Darby had two games tonight. After seven straight losses, it was good to have a night with no losses. And having had a great practice on Tuesday night, it was nice for the kids to not have lost their intensity. They played very well this evening.
The first game was pretty much a blowout. We batted first and drove in a number of runs (we actually run-ruled the other team, what a welcome change!), and for the first time this season we were then able to hold the other team off defensively the entire game. I think it was 11-2 when all was said and done, though we may have had more runs than that. I stopped worrying about the score when we got close enough to game time, knowing the umps would call the game.
The second game was a bit of a different story. Again we were up by a bunch (actually 11-4). But this time we couldn't hold them back. Fortunately for us, the game was tied when the umps called game time. I think we were supposed to play a tie breaker inning, but it was almost 9:30, so I'm sure they wanted to go home and left it a tie (which was actually nice of them... we weren't the home team, and they could have let the home team score one more run before calling the game). The umps told the girls, "both teams win", so they took that as though they won two straight games, which is fine by me if it will keep them motivated.
If we can keep this up at practice on Tuesday, we may just have good season afterall.
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