winning is fun too

unfortunately, there was a conflict of game times so i had to choose and i chose to go to the afternoon games because there was a double header and the morning game (scheduled for 2pm) was not as meaningful to the season for that team... hopefully the back up pitcher there did ok and the team won, but it was one game of a 12 game season while the double header was two games in a 7 game season... last week was a double header for the early team and the coach let the back up pitcher pitch the second game and he did fine, so he can do it this week...

we won both games of the double header, 4-3 and 12-9... the first team had to forfeit when the umpire found out after an inning or two that they only had seven of their actual players and you must have eight without borrowed players... we were ahead 4-0 and finished the game as a scrimmage, though we took it very easy after that because it was sun-pounding hot and we had the second game coming up... they almost came back as they in the final inning with the tying run on second, but we held them off... the second team had a bust out 7 run fourth inning when fatigue and the heat hit us all at once and they pulled up to make it 10-9, but other than that, we shut them down pretty well and shut them out in the fifth, sixth, and seventh... most important of all was we had fun...

jackson and i stayed for one more game cuz another team was short girls and jackson subbed for them... they won too... the heat was brutal... meanwhile, the league is falling apart because of poor management and weather and at least four games were forfeits... the fields sucked because they are apparently used for an earlier in the day league and our league management does not insist on basic ground-keeping which is ridiculous when you consider it is the most expensive league in town and they don't even use asa umpires...

but anyway, yay for wins but even more, yay for fun with friends...