Another Bummer

The Solid Gold Hits had another rough one last night, but at least we didn't play like big sissies.

Even though we ended up losing 10-6, it was a much more respectable 10-6 loss than the one we experienced last week. This time around, we were mush more consistently offensively even though we hardly got to bat because the team refused to swing the bat. And if Majority Rules hadn't been so picky at the plate, we probably would've won. But they chose to, in effect, "run out the clock" once they got the lead. They took perfectly good pitches and seemed to bat forever. Out of the 1 hour game, I'm gonna say that they were batting for 58 minutes.

Game ball winner, Sonya, powered through Majority Rules' reluctance to swing and only walked a few sissy batters that should've been swinging anyhow.

Here are the highlights:

1) In a real mess of a play, Julie V. eventually ended up tagging a guy out at the plate...or at least near the plate. He came rounding third and the ball went to Julie who initially failed to tag the runner for the force out, but the runner also failed to touch home plate. It was a real battle of futility. No call was made by the ump, then a safe call was made, then Julie tagged the guy somewhere near the parking lot and then he was called out. I'm still not sure what was going on, but we got the out, so whatever.

2) Julie V. (again) perfectly blocked a ball thrown to home plate from the outfield. It looked like it hurt, but she took one for the team and saved a run from coming home.

3) Heather went down with a leg injury, but showed tremendous heart as she tried to run to first base with one functional leg. It was pretty much the most painful run to first I've ever seen. Even though she was out and even though she probably shouldn't have been trying to run for risk of making the injury worse and never being able to walk again, it was still an awesome show of dedication to the team.

4) Big hits...errr solid gold hits from Aimee, Paul, Lisa and probably some others, that helped us come back and take the lead after getting down early. Lisa also had a nifty semi-collision at third base which was pretty solid. Our girls were really going all out this game.

5) The new jerseys were amazing. To see us all out there, under the lights with those yellow beauties was truly a sight to behold. Now let's try not to ruin them in wash...or just don't wash them.

So we're 1-2 now, but there's still a lot season left. We're back up against the Luck Dragons next week and I feel another victory coming on. Also, since it's a 9:30 game, we will have a pre-game gathering of some kind. Stay tuned.