Another season in the books: Finding success

Obviously this wasn't a great season for us in terms of wins and losses; at 1-6 we were tied for our worst record ever.

But there is a glass half-full way to look at it. We had to play a very tough schedule: Our opponents were 30-18-1. The team we mercy-ruled won 3 games. Really our only loss to a bad team was the Brew Crew game and we were only down 1 going into the last innings.

How good were our opponents? Look at it this way:

* How I Met Your Rubber: Defending league champ and undefeated again.
* Footjobs: Only loss was to HIMYR.
* G.T.K.: Only loss was to Footjobs.
* Where My Pitches At?: Only losses were to Footjobs and Rafters (who only had one loss and tied G.T.K.)

I point this out only to say that even though our record was bad this was not our worst team ever. I hope everyone comes back this fall and think we have a chance to greatly improve our record.

Our final game was an 8-2 loss to Footjobs. We played a pretty good game against a very good JV team. In fact, if the right fielder had just bobbled that ball I kicked in the fourth it probably would've allowed us to tie the game at 5. Nonetheless, a good final effort for the season.

Some of the highlights:

• Mark made his debut at shortstop and made some pretty good plays. He also had a two-out single in the sixth.
• Andrew had another great day at the plate, going 2 for 3 with a run scored.
• Becca also went 2 for 3 -- she finished the year batting .818!
• Matt singled and scored. He also missed an extra base hit by inches in the first when his drive just sailed foul.
• Ron aptly patrolled left center field yet again and had a good kick to left that he just got under.
• Angie posted a single to load the bases in the fourth and hit with a runner on again in the sixth.
• Jason kicked in our first run in the fourth.
• Katie's eagle eye scored another run on a walk the following plate appearance.
• Nate had a case of the "right at-ems" but at least he caught a few balls in the outfield.
• Jen played all over the field and made a good catch at third.
• Allie was denied a run but broke up a string of seven straight outs in the third.