Game #2

... While Kates went off to the family farm for the rest of the Memorial Day weekend, I stayed home to play baseball.

Game Two of the inagural MSBL season in our fair city ...

I started and played the entire day in right field, but that's about as good as it would get. We got clobbered again, thanks to untimely errors and a lack of good hitting. And it didn't help the opposing team had a dominant pitcher who could hurl some heat and then mix in a darn good curve to knock you out ...

I made my first plate appearance in the third and worked the count to 3-2. I managed to foul off a high fastball at the letters and the guy threw me a curve that just disappeared under my bat. I slammed my bat down in frsutration, and THEN, heard my teammates yelling the catcher had dropped the third strike ... So I take off running to first, and see the catcher's throw sail over the first baseman's head. So now I turn it on and head for second, and I look back to see the first baseman still hadn't gotten to the ball, which means I'm heading for third. ... I came in standing up. Not bad for striking out. ... and a couple pitches later, Coach called for a squeeze bunt (not a bad idea since we weren't getting runs across the plate otherwise ...) I got a good jump down the line and Johnny laid down a perfect bunt. Pitcher picked up and threw to first while I slid in safe at home ...

In the field, I didn't fare much better. I let one ball get over my head that probably should've been caught, as well as a ball that was hit to my right. ... I redeemed myself a little late in the game when I got back on a deep fly and caught it short of the warning track ...

...And then I flied out to first in my second and last plate appearance of the day.

... Through two games? ...Our record is 0-2. And in four plate appearances, I'm batting .000, with one walk, two strikeouts and one run scored. ... It's gotta get better than this.