My teammates owe me. Big time. Many of them still work for a living and had to get up in the morning. You see, I did them a big favor. I went 0-fer in another big slaughterfest by JFT over the Creakers Sunday night. Something like 29-3.
If it weren't for my outs, we might still be batting. What happens if you never get to the fifth inning for the slaughter rule to take effect? Theoretically an inning can go on forever. That is the beauty of baseball, er softball. You all owe me for getting you to dinner at a reasonable time. You're welcome.
The right fielder came up to me between innings and said to me that we are impressive, because if he played deep we hit it shallow, and if he played shallow we hit it deep. Uh, yeah, that is what you are supposed to do. I guess that is why we are 9-1 and you are 0-10.
But the strange and curious thing is the avant guard defense employed by the Creakers. It was like this:
X X
X X
X
X
X X
X X
X
It looked like a checkerboard last night but now I can see what they were doing. It is the Butterfly defense. Flap your wings! Cast the net! Something may stick!
And here's where we hit the ball:
X Y Y X
Y Y
Y Y
X X Y
X Y
X Y
X Y X
X X
X
etc.
When Reggie came up to bat his second time and saw this, now my eyes aren't that good, but I swear there was drool dropping from his mouth as he eyed left center field. Smash! liner to left. On Chopper they adjusted - they moved the right fielder in about 20 feet. Kaboom! Grand slam!
And so it went. We toyed with them for two innings and it was actually only 1-0. Then 15, 8 and 5 run innings followed. The amazing stat in this game is that besides the Slam by Chopper there were only two other extra base hits, doubles by Reg and Randy and Chopper. That's 29 runs on 33 singles and a couple of extra base hits. A testament to consistency. Perfect games by Lefty and Gerry (5-5) and Randy (4-4), nearly perfect by Chuck, Reg, Derek, Haze, and Joe (one out each).
And here is what it has come too. Our own Stink Eye is even bored with shutouts now. He put Derek in to pitch so he could go get our post game beer from the car, and allowed everyone to play wherever. Gerry nearly made another great catch, this time on a smashed liner, and then the next guy hit a legitimate bomb to score a couple of runs. I think they ended up with three. On a rare catch where possibly it was the first time someone called off Chuck, Reg ended it on a schmiddler popup. I'm sure it made their night not to get shutout and have at least a little fun with one rally. We just like fun of a different kind.
If it weren't for my outs, we might still be batting. What happens if you never get to the fifth inning for the slaughter rule to take effect? Theoretically an inning can go on forever. That is the beauty of baseball, er softball. You all owe me for getting you to dinner at a reasonable time. You're welcome.
The right fielder came up to me between innings and said to me that we are impressive, because if he played deep we hit it shallow, and if he played shallow we hit it deep. Uh, yeah, that is what you are supposed to do. I guess that is why we are 9-1 and you are 0-10.
But the strange and curious thing is the avant guard defense employed by the Creakers. It was like this:
X X
X X
X
X
X X
X X
X
It looked like a checkerboard last night but now I can see what they were doing. It is the Butterfly defense. Flap your wings! Cast the net! Something may stick!
And here's where we hit the ball:
X Y Y X
Y Y
Y Y
X X Y
X Y
X Y
X Y X
X X
X
etc.
When Reggie came up to bat his second time and saw this, now my eyes aren't that good, but I swear there was drool dropping from his mouth as he eyed left center field. Smash! liner to left. On Chopper they adjusted - they moved the right fielder in about 20 feet. Kaboom! Grand slam!
And so it went. We toyed with them for two innings and it was actually only 1-0. Then 15, 8 and 5 run innings followed. The amazing stat in this game is that besides the Slam by Chopper there were only two other extra base hits, doubles by Reg and Randy and Chopper. That's 29 runs on 33 singles and a couple of extra base hits. A testament to consistency. Perfect games by Lefty and Gerry (5-5) and Randy (4-4), nearly perfect by Chuck, Reg, Derek, Haze, and Joe (one out each).
And here is what it has come too. Our own Stink Eye is even bored with shutouts now. He put Derek in to pitch so he could go get our post game beer from the car, and allowed everyone to play wherever. Gerry nearly made another great catch, this time on a smashed liner, and then the next guy hit a legitimate bomb to score a couple of runs. I think they ended up with three. On a rare catch where possibly it was the first time someone called off Chuck, Reg ended it on a schmiddler popup. I'm sure it made their night not to get shutout and have at least a little fun with one rally. We just like fun of a different kind.
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