Game 1

Our (Cy and Gavin) first game with the team was to be against this team from Hannover. Last year they did not win a single game so it was safe to assume that they were not that good. However this year, they had won one game already! OHHH NOOOO! We show up to the field, and it is a awkward shaped field. It is built on an old soccer field and the right field fence was fairly shallow, but left field extends almost 200 yards. They put up a make shift fence in left field that was about the normal depth of out field fences - 330 feet. Because of the design of the field - a square - centerfield was pretty deep, about 420 feet. the game started, and we surprisingly didn't score any runs the first two innings. Cy hit a deep fly ball to right field, i walked in my first AB as the number 9 batter. Then we started pouring in runs. 2-0, then 6-0. In my third AB I came up with a runner on Second base and was thinking one thing...on the first pitch, hit a homerun! Not my normal thinking, and not the situation to be thinking that, but we had a good lead and I thought this my be my only chance to hit a homerun. I thought to myself...the first two AB's, both of which were walks, he threw me curve balls the first two pitches. I figure because of that, he would throw me a fastball to change it up and maybe change the results. I was looking for one pitch...a fastball middle in. What does he throw...a curve ball. Ok, i step in for the second pitch and was expecting another curve ball figuring he would follow the previous pattern, then he throws me a fastball...middle away for a strike. That was my double pitch meaning if I had swung, I'm about 90% sure I would have hit it in the left center gap and gotten a double. But no, I didn't swing. the count is now 1-1 and I'm certain he's going to throw a curve ball. I step in, expecting that, and he throw me a fastball! Middle in! The pitch that I've been waiting for. But I'm set up for a curve ball so I'm not flying open using all my might. So what happens, i just react to it taking my normal inside out swing and I crushed it! One of the hardest balls I've hit in a while. Had the ball gone down the right field line, it probably would have gone over the big fence they had to protect the cars parked back there. Had the ball just gone 15 feet to the right of where I hit it, it would have been in the trees. Unfortunately I hit it to centerfield. Unfortunately I hit into out number two. Final tally for the game...we won 9-1, I was 1-3 with a double and two walks. One catch in left field and luckily for me, that was the only ball hit to me all game.