When your 8th players is wearing blue jeans and tennis sneakers and your 9th player is a no show and thus an automatic out you can pretty much figure how your day is going to go. That's how we started our game today. Meanwhile the Rebels have all of their hitters today and they've come to hit.
We scored a run in the top of the first but had the chance to score a lot more, leaving the bases loaded. The Rebels scored one in the bottom of the inning to tie it up.
After going easily in the top of the second we gave the Rebels two gift runs when a ground ball to second that should have been the third out went through the second baseman's legs. By the 3rd inning our 9th player showed up - ANOTHER guy in blue jeans and tennis shoes. You've got to be kidding me!? We send him to left for the 3rd inning.
Between our left and right fielders (the blues brothers) playing deep and tentative and our infield that made 3 errors, we gave up another 4 runs (3 unearned)in the 3rd inning. Their only earned run that inning came when their 3rd batter of the inning couldn't get a bunt down with runners on 1st and 2nd (both by erroros) and no outs. With an 1-2 count he hit a bomb to center on a hanging slider and scored on a single by the next batter (Brian "Crazy legs" Benjamin I believe).
After the fifth inning, with the game well out of hand and the chances unlikely for improvement, I decided to give up the ball to Max to finish out the game so I could save my arm for Sunday when I know I'll at least have players with matching uniforms behind me.
Max did a fine job only allowing 2 more runs. We lost 12-2.
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