the other end of blowout

the thursday night softball team is not very reliable... so far we've played one player short three of the four games... we won two of those... ah, sometimes we are not the better team... sometimes by a lot... after a very shaky first inning where we helped the other team get at least 12 runs, but they could hit any pitch in or out of the strike zone anywhere they wanted and did... they play Men's A Division tournament ball... that like a semi-pro baseball team... and we had three outfielders again that first inning... half their team took inside spinning pitches to right field with hard line drives that reaches the fence without blinking an eye... any one of them could have hit it over the fence but in this league there is a home run limit so they just hit gaps... only twice did they come up the middle and they didn't intend to, they didn't swing at strikes that caught them off guard and would have come directly at me...

and then they fielded balls that no other team at a recreational or intermediate competitive level would have come hear... outfielders covering fifty feet full speed backhanded catches right at the fence... only one ground ball got through their infield... our lack of placement hitters caused too many fly balls that they were able to get under no matter where they were hit... their pitcher was all over the place like USAAA and not having a fixed mound (which is challenging for me, though i only walked one) allowed him a lot of leeway and he used that well... i only batted twice, being ninth in the order, walked and popped to first... scored once, tagging up on a fly ball... the final score was 26-7 in five innings... it could have been a lot worse...

so i believe we are 2-2 in this league, though i have not been able to track down a website on their page, so i am not sure... not bad for men's competitive level, though we are really a good recreational team... this league is supposed to be level D and level C Men's softball but apparently they do not enforce the fairness of that... our team can play level C ball most of the time, but I prefer D myself as the body is slower and more fragile than it used to be... there a wide mix in this league as there are teams that are not very good level D recreational teams as well that we have run ruled...

anyway, some fun, though don't feel i got to play enough only getting to bat twice and having hitters that offered me only one hard fielding chance that i might have gotten years ago, but now only flew by at about 90 miles an hour... want more exercise, which is why i play recreational ball, ya know :)