SURPRISE FAMILY HOME EVENING

 

The past couple of weeks we have been having FHE. We try and plan on doing something with other couple friends, but this week it ended up being just Brooke and I. Brooke planned a little surprise activity for our FHE. She was really excited and actually kept it a secret all the way until we got to our destination. (She isn't very good at keeping surprises from me ha) We had a great time at the batting cages. Brooke swung the bat really good and I think she surprised herself when she hit the first pitch she swung at. She looks like a natural.

 



USSSA TOURNAMENT

The last couple of years I have played in a Toys 4 Tots softball tournament out in Palm Springs. I played in this tournament yesterday with a new team called ReCal. It's a team combined with players from Reno NV and Murrieta CA. It was still fun to play with these guys even though we stunk and didn't play well at all. Every tournament is sponsored or organized by different organizations and every tournament has different rules. Such as, leading off the bag after the pitch or not, how high or low the pitch has to be and what is considered a strike. All lot of the guys playing yesterday were not familiar with the pitching style and it effected our offense big time. The pitches were coming in a lot faster with no arch with the minimum height of 4 ft. It also threw off our pitcher who wasn't used to this type of pitching style and ended up walking a lot of guys. We only ended up playing two games and were finished losing both games in an embarrassing way based on the final score. One of the worst outings for a tournament that I have played in. I decided that I would no longer play in these types of tournaments.

You win some. You lose some.

I guess you can't win every game. Every once in a while, you play a horrible game and you want to just forget that it ever happened.  When you play sports and are as competitive as I am, you expect to play very well in every game you play. You expect to make all the plays, drive in several runs on several base hits, make the big catch, etc. Last night was the worst. After a great softball season of going 9-1and pretty much dominating every team, every week, we lost in the Championship game. It was pretty humiliating. In three seasons playing on this team and winning the Championship the previous two seasons, last night was the worst game we have ever played and it had to come on the night it mattered most. I certainly didn't do my part. I went 0-4 at the plate. 4 flyouts. That is unacceptable. I am not sure if it started with me or what, but the lack of production was contagious. No one was consistent and we only scored 10 runs the whole game. Pathetic! We usually score that many runs in one inning a couple times a game. To add to my frustration I made several fielding errors that were very uncharacteristic of me. We simply didn't show up to play and definitely didn't deserve to win the Championship last night. That is the great thing about softball; any team can beat any team on any night. Gotta bring your A-game all the time. Can't wait for the next season.