I get stuck at work and don’t make it to the game until 6:20 p.m., twenty minutes after start time. I hope there were enough guys there to field a team without me, without having to forfeit.<\/p>\n
Turns out the A-Bomb Kids had only seven players show, so they were the ones to forfeit. But the teams are playing anyway, just for fun, scrimmage. It does seem a\u00a0smidgen unfair that we field\u00a0the full complement of eleven against them, while they’ve only got seven. But we’re not like that good either, so we need all hands we can get.<\/p>\n
I jump in and play catcher and emcee for one half inning, then am the first up to kick on offense when that’s over and we change. I kick the first ball high into right field, and it’s promptly caught. And surprisingly that ends the game. Apparently the scrimmage agreement was to play only until six-thirty.<\/p>\n
And that ends our season as well. Our record of 3-9-1 puts us fourteenth out of the sixteen teams in our division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I get stuck at work and don’t make it to the game until 6:20 p.m., twenty minutes after start time. I hope there were enough guys there to field a team without me, without having to forfeit. Turns out the A-Bomb Kids had only seven players show, so they were the ones to forfeit. But … Continue reading ASH Kickers v. A-Bomb Kids<\/span>