DT Rants about Getting Schooled

First game, National Pride at stake. We haven't had a 'Singaporeans vs Expats' game in a long time. Last game was probably 2 years ago before we lost the Tan Family. This time, we actually outnumbered the expats 7 to 5, so we offered one of our ladies to their cause (insert SPG joke here). Rickey picked Horfun since she's not in the country most of the time. We had no chance. By the third inning, the Singaporeans were 10 runs behind going to bat. We managed to pull one run back, but we were soon behind 10 runs again in the middle of the fourth. Somehow, we managed to get back another run to hold off mercy, but in the next inning, the expats scored another 4 runs to take a 16-2 lead. That we managed to string together some hits to score 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th was a testament to our determination not to go down in a mercy. Too little too late though.

Second game, Male Pride at stake. With our exceptionally even numbers today, we actually had 7 guys to 5 girls, I figured it would be a good time to put our 'Kyle II vs the rest theory' to the test. I offered a suggestion that we play 6 guys vs Kyle II+the girls, and the idea was met with some approval. I did not expect an easy fight, in fact, I did not expect a victory as the girls line up was pretty damn strong. All things considered, if we had played Men vs Women (without Kyle II), the game would have ended just as close. Kyle II only made about 3-4 outs and only scored about 6-7 runs. The ladies were playing excellent small ball, advancing runners and hitting singles. Their defence rocked too. Any ground balls to short or second was easily snapped up by Joyce and Diana. They even combined for 3 attempted double plays (only one of which was successful). Any balls hit into the outfield was similarly snapped up by Horfun and Heidi. Though Horfun had some initial problems getting the high fly balls, she soon got the measure of them and helped put us guys out of our misery. I did make the mistake of giving away third base, I figured that they don't run as fast as us guys (I SHOULD have suggested letting Rickey stop at 3rd too while I was at it). Immediately after my suggestion, the ladies loaded the bases and Kyle came up to bat to hit a booming grandslam.... DOH! Although, the ladies only managed to use third base about 3 times in the game, and only scored from there twice, so it wasn't much of an impact.

All in all, it was quite a good day. We could've used more numbers (at least 2 more), but the weather was superb (cool, cloudy and not at all hot), and the field was perfect (slightly soft and damp after the morning shower, but not soggy and wet). We didn't even have to contest the field with the frisbee idiots (who later came at 2) or soccer players or cricket monkeys.