Nadirs in the Playoffs

April 20th, 2005

I was excited for this evening to come. The Nadirs were back in the playoffs and we were playing Below Me. We beat them in the regular season sixteen to six. Ryan and I spent part of the trying to figure out a line up and playing positions for everyone. It took a while to hammer it out and see what we could come up with that would be fair to as many people as possible.

I spent some time also trying to debug the negative rental income I am working on. It took a long time to find a spot it would break for me. Finally I found it. So I started to step through the process. I think I found where one problem is. I just have to continue to step through it and see what else is going on. So I recorded some of the information in the journal I have.

Finally at four o’clock I started to get ready for softball. I was putting on my ankle brace and one of the laces broke. I was mad. I have to fix it. The lace is located near the bottom, so I had to do some fancy stuff so it would get tight when I lace it up. Then I drove to the field. Ben and Ryan were there and Oly also showed up. We walked to our field. I was pulling on the shoe lace on my cleats. The eyelet in the shoe broke. I yelled out in frustration. Both problems were on my left foot.


Ben, Mark, and Dave come off
the field after warming up

We threw the ball around to warm up. Ryan brought the line-ups and fielding positions he printed out. I got the line ups written down and informed everyone of their fielding positions. Ryan went out for the coin toss. He lost so we were the away team. We went to work right away. We scored four runs right away. I had a stand up triple.

In their half of the first inning they scored two runs. We had the lead going into the bottom of the third inning when they scored four runs. There was a ball that Ben ran down in the outfield. It appeared that the ball was out of play when he touched it. But the umpire said it was fair. So the ball was thrown in and people were arguing with the umpire and not making the play. They scored an extra run because of that.


Phil trying to get something started

Both teams were scoreless in the forth. In the fifth, they scored another run and were ahead of us seven to four. We were in the top of the sixth inning. That is the last inning of an Intramural game. We needed three runs after having been held scoreless for four straight innings. We went out there and finally started to hit a little bit. We scored two runs on a hit by Ryan, and then they threw the ball out of play allowing one more run to come in. We tied it up. Then we made the final out. They went up in the sixth and we held them scoreless. So it was off to extra innings.

During the game while Bryce was playing second base he ran with his back to the infield to make a juggling catch of a ball. It was great. Later Ryan, while at second, did a long run and caught one over his head. We get through the seventh and eighth inning scoreless.

In the top of the ninth, we finally broke it open with two runs. They took their at bat and scored one with an out. Then they had two on base with two out. Rudolph was playing right field. The other outfielders were all playing in left field, because we had a rover going.

The ball was driven deep to right-center. Rudolph got on his horse and ran like crazy. He back was to the infield the whole time. I did not think he would get to the ball. With two outs the baserunners were running for home. If the ball got on the ground there would have been no time for a play at home. They would win the game and eliminate us from the playoffs. I sat there thinking we were done for. Then with his back to the outfield Rudolph made a diving catch and caught the ball! The team cheering and ran to right-field to meet up with him and give him props. It was in many ways like winning the whole thing for us. We battled andwh battled. We made some good defensive plays and finally the game was won with a catch that would have been on ESPN had it been recorded.


Back: Aaron, Richard, Ben, Mark, Jory, Trent, Ryan R
First: Ryan G, Scotty, Phil, Dave, Bryce

After that game we got a team picture taken. Then we played the Longballs. It was a bad game and we lost after only getting three hits. But in many ways, winning the whole thing would have been cool, but compared to the first game, anything else would have been anti-climatic.


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