| I've just noticed that berecruited.com had a application for a blog. As we all know Spring is the time for rain. Apparently Fall didn't get the memo. So when we were able to play two games on Sunday two weeks ago, I was a little excited when I had my first glimpse of the sun in about 3 weeks. We lost both games, I'm just going to flat out say it. I played shortstop and I made several routine ground balls. One of these ground balls rolled toward second. I fielded the ball, touched second and threw the ball to first to make a double play. It happened so fast that it felt like it was the sloppiest play I had ever made, and when I had thrown the ball it was a submarine. As far as hitting goes, I had a single, a walk, and a hit by pitch. Fun fact: I have been hit every single game this fall. Now here is when we get cooking. I was the starting pitcher for game two. I struck out 5, walked 1 all in 5 innings. What seemed to get people was the curve ball. No one could hit it or even foul it off. Everyone watched the change up, because it has the appearance of a knuckle ball, but it curves down and it is extremely slow. After ending on a strike out. I was moved to shortstop. The guy who was supposed to pitch after me had showed up during the middle of the 5th inning of the second game and had decided to leave. So we were stuck with putting in our back up catcher to pitch. As you can imagine...that didn't turn out so well. Immediately he walked a few and we lost our 2-0 lead. I made two of the three plays to get out of that inning. A throw to second, and a pop-up to shortstop. As far as batting goes, I walked twice and I got hit, and try this on for size. I got hit in the neck. So please don't say "It feels good, rub some dirt on it, or don't rub it". Its not pleasant. As I said earlier we lost both games, but as far as pitching goes, it was a very successful day for me. Thank you for reading and I will post another blog when mother nature decides to let us see light of day again. |
