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Kickball: Game 3
posted Thursday, 10 May 2007
My kickball team actually showed some moxie this week, but lost again to go 0-3 for the season. It was interesting: we were up 1-0 for 2 of the 5 innings, then we had a disastrous 3rd inning where we gave up five runs, then we came back in the top of the 5th by scoring 2 runs...then lost 5-3. The disastrous third was partially brought about by our ex-Marine catcher's tendency to try to hit the runner with the ball on his/her way to first base.
Since no one is standing beyond the foul line to catch the ball if you miss, it's a really bad idea...and I'm puzzled as to why it's taken him three games to figure that out, but oh well. It was the first game in which we scored more than one run in a game. More than likely, we are still at the bottom of the division. But it's just kickball, so nobody cares that much.
As for me, we made two key adjustments in that game: we stopped throwing the ball at the runner going to first, and we put me in center field. Sadly, I actually was the one who started off our disastrous third inning by botching a fly ball to center field. I was surprised to be heading out there, and I didn't have my cleats on. It was my first dropped catch of the season, and it started their big inning. It certainly wasn't the biggest reason (nobody scored on the play), but it didn't help.
Fortunately, I settled down after that...because I saw a lot more fielding action. I put my cleats on between innings and made up for my early gaffe by recording 3 catch-outs over the next 2 innings. Two of them were plays that had me running fast, and one of them had me running at near full-speed (and making an over-the-shoulder catch). In my head I was thinking: "Why the fuck do they keep kicking to center? Do they really think I'm going to keep screwing up?" Well, I did the opposite of screwing up. I got props from both teams after my second big defensive inning, and the other team finally started advising their kickers to avoid kicking in my direction. And thanks in part to my defense, we had a shot to tie the game, down 2 runs with runners on 1st and second.
But what the fuck, it's only kickball. The drinking is the priority.
Since no one is standing beyond the foul line to catch the ball if you miss, it's a really bad idea...and I'm puzzled as to why it's taken him three games to figure that out, but oh well. It was the first game in which we scored more than one run in a game. More than likely, we are still at the bottom of the division. But it's just kickball, so nobody cares that much.
As for me, we made two key adjustments in that game: we stopped throwing the ball at the runner going to first, and we put me in center field. Sadly, I actually was the one who started off our disastrous third inning by botching a fly ball to center field. I was surprised to be heading out there, and I didn't have my cleats on. It was my first dropped catch of the season, and it started their big inning. It certainly wasn't the biggest reason (nobody scored on the play), but it didn't help.
Fortunately, I settled down after that...because I saw a lot more fielding action. I put my cleats on between innings and made up for my early gaffe by recording 3 catch-outs over the next 2 innings. Two of them were plays that had me running fast, and one of them had me running at near full-speed (and making an over-the-shoulder catch). In my head I was thinking: "Why the fuck do they keep kicking to center? Do they really think I'm going to keep screwing up?" Well, I did the opposite of screwing up. I got props from both teams after my second big defensive inning, and the other team finally started advising their kickers to avoid kicking in my direction. And thanks in part to my defense, we had a shot to tie the game, down 2 runs with runners on 1st and second.
But what the fuck, it's only kickball. The drinking is the priority.
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