penfield | Ball 9: Last Hurrah?

Last night's softball game was probably the last contest ever in the Green Team's short history. We were only able to round up nine players through an intensive, coordinated lobbying effort, like the one employed during the 2001 Medicare reform debate. Of course, only four of the ten were actually from the team sponsor's office and only two of the ten were women, meaning that we had to play with nine in the field and an automatic out at the end of the order. This in itself was something of a victory, since the Green Team regularly has problems collecting enough people for a game of Battleship.

And we played well, too, kicking the snot out of the team that humiliated my Blue Team last week. Which makes our "last game ever" rather bittersweet; we play with some skill and a lot of joy when we do play -- but it's such a pain in the ass to find players that it's just not worth it. We can't expend the kind of energy we did this week every week. If the Green Team Office doesn't care enough about softball to come to the field, then they don't need, want or deserve a team.

June 15, 2006
Green Team (1-3)
WIN, 14-4

BATTING: 4-4, 2 doubles, 1 triple, 3 RBI, 3 runs
PITCHING: 7 innings, 4 runs
FIELDING: 7 innings, 0 errors

Season-to-Date
BATTING: 44 AB, 29 hits (.659 AVG) 10 doubles, 3 triple, 5 HR (1.364 SLG) 23 runs, 21 RBI
PITCHING: 33.2 innings, 82 runs (17.05 RA, per 7 innings; 21.92 RA, per 9)
FIELDING: 50.2 innings, 6 errors