Game 5 vs. Rhythm & Blues
Ahhh...the game of all games. The game that was worth everybody's wild. It was a rematch of last season's Championship game...except both teams' name had changed since. They were known as the Sons of Pitches last season and this season they called themselves Rhythm & Blues. Again, we had somewhat of a crowd.
The game was tight all the way throughout except in the early innings when they took a 6-0 lead on us. We quickly came back towards the middle of the game to take a 10-6 lead. Everything after that was back and forth and very fun to watch. They were leading by 2 runs at the bottom of the 7th, but we were last to bat so we had a chance to win the game. Unfortunately we did not play our cards right. I was the lead off hitter for this final stretch. I got on base and eventually got around to scoring. We were now down by only 1 run. We had 2 on base with 1 only one out so things looked promising for us...but we popped one up for our second out...still with two on base. Our slugger came up to bat and we all cheered him on to knock one out of the park. Well...that seemed to have been a problem of ours. Instead...we should have used our heads and cheered for him to keep the ball low to get our runners to advance, but instead...he went for it and ended up popping up and ending the game.
Again...we lose to the team by 1 run. Overall, we had a very good game. No major mistakes. We were all in sync. I had a very good day fielding and hitting. I was 4 for 4, getting on base everytime. I had really good control of my hits. I knew they would be expecting for me to ground it towards shortstop so I controlled all my hits to fly right...just over the infield. And got one to go just fly right pass 2nd base. I didn't get to play outfield this time. I was playing catcher and got to tag one of their players out. I could have had a second one, but the ball took a huge bounce that I wasn't able to react fast enough to.
There was no reason for us to hang our heads though. We all had solid performances. Just couldn't finish strong.
The game was tight all the way throughout except in the early innings when they took a 6-0 lead on us. We quickly came back towards the middle of the game to take a 10-6 lead. Everything after that was back and forth and very fun to watch. They were leading by 2 runs at the bottom of the 7th, but we were last to bat so we had a chance to win the game. Unfortunately we did not play our cards right. I was the lead off hitter for this final stretch. I got on base and eventually got around to scoring. We were now down by only 1 run. We had 2 on base with 1 only one out so things looked promising for us...but we popped one up for our second out...still with two on base. Our slugger came up to bat and we all cheered him on to knock one out of the park. Well...that seemed to have been a problem of ours. Instead...we should have used our heads and cheered for him to keep the ball low to get our runners to advance, but instead...he went for it and ended up popping up and ending the game.
Again...we lose to the team by 1 run. Overall, we had a very good game. No major mistakes. We were all in sync. I had a very good day fielding and hitting. I was 4 for 4, getting on base everytime. I had really good control of my hits. I knew they would be expecting for me to ground it towards shortstop so I controlled all my hits to fly right...just over the infield. And got one to go just fly right pass 2nd base. I didn't get to play outfield this time. I was playing catcher and got to tag one of their players out. I could have had a second one, but the ball took a huge bounce that I wasn't able to react fast enough to.
There was no reason for us to hang our heads though. We all had solid performances. Just couldn't finish strong.
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