the ball, the ump called the batter out before a throw or tag was ever made. It didn't really matter since I was running from second to third with the intention of getting tagged out on the play, but still, we were not going to complain.
We ended up winning 39-1 once all the runs were added up afterwards. The sad thing is despite the fact that this game wasn't a whole lot of fun in the end and we all wanted to go home, I sort of wish we scored forty. Just to say that we did.
I checked the scoresheet after the game. As a team, our on-base average was roughly .800, given that we don't count sacrifices that scored runners as at-bats. That's sick, even if it was mostly inflated due to errors.
I guess that leaves us somewhat untested and at 2-0 leading into the big game next week. At least our first game last week was fairly tough.
Well, the game was the longest, most agonizing one hour and forty minutes of my company co-ed softball career, and the game only lasted five innings. In two different innings today, we scored fourteen runs. That's right, two separate times in the game, we batted around the lineup twice.
The ending was really sad. We were trying to make outs without obviously trying to make outs. We'd hit pop ups or goundballs to the shortstop, yet they'd make an error every single time. Short of intentionally striking out, we were doing everything we could do to get through the top of the fifth inning so that we could get them out in the bottom of the fifth and invoke the mercy rule. The other team was just horrible. Even the ump had pity on them. He was calling every pitch a strike once we had two outs in the fifth inning just to try and speed things up. Eventually, the ump had enough. When Hyphen-Lady hit a ground ball to third base and their player successfully fielded the ball, the ump called the batter out before a throw or tag was ever made. It didn't really matter since I was running from second to third with the intention of getting tagged out on the play, but still, we were not going to complain.
We ended up winning 39-1 once all the runs were added up afterwards. The sad thing is despite the fact that this game wasn't a whole lot of fun in the end and we all wanted to go home, I sort of wish we scored forty. Just to say that we did.
I checked the scoresheet after the game. As a team, our on-base average was roughly .800, given that we don't count sacrifices that scored runners as at-bats. That's sick, even if it was mostly inflated due to errors.
I guess that leaves us somewhat untested and at 2-0 leading into the big game next week. At least our first game last week was fairly tough.
posted by GaryGinew at 9:41 PM
2 Comments:
Holy schnikes! I'd probably just round up and say forty, and if someone called me on it, say I accidentally added the other team's score to my team's. Ooos. :)
mmm.... forty.
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