-The Lollygaggers played a pair of extremely competitive games, and came away with a split. In game 1, we rallied from a 12-5 deficit to take a 13-12 lead on a clutch 3-run HR from Bill. Unfortunately, they answered with a 2-run HR of their own, and we were unable to push anything across in the bottom half. In game 2, we fought off a late rally and held on for a 20-17 win;
-We ended the night with a 14-2 record. Coming into this week, the Rounders were immediately behind us in the standings at 11-2-1. So regardless of the results from this week, we control our own destiny. Win two next week, and we finish alone atop the standings. We're playing 10-4 Gray Plant Mooty though, so we have our work cut out for us;
-I have become spoiled by our winning. There was a time when I would have been pretty psyched with a split in C-League - particularly during that season when we only won one game. We have come a long way;
-Bill finished off his season with three HRs last night, and was absolutely crushing the ball;
-Meanwhile, Quast got absolutely crushed by the ball. He was the victim of a nasty hop at 2B, and ended up with a cut on his hand. I'm not entirely sure how you get cut by a softball, but it looked painful. Quast was flirting with disaster all night, as he narrowly dodged a bat I tossed to Erick earlier in the game;
-We had a couple of entertaining swinging strikeouts. There was a motion to start identifying those with Ks on the blog for future beer purchase enforcement, but we'll hold off on that for now... maybe we'll start fresh in the spring;
-It's a shame that the county has done such a poor job in maintaining Barcroft. It's a nice facility, but that field is in awful shape. The infield provides some nasty hops, and the outfield is absolutely atrocious, with huge patches of sand. It makes defense exceedingly difficult, and it's only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt;
-Special thanks to Lianne for being the only fan to brave the elements last night. Even if she is a curse to the team and Erick had to kick her out of the dugout, she was a big help in chasing down HRs and foul balls (thanks to Keller for the latter);
-Seriously, it's getting too cold for softball. One more week, gentlemen.
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I think I have that same spoiled by winning problem. I was very bitter after the first game.
Foul balls is no reason to make me play catcher. Lianne would have frozen to that bench if I didn't provide her with the opportunity to move around some.
If you're not going to insult people other than Quast on this thing, I'm gonna quit reading. Call out the strikeouts so I can mock from NH where I'm sorely missing playing softball and mocking Quast.
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