Game On

As regular readers of this blog will already know, i have shifted from volleyball to softball in the intramural league - again, as part of a departmental biochemistry team. Well, this Sunday saw our first game - and, in all fairness, we weren't really 100% prepared for it - this is mainly as our attempt at practice the week before had kinda been ruined by the fact that one of our number (who shall remain nameless) got us roped in to a pick-up game and so our captain Amy did not have much of a chance to scout out the best batters and fielders (in terms of ranking and position) and we didn't really have the opportunity to go through some set plays for both infield and outfield. Thus, this game was something of a practice for us really and i think we did pretty well. Okay, so we lost 10-9 - but it all came down to the last innings (we were 9-4 up till then) and the game was stopped only because our time was up (it was a 7 innings game or 1 hour limit). We found this rather unfair given that we started 10 minutes late (the umpire's fault) and finished 5 minutes early (we think because he decided that we couldn't both get another innings in each).

Anyway, after the 'practice' the week before, i had said that i would be happy to pitch - so Amy and I arrived about 90 minutes prior to the start of the game to give me a few warm ups. I had pitched at our practice and was slowly beginning to get the hang of it towards the end - so after 40 minutes of practicing and some good advice from Amy, i was heading towards getting more strikes than balls. In the game itself, it took me a couple of goes to get warmed up - but i was pleased none-the-less - i only managed to walk the one time (when you throw four foul balls in a row) and also struck two people out. On top of that, i managed to tag another person out and assist in getting two out at first base. Ultimately, whilst we were disappointed to lose in such a fashion, we had all enjoyed ourselves and feel that we will be somewhat more confident this coming Sunday for game 2. Watch this space!!