In other good news, my legs held up pretty well at Fantasy Camp this year. My shoulder did not however. My coaches were hoping I could give them 3 innings twice pitching when it counted. I managed two innings in my first start and then our defense collapsed, and I tried to gun a few pitches to compensate. My shoulder went BING! and I had to come out. We lost two games late and our other pitchers were blown. I told our coach to let me start in the consolation game and he did. I had found an arm angle that was not as painful, it's not my usual throwing position, I can do overhead and side arm, but not 3/4ers in the past, which is perhaps why the shoulder was somewhat OK with that. Our other coach told me he'd kick my butt if I pitched well, and dang if I didn't manage four innings of shut out ball, and the game was called because it was consolation and we were close on time. Then I got to pitch one inning against the former pros and faced the minimum thanks for a double play.
Then our coach, Chris Medlin, threw against us, Holy Cow. I managed to foul one off and took two balls, and whiffed on three more, he was throwing hard, he told me later the last pitch was at 100% for him, into the 90s. He's not a big guy but had great torque off the mound. The ball was sizzlin' coming in. I choked up as far as I could and was in the back of the box, no help.
One of our guys got a double off him, a fellow who played for Miam, FL a while back and we scored a run, so we "beat" them technically.
This is incredibly fun if you like baseball at all. Now, off to the gym for next season.
