All Your Perfect Imperfections
I've watched some amazing ball games in my life: Some great baseball games, even as long ago as 6 years, when Kenna and Caleb played machine pitch together. In one game they combined for a great play at first. Many of Jimmer's games were completely amazing: the San Diego game his senior year, some MWC games that year, the games where he scored over 50 points, the game against Florida State during March Madness his junior year. Taylor's basketball and volleyball teams have played some awfully close high school games. And then there are the annual junior high basketball tournaments. We've yelled our guts out during a few of those recently. And I can't forgot the Border League tourney game against Holyoke 2 years ago, when we exacted some revenge on our Least Favorite Coach Ever (Rece doubled, Darian tripled, and immediately after those two hits, Caleb had hist first home run. And it felt so good because LFC had argued with the refs over and over, even getting our team sent back onto the field to "finish" an inning in which he said there were only 2 outs. That was horrid.) However, in terms of games, this year has been just amazing.
Just 3 days after Caleb's perfect game, Kenna's team played in their Border League tournament. There weren't very many 13-16 teams this year, so her team only played two games. They lost the first to a much older, more experienced Osh Kosh team. Then they played an older, more experienced Chappell team--and won! It wasn't a perfect game--in fact, there were a lot of imperfections-- but it was pretty darn amazing.
The game began with a couple of errors, and initially I thought it would be a repeat of the previous day's disappointing game.
It wasn't.
In an amazing set of circumstances, we won-- in three extra innings.
I don't remember all the details of the game, but we were down by at least a few runs till toward the end of the game. In our league, softball games are5 innings. Our girls earned the win in eight.
I was texting the play-by-play to Jared, Caleb, and Paige (Kenna's friend's mom, who was in Nashville chaperoning Haxtun's national FBLA trip).
In the sixth inning, we got the other team out, 1-2-3. At the top of the 7th, the score was 7-7.
We held Chappell scoreless through the top of the seventh and we got up to bat, still a tie score.
We were at the top of the order. I had a lot of hope that we'd finish out the game. Unfortunately, our first two batters struck out, and the third grounded out. So my hopes were squashed.
In the top of the eighth inning, we walked a batter. They ended up scoring two runs, so they were ahead, 9-7, and we had only made one out. Our coach called a huddle. (Or whatever it's called in baseball.) Somehow, we got two more outs.
The eighth inning was amazing: One of our batters was HBP (hit by the pitch) and two more walked. We were aggressive on the bases, and we won the game by scoring on two pass balls. It was complete pandemonium. The game had gone an hour longer than scheduled, other teams were there waiting to play, and there were a ton of Haxtun fans. It was just awesome. The girls had every right to be proud. They played hard and didn't give up.
What a fun way to end the season!
I like all these girls a lot, but I'm partial to the 3rd one over!
I played in the 3rd/4th place game this year in softball, not quite the game we would've liked to play in but better then getting last. We played a solid game against Chappell, NE and ended up winning. Our team was very young for our league considering we had to pull up some girls off the younger girls team to play on our 12-16 team and our oldest girls we had were the two 14 year olds. Most, if not all, of the other teams had at least 1-5 16 year olds playing for them who has highschool experience. So, all in all we had a good season and I'm excited to play next year again!
Just 3 days after Caleb's perfect game, Kenna's team played in their Border League tournament. There weren't very many 13-16 teams this year, so her team only played two games. They lost the first to a much older, more experienced Osh Kosh team. Then they played an older, more experienced Chappell team--and won! It wasn't a perfect game--in fact, there were a lot of imperfections-- but it was pretty darn amazing.
The game began with a couple of errors, and initially I thought it would be a repeat of the previous day's disappointing game.
It wasn't.
In an amazing set of circumstances, we won-- in three extra innings.
I don't remember all the details of the game, but we were down by at least a few runs till toward the end of the game. In our league, softball games are5 innings. Our girls earned the win in eight.
I was texting the play-by-play to Jared, Caleb, and Paige (Kenna's friend's mom, who was in Nashville chaperoning Haxtun's national FBLA trip).
In the sixth inning, we got the other team out, 1-2-3. At the top of the 7th, the score was 7-7.
We held Chappell scoreless through the top of the seventh and we got up to bat, still a tie score.
We were at the top of the order. I had a lot of hope that we'd finish out the game. Unfortunately, our first two batters struck out, and the third grounded out. So my hopes were squashed.
In the top of the eighth inning, we walked a batter. They ended up scoring two runs, so they were ahead, 9-7, and we had only made one out. Our coach called a huddle. (Or whatever it's called in baseball.) Somehow, we got two more outs.
The eighth inning was amazing: One of our batters was HBP (hit by the pitch) and two more walked. We were aggressive on the bases, and we won the game by scoring on two pass balls. It was complete pandemonium. The game had gone an hour longer than scheduled, other teams were there waiting to play, and there were a ton of Haxtun fans. It was just awesome. The girls had every right to be proud. They played hard and didn't give up.
What a fun way to end the season!
I like all these girls a lot, but I'm partial to the 3rd one over!
I played in the 3rd/4th place game this year in softball, not quite the game we would've liked to play in but better then getting last. We played a solid game against Chappell, NE and ended up winning. Our team was very young for our league considering we had to pull up some girls off the younger girls team to play on our 12-16 team and our oldest girls we had were the two 14 year olds. Most, if not all, of the other teams had at least 1-5 16 year olds playing for them who has highschool experience. So, all in all we had a good season and I'm excited to play next year again!
Comments
Post a Comment