Lightning, Twice

For the second time in a week, it happened and to the same pitcher.  Forget the blue skies.  Lightning in the form of a 12-inch softball can strike twice.

We were at Wheaton College, bottom of the fourth inning when a batter for the home team (the Thunder, I kid you not) hit a rocket our pitcher sort-of deflected with her glove, but not enough to keep her from hitting the ground so hard she may have suffered a concussion and whiplash.  Nothing a mother wants more than to see her child wheeled off the playing field into an ambulance.

Of course, the game continued, to be followed by another.  Softball doesn’t need to make changes any more than that bandit needed to show a badge to Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.  Happy endings all the way around