Each and everyone (2 friends of mine) were watching the rain falling at noon just before the game, thinking: it is going to be a sliding day.
And without any surprise the field was soggy when all the players finally came. The teams were small but thanks to Coach's idea of narrowing the field with highway cones, we managed to play. The game was a pretty close one with lots of missed catch (especially me…). Swiss miss (I guess I will have to stick with that name now… sigh) literally schooled Patrick hitting the ball over his head, allowing him to reach third base. Patrick certainly didn't like to be played like this and made his mission to overpass the Swiss miss, with eventual success. The battle had begun with a large advantage to the Yankee.
A new recruit has joined our team in the person of Clement, a French guy colleague of the swiss miss. As a total rookie, he managed to hit beautiful swings unfortunately frequently caught by the strong outfielders, and did some good runs too. He really seems to be a promising player, with strong batting potential. So let's give him some time to familiarize with the rules, but I think he will be more than welcome by everyone for Saturday softball. He did strike out and paid his due, so how could he be less integrated?
The rest of the game was a vast variety of missed catches, photogenic slides by Ingo and Patrick, and Rube's rages at bat. Ingo may now be referred to as "da pig" for his close relation to the mud (blame Rube :-p, I won't go easy on the nicknames now…).
The game ended with a three strikeout count, eventually converted to beer jugs at Joe's.
Contributed by Bertrand
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