We had them right where we wanted them, up 2-0 in the top of the first - no sir, no ma'am, no thee no he no she no they, no curse of the first for Dark Green, so we lightened it up and stopped at two across.
It was so comfortable, and we loved it so much, we simply stopped scoring - for another eight innings.
We had some good defense and pitching, and we held the powerful Light Blue lineup under 20, but if you don't hit in softball, you ain't gonna win, and the final score was 17-2.
Woody Whitlatch played an excellent game, making several plays at 2B, and going 3-4. On one, we turned a 4-11-3 double play to end an inning. The first baseman had to stretch to the limit of his 5'7" frame and keep his toe on the bag. Later Woody caught a hot shot line drive. John Banker made a nice catch in right field that took forever to come down. Leo Kay had three hits in his return from a broken rib suffered in the practice game. Frank Coppa regained his stroke and joined him with three hits.
We had nary a single extra base hit, and that is not going to win a game in slow pitch softball. But the team has great spirit and no one pointed any fingers and still enjoyed our postgame refreshments.
No excuse but we were missing six players, so hopefully going forward, we will get some of them back and put on a better performance.
