13.34. Game notes (6)

We won a league game 12-1 in a five inning mercy killing on Thursday night.  We finally knocked the ball around the yard a bit.  Nothing too exceptional here except our 9 run second inning which sort of put the game away.  We’re using a very soft ball for league games this year, which helps the pitchers.  In 8 games we have just one homerun.  I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t hit any more the rest of the season–the balls are that mushy.  But for the sake of competitive games and saving pitchers from wicked line drives, I fully support the ball choice. 1/3

 In tournament play we use much harder balls.  Last night we won our first game of the Plangger Invitational 4-0.  We got an excellent pitching performance and played nearly perfect defense.  They loaded the bases with no outs in the third, but we managed to get out of it unscathed. 1/3

We play today at “3:00”–the " " meaning  it will likely be sometime after 3 due to long games earlier in the day or even a little rain.