May 25th, we played a team from Hamburg at their field...a 3-4 hour drive depending on traffic. Since we travel in these ridiculously uncomfortable vans, I had the brilliant idea to bring my pillow, hope in the back (trunk) and move all the equipment to one side and fall asleep. Man what a great idea. The floor was dirty, hard, and loud, perfect to sleep on and in all honesty, the trip seemed like it was about 30 minutes long!
Hamburg field was right next to an airport which meant that every 5 minutes a plane would fly above us...so close in fact that I really thought i could throw a ball at a plane and hit it. The Hamburg team was a lot better than their record indicates. They are on the bottom of the division but they got a few guys that can hit, and they play defense pretty well. Unfortunately their pitching is horrible and we won both games.
The first game we won 15-3 and I had a very pleasing 3-5 day at the plate. I took very good swings on the ball and made solid contact. The two times I got out...a deep ball to center, probably my best hit since the first game. The other time, a hard groundball to second. I spent the past week working on my swing trying to find what worked for me at the start of my season last year and I really think I'm getting closer and closer there. I'm seeing the ball well and like my swing, not its just a matter of being consistent.
The second game was much worse though. We still won...5-1 and had a lot of scoring opportunities, we just didn't capitalize. Myself was 0-4 with a walk. I had a total of 5 at bats this game and saw just 4 fast balls. Keep in mind that i went to two strike with every count so i was trying to work my hardest to make him make the mistake. I guess I'm the one that messed up. They threw a left handed pitcher and I guess after my first game, they weren't going to throw me any fast balls. He really wasn't that good of a pitcher...I just always hit ground balls when a curve ball is throw at me. I'm not sure why but that is something that I will be working on. funny thing...I've known this for a long time, since high school however because of the situations I've been in, I've seen mostly fast balls all my life which probably meant that I never developed that swing to hit curve balls. I guess now's the time to learn.
After these games though, I'm still confident with my swing and the curve ball is just a minor tweak which will help me a lot in this league. Lets hope it works
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