So here we are, another year and another attempt at a softball dynasty. I start off most years very gung-ho, but tend to fizzle out on the posting after the first session. I am going to attempt to avoid that this year, but we will see how it goes.

This season has been marked with a ridiculous number of cancellations so far. The fields we play at on Wednesdays and Sundays was flooded in March and they have really struggled to get things going again since. We were supposed to have started 3 weeks ago and have had each game cancelled so far. However there is good news on the horizon. The fields held their first games of the year there tonight. So we should be good to go there starting tomorrow.

My other leagues have had similar cancellation issues, but they just happen to keep falling on days it is raining. April is a bitch. The schedule is the same as last year:

Tuesdays: Mens single game league
Wednesdays: Mens double header League
Thursdays: Co-ed single game league
Sundays: Mens double header league.

I "coach" the Wednesday and Sunday teams. Frankly they are the teams I care about. I honestly view the other days as extra batting practice. Don't get me wrong, I want to win on those nights but I am not nearly as concerned with it as I am my teams. Especially the co-ed league.

Here is kind of a quick run down of the teams:

Tuesday Night

I started playing with this team because my buddy Graham worked for the company that put the team together. We are a pretty solid squad overall. I regularly bring a few of my big guns from my teams to fill and that tends to give them a nice boost offensively. We don't usually get blown out of games, but this team makes a number of mistakes on defense which usually leads to one killer inning that we are unable to overcome. We did however miss the playoffs by just one game last year and one of my mashers Dennis should be playing regularly this year so I suspect we will finish in the upper half on the league.

Wednesday Night

This would probably have to be considered my A squad, although the Sunday team should be pretty good this year too. I might be the biggest hole on this team. Good thing I am the coach I guess. :) We have a pretty stellar outfield and great defensive players at SS and 3B. Of the regular 10 that we have 1-8 will probably hit at least .600 this year and 3-7 all hit with power too. This team finished 11-1 in the last session played last year. And we have added two big bats and a very good OF to that team. I suspect we will win our division again this year.

Thursday Night

Co-ed softball is amusing to me sometimes. The vast majority of the girls in these leagues look like they have never played softball in their lives. Where are all the girls that played softball growing up? This leads to a lot of, pick out a girl on the field and hit the ball hard at her and you will get a hit 100% of the time. This is certainly overall a much more laid back league. People drink fairly heavily in this league and like I said really treat it as extra BP more than anything. Our team however is actually very solid. 4 of the 5 girls on our team can all play. Most teams put their girls in the positions where they think the ball will be hit the least. Our entire starting infield is girls and like I said 4 of the 5 can hit very well actually. There is one other team with a very similar make up to us and their guys are probably a bit better than us as well. So should almost certainly be fighting them for first place this year.

Sunday League

We took a bit of a step back on our Sunday team last year. Two years ago we won our division 2 out of 3 sessions on Sunday, but last year we had some issues. Still I suspect we will be pretty good on Sundays this year. FOFCers WSUCougar and ardent enthusiast play on this team. We are missing two of the big bats from Wednesday on this team, but there are two other big bats I am working on getting to play with us. If they end up agreeing the offense should be every bit as good. We aren't quite as good defensively on Sundays, but we should be good enough to compete for first this year.

Thursday April 12th

Due to rain outs etc this was the very first game of the year for me. It's probably not bad to be starting out in a co-ed game anyway. Watching the opposing team warm-up I suspected they were going to be in trouble. They were throwing the ball all over the place and just did not look like a very solid team.

I started in right center this game and watched as we made a number of errors in the top of the first inning. The opposing team had a few decent hits, but we really helped them by booting a numebr of balls. Still at the end of the 1st we had only given up one run. They left the bases loaded.

The bottom of the first went very well for us. You could tell the opposing pitcher had not pitched much before as he kept leaving ball after ball on the outside part of the plate. We certainly never try to hit pitches back at the picther, but the location of those pitches were putting him right into a firing squad. We hammered a number of balls right up the middle. I suspect he isn't going to want to picth much longer if he keeps doing that. My buddy Graham who plays on all 4 teams hit the first pitch of the season a good 350 feet for a home run. I managed to hit a hard ground ball through the middle that drove in two. We came out of the bottom of the first up 8-1.

The rout was really on from there. The opposition was really probably worse than I initially expected. They didn't get their next hit until the 4th inning. We continued to put up runs on them in each of our bats and the game was finally called on the mercy rule after the 4th when we were up 22-1. So a good first win for us.

In addition to my 2 RBI single in the first, I had another RBI single and a double later in the game to finish the game 3 for 3. I had two runs scored as well and I caught the only ball that was hit to me the entire night in right center. It happened be the final out fo the game. I figure I will try and keep tabs on the guys that play on my team this year. Graham had a very solid game going 2 for 3 with a double to go with his HR.

Thursday Night Team Record: 1-0
Thursday Night League Stats: Avg 1.000 (3/3) 1 2B, 2 RBIs, 2 Runs
Overall Year Stats: Avg 1.000 (3/3) 1 2B, 2 RBIs, 2 Runs

Overall year stats from "my" guys:
Graham: Avg .667 (2/3) 1 2B, 1 HR, 2 RBIs, 2 Runs

Tuesday April 29th

After almost 3 weeks from the last time we played, we finally manage to get the Tuesday league started (still no Wednesday or Sunday league games but we are looking good for tomorrow night). We are starting off the season playing the team that won the league last year. We play them very competitively every game, but they just seem to have our number. They play very solid defense and will just kill you with short line drives all game.

We started off the first inning short 1 player. Only having 3 OFs is a death sentence against this team. As I expected they picked us apart with well placed line drives and put up 7 to start the game. Our 10th player showed up right as we made the last out in the top of the first. We managed to rally nicely in the bottom half of the inning though. Our first 7 hitters all got hits. Graham managed a double and then Dennis hit a 3 run HR in his first at bat of the season. I managed to get a hard single through the hole at SS and score run in there as well. We finished the firts inning having got back 6 of the 7 runs.

After setting the team down 1-2-3 in the top of the 2nd we got things going again with Graham hitting his 2nd HR of the year, a 2 run shot that put us up by 1. I managed another single in the inning on a nice line drive shot into left center. We couldn't get any more runs though, but we had the lead 8-7.

That didn't last long though as some of our defensive woes came back to haunt us in the top of the 3rd. As usual the otehr team mixed in a number of well placed hits (and they added a young guy who hits 3rd for them who is a beast), but we extended the inning a number of times, including a booted ball by me at 3rd. They scored 7 more in the 3rd and we were back down 14-8.

We failed to get any runs in the bottom half of the 3rd and the otehr team tacked on two more in the top of the 4th. In the bottom of the 4th Dennis got his 2nd hit of the day, and I managed to drive him in when I hit a hard line drive past the RF for a triple. My team loves to watch me run. Not in an awe inspiring way, but rather in a ha ha look at the fat guy run kind of way. I'll take it though. That sparked a pretty big inning for us as we managed to put up 4 runs total and close the gap to 14-12.

We really had a few uneventful innings after that. Our opposition pushed their lead to 18-12 at one point and we chipped away a run at a time to make it 18-16 going into the 7th and final inning. In my next at bat I managed to hit the ball hard for the 4th time of the night, but despite being a nice line drive it carried out to the LF. My first out of the year.

We kind of fell apart in the top of the 7th. Our right centerfielder had been daring the team to hit the ball over his head all night. He was playing very shallow ona number of hitters. Well in the 7th they decided to take him up on it and hit a number of balls over his head.
Mixed in with that were a number of erros and a 2nd HR by that teams #3 hitter and we were suddenly down 24-16. We had a slight bit of hope though. Graham, Dennis and I were due up in the bottom of the inning.

Graham led off the inning by scorching a ball into left center. However the left center fielder (the new stud this team has) ran it down for the first out. Dennis then came up and hit a bomb to center field. Again the left center fielder ran it down and took it off the top of the fence possibly stealing a HR from Dennis. 2 outs and it is up to me. I had hit the ball hard every at bat tonight. I take a peek into left field and see that the LF is playing me way off the line. If I get an inside pitch I am going to rope it right down that line for at leats a double. The pitch comes in chest high on the inside part of the plate. I take a mighty hack...... and manage to pop it up to the pitcher. Son of a bitch. Oh well hitting the ball hard 4 out of 5 times is a good night. That team just owns us.

Tuesday Night Team Record: 0-1
Tuesday Night League Stats: Avg .600 (3/5), 1 3B, 1 RBI, 3 Runs
Overall Year Stats: Avg .750 (6/8), 1 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBIs, 5 Runs

Overall year stats from "my" guys:
Graham: Avg .500 (4/8), 2 2B, 2 HR, 5 RBIs, 4 Runs
Dennis: Avg ,400 (2/5), 1 HR, 3 RBIs, 2 Runs

Wednesday April 30th

So we were finally able to get our first games in at what I consider our home field. For several guys on my team this was their first action of the season and we were missing two of our top three players. So I expected us to go out and compete tonight, but we might not quite be on our A game yet. When the game started the wind was blowing ridculously hard in from left field. This was going to prove to be quite a challenge for the outfield tonight.

Game 1

The top of the first inning was fairly uneventful. We ended up giving up one run on a couple of hits, but both hits were off misplayed OF fly balls because of the wind. In the bottom half we got the bats going early. 6 of the top 7 hitters all scored. I got way under the ball in my first at bat and lifted a lazy fly to left. The wind played some tricks with it but the LF still made the play however I ended driving in a run on the sacrafice. We came out of the first up 6-1.

We quickly retired the other team 1-2-3 in the top of the second. After recording an out in the bottom of the 2nd we had a sequence of a 3B, a sac fly, another 3B and then a HR. We take a pretty commanding 9-1 lead out of the 2nd.

The 3rd inning was pretty uneventful for both sides. Their leadoff hitter did manage a double and came in to score, but a double play got us out of any other trouble in the top half of the inning. In the bottom half of the inning we quickly scored another run, but then were quitely retired after that. I did get a hit in my 2nd at bat. I hit possible the weakest groundball in softball histroy that somehow very slowly rolled past the picther and then past 2B for a hit. It was ridiculous but I will take it.

We once again retired the other team 1-2-3 in the top of the 4th and we are rolling pretty good. The bats were alive again in the bottom of the 4th. After a lead off walk, 4 of the next 5 hitter got singles and then ouir new LF cleared the bases with a 3 run inside the park HR. I managed to get my second hit of the game with a hard line drive single over the SS. We manged to only make one out before we scored 7 more runs. The game was called because of the mercy rule at that point and we took game one 17-2.
Game 2

We were the away team for game 2 and had another nice start. Dennis ended up hitting his 2nd HR of the night and 3rd of the year to give us a 3-0 lead right out of the gate. Once again we retired the other team 1-2-3 in the bottom half and it was looking like we were rolling to another blow out win.

We managed to manufacture one more run in the top of the 2nd. I unfortunately grounded out to the pitcher in my at bat. So going into the bottom of the second we were up 4-0. This is when the wheels came off. The team we were playing is not a super star team, but they are better than the 2 runs they scored the previous game. Things started to click for them in the second inning. Mixed in with that were a handful of errors and misjudgements because of the wind. Suddenly we were down 9-4. Not a disaster per se for our team since we can certainly hit, but we can;t afford to be giving up 9 run innings.

It's very hard for a team to keep much of a lead on us. We responded right away in the top of 3rd. The first 6 batters all got hits and eventually came around to score. I continued my not so hot night at the plate by lifting a ball into RC for anotehr sac fly. After the first 6 guys scored we made 3 pretty quick outs, but we did what we needed to do. Came back and took the lead 10-9. We again had a bit of a rough bottom half defensively. I personally contributed by booting a double play ball at 2B when I tried to flip the ball to our SS before I had secured it. That led to 2 runs. The other team got 4 total that inning and we were back down 12-10.

We quickly went 1-2-3 to start the 4th inning. With the way we are playing defensively at the moment we can't afford to come out of an inning with no runs. Really driving home that point the other team put up 4 more runs in the bottom of the 4th. It was more due to their good hitting than our poor defense this time, but never the less we are now down 16-10.

Dennis started us off with a solo HR in the 5th and Graham followed that up with a single and it was looking like we were ready to make a run again. However the next 3 batters all made outs. I hit my hardest ball of the night this inning. A scorched line drive down the RF line, very similar to the ball I hit for a triple last night. Unfortunately they seem to have a better RF, who made a diving catch to rob me of an extra base hit. Still down 16-10 we manage to make a nice defenisve stand in the bottom half and kept the otehr team from scoring.

As we entered the top of the 6th the umpire announced we were out of time and this would be the final inning. We needed 6 runs to keep playing. The first two batters got us started wih back to back singles however the next two quickly made outs and we were down to our last out and still down by 6. Unfortunately for our opponents they still ahd to go through the top of our order. We ripped off 7 consecutive base hits, including a hard ground ball single by me up the middle that ended up giving us our 7th run of the inning and taking the lead. We managed one more run before the end of the inning and headed into the bottom half up 18-16.

Unfortunately our opponents came to play in the 2nd game. We managed one out in the bottom half, but they ripped off a series of well placed base hits and managed to put up the 3 runs they needed in the bottom half and we dropped the game 19-18.

So the bad news is we lost a close game that we really could have won. We beat this team all 4 times we played them last year and really are ht ebetter team of the two. The good news is without an unusually bad defensive 2nd inning we win this game. And we still had two monster bats missing from the lineup tonight. There really wasn't anything I saw tonight that leads me to believe we won't win this division.

As you can see from the stats below, and obviously just the run totals we put up, our team can certainly hit. We currently don't have anyone hitting under .500 (granted it is early). Dennis is just a monster. 4 Hrs in 3 games and he had another one taken away by a great play yesterday. And we have two more like him on the way. Should be a fun season.

Wednesday Night Team Record: 1-1
Wednesday Night League Stats: Avg .600 (3/5) 2 RBIs
Overall Year Stats: Avg .692 (9/13), 1 2B, 1 3B, 5 RBIs, 5 Runs

Overall Stats for my team:
Chris: Avg .667 (4/6) 1 3B, 1 BB, 5 runs
Jason: Avg .800 (4/5) 1 3B, 1 BB, 3 RBIs, 4 Runs
Dave: Avg .857 (6/7) 1 3B, 5 RBIs, 6 runs
Dennis: Avg .643 (9/13) 2 2Bs, 4 HRs, 13 RBIs, 9 Runs :eek::eek::eek:
Graham: Avg .600 (9/15) 2 2Bs, 2 HRs, 7 RBIs, 4 Runs
Matt: Avg .571 (4/7) 1 2B, 3 RBIs, 5 Runs
Andy: Avg .500 (3/6) 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 2 Runs
Tom: Avg .667 (4/6) 1 RBI, 3 Runs
Sam: Avg .600 (3/5) 1 Run

Are all of your leagues slow-pitch or are some of them modified?

Oh boy, stat tracking for the team. :)

Are all of your leagues slow-pitch or are some of them modified?

All slow pitch leagues. I am not certain I could hit fast pitch anymore. :)

Thursday May 1st

I am not going to bother going into a very detailed game recap for tonight's game. The team we played tonight really just didn't have any chance to win. It looked like it was their first year together and I suspect they will get better as the weeks go on, but right now I would be absoluetly shocked if they win a game this season.

Right from the beginning we hammered their defense. A strong mix of good hard hits and many botched plays. We took the foot off the gas in the 2nd inning when it was quite clear they were unlikely to score a run. So to keep it reasonable we wouldn't take extra bases etc on hits. They finished with two hits for the game and the game was called in the 4th with us up 22-0.

I feel bad for teams like that. I can't imagine that was any fun for them. Everyone has to start somewhere though.

I had a very solid night. I went 4 for 4 with two singles, two doubles, 6 RBIs and two runs scored. Graham hit his 3rd HR of the year and Dennis was robbed of two HRs by a giant over grown tree in left field. Both balls should have been home runs but he hit the ball into the top of this monster tree and when that happens it is an automatic ground rule double. They really should just cut that thing back.

Thursday Night Team Record: 2-0
Thursday Night League Stats: Avg 1.000 (7/7), 3 2Bs, 8 RBIs, 4 Runs
Overall Year Stats: Games 5, Avg .765 (13/17), 3 2Bs, 1 3B, 11 RBIs, 7 Runs

Overall Stats for my team:
Chris: Games 2, Avg .667 (4/6), 1 3B, 1 BB, 5 runs
Jason: Games 2, Avg .800 (4/5), 1 3B, 1 BB, 3 RBIs, 4 Runs
Dave: Games 2, Avg .857 (6/7), 1 3B, 5 RBIs, 6 runs
Dennis: Games 4, Avg .706 (12/17), 5 2Bs, 4 HRs, 19 RBIs, 11 Runs
Graham: Games 5, Avg .632 (12/19), 3 2Bs, 3 HRs, 12 RBIs, 7 Runs
Matt: Games 2, Avg .571 (4/7), 1 2B, 3 RBIs, 5 Runs
Andy: Games 2, Avg .500 (3/6), 1 HR, 5 RBIs, 2 Runs
Tom: Games 2, Avg .667 (4/6), 1 RBI, 3 Runs
Sam: Games 2, Avg .600 (3/5), 1 Run

Who else is playing on Sundays?

I wish all my at bats went like my last one did today.

Sunday May 4th

After a number of delays (which apparently led to the athletic director being replaced) we finally got our first Sunday games in today. Just like the Wednesday team I expect a good deal of success from this team this year.

Game 1

We agreed to let other team hit first int he first game since they were short a player. Unfortunately for them they quickly went down 1-2-3. You can almost always determine that a team is not particularly good if they come to bat with aluminum bats. There are some decent aluminum bats on the market (mainly the Worth PSTs), but in general you just can't match the performance of a composite bat. After about oen season of seeing the difference most teams don't come back with aluminum bats. Our opponents today were using aluminums. However even with our fancy bats we matched our opponents output in the bottom of the 1st and went 1-2-3.

After the other team went 3up and 3 down in the second we finally got the bats goin. Dennis led off with a double and Graham crushed a ball on a short hop to the CF fence for a 2B to get us on board. I managed an RBI double on a hard line drive down the line past the 3B in the inning. All told we got 8 hits and 5 runs in the bottom the 2nd.

The other team finally got on the board in the 3rd with two runs. We had a couple of batched plays in the inning, but overall the defense has been good so far in the day. We again got the bats going right away in the bottom half. Joe and Dennis had back to back 2Bs, after Graham flied out, I hit a relatively deep fly ball that the RF couldn't handle for my 2nd hit and another RBI. ardent ended up with a hit to drive me in for the 3rd run of the inning before we made the 3rd out. After 3 we were up 8-2.

Our opponents continued to struggle with the bat in the top of the 4th and once again went down 1-2-3. In the 4th we put the game out of reach. We didn't record our first out until the 11th batter of the inning came up. That stretch included 2 2Bs, a 3B (by me of all people), and back to back to back HRs by Joe, Dennis and Graham. A great offensive inning for us that put us up 16-2.

Going into the top of the 5th the other team needed 5 runs to keep the mercy rule from being put into effect. They actually found their bats in this inning and gave it a run, but in the end could only put up 4 and we took the first game 16-6. I finsihed the first game 3 for 3 with a 1B, 2B and 3B, 2 runs and 2 RBIs.

Game 2

We were first to bat in the second game and we picked up right where we ended game 1. We had 14 batters hit in the first inning. We were killing them with singles. 9 of the 10 hits were 1Bs in the inning. The only non single was Joe's 2nd HR of the game. We went into the bottom of the first inning up 11-0.

I am actually going to skimp a little on the details from here. For some reason I am having trouble remembering how the other team scoring went. They hit a good deal better in the 2nd game though. Clearly with us jumping out to an 11-0 lead the game was really never in question, but they did make it far more competitive than their first game.

I ended up having an interesting day at the plate. I finished the day 7 for 7, but really only hit the ball well twice. I had a number of ground balls just find their way through the infield and managed a hit off the pitchers shin that bounced tot he 1B but he failed to get the tag on me as I went by. I am certainly happy to go 7 for 7, but I would like to the ball hard a few more times than I did today.

The FOFC contingecny represented well today too. WSUCougar had 5 hits and 4 runs scored on the day and ardent added another 4 hits as well including a nice shot up to the fence in RC that drive in the final two runs of the day. In the end we took the second game 20-11. Everyone in the lineup hit well today and other than a few miscues here and there defensively we played well on the otehr side of the ball too. A very good for us today.

Sunday Afternoon Team Record: 2-0
Sunday Afternoon League Stats: Avg 1.000 (7/7) 1 2B, 1 3B, 3 RBIs, 5 Runs
Overall Year Stats: Games 7, Avg .833 (20/24), 4 2Bs, 2 3Bs, 14 RBIs, 12 Runs

Overall Stats for my team:
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sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Keith</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Joe</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.500</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="18">WSUCougar</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="4" 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sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
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Tuesday May 6th

So the coach of the Tuesday night team tells us before the game that we should have a pretty easy mtch-up tonight. The team we are playing has finished near the bottom of the standings the last couple of years and are again 0-2 to start this season. Can you really look past a team in slow pitch softball?

We were first to hit and it was apparent immediately that we would need to be pretty careful with pitch selection tonight. The opposing pitcher was having a very difficult time throwing anywhere near the strike zone. After our lead off man walked I was thrown two pitches that were not even remotely close. I really hate walking so my plan was to swing at the next pitch no matter where it was and if need be just take a strike. The pitch was well outside of the plate and I ended up hitting a hard line drive right at the pitcher. He got a glove on it to defelect it, but the SS couldn;t make the play off the rebound and I was on with an infield single. I am sure he would have prefreeed I walked. We ended up batting around in the first inning, but left the bases loaded so we only ended up with 5 runs.

The opposing team came right back at us in the bottom half of the inning. They seemed to have some issues in the field, but overall they seemed to be a solid hitting team. No real power threats, but a number of guys who could hit solid line drives over the infield. If you can do that all day no one can beat you. They kept themselves right in the game by putting up 4 runs of their own. 5-4 us after 1.

Our team stayed hot with the bat in the second inning. Our leadoff hitter put a groundball through the hol between 1st and 2nd. Now the thing about this guy is he is ridculously fast. The unfortunate thing sometimes is he knows he is and tries to strecth some pretty ridiculous things into multi base hits. In this case he ended up with a triple on a slow hit ground ball. The guy is crazy. I was forced to take my 1st walk of the year in my 2nd time up and was none too happy about it. However Graham hit the next pitch out for a 3 run homer. Graham is very rapidly becoming a monster at the plate. The rest of the team continued to hit and I got a 2nd at bat in the inning. ON the first pitch I crushed a ball to left that had home run distance, of course it ended up drifting foul. I actually hit the next pitch even harder, but it never got more than 8-10 feet off the ground. The line drive plugged the gap on left and I ended up with my 3rd 3B of the year and 2 RBIs on the hit. Graham ended the inning on a fly out that was caught right at the fence, but we had scored 9 more runs and had a commanding 14-4 lead.

The other team refused to roll over though. They again came out with a series of well placed line drive hits. Even when we adjusted to move in on them they managed to find gaps with their hits. We were not always 100% stellar on defense either, but all in all they really swung the bats quite well. They put up another 4 runs in the bottom half, but we still had a pretty solid 14-8 lead.

Our first couple of batters got on in the top of the 3rd. They both ended up eventually coming home on sac flys. Not a huge inning, but we pushed the lead back to 8 and were feeling pretty good about ourselves. That is when the shit hit the fan on defense. I am not quite sure what the total number of outs we gave the other team was in the bottom of the 3rd, but it was at least 6. This was not a superstar team we were facing, but they certainly hit well enough that if you give them 6 extra outs they are going to put up a lot of runs. When the dust settled on the nightmare inning we had given up 11 runs and were now down 19-16.

Given that both teams had combined for 35 runs in the first 3 inning the ump informed us that we were starting to run short on time in the top of the 4th. We quickly managed a run in the 4th before getting two outs with the top of the lineup coming up. Our leadoff man reached base on a single. I then got my 3rd hit of the game when the 2B couldn't quite reach a semi well hit gorund ball up the middle. Graham then hit his 2nd 3 run homer of the game. We couldn't get any more runs across, but we had managed to take the lead back 20-19. A general rule of thumb is that 20 runs should be enough to win you a game.

In the bottom of the 4th we very quickly retired the first two batters and it seemed our defensive woes were behind us. Clearly we though that too soon. one hit and 2 errors later and the bases were loaded. The pitcher then walked in a run to tie the game. The next batter hit a line drive into shallow left field. The left fielder made an aggressive play at the ball but it shot by him and ended up clearing the bases for a grand slam. We got the next out, but we once again found ourselves in the hole 24-20.

The good news is we managed to get outs quickly enough to get anotehr inning in. The bad news is the bottom two hitters, and by far the worst on the team, were due to lead off the inning. As expected they both weakly grounded out and we now needed 4 runs with only one out left. The pitcher again walked our lead off man and I was up. Last week I ended the game when I missed a meat ball pitch and popped up to the pitcher. I was not going to end the game that way this week. Instead this week I got my meatball pitch again, and I weakly grounded it to the left of the pitcher. As the pitcher scrambled for the ball he fell down, I had hope! In a pretty amazing series of events though the pitcher from his kness flipped the ball to the SS, who then threw the ball into the dirt right in front of the 1B. The 1B managed to scoop the ball while falling forward and keep his foot on the base to get me by a step. Are you shitting me? Game over. Two weeks in a row now I have managed to end the game.

I still went 3 for 4 on the night with 2 runs scored and 3 RBIs. So a pretty solid night at the plate, but the last play soured it pretty good. My other horse who plays on this team Dennis, had a solid night as well but Graham kept clearing the bases in front of him. No HRs, but a 3/4 night for him as well. So my boys hit well on the evening.

Tuesday Night Team Record: 0-2
Tuesday Night League Stats: Avg .667 (6/9), 2 3B, 4 RBI, 5 Runs
Oveerall Year Stats: Games 8, Avg .821 (23/28), 4 2Bs, 3 3Bs, 17 RBIs, 14 Runs

Overall Stats for my team:
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align="center" height="17">Joe</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.500</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">WSUCougar</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Bill</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5
</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Ardent</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0.666666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.667</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Jobin</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.500</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Armond</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0.333333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.333</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Wednesday May 7th

Rained out :( We also have a bye in the co-ed league tomorrow and are off on Sunday because of Mother's day. So no softball until next Tuesday.

rain rain go away.

We have been rained out Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and will likely be rained out again tonight. This sucks. The weather suggests we may get our game in Sunday though.

Sunday, aka Poli's birthday.

EVERY DAY SHOULD BE MY BIRTHDAY.

Sunday May 18th

Well the rains finally held off long enough for us to get some softball games in. It was almost 2 weeks since I last played. We were playing a new team I had not seen before today. I had some expectations that they might be a solid team. The team is made up of players that work for the athletic complex that runs our leagues. We also didn't have Joe playing today (he of the 3 HRs the last Sunday we played). We still have plenty of offense, but it hurts a bit not having him there.

Game 1

We hit first to start game 1. The pitcher for the opposing team is a guy I recognize from the Wednesday leagues. He is a pretty solid ball player. He hits pretty well and is a reasonable pitcher. He likes to throw a knucleball when he gets two strikes on you. It looks cool because it doesn't spin, but being under hand and all he can't get enough speed on it to make it dance and he generally can't throw it for a strike. He does throw a lot of short picthes which can cause trouble for me and some of the guys on our team.

We didn't get a lot going out of the gates. We did manage to put one run up the board, but only brought 5 guys to the plate. Their defenders made a couple of decent plays, including their 3B who made a very nice play ranging to his left on a pretty hard ground ball that I hit to force Dennis at 2B. So far it looks like they may in fact be a solid team.

It became pretty clear once they started hitting in the bottom of the first that they were not in fact a solid team. They were reasonably successful in the first because our OFs started the game giving them the usual amount of respect and they were hitting lame duck after lame duck into the very shallow OF. So they ended up getting a few hits and scoring 3 runs, but they did not hit a single ball hard the entire inning. We are down 3-1 after 1.

Our bats were still cold int he 2nd. We again brought 5 guys to the dish, but did not get any runs. Unfortunately the lame duck shots for hits continued in the bottom of the 2nd. They were only able to get 1 run out of it though and we were down 4-1 after 2.

The bats finally woke up for us in the top of the 3rd. It's innings like these where I start to feel a little bad for some of these teams. We had 11 hits and 9 runs scored before we even made our first out in the 3rd inning. The wind was blowing hard for the most part straight across the OF today so our big guys weren't able to put on a HR show today, but pretty much everyone was hitting the ball hard. We finished the 3rd with 11 runs total and were now leading 12-4. Barring some freak occurence that should be more than enough for the win.

Really not much interesting happened for the rest of the game. After 3 it looked like we would probably win by the mercy rule in the 4th and if not then certainly in the 5th, but neither team was able to hit for almost the entire rest of the game. So it ended up going the full 7 innings. Each side was able to put up 1 more run each and we took game one 13-5. The birthday boy Poli was 4 for 4 in game 1.

Game 2

The second game started pretty much the same way the last one ended for our opponents. They were quickly retired in the top of the inning with no runs scored. Our bats had been pretty quiet too though for the last 4 innings of play so I was hoping we would get out of the gates quickly. We did pretty much just that. We sent all 10 guys to the plate in the first inning and scored 4 runs to go up 4-0. We honestly probably only need 2 or 3 more at this point to ensure victory.

The other team just got themselves into all kinds of trouble in the top of the second. The leadoff guy managed to get a hit. However the next batter flied out to center and the guy on first was for some odd reason almost al the way to 2B when the catch was made. He was pretty easily doubled off. They then had 2 consecutive hits however on the second one the lead runner tried to stretch the play to 3B and was thrown out. I guess they were trying to make something happen, but running into silly outs when you can't hit is not good softball. We put the game out of reach in the bottom of the 2nd. 12 batters in the inning and 8 runs scored. There is no way our opponents can get more than 12.

After a quick 1-2-3 top of the 3rd we are back at bat. We only made 1 out in the bottom of the 3rd before we scored another 8 runs which triggered the mercy rule and the game was called 20-0. I have to say I would be pretty surprised at this point if we lose a single game this session.

I had a resonably good day at the plate. (Everyone but Jobin hit well today). I was 5 for 8 with a 2B. The RF on the other team was playing the most ridiculous positioning I had ever seen. He was WAY off the line and incredibly shallow. I actually might have hit better today, but I spent a number of at bats trying to beat that guy (I eventually did ont he double). The problem is with the corss wind almost all picthes were inside so I fouled off a number of attempts and had to settle for bad picthes with two strikes. Even so 2 of the 3 outs I made I hit the ball hard so all in all it was a good day.

We have a bye week in our Tuesday league this week, but the weather suggests we should get our Wednesday games in.

Sunday Afternoon Team Record: 4-0
Sunday Afternoon League Stats: Avg .800 (12/15), 2 2B, 1 3B, 4 RBIs, 8 Runs

Overall Season Stats:
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <col width="41*"> <col width="16*"> <col width="17*"> <col width="12*"> <col width="12*"> <col width="10*"> <col width="10*"> <col width="11*"> <col width="14*"> <col width="19*"> <col width="20*"> <col width="26*"> <col width="23*"> <col width="24*"> <tbody><tr> <td width="16%"> NAME
</td> <td width="6%"> G
</td> <td width="7%"> AB
</td> <td width="5%"> H
</td> <td width="5%"> 1B
</td> <td width="4%"> 2B
</td> <td width="4%"> 3B
</td> <td width="4%"> HR
</td> <td width="6%"> R
</td> <td width="7%"> RBI
</td> <td width="8%"> TB
</td> <td width="10%"> AVG
</td> <td width="9%"> SLG
</td> <td width="9%"> OPS
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Dave
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 7
</td> <td width="5%"> 6
</td> <td width="5%"> 5
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 6
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="8%"> 8
</td> <td width="10%"> .857
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.143
</td> <td width="9%"> 2.000
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Jason
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="5%"> 4
</td> <td width="5%"> 3
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 3
</td> <td width="8%"> 6
</td> <td width="10%"> .800
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.200
</td> <td width="9%"> 2.000
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Rick
</td> <td width="6%"> 10
</td> <td width="7%"> 36
</td> <td width="5%"> 28
</td> <td width="5%"> 20
</td> <td width="4%"> 5
</td> <td width="4%"> 3
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 17
</td> <td width="7%"> 18
</td> <td width="8%"> 39
</td> <td width="10%"> .778
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.083
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.861
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Poli
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 12
</td> <td width="5%"> 9
</td> <td width="5%"> 7
</td> <td width="4%"> 2
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 7
</td> <td width="7%"> 9
</td> <td width="8%"> 11
</td> <td width="10%"> .750
</td> <td width="9%"> .917
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.667
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> WSUCougar
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 15
</td> <td width="5%"> 11
</td> <td width="5%"> 10
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 8
</td> <td width="7%"> 6
</td> <td width="8%"> 12
</td> <td width="10%"> .733
</td> <td width="9%"> .800
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.533
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Bill
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 14
</td> <td width="5%"> 10
</td> <td width="5%"> 9
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 5
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="8%"> 12
</td> <td width="10%"> .714
</td> <td width="9%"> .857
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.571
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Chris
</td> <td width="6%"> 6
</td> <td width="7%"> 20
</td> <td width="5%"> 14
</td> <td width="5%"> 10
</td> <td width="4%"> 2
</td> <td width="4%"> 2
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 12
</td> <td width="7%"> 7
</td> <td width="8%"> 20
</td> <td width="10%"> .700
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.000
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.700
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Dennis
</td> <td width="6%"> 9
</td> <td width="7%"> 36
</td> <td width="5%"> 25
</td> <td width="5%"> 9
</td> <td width="4%"> 11
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 5
</td> <td width="6%"> 21
</td> <td width="7%"> 26
</td> <td width="8%"> 51
</td> <td width="10%"> .694
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.417
</td> <td width="9%"> 2.111
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Tom
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 6
</td> <td width="5%"> 4
</td> <td width="5%"> 4
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="8%"> 4
</td> <td width="10%"> .667
</td> <td width="9%"> .667
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.334
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Graham
</td> <td width="6%"> 10
</td> <td width="7%"> 38
</td> <td width="5%"> 25
</td> <td width="5%"> 13
</td> <td width="4%"> 5
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 6
</td> <td width="6%"> 18
</td> <td width="7%"> 25
</td> <td width="8%"> 50
</td> <td width="10%"> .658
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.316
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.974
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Keith
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 15
</td> <td width="5%"> 9
</td> <td width="5%"> 6
</td> <td width="4%"> 3
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 8
</td> <td width="7%"> 7
</td> <td width="8%"> 12
</td> <td width="10%"> .600
</td> <td width="9%"> .800
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.400
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Sam
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="5%"> 3
</td> <td width="5%"> 3
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 1
</td> <td width="7%"> 0
</td> <td width="8%"> 3
</td> <td width="10%"> .600
</td> <td width="9%"> .600
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.200
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Matt
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 7
</td> <td width="5%"> 4
</td> <td width="5%"> 3
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 5
</td> <td width="7%"> 3
</td> <td width="8%"> 5
</td> <td width="10%"> .571
</td> <td width="9%"> .714
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.285
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Joe
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 8
</td> <td width="5%"> 4
</td> <td width="5%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 3
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 6
</td> <td width="8%"> 13
</td> <td width="10%"> .500
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.625
</td> <td width="9%"> 2.125
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Andy
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 6
</td> <td width="5%"> 3
</td> <td width="5%"> 2
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="6%"> 2
</td> <td width="7%"> 5
</td> <td width="8%"> 6
</td> <td width="10%"> .500
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.000
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.500
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Armond
</td> <td width="6%"> 6
</td> <td width="7%"> 18
</td> <td width="5%"> 7
</td> <td width="5%"> 6
</td> <td width="4%"> 1
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 5
</td> <td width="7%"> 6
</td> <td width="8%"> 8
</td> <td width="10%"> .389
</td> <td width="9%"> .444
</td> <td width="9%"> .833
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Jobin
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 13
</td> <td width="5%"> 5
</td> <td width="5%"> 5
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="4%"> 0
</td> <td width="6%"> 4
</td> <td width="7%"> 3
</td> <td width="8%"> 5
</td> <td width="10%"> .385
</td> <td width="9%"> .385
</td> <td width="9%"> .770
</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="16%"> Totals
</td> <td width="6%"> 75
</td> <td width="7%"> 261
</td> <td width="5%"> 171
</td> <td width="5%"> 116
</td> <td width="4%"> 31
</td> <td width="4%"> 9
</td> <td width="4%"> 15
</td> <td width="6%"> 129
</td> <td width="7%"> 139
</td> <td width="8%"> 265
</td> <td width="10%"> .655
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.015
</td> <td width="9%"> 1.670
</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

That single off the fence will be the highlight of my birthday.

For those that may be reading this I apologize for the lack of updates. Rain outs have continued to plague us this year. We have played a few times since my last update though.

Wednesday May 21st

Because of all the rainouts we are playing just our 2nd Wednesday games and we are playing the same team we have already faced. We split with them last time, so getting 2 wins here would be very nice. They are certainly a solid team, but overall we have a good bit more offense than they do and they have a few holes defensively.

Game 1

Things started off a bit rough for us in the top of the first. After getting the first batter out, the other team managed to string together a number of line drives over the infield. We seem to face a number of teams that are good at this. Throw in a couple of botched plays in the field and we already find ourselves down 5-0. In the bottom half our first two batters both flew out on well hit balls, but right at the OFs. Derek (our 3rd recruited super star) was making his debut for us tonight. I laced a double in the gap in his first at bat and Dennis followed it up with a HR. We cut the lead to 5-2.

The top of the 2nd went no better for us than the first. Other than Derek (who has insane range in left center) no one could seem to make a play. We gave them a number of extra outs and when the smoke cleared they had scored 4 more and we were down 9-2. The saving grace here is that we can hit our way out of almost any hole. At least I thought that until we were retired with no runs scored in the bottom of the 2nd. In my first at bat I hit a good line drive but right at the right center fielder.

We held the other team scoreless in the top of the 3rd and it looked like we were going to get things going in the bottom of the inning. Our leadoff hitter started with a nice line drive single. However Jason forced him out on a fielders choice. Then one of the stranger plays I have ever seen happened. Derek came up and mis hit a pitch that led to a little flare into right field. He was angry that he mis hit the pitch and decided he was getting a double out of the box no matter what. The man can flat out fly and was out of the box and around first like a bullet. The problem is he forgot Jason was on 1B. He literally almost beat Jason to 2B. With no where to go Jason had to try for 3B and was thrown out. Dennis ended up driving Derek in, but that's all we could get and we finish 3 down 9-3.

The other team tacked on 2 more in the 4th and things are not looking good when we have 3 straight fly outs (myself included) in the bottom half. We are down 11-2. The 5th inning saw our first very good defensive inning. Andy made a Jim Edmons like catch over his shoulder running straight back towards the wall that was ridiculous. Derek also made a nice catch. And we managed a very good deep OF to SS to the C relay throw to get a guy at home and keep them from adding anymore runs. Finally in the bottom of the 5th our bats started to come alive. After a leadoff single, followed by a fly out, Derek hit a 2 run HR, and Dennis followed it up with a solo HR for the back to back shots. Graham then just missed making it 3 in a row (which would have been an out since we were at the limit) but it ripped off the top of the fence for a 2B. Andy had a double driving in Graham, but then as the night had gone for me I killed the party by flying out for the 3rd time. Still we managed to cut the lead to 11-7.

We held the team scoreless in the top of the 6th with another good defensive inning. Our OF when it is Chris, Derek, Andy and Jason is absolutely ridiculous. If our IF could match their ability we would never lose. We were running short on time and the 6th inng was going to be it. So we needed 5 runs to win and had the bottom of the lineup coming up. Unfortunately they went 1-2-3 and we dropped the first game 11-7. A frustrating game overall. I went hitless for the first time this year and had we hit as well as we could as a team we certainly could have won this game.

Game 2

Graham gets us off on the right foot by hitting a solo HR to lead off game 2. It's starting to look like I may never get a hit again though as I flyed out for 4th straight time. I have actually hit the ball pretty well tonight in terms of hitting it hard, but it has been at someone every time. My team mates picked me up though and we scored 3 runs to take a 3-0 lead. Our good defensive play continued as we only gave up 1 hit and no runs in the bottom of the first.

We got things going right away in the top of the 2nd with 3 straight hits and then 2 sac flys that led to 3 runs. I managed to get my first hit of the night on a flare to left. Possibly the worst ball I have hit all night, but it was a hit at least. We shut them down 1-2-3 in the bottom half and are leading 6-0 after 2.

In the top of the 3rd we continue to put up solid production. 4 of the first 5 batters get hits. I manage to line out AGAIN. We put up another 3 runs though. Another 1-2-3 inning by our opponents and we are up 9-0 after 3. This is much more like it.

5 more hits in the 4th includng a bases loaded 3B by Derek and the game is all but over. With 4 more runs we move to 13-0. We needed two more runs to get the mercy rule called. The other team finally showed a little sign of life by getting two hits, but they were erased on a double play. After 4 we are up 13-0.

We couldn't get anything going in the 5th, but I did get my 2nd hit of the night. Yay me. No runs, but it would take a miracle for the otehr team to beat us at this point. That miracle didn;t come. They went 1-2-3 again and the mercy rule was invoked. We took the 2nd game 13-0.

I was very frustrated losing that first game. They are a solid team, but we really our much better than them and just couldn't get it going. Couple that with the fact that I thoguht we should have won both games in our first meeting as well and I am not thrilled to split the session series with them. Still after the 4th inning of game 1 we had 7 innings of shut out ball and only gave up 3 hits in all of game 2. So there were some positive things to take from the night. The tie breakers is also head to head total score which we have them by a lot. So if we take care of business against the other teams we should be fine.

Wednesday Night Team Record: 2-2
Wednesday Night League Stats: Avg .417 (5/12), 2 RBIs

Overall Season Stats:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cols="14" frame="void" rules="groups"> <colgroup><col width="123"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"></colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" height="17" width="123">NAME </td> <td align="center" width="86">G </td> <td align="center" width="86">AB </td> <td align="center" width="86">H </td> <td align="center" width="86">1B </td> <td align="center" width="86">2B </td> <td align="center" width="86">3B </td> <td align="center" width="86">HR </td> <td align="center" width="86">R </td> <td align="center" width="86">RBI </td> <td align="center" width="86">TB </td> <td align="center" width="86">AVG </td> <td align="center" width="86">SLG </td> <td align="center" width="86">OPS </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Dave </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.14285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.143</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.000</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Derek</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.71428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.714</td> <td sdval="2.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Poli </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="0.75" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.750</td> <td sdval="0.916666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.917</td> <td sdval="1.66666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.667</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">WSUCougar </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.733333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.733</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.53333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.533</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Dennis </td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="43" sdnum="1033;" align="center">43</td> <td sdval="31" sdnum="1033;" align="center">31</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="33" sdnum="1033;" align="center">33</td> <td sdval="64" sdnum="1033;" align="center">64</td> <td sdval="0.72093023255814" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.721</td> <td sdval="1.48837209302326" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.488</td> <td sdval="2.2093023255814" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.209</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Bill </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Rick </td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="43" sdnum="1033;" align="center">43</td> <td sdval="30" sdnum="1033;" align="center">30</td> <td sdval="22" sdnum="1033;" align="center">22</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="17" sdnum="1033;" align="center">17</td> <td sdval="18" sdnum="1033;" align="center">18</td> <td sdval="41" sdnum="1033;" align="center">41</td> <td sdval="0.697674418604651" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.698</td> <td sdval="0.953488372093023" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.953</td> <td sdval="1.65116279069767" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.651</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Chris </td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="27" sdnum="1033;" align="center">27</td> <td sdval="18" sdnum="1033;" align="center">18</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="0.666666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.667</td> <td sdval="0.888888888888889" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.889</td> <td sdval="1.55555555555556" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.556</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Tom </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.615384615384615" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.615</td> <td sdval="0.692307692307692" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.692</td> <td sdval="1.30769230769231" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.308</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Graham </td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="44" sdnum="1033;" align="center">44</td> <td sdval="27" sdnum="1033;" align="center">27</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="20" sdnum="1033;" align="center">20</td> <td sdval="27" sdnum="1033;" align="center">27</td> <td sdval="56" sdnum="1033;" align="center">56</td> <td sdval="0.613636363636364" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.614</td> <td sdval="1.27272727272727" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.273</td> <td sdval="1.88636363636364" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.886</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Keith </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.4" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.400</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Jason </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0.9" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.900</td> <td sdval="1.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.500</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Andy </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="0.583333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.583</td> <td sdval="0.916666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.917</td> <td sdval="1.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.500</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Matt </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="1.28571428571429" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.286</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Joe </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="0.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.500</td> <td sdval="1.625" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.625</td> <td sdval="2.125" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.125</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Jobin </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.769230769230769" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.769</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Armond </td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.333333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.333</td> <td sdval="0.375" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.375</td> <td sdval="0.708333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.708</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Sam </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0.272727272727273" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.273</td> <td sdval="0.272727272727273" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.273</td> <td sdval="0.545454545454545" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.545</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Totals </td> <td sdval="95" sdnum="1033;" align="center">95</td> <td sdval="325" sdnum="1033;" align="center">325</td> <td sdval="202" sdnum="1033;" align="center">202</td> <td sdval="136" sdnum="1033;" align="center">136</td> <td sdval="37" sdnum="1033;" align="center">37</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="19" sdnum="1033;" align="center">19</td> <td sdval="149" sdnum="1033;" align="center">149</td> <td sdval="160" sdnum="1033;" align="center">160</td> <td sdval="316" sdnum="1033;" align="center">316</td> <td sdval="0.621538461538461" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.622</td> <td sdval="0.972307692307692" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.972</td> <td sdval="1.59384615384615" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.594</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Thursday May 22nd

We got quite a bit of rain this morning, so despite it clearing up I was fully expecting our game to be cancelled tonight. Much to my surprise I got the call shortly before game time that they were going to give the games a go. It's been almost 3 weeks since we played a co-ed game so hopefully the team is not too rusty.

We had a pretty tough matchup tonight. We were facing one of the only other two teams that has a real shot of winning this league. We still likely have the edge in this one since our guys and their guys are probably about a wash, but our girls are still better than their girls. However they do have a few girls that can at least play a little so it won't be a cake walk.

As I am writing this it has been almost a week since we played this game and since I don't take this league all that seriously I am having trouble remembering how the scoring went so I won't do the inning by inning break down, but this ended up being a very interesting game.

There was a lot of back and forth scoring from both teams. It was every bit the tough matchup I thought it would be. It also didn't help that Graham and Dennis had pretty off nights. Tempers started to fly a bit in the 2nd inning. One of our girls was pitching and a ball was hit in foul territory. A guy from the otehr team picked it up and threw it back in and apologized that the ball was wet. Our pitcher made a joke saying that she knew he was spitting on the ball over there. A guy on the other bench then chimed in with "That ain't spit sweetheart". I don't know about you, but I think a comment like that is way out of line. I think that guy is lucky the girl's boyfriend doesn't play on our team.

Things got more tense in the 4th. We were in the field and there was two outs with a guy on 1B. One of the other teams girls got a base hit and the guy advanced to 3B. However the girl rounded the base way too far and Graham threw behind her to me at 1B. So as the ball is headed my way I see the guy break for home. So I know I need to quickly slap the tag on this girl before the guy scores. So as the ball comes in I make a quick and admittedly firm tag. I didn't smack her int he face or anything, but I certainly did tag her more firmly then I probably would have otherwise. We got the out, but the guy coaching 1B took two steps at me and said he thought I was being a bit rough. I apologized to the girl, but then said I am not sure what he wanted me to do. I needed to make the tag before the run scored. He repeated that he thought I was being too rough and then the girl said I twisted her ankle. Our SS (another girl) piped up with you twisted your own ankle bitch. Good times.

The final game play incident of the night was in the 5th. Our leadoff batter grounded to the 2B. Now he is very fast and generally beats out infield ground balls so when he hits something on the ground he is booking to 1B. I think we all know too that you should run through the bag when beating out a hit to 1B. So the play ended up being close and the girl playing 1B stepped back into the baseline after she caught the ball. Jim ended up running into her at pretty much full speed since they got to the bag about the same time. He caught her and kept her from falling but again a couple of their guys went nuts over the play. I believe in respecting these girls and all, but I don't think you should baby them. If they are going to be on the ball field then these things happen. Not to mention she was at fault for backing into the baseline.

The game was very close until about the 5th when we started to put it away. When it was all said and done we won 22-14. As we were shaking hands we could have had a real situation develop as I heard one of the guys say he was going to go after the skinny guy (the guy who ran into the girl at first) I turned to follow him and one of the girls on the otehr team said don't be a sore loser and nothing came of it. Nothing like potential brawls in a co-ed game.

I had a very solid game. I played well in the field and ended up going 3 for 4 with a 2B, 2 RBIs and 2 Runs. The 3 for 4 was slightly disappointing as I had not made an out in this league before that. Ironically it was by far the hardest ball I hit all night. I scorched a line drive in my first at bat, but it was chest high at the SS. So we ended up with a big win for us on the night and we will surely have a very interesting game the next time we face these guys.

Thursday Night Team Record: 3-0
Thursday Night League Stats: Avg .909 (10/11), 4 2Bs, 10 RBIs, 6 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cols="14" frame="void" rules="groups"> <colgroup><col width="123"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"><col width="86"></colgroup> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center" height="17" width="123">NAME </td> <td align="center" width="86">G </td> <td align="center" width="86">AB </td> <td align="center" width="86">H </td> <td align="center" width="86">1B </td> <td align="center" width="86">2B </td> <td align="center" width="86">3B </td> <td align="center" width="86">HR </td> <td align="center" width="86">R </td> <td align="center" width="86">RBI </td> <td align="center" width="86">TB </td> <td align="center" width="86">AVG </td> <td align="center" width="86">SLG </td> <td align="center" width="86">OPS </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Dave </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.14285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.143</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.000</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Derek</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.71428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.714</td> <td sdval="2.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Poli </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="0.75" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.750</td> <td sdval="0.916666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.917</td> <td sdval="1.66666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.667</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">WSUCougar </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.733333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.733</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.53333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.533</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Dennis </td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="47" sdnum="1033;" align="center">47</td> <td sdval="33" sdnum="1033;" align="center">33</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="25" sdnum="1033;" align="center">25</td> <td sdval="34" sdnum="1033;" align="center">34</td> <td sdval="66" sdnum="1033;" align="center">66</td> <td sdval="0.702127659574468" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.702</td> <td sdval="1.40425531914894" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.404</td> <td sdval="2.1063829787234" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.106</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Bill </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Rick </td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="47" sdnum="1033;" align="center">47</td> <td sdval="33" sdnum="1033;" align="center">33</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="19" sdnum="1033;" align="center">19</td> <td sdval="20" sdnum="1033;" align="center">20</td> <td sdval="45" sdnum="1033;" align="center">45</td> <td sdval="0.702127659574468" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.702</td> <td sdval="0.957446808510638" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.957</td> <td sdval="1.65957446808511" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.660</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Chris </td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="27" sdnum="1033;" align="center">27</td> <td sdval="18" sdnum="1033;" align="center">18</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="0.666666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.667</td> <td sdval="0.888888888888889" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.889</td> <td sdval="1.55555555555556" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.556</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Tom </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.615384615384615" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.615</td> <td sdval="0.692307692307692" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.692</td> <td sdval="1.30769230769231" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.308</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Graham </td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="48" sdnum="1033;" align="center">48</td> <td sdval="28" sdnum="1033;" align="center">28</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="21" sdnum="1033;" align="center">21</td> <td sdval="28" sdnum="1033;" align="center">28</td> <td sdval="57" sdnum="1033;" align="center">57</td> <td sdval="0.583333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.583</td> <td sdval="1.1875" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.188</td> <td sdval="1.77083333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.771</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Keith </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.4" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.400</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Jason </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0.9" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.900</td> <td sdval="1.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.500</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Andy </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="0.583333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.583</td> <td sdval="0.916666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.917</td> <td sdval="1.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.500</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Matt </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="1.28571428571429" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.286</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Joe </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="0.5" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.500</td> <td sdval="1.625" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.625</td> <td sdval="2.125" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.125</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Jobin </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.769230769230769" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.769</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Armond </td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0.333333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.333</td> <td sdval="0.375" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.375</td> <td sdval="0.708333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.708</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Sam </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0.272727272727273" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.273</td> <td sdval="0.272727272727273" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.273</td> <td sdval="0.545454545454545" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.545</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="17">Totals </td> <td sdval="97" sdnum="1033;" align="center">97</td> <td sdval="337" sdnum="1033;" align="center">337</td> <td sdval="208" sdnum="1033;" align="center">208</td> <td sdval="139" sdnum="1033;" align="center">139</td> <td sdval="39" sdnum="1033;" align="center">39</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="19" sdnum="1033;" align="center">19</td> <td sdval="153" sdnum="1033;" align="center">153</td> <td sdval="164" sdnum="1033;" align="center">164</td> <td sdval="323" sdnum="1033;" align="center">323</td> <td sdval="0.617210682492582" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.617</td> <td sdval="0.958456973293769" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.958</td> <td sdval="1.57566765578635" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.576</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

We had no Sunday games because of Memorial Day and no Tuesday games because of rain.

Wednesday May 28th

Tonight we faced another solid team that we played a number of times last year. The top of their order is very good, but the bottom half has some serious holes in it. Thier OF defense is extremely good though. Probably on par with our OF. However you can sneak some balls through the IF if you hit them hard enough. We won 5 of the 8 games we played against them last year.

Derek had a conflict tonight and Chris was out of town. So we were missing two very good players from our lineup. However Joe was playing tonight and we had a new guy Doug filling in, who was very good from what I had heard. We had anotehr guy, B.J., fill in who had played a number of games with us last year. He is a solid player as well.

Game 1

We were the home team and right away we got off to a bad start. They mixed in a number of hits and we added to the misery with several errors. We had a number of mental mistakes too which really get under my skin. If someone boots a ball I rarely have an issue with it. They tried to catch it and failed. I miss my fair share as well so that is all good. However forgetting which guys are on base and going to the wrong bag with throws just kills me. We did that TWICE in the first inning. They put up 5 runs in the first and things are starting off eerily like last Wednesday. Continuing with the theme of following last weeks performance, our first two batters flied out. We then strung together a few hits and managed to get 2 runs to cut the lead to 5-2.

We played a little better defensively in the 2nd inning, but did give up one run on a ball that was thrown out of play that shouldn't have been thrown. They managed to dink a dunk a few other hits that led to another run and they extended their lead to 7-2. In the bottom half Dennis led off with a 1B, and I flew out to RC. At this point I am starting to believe I will never hit well in this league again. My teammates followed suit and we failed to score in the 2nd.

The top of the 3rd was similar to the 2nd. On over thrown ball led to a run and again they managed to just flare a few in there safely. They haven't hit the ball hard yet. It's working though. They are out in front 9-2 now. We finally started to resemble ourselves offensively in the bottom of the 3rd. All 11 players came to bat in the inning. I had a nice line drive hit in the gap in RC for a 2B. We put up 8 runs in the inning and took the lead 10-9.

We didn't hold on to that lead very long though. The top of their lineup showed what they were capable of in the top of the 4th. They had 3 straight 2Bs and 5 straight hits. We managed to get our finger in the dam though and stop them at only 3 runs scored in the inning. No small feat considering they had scored all 3 runs and had two guys on with no outs. They did re-calimed the lead though 12-10. We couldn't return the favor in the bottom half as our top of the lineup went quietly 1-2-3.

The bottom of the Stafford lineup is just not nearly as good. They have a couple of guys who are capable of weak hits here and there, but they score most of their runs from up top. The bottom of the lineup failed to produce for them again as we held them to 1 hit and no runs in the 5th. We started to hit again int he bottom half. 5 straight singles (including a hard ground ball hit up the middle for me) led to 3 runs and we were back in front 13-12.

The back and forth lead changes continued in the top of the 6th. A number of well placed hits and 2 more runs for our opponents and we are down once again 14-13. It was pretty clear we were feeling it at the plate now though. 5 of the first 7 batters all got hits, capped off by Dennis' 3 run HR. I got anotehr nice hit up the middle. At this point I noticed they were playing a very odd defense against me. The SS was playing me way in the hole and the 2B was shading me way towards first. The middle was literally wide open. I had punched my last hit throguh there and figured since I went middle that would be the last time they did that for me. I was worng they were int he exact same place the next time up so I pucnhed it through there again. We got 5 runs on the inning and took the lead 18-14 going into the final inning.

The top of the 7th ended up beeing a breeze. We set the other team down 1-2-3 and took a nice win in game 1 18-14.

Game 2

We always start our batting order in game 2 from wherever we left on in game 1. In this case our last 3 batters started off game 2 for us. There is no one on our team that is just an automatic out, but the bottom 3 tonight were certainly not the best we had to offer. They went down 1-2-3 to start the game. Luckily for us, despite our opponents starting from the actual top of their order, they returned the favor and neither team got a hit in the 1st inning.

The 2nd inning proved to be much better for us. We got 5 straight hits before we made our first out. I however managed the ultimate gaff in slow pitch softball and struck out looking. I got my first strike when I couldn;t keep a very inside pitch fair as I pulled it down the line. The next pitch was deep and I knew the pitcher was going to go outside on me with the next pitch. He had been doing that all night. While it was outside, it was on the outside part of the carpet and I gave up on it too early and had make the walk of shame back to the bench. Still we ended up with 4 runs on the inning. 4-0 good guys. We tightened up defensively after letting the first two guys reach base and kept them from scoring again. For some reason our defense plays much better in game 2s.

The 3rd inning was more of the same for us. 5 of the first 6 guys all got hits, including a 3 run HR for Tom, his first of the season. I made up for my backwards K, by almost getting my 1st of the season as well. I ripped a 2B over the LFs head that short hopped the fence. We added 5 more runs in the inning and had a nice 9-0 lead. The bottom half again gave off the deja vu feeling that we were repeating last weeks events. The other team failed to score again and it looked like we were heading for a mercy rule shut out again.

Another very solid inning for us in the 4th. We started off with 4 out of 5 hits. The other teams outfield then made two pretty spectacular plays in the OF that saved hits and runs for them. We only managed two runs on the inning and it could have been much much worse than that. 11-0 good guys. Another 1-2-3 bottom half and this is starting to feel too easy.

The top of the 5th didn't go quite as well for us. I managed the only hit in the inning. Once again I shot a ground ball up the middle as there was no one there. We didn't score any runs, but if we shut them down again the mercy rule is called and it's our ball game. In the bottom of the 5th they led off with two hits. The next batter flied out to the 2B and then we got a fielders choice for out number 2. The next batter got a hit driving in their first run of the game. We can still get the game over with, wtih one more out. The next batter cleared that up by hitting a 3 run HR. So we play on. 11-4.

We quickly go 1-2-3 in the top of the 6th and I am starting to get a slightly nervous feeling in my stomach. The other team just continued to chip away at the lead in the bottom of the 6th. We extended the inning twice on errors and they managed to put up 3 more runs. We were one out away from a mercy rule shut out and now suddenly we are going into the 7th with only a 4 run lead. That's slow pitch softball for you.

We got it rolling again in the top of the 7th. 7 hits total in the inning, another 3 run HR for Dennis, and yes you guessed it another gourndball since up the middle for me. So very odd. We tack on 5 more runs and really should have little trouble getting the win now. The other team did make a slight run, but could only manage 3 more and we took game 2 16-10.

A very good night for us overall. We fought out of a pretty deep hole in game 1 and managed to protect our big lead when things started to get shaky in game 2. And we ended up with 2 wins over a pretty solid team. I had a nice night at the plate. 6 for 8, with 2 2Bs, 1 run and 1 RBI. Dennis kept clearing the bases out in front of me so I had no RBI opportunities. :)

Wednesday Night Team Record: 4-2
Wednesday Night League Stats: Avg .550 (11/20), 2 2Bs, 3 RBIs, 1 Run

Overall Team Stats:
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sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.719</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="21">Sam </td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="17" sdnum="1033;" align="center">17</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="0.294117647058823" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.294</td> <td sdval="0.411764705882353" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.412</td> <td sdval="0.705882352941176" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.706</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="21">B.J.</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0.285714285714286" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.286</td> <td sdval="0.285714285714286" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.286</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="21">Totals </td> <td sdval="120" sdnum="1033;" align="center">120</td> <td sdval="422" sdnum="1033;" align="center">422</td> <td sdval="257" sdnum="1033;" align="center">257</td> <td sdval="177" sdnum="1033;" align="center">177</td> <td sdval="46" sdnum="1033;" align="center">46</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="22" sdnum="1033;" align="center">22</td> <td sdval="187" sdnum="1033;" align="center">187</td> <td sdval="194" sdnum="1033;" align="center">194</td> <td sdval="390" sdnum="1033;" align="center">390</td> <td sdval="0.609004739336493" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.609</td> <td sdval="0.924170616113744" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.924</td> <td sdval="1.53317535545024" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.533</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Thursday May 29th

We were matched up against the other good team in this league tonight. A win here would put us in very good position to at least be the first seed going into the playoffs. Both teams are 3-0 heading into the night. Like the other good team we played the week before, this team has a few decent guys and 1 or 2 girls who hit better than average. Overall we should be the more talented team though. We are missing Graham tonight though so that does take a pretty big bat out of the lineup.

We were the home team this game and things did not get started particularly well for us. We made a number of errors in the first inning. Two of the girls showed up right at game time and didn;t have time to warm up. They ended up needing to make throws in the first inning and the lack of warm up was apparent as they threw the balls out of play. We immediately dug ourselves a 5-0 hole. Not a good start against a solid team. In our turn at bat the first two batters both made outs. I then ripped a shot over the left fielders head for my 4th 3B of the year. Man do I hate running out triples. I was stranded there though when the next batter made an out and we were down 5-0 after 1.

We gave up another two runs in the top half of the second inning. Those runs were earned on solid hits by the other team and thankfully not on continued poor defensive play. As we were switching sides someone on the otehr team made the comment "I thought these guys were supposed to be good. We are kicking their ass." It's a bit much to be counting your chickens after 1 and a half innings and only a 7 run lead. We started to cut into that lead right away in the bottom of the 2nd. The first two batters both got hits. Then Dennis came up and hit a bomb over the left fielders head. There are no fences in this league, but there is a tree line that is about 350 feet away. He one hopped it into the tree line for a 2 run 3B. We strung together a few other hits including an RBI 2B for me and we had cut the lead to 7-6.

We set the other team down 1-2-3 in the top of the 3rd and the momentum has clearly shifted. Having seen these guys go through the order now I am not as convinced that they are actually all that good anymore. They probably are the 3rd best team in the league, but I think there is a pretty big gap between us and the team we played last week and these guys. We kept the hot bats up in the bottom of the inning. In Dennis' 2nd at bat the left fielder was playing deeper than I have ever seen someone play on this field. Dennis hit it over his head anyway for his 2nd straight 3B. We put up 3 more runs in the inning and took a 9-7 lead.

We didn't put them down in order in the top of the 4th, but we did manage to post our 2nd straight shutout inning. Including gunning a runner out at the plate. The girls really do make our team. Every other team in the league has a girl catch and then has the pitcher cover any throws at home. Our girls rotate at the catcher position because they are all good enough to play the field and that gives us the ability to make plays at home like that. I got my 3rd hit of the game in the bottom of the 4th. A hard single past the 3rd baseman. So I am only a HR away from the cycle. Another 3 runs and we have a very solid 12-7 lead now.

It seems highly unlikely we will lose this game as we post our 3rd straight shutout inning in the top of the 5th. Again a clear edge we have over most of the otehr teams in the league is that we have a girl in RF that can actually catch fly balls. Against virtually any other team if you loft a fly ball into RF, no matter how routine it is, it will go for at least a 2B. Two guys tried to beat our RF in the 5th and she made both catches. Unfortunately we couldn't add to the lead in our at bat as we went down 1-2-3. 12-7 us after 5.

Our opponents bats finally woke back up in the top of the 6th. They had 6 straight hits to start the inning. All solid line dirve hits too. If they could do that consistently they would be a much tougher team. We managed to limit the damage to 3 runs, but the other team did seem to be fired up now only being down 2 runs. As we came in for our bat the ump announced we only had 5 minutes left to play. So the other team needed to set us down very quickly if they wanted a chance to win. It wasn't meant to be for them though. I grounded out in my final at bat, no cycle for me, but we had a number of hits in the inning and put up another run before the ump called the time limit. We won 13-10.

In the end they gave us a pretty good game, but we really did spot them 5 runs in the first. I don't suspect we will ahve much trouble with them the next time around. A good night for me at the plate. 3 for 4 with a 2B and 3B, 2 runs and 2 RBIs. And most improtantly we are the only undefeated team left in the league now.

Thursday Night Team Record: 4-0
Thursday Night :eague Stats: Avg .867 (13/15), 5 2Bs, 1 3B, 12 RBIs, 8 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.000</td> <td sdval="1.85714285714286" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.857</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Derek</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.71428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.714</td> <td sdval="2.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Dave </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.14285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.143</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.000</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Poli </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="0.75" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.750</td> <td sdval="0.916666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.917</td> <td sdval="1.66666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.667</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="23">WSUCougar </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.733333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.733</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.53333333333333" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.533</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Bill </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="0.857142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.857</td> <td sdval="1.57142857142857" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Dennis </td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="59" sdnum="1033;" align="center">59</td> <td sdval="42" sdnum="1033;" align="center">42</td> <td sdval="16" sdnum="1033;" align="center">16</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="30" sdnum="1033;" align="center">30</td> <td sdval="47" sdnum="1033;" align="center">47</td> <td sdval="86" sdnum="1033;" align="center">86</td> <td sdval="0.711864406779661" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.712</td> <td sdval="1.45762711864407" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.458</td> <td sdval="2.16949152542373" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">2.169</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Rick </td> <td sdval="16" sdnum="1033;" align="center">16</td> <td sdval="59" sdnum="1033;" align="center">59</td> <td sdval="42" sdnum="1033;" align="center">42</td> <td sdval="29" sdnum="1033;" align="center">29</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="22" sdnum="1033;" align="center">22</td> <td sdval="23" sdnum="1033;" align="center">23</td> <td sdval="59" sdnum="1033;" align="center">59</td> <td sdval="0.711864406779661" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.712</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.000</td> <td sdval="1.71186440677966" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.712</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Chris </td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="27" sdnum="1033;" align="center">27</td> <td sdval="18" sdnum="1033;" align="center">18</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="24" sdnum="1033;" align="center">24</td> <td sdval="0.666666666666667" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.667</td> <td sdval="0.888888888888889" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.889</td> <td sdval="1.55555555555556" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.556</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Graham </td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="56" sdnum="1033;" align="center">56</td> <td sdval="35" sdnum="1033;" align="center">35</td> <td sdval="19" sdnum="1033;" align="center">19</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="28" sdnum="1033;" align="center">28</td> <td sdval="33" sdnum="1033;" align="center">33</td> <td sdval="66" sdnum="1033;" align="center">66</td> <td sdval="0.625" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.625</td> <td sdval="1.17857142857143" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.179</td> <td sdval="1.80357142857143" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.804</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Keith </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.6" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.600</td> <td sdval="0.8" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.800</td> <td sdval="1.4" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.400</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Tom </td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="21" sdnum="1033;" align="center">21</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="17" sdnum="1033;" align="center">17</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> <td sdval="0.80952380952381" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.810</td> <td sdval="1.38095238095238" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.381</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Matt </td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> <td sdval="0.714285714285714" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.714</td> <td sdval="1.28571428571429" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.286</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Joe </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="16" sdnum="1033;" align="center">16</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="18" sdnum="1033;" align="center">18</td> <td sdval="0.5625" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.563</td> <td sdval="1.125" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.125</td> <td sdval="1.6875" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.688</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Andy </td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="20" sdnum="1033;" align="center">20</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="9" sdnum="1033;" align="center">9</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="15" sdnum="1033;" align="center">15</td> <td sdval="0.55" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.550</td> <td sdval="0.75" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.750</td> <td sdval="1.3" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.300</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Jason </td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="19" sdnum="1033;" align="center">19</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="0.526315789473684" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.526</td> <td sdval="0.68421052631579" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.684</td> <td sdval="1.21052631578947" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.211</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Jobin </td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="13" sdnum="1033;" align="center">13</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.384615384615385" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.385</td> <td sdval="0.769230769230769" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.769</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Armond </td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="32" sdnum="1033;" align="center">32</td> <td sdval="11" sdnum="1033;" align="center">11</td> <td sdval="10" sdnum="1033;" align="center">10</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="8" sdnum="1033;" align="center">8</td> <td sdval="12" sdnum="1033;" align="center">12</td> <td sdval="0.34375" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.344</td> <td sdval="0.375" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.375</td> <td sdval="0.71875" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.719</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Sam </td> <td sdval="6" sdnum="1033;" align="center">6</td> <td sdval="17" sdnum="1033;" align="center">17</td> <td sdval="5" sdnum="1033;" align="center">5</td> <td sdval="4" sdnum="1033;" align="center">4</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="3" sdnum="1033;" align="center">3</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="0.294117647058823" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.294</td> <td sdval="0.411764705882353" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.412</td> <td sdval="0.705882352941176" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.706</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">B.J.</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="7" sdnum="1033;" align="center">7</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="0" sdnum="1033;" align="center">0</td> <td sdval="1" sdnum="1033;" align="center">1</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="2" sdnum="1033;" align="center">2</td> <td sdval="0.285714285714286" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.286</td> <td sdval="0.285714285714286" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.286</td> <td sdval="0.571428571428571" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.571</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" height="19">Totals </td> <td sdval="122" sdnum="1033;" align="center">122</td> <td sdval="430" sdnum="1033;" align="center">430</td> <td sdval="263" sdnum="1033;" align="center">263</td> <td sdval="179" sdnum="1033;" align="center">179</td> <td sdval="47" sdnum="1033;" align="center">47</td> <td sdval="14" sdnum="1033;" align="center">14</td> <td sdval="22" sdnum="1033;" align="center">22</td> <td sdval="192" sdnum="1033;" align="center">192</td> <td sdval="201" sdnum="1033;" align="center">201</td> <td sdval="403" sdnum="1033;" align="center">403</td> <td sdval="0.611627906976744" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.612</td> <td sdval="0.937209302325581" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">0.937</td> <td sdval="1.54883720930233" sdnum="1033;0;0.000" align="center">1.549</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

Rained out on Sunday, rained out on Tuesday and rained out again tonight. I can not stand the fucking rain.

2 for 6 by my count. Gah.

Thursday June 5th

I had a long post written up right after this game, but the new board will not let me post stats from an open office spreadsheet. It ate the post and I didn't feel like re-writing it that night. Now that a number of days have passed most of the game details have passed. So I will just write up a quick summary.

The team we played was not a very good team. They were 1-2 on the season so far. Their win was a one run win over the last place team int he league. In their other games they were beat 17-1 and 7-0. So we expected a pretty easy go of it tonight.

Much to our surprise they jumped out to an early lead. We certainly helped matters by botching a number of plays in the first inning. We quickly found ourselves down 4-0. I managed another 1st inning triple, but just like last week was stranded there and we were down 4-0 after 1.

They managed one more run in the 2nd before we finally got things together. They didn't socre again the rest of the night and the game was called by the mercy rule in the 5th with us up 15-5. The bats came alive starting the 2nd and the game was really never in question from that point on.

I finished the night 4 for 4 with a 3B, 2 runs and 4 RBIs. I have only made two outs in this league this year. Dennis had a solid night too going 3 for 4 with 2 3Bs, 2 runs and 5 RBIs. Dennis really is at a disadvantage in this league. There are no fences, but there is a tree line that is 350 feet at it's shortest point. He hit two long bombs for triples in his first 2 at bats. In his 3rd at bat he absolutely crushed a ball that would have been way out of any of the otehr fields we play on, but they were playing him at the tree line and it ended up being a fly out.

So we move to 5-0 on the season. The next two weeks we play the two last place teams. So we should absolutely be 7-0 heading into our match with the league defending champs.

Thursday Night Team Record: 5-0
Thursday Night League Stats: Avg .895 (17/19), 5 2Bs, 2 3Bs, 16 RBIs, 10 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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align="right">8</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.526</td><td align="right">.684</td><td align="right">1.210</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jobin (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26693)</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">.385</td><td align="right">.385</td><td align="right">.770</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armond (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26694)</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">.344</td><td align="right">.375</td><td align="right">.719</td> </tr><tr> <td>Sam (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26698)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">.294</td><td align="right">.412</td><td align="right">.706</td> </tr><tr> <td>B.J. (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27016)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.572</td> </tr><tr> <td> (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=-1)</td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td> </tr><tr> <td class="totals">Totals</td><td align="right">124</td><td align="right">438</td><td align="right">270</td><td align="right">184</td><td align="right">47</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">197</td><td align="right">210</td><td align="right">417</td><td align="right">.616</td><td align="right">.952</td><td align="right">1.568</td></tr></tbody></table>

Sunday June 7th

We are finally getting some more Sunday games in this week. With some rain that came in on Firday it was not looking good, but we are ready to play ball once again. Over two months after our first Sunday games we are playing our 3rd week. Terrible I tell you.

We are playign team Ripee who we beat 16-6 and then 20-11 in the first week. So barring any unforseen circumstances I am expecting little trouble with them this week.

Game 1

We are the home team in game 1. We were close to getting out of the inning 1-2-3, but a couple of errors led to our opponents getting on the board first 1-0. In the bottom half of the inning things started off pretty weel for us. We had a leadoff ground out, but then 3 of the 4 next batters got 1Bs, including myself, and we put up two runs on the board to take the 2-1 lead.

Defense was once again not our friend in the top of the second. The wind was blowing very hard today, but I have to give our OF a lot of props. There really wasn't a ball misplayed in the OF because of the wind all day. The infield had some issues though. We gave up another 2 runs and were down 3-2. Two ground outs and a strike out later and we are headed back out to the field still down 3-2.

We gave up another run in the 3rd, but the defense started to play much better. The other team just managed a few solid hits and extended their lead 4-2. Joe changed that for us in the bottom of the 3rd with a 2 run HR to tie the game. That's all we could muster though and we were tied at 4 after 3.

There honestly is not much to talk about for the next 4 innings. Both teams went ice cold with the bats. On our side we only managed to get 5 hits in the next 4 innings and no runs. The other team failed to score as well so we were headed to extra innings. At this point I was quite frustrated. There is no way we should only have 4 runs against these guys in 7 innings.

The league we play in has odd extra inning rules. You only play one extra inning if you are still tied after the 8th then it goes in the books as a tie. Each batter starts with a 3-2 count and you start with a free runner on 2nd base. The otehr team finally got their bats going in the top of the 8th. a 1b and then a walk loaded the bases. Two more hits brought home 2 runs. Two more walks forced in another one and we were now down 3. Someone on the other team did us a favor though. As the batter was walking to the plate one of his teammates told him to swing the bat. Otherwise we would just stand up their and take walks too. That batter swung at a terrible pitch and instead of getting a free 4th run he popped out and we were up.

That guys was right though. We had the bottom of the lineup coming up and I told my guys to make sure the picth was there. We needed bace runners. Sam started the inning off with a hit and then both Jobin and Armond, who were having rough days at the plate, took balls for walks. Chris got a single to score 1 and then Keith took a walk to score another. We needed 1 to tie and 2 to win with Joe up, the bases loaded and no one out. This was like the mother of all gimmie opportunities. Joe smashed a hard hopper up the middle, but the SS was shading him that way and made a shocking double play. We got the tieing score, but suddenly there are two outs. I was not expecting that. The good news was we had Dennis up and a guy on 3rd still. In retrospect I am shocked they did not intentionally pass Dennis. They had seen him hit before and knew he was a beats and 1st base was open. They elected to pitch to him though and he ripped the pitch between the SS and 3B and we took game 1 8-7. A much closer win than it should have been, but I am thrilled to have it.

I hit like crap in game 1. After my 1st inning single, I grounded out to SS and flyed out to right. Neitehr ball were hit particularly well.

Game 2

Generally in these situations we get rolling to start the second game. 3 of our first 4 batters got hits, but we could only get one run out of the first inning. The defensive error bug bit us again in the bottom of the first. I made a terrible play on a shovel pass to 2B that ended up leading to two runs. They got 3 total in the inning and we were down once again 3-1.

My competitiveness got a bit the best of me in the 2nd inning. Armond (my best man at my wedding) led the inning off with a 1B. He had hurt his hip a bit earlier in the game falling down on a fly ball in the outfield. Graham wanted to run for him, but I didn't realize he was hurt and left him in. Chris then hit a shot over the RFs head. Armond was coming into 3B and ended pulling up lame and in the process stumbled and missed 3B all together. He was clearly in a lot of pain and kept hobbling home as I was screaming at him to go back to 3B. They ended up appealing and he was out and I ended up saying some things I am not particularly proud of about him not getting back to 3B. :) We have been friends for almost 20 years now though so he knows what I am like. :) We got 2 ground outs after that and we were still down 3-1 after 2. This was starting to shape up like the last game. We gave up one more run in the bottom half and were now down 4-1.

I led off the 3rd with another fly out. I am completely out of sync today. 4 of the next 5 batters got 1Bs though and we ended up getting 4 runs in the inning to take a 5-4 lead. That ended up being all we would need. The defense really stepped up their game and we didn;t give up a run the rest of the game. We got another 4 in the 4th, 1 in the 5th and 3 in the 7th to take game 2 13-4. That is far more like it.

I had a pretty awful day at the plate 2 for 6 on the day. I did think I beat out an infiled single in the 6th, but the ump did not agree. The real problem is my one hit int he second game was really the only ball I hit hard all day. Still it's only my 2nd bad day of the season so I guess I can't complain too much. So we had a bit of a scare in game 1, but came out of the day still undefeated. Everything is right in the world.

Sunday Afternoon Team Record: 6-0
Sunday Afternoon League Stats: Avg .667 (14/21), 2 2Bs, 1 3B, 5 RBIs, 9 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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align="right">TB (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl23',''))</td><td align="right">AVG (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl24',''))</td><td align="right">SLG (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl27',''))</td><td align="right">OPS (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl28',''))</td> </tr><tr> <td>Dave (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26696)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.143</td><td align="right">2.000</td> </tr><tr> <td>Derek (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27018)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td 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align="right">.864</td><td align="right">1.637</td> </tr><tr> <td>Bill (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26692)</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">.714</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.571</td> </tr><tr> <td>Rick (primelord) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26690)</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">69</td><td align="right">48</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="right">67</td><td align="right">.696</td><td align="right">.971</td><td align="right">1.667</td> </tr><tr> <td>Dennis (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26674)</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">71</td><td align="right">49</td><td align="right">21</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">57</td><td align="right">99</td><td align="right">.690</td><td align="right">1.394</td><td align="right">2.084</td> </tr><tr> <td>Chris (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26687)</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">35</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="right">.657</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.514</td> </tr><tr> <td>Graham (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26689)</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">62</td><td align="right">39</td><td align="right">21</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">31</td><td align="right">34</td><td align="right">73</td><td align="right">.629</td><td align="right">1.177</td><td align="right">1.806</td> </tr><tr> <td>Joe (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26686)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">28</td><td align="right">.625</td><td align="right">1.167</td><td align="right">1.792</td> </tr><tr> <td>Rodney (Poli) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26677)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.611</td><td align="right">.722</td><td align="right">1.333</td> </tr><tr> <td>Tom (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26697)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">21</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">.571</td><td align="right">.810</td><td align="right">1.381</td> </tr><tr> <td>Matt (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26682)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">.571</td><td align="right">.714</td><td align="right">1.285</td> </tr><tr> <td>Andy (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26683)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">20</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.550</td><td align="right">.750</td><td align="right">1.300</td> </tr><tr> <td>Keith (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26688)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.545</td><td align="right">.682</td><td align="right">1.227</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jason (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26695)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.526</td><td align="right">.684</td><td align="right">1.210</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armond (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26694)</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">38</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">.342</td><td align="right">.368</td><td align="right">.710</td> </tr><tr> <td>Sam (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26698)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">.320</td><td align="right">.400</td><td align="right">.720</td> </tr><tr> <td>B.J. (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27016)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.572</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jobin (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26693)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">.278</td><td align="right">.278</td><td align="right">.556</td> </tr><tr> <td> (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=-1)</td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td> </tr><tr> <td class="totals">Totals</td><td align="right">146</td><td align="right">513</td><td align="right">307</td><td align="right">214</td><td align="right">52</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">216</td><td align="right">226</td><td align="right">464</td><td align="right">.598</td><td align="right">.904</td><td align="right">1.502</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

Tuesday June 10th

The rain has been just about as hard on us on Tuesdays as it has been on Sundays. It has been over a month since we last played a Tuesday night game before today. We did manage to get our game in though.

The guy that runs the team told me before the game that we were playing the worst team in the league. They only had one win so far this season. The catch though is that win was against us. Hmm......

We were the home team once again to start the night. If these guys are supposed to be bad they didn't show it to start the night. They strung together a number of nice hits in the first inning, it was pretty clear they had almost 0 power on the team, but they were pretty fast and were hitting some nice line drives. They put up 2 runs in the first. In my 1st at bat I managed to leg out an infield single, to the delight of my teammates. Everyone loves to see me run. Dennis drove in our first run of the game right after me, but that was all we could do and we were down 2-1 after 1.

The other team picked up right where they left off with a string of good hits. Two misplayed balls in the OF hurt us too and we gave up 4 runs in the top of the 2nd. A quick 1-2-3 bottom half and we are down 6-1 and things are not looking good.

The defense picked it up in the 3rd though. After a leadoff hit, we set thenext 3 batters down. Then the oofense went off in the bottom of the 3rd. All told we brought 18 hitters to the plate in the bottom of the 3rd. We ended up putting up 13 runs in the inning. In my first at bat of the 3rd I hit a weak pop fly into foul territory that was just out of the reach on the SS. Our pitcher then called out to me that it was time for another 3B. I ripped the next pitch into the gap between the LF and LC for, you guessed it, a 3B. In my 2nd at bat of the inning a dropped a flare in front of the RF for a single. We now led 14-6 after 3.

We got a little sloppy in the top of the 4th. A few booted balls ended up costing us a couple more runs. Still with the lead we had built we were feeling pretty good. We kept pouring it on in the bottom of the 4th. Another series of good hits and another 5 runs and we are up 19-8 after 4.

That is for the most part where the game ended. The other team did manage two more runs to keep from getting mercy ruled, but the game was called on time after 6 innigns with us up 19-10. This team struggles a bit in the field, but we can hit. In the 3 games we have played so far we have scored 16, 20 and 19. It was nice to get out first win of the year.

I capped off a nice night by ripping a hard line drive over the 3B head in my final at bat to go 4 for 4 on the night. I had a run scored and 3 RBIs as well.

Tuesday Night Team Record: 1-2
Tuesday Night League Stats: Avg .769 (10/13), 3 3Bs, 7 RBIs, 6 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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align="right">TB (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl23',''))</td><td align="right">AVG (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl24',''))</td><td align="right">SLG (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl27',''))</td><td align="right">OPS (javascript:__doPostBack('_ctl0$dgHittingStats$_ctl1$_ctl28',''))</td> </tr><tr> <td>Dave (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26696)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.143</td><td align="right">2.000</td> </tr><tr> <td>Derek (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27018)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.714</td><td align="right">2.571</td> </tr><tr> <td>Doug (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27017)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.000</td><td align="right">1.857</td> </tr><tr> <td>Chris (Coug) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26691)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">.773</td><td 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align="right">11</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.550</td><td align="right">.750</td><td align="right">1.300</td> </tr><tr> <td>Keith (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26688)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.545</td><td align="right">.682</td><td align="right">1.227</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jason (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26695)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.526</td><td align="right">.684</td><td align="right">1.210</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armond (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26694)</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">38</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">.342</td><td align="right">.368</td><td align="right">.710</td> </tr><tr> <td>Sam (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26698)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">25</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">.320</td><td align="right">.400</td><td align="right">.720</td> </tr><tr> <td>B.J. 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Wednesday June 12th

We got to the field tonight and found out the team we split with twcie had lost both games tonight. So we had an excellent opportunity to take a two game lead in the division if we could get both wins. We were playing the same team we played two weeks ago and we took two from them last time. We have beat this team a lot over the last couple of years, but the games are rarely ever blow outs. They play us tough pretty much every time out.

Game 1

The first game was very interesting. Slow pitch softball games are meant to be high scoring affairs. In our first 6 games we were averaging 15 runs a game. We put up 18 and then 16 against these guys the last time we played them. So it was quite a shock to me when after a leadoff hit to start the game, we did not get another hit until the 5th inning. The bats were just ice cold to start the game.

The other team was having an equally tough time scoring. In the seond inning they managed to load the bases with one out, but could only come away with one run from that. Credit needs to be given to both defenses. They came to play in game 1. There were a number of hard hit balls by both teams, where the other team made a good play to rob a hit.

That 1-0 lead held up for our oppoennts until the 5th inning. We finally started to get a bit on track that inning. 4 hits and a sac fly in the inning led to us taking the lead at 3-1. We were still a bit stuck in neutral though. We had the bases loaded with one out after having already put up one run and we could only manage two more.

Our defense continued to shine though and we tacked on another run in the 6th and two more in the 7th to take a 6-1 lead into the bottom of the 7th. Things started to fall aparat a bit for us in the bottom half of the inning. Joe misplayed a ball in the OF that led to a double. Then Tom made a nice play at SS only to throw it out of play by aiming the ball on the throw. They had scored 3 of the 5 runs they needed to tie before we had even made an out. We tightened down after that though. They did get one more across the plate, but we held on long enough and came out of game 1 with the 6-5 win.

I hit pretty well in the game. I crushed a line drive into deep LC in my first at bat, but the LC made a very nice jumping grab in the gap to take an extra base hit away from me. In my 2nd at bat I hit a nice hard ground ball through the middle for a 1B. And in my 3rd at bat I roped a hard line drive into shallow RF for another single. So 3 at bats and 3 hard hit balls. Not a shabby first game.

Game 2

Things went much better for us offensively in the second game. We put up two runs in the first and then had 6 hits in the 2nd including 3Bs for another 4 runs. We quickly jumped out to a 6-0 lead after the first two innings. A much better start for us. The defense also was continuing to play very solid in the field.

The other team started to chip away a bit in the 3rd with 3 runs scored to cut the lead in half and we then had 1 BB and 3 ground outs for no runs in the bottom half. Things got going for us again the 4th though. 2 BBs and 4 hits led to another 4 runs and a pretty comfortable 10-3 lead with the way our defense was playing.

Both teams put up 3 runs each over the 5th and 6th innings. We went into the top of the 7th up 13-6. The leadoff batter roped a single into left field, but that was the only ofense they could muster in the final inning. We set them down in order after that and took a nice 13-6 win.

I did not have as good a game at the plate as the previous one. In my first at bat the pitcher started me off with a very short pitch which I was proud of myself for taking. He then threw me the exact same pitch and I failed to lay off it this time and hit a weak fly out to left field. I waled in my 2nd at bat when he tried to get me to do the same thing on 3 straight pitches. In my last at bat I hit a hard ground ball, but it was right at the picther and he managed to knock it down and throw me out. So 0-2 with a walk in game 2.

All that really matters though is the two wins. We now have a 2 game lead in the division with 4 games to play. We get both wins next week and we all but have the division crown wrapped up for session one. It's highly unlikely we would lose both games the following week.

Wednesday Night Team Record: 6-2
Wednesday Night League Stats: Avg .520 (13/25), 2 2Bs, 3 RBIs, 3 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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align="right">4</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">.643</td><td align="right">1.143</td><td align="right">1.786</td> </tr><tr> <td>Rodney (Poli) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26677)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.611</td><td align="right">.722</td><td align="right">1.333</td> </tr><tr> <td>Graham (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26689)</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">69</td><td align="right">40</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">35</td><td align="right">74</td><td align="right">.580</td><td align="right">1.072</td><td 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align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.545</td><td align="right">.682</td><td align="right">1.227</td> </tr><tr> <td>Andy (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26683)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">.538</td><td align="right">.692</td><td align="right">1.230</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jason C (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26695)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">.500</td><td align="right">.708</td><td align="right">1.208</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armond (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26694)</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">44</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">.341</td><td align="right">.364</td><td align="right">.705</td> </tr><tr> <td>Sam (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26698)</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.333</td><td align="right">.433</td><td align="right">.766</td> </tr><tr> <td>B.J. (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27016)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.286</td><td align="right">.572</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jobin (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26693)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">.278</td><td align="right">.278</td><td align="right">.556</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jason V (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=27019)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">.250</td><td align="right">.750</td><td align="right">1.000</td> </tr><tr> <td> (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=-1)</td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td><td align="right"> </td> </tr><tr> <td class="totals">Totals</td><td align="right">170</td><td align="right">581</td><td align="right">339</td><td align="right">238</td><td align="right">55</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">237</td><td align="right">251</td><td align="right">509</td><td align="right">.583</td><td align="right">.876</td><td align="right">1.459</td></tr></tbody></table>

Thursday June 12th

Tonight we played, hands down, one of the worst softball teams I have ever seen. They could not hit, they could not field, they could not throw, and they could not run. I can't quite wrap my mind around how in the world they are 1-3. Who could they possibly have beaten?

The situation was not quite so clear in the first inning. We led off and ended up getting 3 runs on a 3 run HR by Dennis. However they did make a few decent plays in the inning and it looked like they might be a somewhat competent team. In the bottom of the first their leadoff batter hit a nice line dirve single into left field. That was the last hit they would get this game. We quickly retired the next 3 batters.

The second and 3rd innings were pretty much mirror images of each other. There is a rule in this co-ed league that you can't score more than 10 runs in an inning. We got to the 10 run mark in the second inning only having made one out. After retiring them 1-2-3 in the 2nd, we put up another 11 runs in the top of the 3rd without making a single out in the inning. (The ump lost count so we ended up with an extra run.)

In the bottom of the 3rd we played every single person out of position, but it still wasn't enough for the otehr team to get a hit. They once again went down 1-2-3 and we took the game 24-0 after 3 innings. The otehr team took it all well in stride. I wouldn't have been able to do that. I can't fathom coming out and getting it handed to us on that scale. I might just be a poor sport though. *shurg*

I had a good night at the plate, but really who didn't? 3 for 3 on the night with 2 2Bs, 3 runs scored and 2 RBIs. Dennis was also 3 for 3 with a 2B, HR, 3 Runs and 5 RBIs.

Thursday Night Team Record: 6-0
Thursday Night League Stats: Avg .909 (20/22), 7 2Bs, 2 3Bs, 18 RBIs, 13 Runs

Overall Team Stats:
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align="right">.864</td><td align="right">1.637</td> </tr><tr> <td>Bill (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26692)</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">.714</td><td align="right">.857</td><td align="right">1.571</td> </tr><tr> <td>Rick (primelord) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26690)</td><td align="right">23</td><td align="right">81</td><td align="right">57</td><td align="right">40</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">33</td><td align="right">80</td><td align="right">.704</td><td align="right">.988</td><td align="right">1.692</td> </tr><tr> <td>Chris (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26687)</td><td 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align="right">4</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">.643</td><td align="right">1.143</td><td align="right">1.786</td> </tr><tr> <td>Rodney (Poli) (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26677)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.611</td><td align="right">.722</td><td align="right">1.333</td> </tr><tr> <td>Graham (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26689)</td><td align="right">19</td><td align="right">69</td><td align="right">40</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">32</td><td align="right">35</td><td align="right">74</td><td align="right">.580</td><td align="right">1.072</td><td align="right">1.652</td> </tr><tr> <td>Tom (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26697)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">21</td><td align="right">.577</td><td align="right">.808</td><td align="right">1.385</td> </tr><tr> <td>Matt (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26682)</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">4</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">.571</td><td align="right">.714</td><td align="right">1.285</td> </tr><tr> <td>Keith (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26688)</td><td align="right">6</td><td align="right">22</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">3</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">11</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">.545</td><td align="right">.682</td><td align="right">1.227</td> </tr><tr> <td>Andy (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26683)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">26</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">18</td><td align="right">.538</td><td align="right">.692</td><td align="right">1.230</td> </tr><tr> <td>Jason C (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26695)</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">24</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">2</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">12</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">17</td><td align="right">.500</td><td align="right">.708</td><td align="right">1.208</td> </tr><tr> <td>Armond (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26694)</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">44</td><td align="right">15</td><td align="right">14</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">9</td><td align="right">16</td><td align="right">.341</td><td align="right">.364</td><td align="right">.705</td> </tr><tr> <td>Sam (http://www.statleaders.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&PlayerID=26698)</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">30</td><td align="right">10</td><td align="right">8</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">1</td><td align="right">0</td><td align="right">7</td><td align="right">5</td><td align="right">13</td><td align="right">.333</td><td align="right">.433</td><td align="right">.766</td> </tr><tr> <td>B.J. 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That's a crappy mercy rule... especially for the other team. Some people wouldn't even have gotten to bat!

Our's is 15 runs after 4.5 innings...

That's a crappy mercy rule... especially for the other team. Some people wouldn't even have gotten to bat!

Our's is 15 runs after 4.5 innings...

Agreed although that's actually how all of my leagues work. The mercy rule gets called for 20 after 3, 15 after 4 and 10 after 5. I always wished they just did it like we did in little league. It was always just 10 after 5. If for no otehr reason than we all payed to be out here. I don't want to drive all the way out to play for 30 minutes.

That's the last time I play catch with Graham.

4 for 6 (could be 5 for 6, stupid infield fly balls). 1 triple, 3 runs scored.

What I didn't know until last night:

Dennis hit a line drive to me during BP that apparently reshaped my wedding ring around my finger. The ring now looks more like a "D" than a "O".

2 for 4, 4 BB. 3 runs scored, 1 RBI.