{"id":238,"date":"2012-05-08T14:10:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T14:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/?p=238"},"modified":"2012-05-31T14:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T14:10:58","slug":"willington-2-vs-willimantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/2012\/05\/willington-2-vs-willimantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Willington 2 Vs. Willimantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 7, 2012, my team, Willington 2, played Willimantic for the second time this season.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t start out like our last game against them; we allowed four runs in the first inning.\u00a0 Willimantic led off with a triple, and with a man on first, I committed an error, which allowed a run to score.\u00a0 Our defense allowed only four runs to score, as John made a diving stop to get the forceout at second; Joe made a great play at first to get the out at first.\u00a0 Clark got the final out with a strike-out.\u00a0 We were hoping to get some runs back against the pitcher but we didn\u2019t.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t allow any runs the next inning, keeping Willimantic to the same score.\u00a0 That same inning, I got up to bat with a man on third, hoping to get us our first run and my first RBI of the year.\u00a0 I was walked instead.\u00a0 The next batter was Larry, and he got a base hit between third and short, to give us our first run.\u00a0 Later, Larry stole second, and I stole third for my third stolen base of the season.\u00a0 After one of our batter\u2019s was hit by a pitch, the bases were loaded.\u00a0 John hit one to the pitcher, and he threw him out at first ending the inning, leaving us down 4-1.<\/p>\n

Once again, in the third inning we allowed no runs to keep the score 4-1, as Clark escaped the inning by striking out a batter with two men on.\u00a0 In the third, with the bases loaded I came up to bat.\u00a0 Previously in the inning, we had scored a run due to a ball that went past the catcher, making it 4-2.\u00a0 Once again the pitcher threw a ball past the catcher and this enabled a run to score.\u00a0 The ball got away from the catcher and another run came into score to tie the game.\u00a0 The ball rolled away from the catcher and onto the pitching mound, and another run almost scored but they held him at third.\u00a0 On the very next pitch, I hit a hard ground ball to the pitcher, but he threw it home and got the out.\u00a0 I was frustrated because I was robbed of my first base hit and RBI of the season.\u00a0 While on base I almost got picked off.\u00a0 On the third ball dealt to the batter after me, I thought it was ball four, so I started trotting towards second, when I realized it wasn\u2019t ball four!\u00a0 Luckily, I dove back to first in time to beat the throw!\u00a0 That inning, I stole third again, and this lead to getting the bases loaded with two outs.\u00a0 On the third strike, the catcher dropped the ball and it rolled away.\u00a0 I forgot to run so the catcher tagged the plate to end the inning.<\/p>\n

In the fourth inning, my team changed our pitcher, from Clark to John\u00a0 For the third inning in a row we allowed no runs.\u00a0 In the bottom of the inning, I came up to bat with men on second and third, two outs and a different pitcher.\u00a0 I took the very first pitch and hit the ball right back up the middle and into center field for a go ahead RBI single to give my team the 5-4 lead!\u00a0 In the fifth inning, their was a very scary moment.\u00a0 Willimantic got the bases loaded with two outs, and the count for the batter was three balls and two strikes!\u00a0 John; however, handled the pressure and threw a called strike three to end a huge Willimantic threat!\u00a0 We didn\u2019t score any runs the next inning, but we earned the win when the game was called due to darkness.\u00a0 We were all exuberant about the win, but I was the most exuberant because I played one the best games I\u2019ve ever played: I got on base every time, had two hits and the game-winning, go-ahead RBI single!\u00a0 Our next game is at Legion Field in Willimantic; if we play as well as we did last game, we have a very good chance of winning!\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On May 7, 2012, my team, Willington 2, played Willimantic for the second time this season.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t start out like our last game against them; we allowed four runs in the first inning.\u00a0 Willimantic led off with a triple, and with a man on first, I committed an error, which allowed a run to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,12,13,1],"tags":[308,304,41,38],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-event","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-sports","tag-willimantic","tag-willington-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabafamily.net\/joshua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}