ABC’s Wide World
of Sports promised to show “the thrill of victory” along with “the agony of
defeat.” I can do without the losing part,
especially coming at the end of my daughter’s playing career.
Yesterday
against North Park, Tiffany gave up two runs in the first inning and nothing
after that; she also hit a solo homerun to cut the deficit in half. We threatened in the seventh with two runners
in scoring position and one out but couldn’t get the walk-off hit. We lose, 2-1.
Between games,
Clare asked me if there were any changes in the batting order; I had to be the
one who told her she was being dropped from fourth to eighth. That would have been tolerable, for me at
least, had we held onto a 4-1 lead going into, yes, the bottom of the
seventh. Two homeruns, the second a
walk-off, gave North Park the nightcap, 6-4.
We go back to
Carthage today, down and pretty much out.
I’m from the fire-and-brimstone school of motivation, but Coach is more
detached, so it’s going to be up to the girls to find the will to win. Cub fans may be fools to hope, but they have
nothing on me.
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