Game 3 of the season will be Saturday May 3rd @ 2:00PM. This week after softball we are planning on going out after the game to celebrate Nathan and Ethan’s graduation! Any suggestions on where to go/what to do will be taken into consideration.
Hope to see you there!
We played game 2 of the young softball season yesterday, a game between the aptly-named Team 1 (Megan, Ryan, Cory, Pat B, Lisa, David B, Dan, Allan, and Chris) and the Fighting Mongooses (Pat C, Walsh, Sharon, Bill, Ethan, Marcie, Nate, Dave R, Tellef). It was a great day for a game, sunny and cool, but not cold. Lauren opted not to play after injuring her back blasting a 500+ foot home run in batting practice. Sharon and Marcie were both playing hurt, battling various debilitating leg injuries.
It started off as a pitcher’s duel, with both team’s offenses struggling to get going. After three innings, the score was just 4-2 in favor of Team 1, with Pat C scoring both of the Mongooses’ runs, one on his home run to lead off the game, while pitchers Bill and Lisa shut down most of the offense.
The Mongooses found their bats in the middle innings, exploding for 17 runs through the fourth, fifth and sixth. Bill helped his own cause in that time, picking up five RBIs and jacking a three-run home run. Team 1 put up six runs in the fifth, helped by home runs from Pat B and Dave B, as well as some heads up baserunning by Chris to get out of a rundown, reaching third just ahead of Walsh’s throw from the ground. In the sixth, though, they found themselves set down in order by the Mongoose’s new ace pitcher, Tellef.
One must mention the amazing throw by Dave R. from center field to the third baseman Pat C. While Bill attempted to cut off the throw, the sun was clearly in his (and Pat’s) eyes since no one saw the ball till it was almost too late. Yes, Pat’s cat-like reaction saved his future offspring from Dave’s wrath! Everyone held their breath for a moment before laughing hysterically. Since the pack of cigarettes in his pocket cushioned the blow, Pat gives the credit for his narrow escape to his smoking habit. Ironic?
Team 1 got seven more runs in the seventh, including Cory’s three-run shot to right. Meanwhile, Lisa set about shutting down the Mongoose offense. Only Bill and Marcie were able to produce any runs in the seventh, and the team couldn’t get anything at all going in the eighth and ninth.
But in the late innings, Team 1 would come back with a vengeance, tying the game in the eighth. In the ninth, Marcie, despite her injury, made a great catch behind the plate on a foul ball by Chris to help her team’s progress toward damming the Ones’ raging torrent of runs. Megan, Ryan, and Cory scored two runs each in that inning alone and, in the end, Team 1 put the Mongooses away with a final score of 31-21.
Sorry, no pics this week that I know of. If someone snuck a camera in, send the shots along to me and I’ll post them in our bucket.
Filed under: Softball Pics
There’s an album full of pictures from game 1 over at photobucket. Thanks to Josh for taking them all!
This Saturday, April 26th at 2:00 PM, if there’s enough interest. Cleveland Circle fields again (we are working on securing a permit for the whole summer). See you there!
Yesterday, on a sports-filled Saturday in Boston, the Bruins beat the Canadians 5-4 and the Sox beat the Rangers 5-3 to create that Boston fever I am sure will remain for the whole holiday weekend. But before any of the professionals geared up for the games, a group got together for their first game of the season.
Yes, softball has begun and this year’s season opener was an exciting one! Team Venture beat the No-Names 22-18.
The “Team Venture” line up (Tellef, Walsh, Lisa, Ethan, Dave, Trevor, Megan, Andrew, Pat and Megan) started it off at “No-Names” (Nathan, Chris, Abigail, Jeff, Allan, Cory, Huy, Jay, Lauren, Sharon, Marcie) by approximately 2:30. Team Venture definitely came out strong with a quick 6-1 lead after the first inning. Walsh hit an amazing homerun at the top of the second to extend their lead, but Nathan and Chris of No Names drove in three runs in the second to keep their team in the game.
Lisa made the No-Names look bad in the third and fourth innings, giving up only 2 runs. Team Venture’s offense kept hitting, producing a 9 run gap by the end of the fourth. But the No-Names were not disheartened. With Abigail needing to leave early, a quick shifting of the teams did wonders for their morale.
Pat was traded for Sharon at the bottom of the fourth inning. In his first at bat as a No-Name in the sixth, Pat hit a home run that rallied his “new” team. Both teams’ run production slowed in the seventh, perhaps due to starvation (as indicated by Walsh’s scorecard drawings). Then Jeff reached back for a little something extra and shut down Team Venture in the eighth. An amazingly quick move by the No-Names catcher Marcie on a foul straight back by Dave started off the ninth with an out. This was not just any out, as Dave was arguably Team Venture’s MVP, driving in a lot of their runs and making 6 catches in right center, including one spectacular over-the-shoulder grab!
Between the eighth and ninth innings a transformation had occurred, with Team Venture only scoring 1 run while the No-Names scored 6. But the rally came too late to take the glory from Team Venture, who walked away with their first victory of the season!
In the eighth, Tellef made a dramatic diving/falling catch on Allan’s hard hit to left field. One wonders if this or another hard-played fielding attempt resulted in his injury. Whatever happened, Tellef left the field yesterday with a bloody thumb. He was not the only one with scrapes and bruises. With amazing effort the No-Names pitcher, Jeff, dove at least three times to snag sharply hit grounders and throw out the runners at first! His knees, however, are not very pleased with him. Nathan’s enthusiastic base running resulted in a tumble between first and second, but with a quick recovery he made it to second in one piece.
Everyone played great and had fun. As the game wrapped up, people went their separate ways already talking about the next game, Saturday April 26th. Pictures, courtesy of our excellent photographer Josh, will soon be up so check back regularly! For now you can view the score cards and see how you did, or what Walsh was thinking of while you were at bat.
People will soon realize the worth of the Softblog. Though emails are sent informing you of the next meeting time and place, here will be the absolute soonest you’ll hear about it! You’ll know as soon as I know. 
SO with out further adieu… April 19th at the Cleveland Circle fields will be our first game of the season! Time TBA as of now, but you will know as soon as its decided. And YEAY for Red Sox season starting! First home game: Tuesday April 8th @ 2:05pm vs. the Detroit Tigers (like you didn’t already know).
