Ball Seven: It's Not Easy Bein' Green
Jun. 2nd, 2006 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfieldI played only my second game with my Green Team yesterday, and that almost didn't happen. This team has a chronic problem rounding up enough players to field a full squad, as if softball games are regarded in the Green Team's office as the equivalent of root canal surgery. Only seven brave souls showed up on the field, with many people scared away by the weather (90 degrees and humid with ominous clouds) or their own innate character flaws. Maybe I should call them the Yellow Team.
Under an agreement with the opposing team, we officially forfeited the game and played exhibition-style with a few players borrowed from their team. The end result was a pretty exciting affair, as both teams scored runs with ease in the gathering dark, punctuated by occasional bolts of lightning (but no rain). We kept score despite the forfeit, and we came back from a seven-run deficit to tie the game in the top of the seventh inning, only to lose the game in the bottom half on an RBI bloop single.
I personally had the game of my life, homering in my first two at-bats and going 6-for-7 on the day with six runs. I even played centerfield and didn't drop a single fly ball. (I probably could have had a highlight-reel catch on another ball, but I declined to dive onto the gravelly walkway in a game we had already lost.)
My hope is that the generally good vibes derived from this game compels some of our absentee teammates to get their asses off the bench, without needing to be plied with easy glory and free beer. Unless free beer would help. Would free beer help?
Thursday, June 1
Green Team (0-2)
LOSS, 28-27 (forfeit)
BATTING: 6-7, 3 doubles, 2 home runs, 6 runs, 3 RBI
PITCHING: N/A
FIELDING: 7 innings (CF), no errors (though I did miss the cut-off man a few times)
Season-to-Date:
BATTING: 34 AB, 21 hits (.617 AVG) 7 doubles, 2 triple, 5 HR (1.382 SLG) 18 runs, 18 RBI
PITCHING: 19 innings, 57 runs (21.00 RA, per 7 innings; 27.00 RA, per 9)
FIELDING: 46 innings, 4 errors
Under an agreement with the opposing team, we officially forfeited the game and played exhibition-style with a few players borrowed from their team. The end result was a pretty exciting affair, as both teams scored runs with ease in the gathering dark, punctuated by occasional bolts of lightning (but no rain). We kept score despite the forfeit, and we came back from a seven-run deficit to tie the game in the top of the seventh inning, only to lose the game in the bottom half on an RBI bloop single.
I personally had the game of my life, homering in my first two at-bats and going 6-for-7 on the day with six runs. I even played centerfield and didn't drop a single fly ball. (I probably could have had a highlight-reel catch on another ball, but I declined to dive onto the gravelly walkway in a game we had already lost.)
My hope is that the generally good vibes derived from this game compels some of our absentee teammates to get their asses off the bench, without needing to be plied with easy glory and free beer. Unless free beer would help. Would free beer help?
Thursday, June 1
Green Team (0-2)
LOSS, 28-27 (forfeit)
BATTING: 6-7, 3 doubles, 2 home runs, 6 runs, 3 RBI
PITCHING: N/A
FIELDING: 7 innings (CF), no errors (though I did miss the cut-off man a few times)
Season-to-Date:
BATTING: 34 AB, 21 hits (.617 AVG) 7 doubles, 2 triple, 5 HR (1.382 SLG) 18 runs, 18 RBI
PITCHING: 19 innings, 57 runs (21.00 RA, per 7 innings; 27.00 RA, per 9)
FIELDING: 46 innings, 4 errors
Getting benched
Date: 2006-06-02 04:37 pm (UTC)It totally sucks, and I was not consulted with said scheduling, and we are both totally bummed that we can't play.
That said, I do like to live vicariously through your postings of the games!
Go Green Team!