22 June 2011

Diamond notes (6)

Moved to 12-9 on the season with our 8-5 win last night. I played centerfield and went 2-3 (.426) with a double.

Now let me mention one of the best ways to determine how well a fastpitch game is played: time. On Saturday night we lost a game 11-8 that lasted easily two and half hours. That is bad. Last night, our game took an hour and twenty minutes. That's much more like it.

It's not that I wish to hurry my recreation along. But sloppy play typically slows the game to a snail's pace. Last night's game had a couple of errors, but it didn't have countless wild pitches and walks and pitching changes. It also had one very long homerun hit by our opponent's left fielder--a hanging changeup got launched about 330 feet.

1 comment:

ismile4christ said...

Yeah, slow games are horrid to play, let alone watch.