softball sunday returns (unexpectedly)

so the team who asked me to join them for the world series (because my team did not show up enough to practice enough to win enough to qualify this year) had a practice this morning and while i wanted more, it was a decent workout especially since the sun was baking the body and i was about to head home to do whatever (procrastinate some more or maybe clean a bit) when the old sunday afternoon team jackson and i started many years ago (offshooting from the work team, our first softball championship in orlando) texted and asked if i could pitche for them because their pitcher was not available and so i did... it was the playoffs and the team we played was good and the old team (which had mostly new players) gave the game away in the first inning when i got the first batter to fly out and struck out the second batter and then the third batter grounded a ball to short and the flood gates opened... six or seven errors later and the other team had seven runs... the next inning we didn't hit and the rest of the game was sadly given away by more errors...

personally, i did walk twice and score once and pitched really well... they had a lot of trouble hitting me, a lot of ground balls and easy fly balls (just one really good hit that scored two runs)... our defense just couldn't keep the ball in the gloves and there were so many errant throws i lost count... we could have (and should have) won that game, but we gave it away and the other team scored 17 runs and only two were on a clean hit... we scored 13 runs with the help of more than a dozen walks and we left bases loaded three times... unfortunately, the last out was bade by me by hitting into a double play with runners on first and second which really frustrated me... but that's life... and that's softball... and the body is aching... it was really good to see some old teammates...

softball follies, softball fun, la la la :)