can't win em all

after a pretty good run of wins (except for a couple of sundays ago when the sunday team didn't show up and the coaches were missing as well and we gave away what should have been an easy win and the team has actually never recovered from that but i hope the coaches can resolve the differences that brew and left us with just eight players showing this past sunday... ah, the drama humans hold on to... i may never truly get it), the thursday team (which was the men's champion in the friday night league last season but now plays in a much better men's league with C and B level players) lost tonight 15-12... we could have won if we didn't make so many errors (or if we had ten players... we won the first two games in this league with nine players and played with nine again tonight, but the team we played hit a lot better than the other teams we've played so far and we needed a fourth outfielder like they had)...

other obstacles was a very soft and unleveled field... especially puzzling and unsettling was the fact that there was no pitching mound or pitching rubber, so there was no flat spot to pitch from and my shaky knee (slight strain to my right mcl) and that gave the other team much better pitches to hit... the batters box was dangerous and everyone was having a lot of trouble planting their feet and even more trouble running out of it (a few fell) which made it even more challenging for me to hit as stability for swinging a bat is very dependent on the mcl...

even with those obstacles, however if we hit better, we would have won... too many high fly balls from the power hitters... the other team was outstanding at hitting line drives, which is how softball is won... i went 2 for 4 knocking in three runs and running in a straight line didn't hurt the knee, but any variation (pitching, hitting, fielding) that required bending the knee for balance was unstable and i had to be very careful not to further injury the knee...

still it was fun... love me my softball :)