Stupid Rainbows

Let's take a look at the facts: In the past two days we have scored 27 runs, had two 1-2-3 innings defensively, batted through the order in two innings, racked up hits for nearly every member of the team, and made some great defensive plays. Those are the good facts, and the ones I choose to focus on. In the past two days we gave up 53 runs? Who cares? That shit isn't important.

Things started off well today, with the Blogfather coaching Scrappy Doo and yours truly to some better hitting (which I chose not to replicate come game time). We gave up five in the first, and our bats didn't wake up until a few innings later. Or maybe it was one inning later. These were pretty long innings. When the bats finally did wake up, we replicated yesterday's feat of batting through the order, which is fun. Fun Fact: When Ben takes a single instead of a double, we hit around. True story.

This is roughly how the 7th inning looked

As the game wore on, it got out of reach to the point that P&P fielded a small dog. While the dog didn't get a chance to bat, it showed tremendous determination to get the ball while in the field. Leroy Brown, a much bigger dog, salivated. Finally, in the bottom of the seventh, as I got to first on a terrible hit, BK mentioned that if I scored, that would give us a season-high 14 runs. So naturally we had two outs staring us down by the time I got to third. One crack of the bat later, everyone got see what it looks like when a bigass white dude does a cannonball on solid ground. Style points aside, it was effective (and I still have never technically slid in this league).

Score: 30-14, Implements of Inscription

Moral Victory: Putting up a season-high 14 runs and having our second inning of batting through the entire order.

Injury Report: All three Brians ended up on the ground at some point. Harry Potter turned some interesting colors after yesterday's ball bombardment. I learned a valuable lesson about gravity, mass, and surface area.

Quotes:

"Double Rainbows!" - Several team members, who will never repeat that cheer again*

"I need a belly rub." - BPH, who was rolling around in the grass
"Aw, I love it when Hussey's playful!" - Harry the P

"Wait, you're taking a guy named Lewis canoeing? Are you gonna go across the whole country?" - Speak-N-Spellman AKA Boots AKA Bootsy AKA Governer Morris

"If we can win tonight, we clinch a playoff berth." - The Blogfather, who at that point was up by at least 12
"PLAYOFFS?!?!" - Buddy Muhler, somewhere far, far away

"Too Cool For Softball." - Slogan from the t-shirt Jill wore tonight

"I can barely hold two because they're so big, I couldn't handle three." - Ali V, about balls

"Limpin' ain't easy." - Spellman

"Shrimpin' ain't easy." - Forrest Gump

"Blimpin' ain't easy." - Captain of the Hindenburg

"Did you say fancy d-bags?" - Me, badly mishearing a Harlot


*Unless in the event of an actual double rainbow