Tournament – Episode 2

Another exciting game.  As I said in my previous post, we played against the #3 seeded Senators.  The game was more incredible than the first time we played them when I got hit in the head to win the game.  In the first inning, I gave up four runs which was by far my worst start of the season.  So after the first two innings, we were down 5-0.  But that’s what your team is for.  TJ (a player on my team) came into the game in the second inning to pitch and threw six innings giving up only one run to keep us in the game.  The turning point in the game was in the sixth inning (score was 5-1) when I came up with runners on second and third base and I struck out, but the ball was in the dirt so you can run to first.  I ran to first and beat out the throw, but there was a lot of controversy.  Apparently, the umpire had made the signal for strike three, so the coach ran out to argue while there was still a live ball.  So our baserunner on third made a heads-up play to run home during the commotion.  The umpires decided to leave us at second and third base with our clean-up batter stepping up to the plate.  Their team just absolutely lost their minds!  They were all screaming at the umpires.  Finally, we started to play again.  Naturally, the pitcher wanted to walk our batter to load the bases with one out, but the coach would not let him.  The first pitch was outside, then the coach came out to talk to the pitcher.  Coincidentally, the very next pitch  was a hard fastball into our player’s back! (I know the pitcher and he wouldn’t do that on purpose, but if you didn’t know him, it seems a little fishy) Everyone lost their minds again!  The second baseman who is half my size was standing 2 feet away from me yelling and mocking our batter who is laying on the ground hurt.  It’s a good thing I’m a Christian or that kid would have been knocked out.  After our player was able to get up and walk to first, Scott, our #5 batter in the lineup, came up.  On the very first pitch, he obliterated the baseball way back to left field all the way to the wall!  All three of our baserunners scored and we were tied up, 5-5.  That may have saved us on a day when we could not hit the ball worth anything.  Then one of their fans was screaming and cussing and trying to fight the umpire and got ejected from the game!  So they had lost their minds and we had all the momentum going into the last inning.  We scored four in the seventh and shut them down.  So after all that intensity, all that matters is the final score of 9-5, and we’re on to the next round against the only team that beat us, but that we are definitely capable of beating.  If we win, we will be in the championship in which a team would have to beat us twice in a row.  If you’re still reading, I am surprised and I thank you for reading this whole thing.  I just didn’t know what I could leave out.