Softball season has started again, and we already played our second game of the season last night. We’re off to a good start, as we’ve won both games, but I have not forgotten what happened last season. (We won our first four games in convincing fashion, and then proceeded to lose the final eight games of the season.) Our team got a new sponsor this year, and that means new t-shirts. The shirts are “dreamsicle” orange with a navy and white Glynner’s logo on the front. They practically glow in the dark, but I think they the main reason we are winning!
Right now I’m batting .500, but had a legitimate double last night. I bat left-handed and generally I like to line the ball right up the middle, or right over the second baseman. Last night I noticed that the outfielders were shifted pretty far to the right for me. There was a huge hole in the outfield between the third base line and where the left fielder was playing. I decided I was going to try to exploit that. The first pitch played perfectly into my plan. It was an outside pitch, and that made it easy for me to take the opposite way. It landed about two feet to the right of the foul line, and then tailed to the left, into foul territory, away from the outfielder who was franticly trying to get to it. By the time he got to the ball, I was already half-way to second base. That will probably be my offensive highlight for the season, so I’m pretty happy about it right now.
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