Week 2 done

We go down 16-8 and while this was not a a great one, I'm not feeling too discouraged. First of all we played a team, with a load of power hitters. A few of their guys can hit a home run in a major league park. Their pitcher, who calls himself Tim Wakefield, switches his pitching motion between a straight underhand and a side arm angle. And they've won numerous championships before, not too mention they average around 20 runs per game.

I batted second and started in right field. We scored a pair in the top of the first, though we left the bases loaded. They scored 4 in the first thanks to Scott and I both misplaying deep fly balls. With the wind blowing out to right, it didn't help our fielding. Their #5 hitter drilled a three-run homer and we were behind. I did make a catch in right to end the first though. We rallied and made it 5-5 after three. Then in the fourth, I came up with runner on second and third with no one out. After taking strike 2, I took three straight balls to fill the bases. Paul comes up, our left handed power bat. He smashes the first pitch and the first baseman snags it on a line. Roger and Marty popped up and we scored nothing. I singled and scored later, not that it would matter as things would play out.

They nailed a grand slam on their way to a nine run fourth and we lost 16-8 in six. The thing was though they hit maybe five deep fly balls all game. They started grounding balls right up the middle and hitting line drives that kept falling in front of us. The problem is the RCF and RF both played with their backs literally against the fence. As I told both of them, with Dan pitching inside to the right-handed hitters, they were not going to power the ball to right field. So play in.
The amazing thing is with all those grounders and liners up the middle, if I I had played short center, they would have scored way less than 16 runs.

So we're 1-1. We'll win next week.

Week 2 Injury Report: Aggravated right big toe, sprained right ankle, bruised shin, bruised right wrist.