The league Darby is in only has four teams this season (there were 10 or 12 teams in the Spring). Turns out three of this season's teams were the first through third place teams last season. Whereas Darby's team was the sixth place team last season (prior to Darby's membership). So, looks like we're in for some defeat all season long. And it got started tonight. 15-0. It's a 12 and under league, and if I didn't know better, I'd say all of our opponents tonight were 12, whereas most of our girls are 9-11. The size difference is amazing. We're playing amazons. Pretty much all of the other team's hits were in the outfield, though I don't think we made it there hardly at all (Darby did, but it was caught). Only one of our girls even got on base, and that was by barely outrunning the thrown to first. She eventually made it to third, but there were three outs before she could score.
Darby, who played second base all game (I was surprised by that move), did pretty well in the field, with two good put outs to first. She did make one throwing mistake, but it was of no effect in the end. In her only at bat before the game was called, she had a would-be-good-solid-hit-against-any-of-our-last-year-opponents to the outfield that was unfortunately caught. In fact, last year that would have been a multi-base hit I believe. Ugh.
The positive thing (if there can be such a thing) is that this should really challenge our team, so we really should get dramatically better by season's end. However, thus far anyway, we are no challenge against these other teams, so they shouldn't get much better, except when they play each other.
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