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We won! We fucking won! Finally! Yes, that’s right, the softball version of the bad news bears finally won a game. We played all last year (4 seasons) without a win. While I am not going to go count the number of games, that’s something along the lines of 30 games. 30 losses, and while we saw a measured a level of improvement between them, last night was vindication. We had been close the last couple of games, losing by narrow margins and playing close games. Don’t get me wrong, we won 9-8 in extra innings (where we had to play 1-pitch). It was no blow out, but a W is a W.

What makes this extra sweet is that this team was undefeated (beating both of the teams we had lost to in the previous weeks) and apparently were undefeated for several seasons. One of the guys on our team recogized them as the winners of a local tournement (Motorola). These guys were good. But on this one day, we were better.

How did I do individually? Miserable. I went 0-2 (1 walk). However, for the record, I was robbed of 1. We were in the last inning (before going to extra innings) and 1 out with a runner on first. I get up to bat, take a ball and a strike and then made good contact. The ball flew deep over the right center fielders head, but it had too much air under it. The fielder turns around and catches it on the run over his shoulder at the fence. He made one hell of a catch, cause that hit should have pushed our runner home. Damn him!

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