Losing sucks!

In brief, we went 0-2 in Sterling Heights Michigan, losing on Thursday (17-9) to a team from Battle Creek and then again on Friday in extra innings 5-4 to a team from Houston. Personally I only had four at bats, which kinds of sucks when you play all year to get to this point. Though I had one hit, I had two RBI's, including one of our four in game two.

Why did we play so poorly? Well, in our first game we just swung at the first pitch WAYYY too many times and refused to work the count into our favor. Then the other team just hit the piss out of the ball. In the second game we were better at taking pitches and obviously the game was close since we went into extra innings, but it ended up being two big double plays that killed us. The second one happened in the last inning when we had the first two batters on via the walk. The next guy hit a line drive which the pitcher got a glove on, but didn't catch. The guy on first fell down trying to get back to first thinking the pitcher caught it initially. The second baseman got the out at first and then there was a run down between first and second on the runner who fell. Ugh. So with a runner on third, two outs and probably our best hitter up, we still had a chance. Unfortunately he flew out at that was it.

So I drove home Friday night and joined LL and her family as they ran in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, a 5k to benefit breast cancer research. I actually ran, despite not having actually run any distance in recent memory and having a typical traveling dinner of two McDonalds hamburgers and an iced coffee. Not the best pre-game running meal. For exercise, normally I use the elipitical machine, which is good exercise, but isn't running. The first mile and a half was ok, then the next mile was tough and the last 1/2 mile plus I ran pretty quickly.

LL's crew was a top 5 per capita fundraiser and even got mentioned at the podium at the start of the race. Cool!