Sometimes the baseball gods are just too cruel. Twenty four hours before game time, we were supposed to have 13 players available. Yeah we would be without our power hitter Jim Alexander and also Andy Steinberg, who has been a tough out lately, but 13 was manageable.
Within those 24 hours, I heard from three players. One player informed me that he had had minor surgery in two places, and wasn't sure he would be able to run today, since one was on his foot. A second player's wife, returning from vacation had a medical emergency and was in the ER in Reno. At game time today he was on a train through the Sierra to go rescue her. Luckily it is not life threatening and she will be all right. And to top it off at 2:30 am I heard that our primary SS had the flu, He was going to try to gut it out but it was just not possible.
No excuses, even though I just named a few! And I won't even mention one aching hamstring and one Achilles and the player recovering from Covid.
No Excuses! Shut Up!
We decided we would just go out and have some fun. That's what senior softball is all about right?
And so we did. We started out close, but then gave up two five run innings, and fell behind 12-1. We came back a little and had it at 12-7 but then withered, and eventually went down 17-9 in a heat shortened seven inning affair.
Chuck Howlett manning the hot corner had one inning where he stopped three shots ticketed for the left field line. LF Dan DeClercq and LC Willie Hollis tracked down tough chances, but the play of the game was an all out dive by RC Dick Stanley, sore foot and all. The ball never touched the green grass.
Hollis was hot, going 5-5, Pitcher Steve Bedrick 4-4. The Coach, DeClercq, Stanley, and Dale Browne chipped in three hits each.
I am just left wondering what kind of damage this team could actually do if we all showed up in the same game. Hopefully in the playoffs.
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