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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Kris60 on April 14, 2023, 12:28:13 AM
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I’ve mentioned before my daughter plays a lot of softball. You guys are sports fans so you can appreciate the improbability of this outcome.
Middle school softball game tied 1-1 after 7 innings so we have to go extra.
In the top half of the 9th our opponent scores two runs to go up 3-1. In our half of the 9th we have a runner on second with two outs. Our batter hits a fly ball to center which the CF drops, kicks around, and then fires to third trying to get the batter. It skips away from the 3B and the batter comes all the way around. Tie game.
In the top of the 10th they put up two more runs to go up 5-3. In our half of the 10th our first two batters get out boom, boom on 2 pitches.
So, we’re down 2, 2 out, no one on and our number 8 hitter is at the plate. She makes just enough contact to barely put it in play. The pitcher makes a nice play but can’t get her in time. Base hit.
We pinch hit the number 9 hitter who was 0-3 with 3 strikeouts for a kid who hasn’t gotten a varsity at bat all season. She falls down in the count 0-2 and looks overwhelmed at the plate. After taking a ball and fouling a pitch off she lines one just over the head of the SS. She jumps to make the play but it skips off the top of her glove and just kinda settles and dies in short left.
By the time the LF gets it our runner has broke for 3rd. They try to get her but she is safe. The batter advances to 2nd on the throw. Our lead off hitter (my daughter) now is up. She fouls off the first two pitches to fall down 0-2. She fouls off 3 more pitches before hitting a slow roller to short. Kid makes a nice play but my kid beats it out.
Now it’s 5-4 with runners at the corners. Our next batter quickly falls down 0-2 in the count (3rd straight batter to do) and in the meantime my daughter takes 2nd without a throw because we have a runner on 3rd.
With the count 1-2 she hits a line drive down the third base line that is fair by about 6 inches. Both runs come around. 6-5. Ball game. I don’t know what the win probability would be on those situations but it wouldn’t be great.
In two different innings we were down 2 with two outs and came back to win. Got 3 straight hits from batters who fell down 0-2 in the count.
Thanks for indulging me. Lol. I know middle school softball isn’t a hot topic but I’m telling anyone who has an appreciation for those game situations.
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great recap
glad your daughter was a big part of the win
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Love that! A day your kid- and the other kids and parents will never forget. Some great lessons in there too.
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Love that! A day your kid- and the other kids and parents will never forget. Some great lessons in there too.
Exactly. That’s what I told her when we got home last night. You learn more about yourself in those games than the ones you win 15-0. You see true characters start to come out when you have a little adversity (and we had one kid who failed that test last night).
My daughter was also the pitcher last night and wasn’t feeling 100 percent (we even had her lungs x-rayed the day before wondering if she had pneumonia), but she gritted her teeth and kept battling. Statistically, that was her worst game of the season but I told her I was more proud of her last night than any other game this year because she was tested, didn’t quit, was a vocal leader, and just kept fighting.
That’s enough from the bragging dad, though. Lol.
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Exactly. That’s what I told her when we got home last night. You learn more about yourself in those games than the ones you win 15-0. You see true characters start to come out when you have a little adversity (and we had one kid who failed that test last night).
My daughter was also the pitcher last night and wasn’t feeling 100 percent (we even had her lungs x-rayed the day before wondering if she had pneumonia), but she gritted her teeth and kept battling. Statistically, that was her worst game of the season but I told her I was more proud of her last night than any other game this year because she was tested, didn’t quit, was a vocal leader, and just kept fighting.
That’s enough from the bragging dad, though. Lol.
Nothing better than the “ bragging dad” as far as I am concerned.
Those sports competitions helped shaped my 2 daughters at that age, taught them so much. And those other kids/families are now friends for life in many cases.
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It's nice to start the day with a story like this!!
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It's so important for kids to be able to know that they've done something great.
It doesn't matter how objectively great it is, just that in a certain time and place, they did something amazing and unlikely in a pinch.
That one event, perhaps minor in the grand scheme of things, can be the thing that gets her to finish up a test she's struggling on, voice out an opinion to right a wrong, or even motivate her before a job interview.
I did this thing once.
It was great.
I can do it again here.
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My daughter played softball when she was 6, slow pitch, and was the short stop. She and and the 1B were the only three on the team who could throw and catch to any degree. The other team had the bases loaded and the batter hit a soft line drive to my daughter who stepped on second base and threw to first where the 1B tagged the runner coming back.
Knowledge of the rules wasn't common back then. My daughter went on to play in HS but the fast pitching by then was mostly unhittable. She has a good arm.