It was an early, but fun day. We were one of two games at 8:00 in the 19 team tournament. Clearly the early start hurt us as we were down 14-5 after 3 innings. The GOOD news was that for the first game I was 4-4 with three runs scored and two RBI (2 of the first 5). After the slow start though we came back hard but ended up losing 19-18 and had the tying run on third base. Ugh. So close. That meant we were going to have to play something like 10 games during the day to win it all. Tough task.
We made a good run though by winning the next 4 games, 18-0, 14-12, 19-16, and 16-11. We played and beat teams from Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque and I'm not sure where the other team was from. Then we played a team from Illinois who is in the same weekly league and we lost 14-7. For the day I hit .550 and made some nice plays at first. One play was on a foul ball by the dugout in which I slid and made the grab just before the dugout fence. That got quite a few "attaboys" from the guys.
Six games anytime of the year is a long day, but it's especially tough in February when we haven't played a tournament yet or even league play! The team we lost to in the first game was from Phoenix and already played in two tournaments plus play every week on the fields we were playing on.
Still, all in all it was a great trip. Two fun rounds of golf and six games of softball. For someone who had a nasty back spasm last Sunday and had two trips to the chiropractor and masseuse just to get ready to play, I can't complain.
3 comments:
Sorry to hear you didn't end up winning, but it sounds like you got yourself off to a good start for the year and things look promising for you.
and enjoy the nice weather in AZ like the professionals over winter - sounds like a great weekend!
I will be interested to see and hear how your body has held up to all that sudden exercise.
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