Game On!!!

First practice next Sunday the 3rd. Awwww yeah!!!!

The Infield Fly Rule

"An infield fly is a fair fly ball, NOT including a line drive or attempted bunt which can be caught by an infielder, pitcher or catcher with ordinary effort when first and second OR first, second and third base are occupied with less than 2 out. There is judgment by the umpire what ordinary effort is."

But if your glove looks shaky because the ball is so high that it probably went by the Milky Way on it's way down and it looks like you are not giving enough of an effort, even if the ball touches your glove on the way down....the infield fly rule will not be called.

But don't worry, when you botch a catch and the shortstop is there to back you up, you end up with an unassisted double out at second.

Unassisted double play you say? How can that be? This is how it can be. *Shortstop Lou fielded the ball that rolled off the tip of my glove, and threw it to Tyler who gave chase to the guy running from second to third. Scared, the guy ran back to second. But NO! Not possible! There is someone coming from first to second! What now?! Tag 'em. Both. The girl coming from first to second doesn't know what to do when someone is already there--she can't go back, the batter is at first, but she can't go forward because someone is still there...life must go on, 2 outs at second.

And just like that, we held them all game. Up by three in the first inning--and not one more run to show for it. There were some good catches, some good stops, and a lot of teamwork. The The Team really stepped it up. AND we got runs. Walks and Runs, hits and catches, plays like a real team.

The Team 7 - Variety Pak 3 (this might not be the actual final score)

*It has come to my attention that the botched catch + the 2 outs at second may not have happened at the same time, but, whatever, it SOUNDS good, right?

The moment it all went to hell - Game 7

Oh it went hell alright... but not for THE TEAM!!! The Amritsar All Stars picked up right were they left off from when we played them the first time. In that game they put together a nice rally in the last inning. They were just hitting easy line drives and bringing in runs one at a time. They did the same thing in the first inning. Nothing huge, just easy line drives and a fistful of runs by the time the inning was over. Then THE DAVE brought THE HELL with a grand slam. By the last inning it was 6-6 when Joey (The Big Zima) came through in the clutch and drove in the winning run. Maybe I am getting carried away, but that may have been one of the greatest games in the history of all sports. Well... maybe... I don't know.

GO THE TEAM!!!

The Moment It All Went to AWESOME - Game 7

Dave's grand slam!!!!!!

'Nuff said.

The moment it all went to hell! Game 2

THE TEAM 13 Amritsar All Stars 6. Sweet Victory! So this this post already becomes a slice of hell for the other guys. I'm going to say it went to hell for The Amritsar All Stars last Wednesday when UPS dropped the jerseys off on my porch. They go like this:

00 Carrie aka CJ aka Care Bear ( I refuse to call her Care Bear )
2 Mimma
3 Lou (In the Winter Season Mitchell & Ness throwback)
4 Jenny
9 Kareena
10 Liz
11 Dave
12 Lillian aka The Enforcer
13 Sandy aka Honey
18 Rick
21 Carrie
28 Terrence
64 Joey aka Big Zima ( I don't think anybody else calls him that but I refuse to call him anything else)
99 Chris aka The Crippler
Roberto aka The guy who doesn't have jersey

We looked like a team and we played like a team. I'm sure we are all looking forward to going undefeated for the rest of the season. Mimma made a good play on a foul ball and Roberto did a good job gunning out a greedy runner trying to turn a single into a double. We could make these plays because we were all well hydrated thanks to Carrie and Joey.... um I mean, Big Zima.

GO THE TEAM!