The Streak Continues

The losing streak that is.

After falling 9-7 to the stupid Bulldogs last night, the Solid Gold Hits have now dropped four straight games. While this is somewhat of a disappointment, it should be mentioned that all the games have been win-able, but for some reason we just couldn't pull it off. I blame Santa Claus.

We really didn't play bad so I'm not really sure how we manged to lose. We just made our mistakes at the wrong times, I guess.

Here are the highlights:

* Lisa displays some unconventional, but overall effective, fielding methods at second base. She kept two hard grounders in front of her by cleverly bouncing the ball off her foot. Another, she didn't hassle with actually putting the ball into her mitt, but rather just nudged the ball towards the shortstop as he covered second for the out. Well done.

* The game ended on another play started by Lisa at second which was quite possibly the Play of the Year. It was an improbable, all-female, double-play that involved Lisa fielding the grounder and tossing it to Amber at first for out number one and then Amber zinging it across the diamond to Sonya who applied the tag on the greedy runner coming from second for out number two. I'm guessing the runner figured there was no way that a Co-ed D-league all-girl double play (or CEDLAGDP) was even possible. Can you blame him? We usually have a hard time just fielding the ball cleanly and then you never know what kind of circus is going to break out when the throw is attempted. This play involved not only a cleanly fielded ball, but two solid throws, two solid catches and one fantastic tag. It just goes to show ya that, in a season filled with sporadic fielding, there is always a chance that the planets will align and something magical will happen...like a CEDLAGDP.

* Game ball winner, Aimee, smashed a legitimate double to left field effectively putting her boyfriend and all the other men on our team to shame. She also made several gallant efforts in the outfield on some extremely difficult fly balls. It should be mentioned that, for the first time, the game ball was not delicious, cinnaminny, Goldschlager, but questionable Bacardi Gold rum. A much tougher shot which Aimee did not choose to immediately drink down even though a precedent was set a few weeks back. Anyhow, if any of you see the tiny bottles of Goldschlager (I went to three BevMos) please stock up.

* From the "Avenging Jessica" Department, we had at least three decent shots at breaking their female second baseman's rib, but failed on both attempts. Coach Nick had two attempts, once refusing to slide and not making contact and the other sliding beautifully, but still not making contact. Ric had the closest play at second, but also failed to take her out. Why must we be such good sports? We really need to suck it up and start intentionally hurting innocent girls. C'mon!

So the Hits have fallen to 1-4, but we get one more shot at each team and reaching .500 is still a possibility. Next week is another 9:30 game and we're playing The Team that Doesn't Swing, so get ready.