Ball 15: No cigar
Aug. 21st, 2006 08:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
penfieldI find myself searching for the underlying theme in my Blue Team's latest defeat. There was not a lot of drama to the proceedings, despite the razor-thin margin; as opposed to our heartbraking previous one-run loss, there were no walk-off heroics to snatch the grog of victory from our grubby hands. There was no seething antagonism between our team and the other team and/or third-party bystanders. There were no gruesome injuries, spectacular plays, strategic fuck-ups or strokes of genius. No, we simply dug ourselves into a hole with some lazy play and missed opportunities and came up short on a late-inning rally.
The team is a mere 6-4 now, with two scheduled games left. We're ranked #47 on the league toteboard and -- barring a total Tom-Cruise-magnitude collapse by a number of other teams -- on the outside of the playoffs looking in. Maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Maybe we can relax now and savor the rest of the season instead of stressing about our record, our scoring margin, and the quality of our opponent. It certainly will be nice, not getting up at 9 in the morning some fall Saturday to get our asses pulverized by softball-playing killer robots.
It was not a particularly productive day for me, either. Even after being moved out of the leadoff spot, I remain mired in my dog-days slump, collecting two lousy singles in four at-bats. Only I can give up 14 runs in seven innings and call it a success; it was all the more so after suffering a vicious line drive to the mound that struck me a good foot and a half from my groin.
August 16, 2006
Blue Team (6-4)
LOSS, 14-13
BATTING: 2-4, 2 runs
PITCHING: 7 innings, 14 runs
FIELDING: 7 innings, no errors
Season-to-Date
BATTING: 74 AB, 48 hits (.649 AVG) 17 doubles, 4 triple, 6 HR (89 Total bases, 1.230 SLG) 40 runs, 31 RBI
PITCHING: 70.2 innings, 185 runs (18.32 RA, per 7 innings; 23.56 RA, per 9)
FIELDING: 95.2 innings, 11 errors
The team is a mere 6-4 now, with two scheduled games left. We're ranked #47 on the league toteboard and -- barring a total Tom-Cruise-magnitude collapse by a number of other teams -- on the outside of the playoffs looking in. Maybe this isn't such a bad thing. Maybe we can relax now and savor the rest of the season instead of stressing about our record, our scoring margin, and the quality of our opponent. It certainly will be nice, not getting up at 9 in the morning some fall Saturday to get our asses pulverized by softball-playing killer robots.
It was not a particularly productive day for me, either. Even after being moved out of the leadoff spot, I remain mired in my dog-days slump, collecting two lousy singles in four at-bats. Only I can give up 14 runs in seven innings and call it a success; it was all the more so after suffering a vicious line drive to the mound that struck me a good foot and a half from my groin.
August 16, 2006
Blue Team (6-4)
LOSS, 14-13
BATTING: 2-4, 2 runs
PITCHING: 7 innings, 14 runs
FIELDING: 7 innings, no errors
Season-to-Date
BATTING: 74 AB, 48 hits (.649 AVG) 17 doubles, 4 triple, 6 HR (89 Total bases, 1.230 SLG) 40 runs, 31 RBI
PITCHING: 70.2 innings, 185 runs (18.32 RA, per 7 innings; 23.56 RA, per 9)
FIELDING: 95.2 innings, 11 errors
