aying to our full 6-18 Game

Todays game was all started after I got home from my last day of school. I have just recently got contacts so it is much easier for me to see. So I went to my game just like any other. I play for the Farmington JayCee Courant team and earlier today we were 5 and 0, so we had won all of our previous games. I was hitting 6 for 15, and hitting fourth in the line-up. We started off the game by warming up and stretching. It was a pretty decent warm up and I was sure that we were going to beat Simsbury. On the 10th of June we had beaten Simsbury 15-2 and even though that was the only game that I was not present, I was very confidant that we would come off with a win. Of course, before the start of the game, coach Sweighhoffer (excuse the spelling) told us how many of their players had been missing from the last game so we better get last game from our minds and look at this game. Baseball is a one game thing. The worst place team in the leaugue can beat the best team in the league; It all depends on the circumstances. So we started the game. Knowing that I was catching, and we were playing at home (in Farmington) I had already warmed up the pitcher and headed out to the playing field. I gave the pitcher 8 warm up throws and then the game started. We got three outs and headed back into the dugout. I knew I was hitting fourth so i took all of my gear off except for my legguards, which I will normally do. So I did get to hit that inning and the kid pithching for Simsbury, was a righty who was probably throwing with tops of 77 mph. I got in and fouled off about 4 pitches in a row and finally struck out on a curveball up and in. I walked back to the dugout and started to put my gear back on. No one scored a run for the next inning, but in the bottom of the third inning we had a couple of base hits that drove in a run. In the top of the fourth, Simsbury’s centerfielder was walked and made it to third off of a steal and a bunt, and made it home off of a base hit by their pitcher. That was the end of that inning. I hit again in the bottom of the fourth, with one out, I hit the first pitch that I got right back up the middle for a single. I didn’t end up getting anywhere but I got really dirty diving back to the base. The next inning was the fifth inning and we changed pitchers. The pitcher’s name was Colin. He is also a catcher, but in this instance he got us in and out with 1,2,3, outs. Coach Sweigh told us to put up a crooked number of runs on the scoreboard and we failed to do so. When we took the feild for the top of the sixth inning, the bases were loaded and we ended up getting out of it with no harm done. We were up again in the bottom of the sixth and once again we failed to contribute to the total runs that we needed to beat simsbury. In the top of the seventh when we took the field, we knew we had to stop them from getting any runs so we could get one run in the bottom of the seventh to win it.  So we started that inning pretty badly…with a walk. So right away there was a man on base for them. We got two outs, but the bad news is that the bases were loaded. But still, we hadn’t given up any runs that inning. All of a sudden, there was a pop up right behind me, and I tried to get to it, dove… and landed on my elbow in gravel. I was really mad that iI missed that ball because that would’ve been the end of the inning and I was hitting first in the bottom of the seventh, but it didn’t happen that way. They ended up getting five more runs that inning, and I was really angry at myself. I got up first in the bottom of the seventh and I fouled off about 6 pitches and finnaly got hit by a pitch in too my base. They got three outs when I was on third base and the game was over. I really couldn’t believe that that was our first loss. Coach gave us a lecture about us not playing to our full potential. I think that he was right and I am really going to get my head in the game for the double header on