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Jun. 18th, 2013 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckLast night was the first softball game of the season. The park where it was had plenty of shade. I believe we have two or three other games at this particular park. I hope I'm remembering correctly. Shade is by no means guaranteed, and it makes the whole thing considerably more pleasant. Last night was especially nice because it wasn't hot.
The coaches pitch for their own teams at this level. It's next year that the girls start to pitch. Our coach is not a very good pitcher, so the girls tend to strike out a lot. Each girl at bat gets five pitches, good, bad or indifferent. If she can't hit one of them, she's out, even if they were all bad. Scott kept saying that they ought to give the girls golf clubs because of how low to the ground the pitches were. I think part of the problem is that the coach insists on standing way back from the plate. The other coach stood about half as far from the batter as did our coach.
Cordelia played left field a couple of times, second base once and catcher once. At second base and as catcher, she tagged runners out. There was another girl she should have tagged out, but none of the girls knew that they had to tag the runner to get her out. Cordelia got on base twice (I think she batted three times) and made it home once.
I think Cordelia's team lost, but nobody told us the score. There's always a parent who's keeping score. The forms are arcane and complicated. There's data to be entered for each batter as they run the bases. I don't understand it at all. Scott doesn't either.
Fortunately, the park was close to Whole Foods. Scott didn't have time to get dinner before the game, so he went to Whole Foods to get something to eat. I'm not sure what we're going to do about that. The games all start at 6:30, and we were late getting there last night in spite of having half an hour to get there. Traffic was difficult. We couldn't have left any earlier because Scott wasn't ready to go. That'll be a problem next week, too. (Tomorrow's game, it won't be an issue. Scott has PT and will be coming late to the game. Cordelia and I will be riding to the game with another family.)
How late the games end is going to be an issue, too. Scott had to go in to work early this morning and, ideally, should have been in bed at 8:00. The game ran until 8:30. I don't think he was in bed until about 9:30. That's not sustainable, but I don't see that we have a choice.
The coaches pitch for their own teams at this level. It's next year that the girls start to pitch. Our coach is not a very good pitcher, so the girls tend to strike out a lot. Each girl at bat gets five pitches, good, bad or indifferent. If she can't hit one of them, she's out, even if they were all bad. Scott kept saying that they ought to give the girls golf clubs because of how low to the ground the pitches were. I think part of the problem is that the coach insists on standing way back from the plate. The other coach stood about half as far from the batter as did our coach.
Cordelia played left field a couple of times, second base once and catcher once. At second base and as catcher, she tagged runners out. There was another girl she should have tagged out, but none of the girls knew that they had to tag the runner to get her out. Cordelia got on base twice (I think she batted three times) and made it home once.
I think Cordelia's team lost, but nobody told us the score. There's always a parent who's keeping score. The forms are arcane and complicated. There's data to be entered for each batter as they run the bases. I don't understand it at all. Scott doesn't either.
Fortunately, the park was close to Whole Foods. Scott didn't have time to get dinner before the game, so he went to Whole Foods to get something to eat. I'm not sure what we're going to do about that. The games all start at 6:30, and we were late getting there last night in spite of having half an hour to get there. Traffic was difficult. We couldn't have left any earlier because Scott wasn't ready to go. That'll be a problem next week, too. (Tomorrow's game, it won't be an issue. Scott has PT and will be coming late to the game. Cordelia and I will be riding to the game with another family.)
How late the games end is going to be an issue, too. Scott had to go in to work early this morning and, ideally, should have been in bed at 8:00. The game ran until 8:30. I don't think he was in bed until about 9:30. That's not sustainable, but I don't see that we have a choice.
