taking one for the team

Well, our church softball season is now over. Once again, we were the runner-ups.

I haven't given as many updates this year. I did hit alot less homers this year (2), but I had a batting average of about .800. Also, I made an unassisted double play from centerfield. Ok since you want to know, there was a runner on first and the ball was a looper in shallow center. The girl on first did not think i would catch it (she obviously hadn't seen me in action), but i did. She was already about 3/4 of the way to second base when I caught it about 30 feet behind second base. I could have just thrown it to first to double her up, but chasing her down gave me the thrill of knowing that on my blog i could tell the world that i made an unassisted DP.

We won the semi-final game yesterday. I was proud of us. The team we played beat us earlier in the season 22-4. We came back in the bottom of the 7th (the last inning) to win 12-11.

We lost the championship game because we made too many errors, and the team we played was really, really good. I knew going into this game that for us to win we would have to take advantage of every little opportunity we had. At the beginning of the game I led off with a double and the girl after me hit a grounder to the shortstop-- I knew that I needed to get to third so that if the next player hit a fly ball in the outfield I could tag and score. The shortstop looked me back to second and then fired to first. When the ball left his hand I took off for third. The first baseman made a great throw to third, but I did a nifty slide, eluding the tag. By the way, I slid on hard dirt at a full sprint wearing mesh shorts. Hence, the pic above of my battle wound. I wore it proud throughout the rest of the game. The ladies on the team were calling for a first aid kit and wanted me to bandage it. I didn't even wipe the dirt. For the rest of the game I played with a dirty and bloody right leg. It made me look pretty intimidating, I think.