Game 6: Ouch

We had a great turnout for this game, both in the dugout and in the stands. Even as the weather has tuned cooler, it is nice to see families in the stands cheering for those playing on the field. Thank you very much for coming out to the game.

With the rainouts of the past two weeks, we were going on three weeks without playing a game. So, it was definitely nice to get back on the field. I just didn’t anticipate spending so much time actually on the field as in lying on the ground.

We had a rough time defensively for this first time all season, and I think a lot of it can be chalked up to rust from having not played. We had a good rhythm going before the rainouts, and I hope that we can get back to that next week.

I thought that we hit the ball reasonably well, but we just had too many “at’em balls” where we hit it hard, but right to the defender. It was good to see solid contact being made after the long layoff, but slightly disappointing that we were able to find more spots.

The way this game started, I thought we were going to have a good shot at winning this game. We scored 5 in our first at bat to get an early lead, and only allowed 2 in the bottom of the inning. However we kind of stalled out a little in the next couple of at bats (suffering from those at ‘em balls), but we were still tied at 7 going into what ended up being the next to last inning. This is where the wheels came off and they put up 13 runs in their half inning to take a commanding lead. We scored 3 in our final at bat, but that just made it look a little more respectable. While we seemed to hit things hard, right at people, they were able to find the holes and take advantage of our miscues.

This game was painful on several levels, both literally and figuratively. First of all, while making a sliding attempt on a pop-up to shallow right field, Justin took a ball off the ring finger of his throwing hand. He took a little while to get back up and finished the inning in the field, then hit his next (last) time up before switching with Michael who was the EP at the time. The status of Justin’s finger is not currently known, but there is a chance that it may be put on IR (along with the rest of him). Although less severe, at least physically, I bruised my pride along with my hands and left knee (which also suffered a pretty nice scrape) as I was rounding first. I slipped, either on the bag or the rock hard ground making the turn, and hit pretty hard, but still made it to second. Kierstyn also mentioned that she saw someone else dabbing a bleeding wound, but I do not have an ID on this other suffering player.

We had a pretty good time this week, but couldn’t quite keep up with the scoring of the opposition.

Final Score: WPC 10 vs. Lumberjacks 20

Even as this week was so harsh, I am anxiously awaiting next week and another chance to get back on the field. Please join us at Veteran’s Park as we take on O.D.B on Field 3 at 6:15 PM (not 9:15, Brian).