{"id":3179,"date":"2010-09-04T23:02:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T07:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/?p=3179"},"modified":"2010-09-06T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T22:16:28","slug":"asa-western-nationals-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/?p=3179","title":{"rendered":"ASA Western Nationals Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We made our way to the field for the first of softball games.  It is a straight double-elimination tournament.  It is only a two game guarantee.  That means we don&#8217;t have a lot of room to warm up.  One of the guys who was supposed to play with us backed out.  But he didn&#8217;t tell us so we were not able to find a replacement.  He had known for several days.  So that really screwed us over.  We only have ten guys.  Anyone gets hurt and then we are in even worst shape. <\/p>\n<p>In the first game we played the team tight.  I played well with two doubles and a walk as well as a reach-on-error.  We were tied going into the seventh inning.  But then they scored ten runs.  We were not able to mount a come back to overcome that and we ended up losing the game.  A couple us went to Panda Express for lunch and then back to the field. <\/p>\n<p>Now we have our backs against the wall for the rest of the tournament.  If we lose we go home.  I really don&#8217;t want to leave the tournament in the first day.  Our second game we were playing a local team.  They lost by fourteen runs in their first game.  It was like a baseball game against them.  We won four to three.  But it was a battle to just get those four runs.  We just didn&#8217;t hit the ball very well.  But our defense really helped us to stay in the game.  I had a very bad game at the plate.  I couldn&#8217;t hit the ball to save my life.  I made three outs.<\/p>\n<p>After the games we went back to the hotel.  I got cleaned up and met several other guys at the swimming pool.  There were a lot of people there playing in the water and having fun.  I was thirsty so I went to get some water and pop from the store.  Then we went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner.  It was some good stuff.  I was completely full by the time we left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We made our way to the field for the first of softball games. It is a straight double-elimination tournament. It is only a two game guarantee. That means we don&#8217;t have a lot of room to warm up. One of the guys who was supposed to play with us backed out. But he didn&#8217;t tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottyanderson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}