Bomb’s Away Tournament Day Two

It was early and I was on my way to the field. I was tired but I got myself moving. We were going to play the Tax Dodgers first thing, followed by the Bulldogs if we won. But it was morning and we don’t do well in the morning. A couple guys from the team went to Shakers. It was the last night Shakers would be open as they had lost their lease.

Everyone showed up and people were trying to get going. We were all tired and lethargic. I was put at fifth in the batting order today. I had earned a spot higher because I had been hitting the ball well.

We went out there and we were flat. We could not get the bats going. At one point we had nine up and nine down. My first two at bats were outs. They were scoring runs on us as well. John was playing for the Tax Dodgers today because he had the day off from the fire department. One of their guys hit a screamer right back at me and it hit my glove and my gut. It sort of hurt, but was not too bad.

We cracked the scoreboard with a couple runs, but we were down by about six or seven runs. In the fifth inning we came roaring back and tied the game. Then it was a seesaw battle. We went up and they tied it. They were the home team. We ended up going to extra innings. In the eighth inning we did not score any runs. They had the meat of their order coming up. The first guy had hit a homerun already so I pitched around him sort of. I did not want to give him anything to hit. He got an infield hit and the play was thrown away. Dan got it off the fence, but he had advanced to second. The next guy was their number four hitter. I was really pitching around him. I did not give him anything at all to hit. So they had runners at first and second with two outs. John came to the plate. I was not going to let John we the one who beats me on a basehit. He ended up walking. So the bases are loaded with the guy who walks nearly every time he faces me. A walk and we lose the game. I had to pitch my very best. And that is what I did. I got him to hit and we made the out.

We went out in the top of the ninth and scored a couple runs. It was their turn. They went out there and we made some pretty quick outs to win the game. It was an amazing comeback. One of many we have had against the Tax Dodgers. So now we had a few hours before the next game. I took my truck and drove it to field two. I hung out and watched the games that were being played on the field before us. I hung out with the team and we had a good time.

As two o’clock was rolling around it was time to gear up for the game. I warmed up my arm with Mark and then we went out and started to play ball. This time we were the home team. They went out and scored five runs to start the first. That was a better showing than the ten they scored on us yesterday in the first. We came back with a couple. We were playing catch up most of the game and finally we took a pretty good lead late into the game. They changed pitchers and we pretty much stopped scoring as they continued to chip away at our lead. They took a lead. We could not catch up and lost by a couple runs. It sucked. But we took them to extra innings as well.

After the games I went to Colfax. I decided that I would stick around and go home tomorrow morning rather than tonight. So I hung around the house and watched House on the VCR followed by the normal Sunday night line up including the Simpsons, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, the Family Guy, and American Dad.