Softball resurrection?

I NO LONGER SUCK AT SOFTBALL!!!!

hehe. so today we played another game.. this time against a team called taida (like the university in taipei.. it's an asian league). i had gone to malibu during the week a couple times to hit off their pitching machines with pretty decent success, but i stunk it up again during pregame BP, so i wasn't too excited.

then the first time up, with runners at the corners and one out, i hit a flare into center, drove in a run, and scored!!!! MY FIRST HIT EVER!!!

the inning after that, i got my first chance at playing first, too. had one chance, made a decent stretch and recorded the out off a throw from short. hehe.

the next time i came up, tho.. i led off and took a couple balls before the count ran full. for some reason, i couldn't pull the trigger and stared at strike 3 that was kinda pathetic.

we were the away team and coming up to bat in the top of the last inning down by one, ran off a huge rally and pushed 8 across. this time with runners on the corners and no outs i drilled a single back up the box and took 2nd on the throw to 3rd. 2 RBI!! the only sad part was that i was gunned out at home trying to score from second on a single.

so going into the bottom half of the last inning, we were up 7 and i got to take another inning at first. it got really ugly quick as they pushed a bunch of runs across. our lead had shrunk to 1 with runners at 1st and 2nd and two outs. the opposing hitter singled to left center and our outfielder fielded the ball cleanly and fired a perfect strike to the plate on one hop and we got the runner by a couple steps. talk about dramatic ending!!!

so yah, softball was good today. hehe

in other news, roothie's mentioned in this article on espn: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neel/040611

it says "but there are times when clichés are the truth, Ruth". hehe.