Sunday, May 19, 2013

a close one


Once again, we have had more rain here.  We had a few clear days earlier in the week, but by Friday it was time for more rain!  I think they were pretty desperate for these games to happen (4 on Friday).  The fields were muddy!  Our game was first, but I am sure they got worse as each game went along.  Well, we got there and waited, and waited some more for the other team to show up.  It was way past 5:10 and they only had 6 players.  Technically, we could have made them forfeit.  It may seem like, well, we have 12 players and they have 6 so we should beat them easily.  But, not when the other team has their best 5 players there, and only one "hole" in their line-up.  Also, they postitioned their players further back from the front-line, closer to the baselines.  AND, they had no little ones bobbling, falling on, or fighting over balls, which tends to happen in t-ball games.  Even Brandon (Aedan's coach) was hesititant to play, but went ahead and decided to play anyway.  (Not sure he'd do that again!  hahahaha!)  We batted first and got 5 runs.  Not too bad with the max you can score per inning being 7.  Next, they scored 2 runs.  For the second inning, we scored NOTHING!  Completely not like the Braves!  We had base-running mistakes and some other things not go our way.  Since we started the game late, we were only going to play 2 innings, so we had to play some defense to win.  The Braves pulled it through and ended up winning 5-3.  Honestly, the whole thing seemed a little fishy to me.  How is it that only his top 5 (with the excpetion of one) players ONLY showed up?  Maybe it was completely innocent, maybe not.  I guess it doesn't really matter, though.  (Oh, and this team overall is a decent team.  They had only lost 2 games before playing us.)

 

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