- May 11, 2009
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Tough day! We lost our first 3-2 in the last inning. And had the second taken away from us in a way I have never had before in all my years coaching. We were tied 2-2 after first. Rain on and off all day, horrible playing conditions. Rained on our top half of second. We were home team. My pitcher pitched in rain, our #2 pitcher, for most of the second before it stopped and we gave up 8. My team pretty much gave up. I told them the fat guy (me) has not sang yet.
Starts to rain again in between innings and ump asks if I want to quit. I say no. We pitched in the rain they can pitch in the rain. We kept playing. We rip off 4 quick runs with 1 out. My #1 pitcher hits a triple and scores 2 more. Next batter hits double, #1 pitcher slips on home plate and slams all her weight onto her ankle on the back side of the plate, DONE!! Badly sprained ankle. My wife/head coach goes nuts about conditions. We were already playing a 5th grader in a 14U tourney due to injuries. Tourney director comes out to the field looks at it and leaves. We keep playing. We get our second out. Load up the bases and get a single to score one. Tie game. Second in charge of tourney comes over and says game over get off the field. WHAT? Bases loaded 2 out tie game we are the home team and game over? We do not play with drop dead time limits. the game before ours went 3 extra innings.
Now if it cannot get worse we go to the other team and they say the score is 12-8 them. We went through 13 batters that inning and we were on the 14th batter with the bases loaded and 2 outs. And we only scored 6 in that inning???.....OK nice math. I guess I had girls stacked two high on base somewhere.........Then the lady keeping their book told my wife she could not count. My girls got one taken away from them, I really hate that. To fight back from down 8 and lose one more of our key players then all of this happens, WOW!
Our original #1 pitcher was already out due to a thigh injury, we now lose our replacement #1 pitcher. Lost our starting second baseman with a pulled shoulder muscle today as well. We are now down to 7 active players as we had 3 out before today with injuries and added 2 more today.
Season might be over and this was our second tourney of the year!!! We had high hopes this year. I will not give up just yet, we will keep fighting and pulling younger girls up to fill spots as needed.
Alright enough crying!
Mike
Starts to rain again in between innings and ump asks if I want to quit. I say no. We pitched in the rain they can pitch in the rain. We kept playing. We rip off 4 quick runs with 1 out. My #1 pitcher hits a triple and scores 2 more. Next batter hits double, #1 pitcher slips on home plate and slams all her weight onto her ankle on the back side of the plate, DONE!! Badly sprained ankle. My wife/head coach goes nuts about conditions. We were already playing a 5th grader in a 14U tourney due to injuries. Tourney director comes out to the field looks at it and leaves. We keep playing. We get our second out. Load up the bases and get a single to score one. Tie game. Second in charge of tourney comes over and says game over get off the field. WHAT? Bases loaded 2 out tie game we are the home team and game over? We do not play with drop dead time limits. the game before ours went 3 extra innings.
Now if it cannot get worse we go to the other team and they say the score is 12-8 them. We went through 13 batters that inning and we were on the 14th batter with the bases loaded and 2 outs. And we only scored 6 in that inning???.....OK nice math. I guess I had girls stacked two high on base somewhere.........Then the lady keeping their book told my wife she could not count. My girls got one taken away from them, I really hate that. To fight back from down 8 and lose one more of our key players then all of this happens, WOW!
Our original #1 pitcher was already out due to a thigh injury, we now lose our replacement #1 pitcher. Lost our starting second baseman with a pulled shoulder muscle today as well. We are now down to 7 active players as we had 3 out before today with injuries and added 2 more today.
Season might be over and this was our second tourney of the year!!! We had high hopes this year. I will not give up just yet, we will keep fighting and pulling younger girls up to fill spots as needed.
Alright enough crying!
Mike
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