Rave On

Buddy Holly lives!

Diamond notes (4)

We won our first game of pool play last night 11-3 in five innings. We played one of our better games of the season. We're 8-7 now, with pool play games today at 2 and 8, and single elimination tomorrow if we qualify. I went 3-4 (.456) with two homers (4). Made an error at shortstop that cost us a run. I'll try to do better today.

song of the day--a little cigar box blues

Just because cigar box guitar has to be one of the coolest instruments ever.

Diamond notes (3)

We played (sort of) a nine inning game last night. The other team only had 9 players, so we provided them with the three extra fielders each inning while we batted. We lost a 14-7. I played shortstop (for both teams) and for one inning rightfield (for the other team). Went 4-6 (.424) with a homerun (2) and three RBI. We play our first game of the Plangger Invitational tourney at 9:00 p.m. on Friday night, and we complete pool play on Saturday with games at 2 and 8.

Trivia: Most fastpitch players wear metal spikes. I've never been comfortable in spikes. At 41, I'm much more in danger of catching a spike and blowing out a knee or turning an ankle than I am of slipping in my turf shoes, which are way more comfortable than any cleats or spikes I could buy (thanks Boombah! http://www.boombah.com/s.nl/sc.26/category.304486/.f )

Twinkle, twinkle...

In honor of Sydney, who figured out how to play this song on the piano app on mama's phone ALL BY HERSELF this morning.

Diamond Notes (2)

Last night we won 4-3 in extra innings. We scored 3 in the first and didn't score again until the bottom of the 8th. With no outs in the bottom of the 8th we got a bunt single followed by bunt that was mishandled and then thrown away at first base leaviing us with runners at second and third. Our number nine hitter hit a cue shot in to no man's land between the pitcher and the first baseman that scored the winning run. So not only did we score without hitting the ball out of the infield, we scored without hitting the ball past the pitcher. I played shortstop and went 2-4 (.395) and scored a run. That makes us 7-6 on the year.

We play tonight in Benton Harbor if the rain stops and we host a tournament this weekend starting Friday night. Here's the tournament schedule. http://www.michiganfp.com/2011-tournaments/2011-rich-plangger-invitational