It has begun
Our men's league here in town kicked off tonight. We opened with the two-time defending champion team Wray Roofing. The lineup we fielded was pretty makeshift as the normal shortstop and two outfielders were gone, so I was a little concerned.We were slated to start at 6:30. At 6:25, it was shaping up to be a beautiful evening with no wind and temps in the mid 70's. At 6:27, it was blowing from the north around 30 m.p.h. How much do I love the gust front in kansas? So now I have to battle the wind because on our field you're pitching into the wind. I was also nervous for some reason so I promptly walked the first two batters.
We ended up getting out of the inning only giving up three runs. Of course we started out like we were swinging limp noodles and went down in order.
In the top of the second, we held them scoreless, but managed to manufacture two runs to cut it to 3-2 in the bottom of the second. Both teams went down in order in the third. Thanks to some incredibly skillless picthing by me, they jacked three out and took an 11-2 lead after three and a half. We scored 6 on some base hits and a couple of errors to cut it to 11-8 after four. in the fifth, they scored 6 more to take a 17-8 lead. Our offense disappeared but our defense stayed strong.
The score still stood at 17-8 after five and a half innings. The bottom of the sixth was like the dam bursting. Koehn walked. Dibbens then singled Koehn to second. Brian came up and blasted one into the park behind right center. Chris N. followed up Brian's shot with a blast to left center. I singled and then was moved to second on Keith's single. Gillespe came up and looped one that scored me. Somewhere in there, we made an out. I think it was Ensy. Anyways, we went through the lineup again, with the bases juiced when Chris N. hit one down the street. Again, i singled and scored. We ended up dropping FOURTEEN runs on them to take a 22-17 lead.
Now, with all of our luck, I figured a collapse was going to happen. It didn't. We faced four batters and had three of them fly out. Booyah!! I was almost dancing because I had never beaten that team, and they had talked a bunch of shit before the season began.
So we're in uncharted waters as we're 1-0 on the young season. I can't wait for Friday.
posted by Rusty @ 9:50 PM
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