The mini week was last Thursday through Monday and entailed three games on vastly different fields and hundreds of miles between them. Thursday night the mighty Diplomats mustered only 11 players for their game against The Jolly Rogers – the combine forces of the Navy and Marines. This was the first time the lads and lasses of F&M had played on a real softball field, which was in the shadow of the Capitol dome. Despite being undermanned and over matched, our heroes put up a valiant effort in a 7-18 loss. [injuries sustained: ankle contusion from a direct strike of the softball on my ankle as wildly thrown by the opposing shortstop.]
A drive to Pa on Friday to visit my father recovering from a minor surgery lead me to my old haunts of the church softball league on Sunday afternoon. Unlike the previous years with the mercurial UCC@VF team, there was only one error, and we put a stomping on Good Sam for an 11-3 win.
Back down to dc after dinner and during the rain. Left late, the drive much longer, and I got less than five hours of sleep. Up bright and early on Monday to return the rental car and then off to work. A large iced coffee and CliffBar in the afternoon and I was ready to go mentally. Severely undermanned, we squared off against Scarred Hitless. Short one man in the outfield and against a power hitting team, it was going to be a high scoring affair. Unbeknownst to our heroes, their bats were on fire and they lit up the scoreboard. Just not as much as their opponents, losing the game 28-30. [injuries sustained: tore something – maybe my groin or a muscle neighboring it, and reaggravated my right bicep tendon injury.]
_John
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