I can't decide if last night was a brutal loss, or just one of those to chalk up to the gods of softball, and move on to the next game.
You can't really feel bad about it. We hit .767 as a team. I don't think we made a single error. The only times balls went off our gloves were smashes, and they were hits. Yeah we blew a 14-1 lead, but when they came roaring back, we answered, twice, with six run and five run innings. We scored 5+ runs in four straight innings. The only thing that kept us from winning were two great catches basically at the fence on balls hit by Bo and Cage. who were 6-6 plus two walks up to that point. The score stuck at 25-26.
So, you have to tip your tipsy taco hat, and move on. They earned it.
The good news is that we are still in the driver's seat to make the playoffs - Tipsy Taco is a half game behind us and we own the tiebreaker since we beat them by 12 the first time around. We have the bottom two teams in our last two games; they face the hot SOP team in their remaining game.
Not that it is a given or will be easy. All the teams in this league can hit. M.A.R.A., who hadn't scored much all season, broke out for 24 last night. Maybe the ball is juiced. It sure was carrying out last night, even though there was only one home run as part of the 51 run outburst.
But I like our chances. We are like the Giants in the early decade - all we have to do is make the playoffs. I had forgotten - we've won cotton three straight seasons.
All but two of us had at least three hits. The middle of our lineup - Bert, D, and Hama - were 12-12 with 12 RBIs evenly split. Rusty had two doubles. B, Bo, Cage, Rusty, Coop, and JT all had three hits. Even though mostly the outfielders were chasing drives and the infielders were watching hot shots in the holes after the second inning, there were a few great plays. Bo ranged far on a couple of balls for outs, as did Cage, and Pauly made a stop of a smash to the hot corner in the first.
Milestone:
Pauly 850 ab (#8)
You can't really feel bad about it. We hit .767 as a team. I don't think we made a single error. The only times balls went off our gloves were smashes, and they were hits. Yeah we blew a 14-1 lead, but when they came roaring back, we answered, twice, with six run and five run innings. We scored 5+ runs in four straight innings. The only thing that kept us from winning were two great catches basically at the fence on balls hit by Bo and Cage. who were 6-6 plus two walks up to that point. The score stuck at 25-26.
So, you have to tip your tipsy taco hat, and move on. They earned it.
The good news is that we are still in the driver's seat to make the playoffs - Tipsy Taco is a half game behind us and we own the tiebreaker since we beat them by 12 the first time around. We have the bottom two teams in our last two games; they face the hot SOP team in their remaining game.
Not that it is a given or will be easy. All the teams in this league can hit. M.A.R.A., who hadn't scored much all season, broke out for 24 last night. Maybe the ball is juiced. It sure was carrying out last night, even though there was only one home run as part of the 51 run outburst.
But I like our chances. We are like the Giants in the early decade - all we have to do is make the playoffs. I had forgotten - we've won cotton three straight seasons.
All but two of us had at least three hits. The middle of our lineup - Bert, D, and Hama - were 12-12 with 12 RBIs evenly split. Rusty had two doubles. B, Bo, Cage, Rusty, Coop, and JT all had three hits. Even though mostly the outfielders were chasing drives and the infielders were watching hot shots in the holes after the second inning, there were a few great plays. Bo ranged far on a couple of balls for outs, as did Cage, and Pauly made a stop of a smash to the hot corner in the first.
Milestone:
Pauly 850 ab (#8)
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