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.