Ice Cold Softball

This afternoon we had the Palousitics lunch at Pete’s Bar and Grill. Joe let us in to his place and opened it just for us. Normally he is not open for lunches. The food was good and it was nice to have the place to ourselves.

After lunch I got side tracked. I was going to work on winterizing my motorhome but I didn’t get it done during the daylight hours.

I went to the Valley Road Playfields to meet up with Ryan and the rest of the team. We had our first playoff game. We were playing against a team we already played and beat up on. But they had a different look to the team. We started off in a hole with a five run deficit. They had several players who kept hitting up the middle. I moved Jordan to play a fifth infield position when they would come up and it started to take away their hits.

In my final at bat I was looking at a pitch that was a little high. I swung at it and the ball was going right down the right-field line. I was expecting it to curve foul. But as it crossed over first base it was still fair. I thought I should drop my bat and run, but I was frozen there watching it. Soon it was getting near the fence. The ball was still going straight. Soon it went over the fence about two feet fair. It was a homerun. That felt great. We ended up winning the game and moving on in the playoffs.

Bruce and I went to Moscow to start the playoffs for our Co-ed team. There was frost on the grass in the outfield and the thermometer in Bruce’s vehicle said it was freezing. It surely was cold. We were playing against the team that last beat us in the regular season.

We went out hitting the ball well and then went cold, but started to get hits when it mattered and went on to win the game. We are a good team over all. We already have a tee-shirt for winning the league. I hope we earn one for winning the tournament as well.

When I got home I went to my motorhome and worked on draining all the water out it.