Sunday, March 18, 2007
Singapore Recreation Club 10th softball carnival Today's SRC started off with the match with the overseas softball team. Did not have much action on the left field throughout the game. Some of the highlights in the match for me is that for the first time, I got onto the bases. It was super cool cause that was my first time and also because from the start of this tournament, I've been hoping that I could get onto the bases at least once.
In this match, I had quite a lot of contact with the ball but then most of it were foul balls. And unfortunately/fortunately, I was given a walk to the first base. For the first time, I stepped onto the first base and it was really exciting. After that, the next batter sent me to the second base and it ended my run there. Throughout this game, we put up a pretty sluggish performance. It was mostly because of our own mistake, it cause the match to become pretty lopsided. Wild pitching by our pitcher again made us arrantly helpless. On the other hand, this match also had its peak when Umbi-the big ah moh hit an amazing homerun. The game ended with the result of 12-2.
After having the match break, we were up against the only team that has yet to lose a single game in this tournament, Raffles JC. We are probably the lousiest of all the team around and naturally we felt inferior to them. So the game started with RJ fielding first and us batting. It went like mostly like what we expected as they hold us down even though we were able to made it to the third base. Then, the next inning was their turn to bat. We got thrash like nobody's business as seven runners were sent home. That includes a homerun hit by this gargantuan batter.
So before the start of the third inning, we were already down by 7 runs. So, it was our turn to bat again. Sardic the Malay guy, first batter of this inning had a pretty good hit and got himself straight to the third base. Then, it was my turn to do the batting as well as to send Sardic home. That was my first time batting against the RJ pitcher though he's not the first choice. I guess I was pretty luck to somehow made some contact with the ball, which ended up being a foul ball. And then came the moment where I hit the ball and I finally made it to the first base. The feeling was lovely cause I actually made it to the first base with my own hit rather than the one I had the match before, which was a walk.
After that, I made a costly mistake by not knowing that I'm in a force play situation. I actually didn't run towards the second base when Samuel hit the ball, and hence I was being tagged out before I reached the base. At that point of time, I was really disappointed with myself. What a huge opportunity I've wasted! However, surprisingly this inning we made 2 runs, which was a huge booster for us in our morale.
The forth inning, we did pretty well in holding RJ down as we only let in 2 runs. So the game tally 9-2.
Before the final inning, which is the last chance we have to give our best shot, our coach said that if you guys were to score 2 more runs, I will consider you winning this game. Furthermore, he said, if you can score 4 runs in this inning, I'll buy everyone of you'll a drink. Including the girl's team. Whoohoo! This type of offer by coach himself is like rarest of the rarest. Grins. Then, somehow, we were able to made some fine batting and running, and we actually scored 3 runs straight. At that point of time, we were filled with jubilant and we were in our highest spirit because we never did so well and especially when you knew that your opponent is such a strong team. It really went beyond our imagination.
Furthermore, we continued on and it is down to a situation where we were filled with anxiety and yet exhilaration. The situation is this: 2 out for us; bases loaded; full count for the batter and the most scary part was that RJ team decided to change their pitcher to a better one in this yucky situation. Now, either a strike will round up our venture in this tournament or a ball which will give us the fourth straight run in one single inning and also, getting the treat from coach.
Then, it goes like this: the pitcher releases the ball. The umpire shouted: "BALL!"
Hooray! All of us jumped with joy and it was sensational. Then, our momentum continued with 1 more player running home and until it once again come to this scenario: the 2nd and 3rd bases loaded; still 2 out for us; score: 9-7; Umbi (the one who hit a homerun the match before this game) was the batter. Now, Umbi can only aim to hit the ball as hard as he can and tries to send the 2 runners home, which will send the game to a tiebreaker.
However this Sunday didn't come twice and unfortunately two strikes and Umbi was out. Nevertheless, this game was considered a triumphant one for us cause we put on a really good fight and hopefully it can spur us to a greater height!
Good game! We got our drinks too!
posted @ 10:15 PM
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