Tough Losses

So this weekend we won our first two games by slaughter rule in 5 innings. Our third game was against the team that would end up winning the tournament and we hit great scoring 27 runs. Unfortunately, they hit pretty well too and scored 33 runs. Our defense made some key errors, myself included, and that proved to be the defense. Come Sunday morning, the other third baseman started and unfortunately he made some big errors, so I came back in again and made all the plays that came my way this time (5 or 6 of them). Even though we took the lead in the bottom of the sixth 15-11, we gave up 4 in the top of the seventh and couldn't even muster a hit in the bottom of the seventh (and yes, one of those hitters was me, which was one of my two batted outs for the weekend). In the 8th they only scored 2 runs and we had the top of our lineup to hit. We couldn't even push one run across though and lost 17-15. Damn. The drive home from Lansing was going to start a bit earlier than expected.

On the upside, our team never gave up in any game and battled back repeatedly. We had pretty good team chemistry which is not always the case on any team. There are two big tournaments left with this team and a few with my other team, including this weekend in Detroit. This tournament is one of the biggees for this softball organization (one of three organizations in which we play). Their biggest tournament is down in Orlando, in which we are already booked to play. Football is on TV, but softball is still being played!!