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Barkeep49 · 06-13-2011, 02:32 PM

We played our “away” tournament this weekend, going about 2.5 hours away and staying in a hotel. Due to rain Friday’s games were canceled so we went from a guaranteed 3 game tourney to 2 guaranteed games. It also meant that if we won 1 of our games on Saturday we’d move onto the Championship Round on Sunday. That would be fun.

Game 1 we were completely outclassed. They had a kid throwing a curveball. None of our kids had ever seen it before. It didn’t end well. They slaughtered us in 4 innings, 12-0. They were a team of such a different caliber that I decided not to even count the game in our official statistics. The only kid who this hurts is Brett who can certainly launch the ball when he makes contact, as he had a double. Of course he strikes out over half the time...

Game 2 was a game against a team of our caliber. We were ahead most of the game, despite blowing a couple of chances, like bases loaded 0 outs which netted us no runs. In the end the decided play of the game turned out to be Andrew missing a throw back to him as the pitcher which allowed the go ahead run to score.

We couldn’t manage to tie it up in two at bats and we lost to a tie we easy could/should have beaten. I feel like if we’d played the second team first, or at least had a longer than 30 minute lay-off between games, we’d have won the second game.

But oh well. Disappointing, for sure, but not end of the world.

Notes
In between games Nate approached us about moving higher in the batting order. While he has been hitting better, and we told him so, he’s still in the right spot in the batting order, namely one of the bottom 3, which was a tough bit of news to deliver... Danny needed only 29 pitches to pitch 3 innings and threw only 3 balls... Ryan now gets incredibly upset himself whenever he gets out; he’s going to burn out of baseball if it continues... For this coming weekend our organization hosts a wooden bat tournament. There is a homerun derby and we are thinking of entering Alex and Michael, though no final decision has been made... Speak of Michael he pitched a very strong inning in our second game and is probably our 3rd best pitcher behind Jordan and Danny at the moment.

06-13-2011, 02:32 PM	#13
Barkeep49 Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Not too far away	We played our “away” tournament this weekend, going about 2.5 hours away and staying in a hotel. Due to rain Friday’s games were canceled so we went from a guaranteed 3 game tourney to 2 guaranteed games. It also meant that if we won 1 of our games on Saturday we’d move onto the Championship Round on Sunday. That would be fun. Game 1 we were completely outclassed. They had a kid throwing a curveball. None of our kids had ever seen it before. It didn’t end well. They slaughtered us in 4 innings, 12-0. They were a team of such a different caliber that I decided not to even count the game in our official statistics. The only kid who this hurts is Brett who can certainly launch the ball when he makes contact, as he had a double. Of course he strikes out over half the time... Game 2 was a game against a team of our caliber. We were ahead most of the game, despite blowing a couple of chances, like bases loaded 0 outs which netted us no runs. In the end the decided play of the game turned out to be Andrew missing a throw back to him as the pitcher which allowed the go ahead run to score. We couldn’t manage to tie it up in two at bats and we lost to a tie we easy could/should have beaten. I feel like if we’d played the second team first, or at least had a longer than 30 minute lay-off between games, we’d have won the second game. But oh well. Disappointing, for sure, but not end of the world. Notes In between games Nate approached us about moving higher in the batting order. While he has been hitting better, and we told him so, he’s still in the right spot in the batting order, namely one of the bottom 3, which was a tough bit of news to deliver... Danny needed only 29 pitches to pitch 3 innings and threw only 3 balls... Ryan now gets incredibly upset himself whenever he gets out; he’s going to burn out of baseball if it continues... For this coming weekend our organization hosts a wooden bat tournament. There is a homerun derby and we are thinking of entering Alex and Michael, though no final decision has been made... Speak of Michael he pitched a very strong inning in our second game and is probably our 3rd best pitcher behind Jordan and Danny at the moment.