Two days later we played Karlsruhe, the team who we are tied with for second place. In the first game, the pitcher, who is literally in her 40s (my mom could be playing !), pitched almost as fast as Caro. My first two at bats were bad and I would like to forget they ever happened. Moving on, in the bottom of the 5th, we were still down by one run. It was my third at bat, there were two runners on, and we needed to score. All I kept hearing in my head was my Dad saying 'take it to right field. take it to right field.' A little creepy haha but after my first two at bats I needed something. After fouling one off, I drove the next pitch over the right fielders head for a triple . After this everyone started to hit and we eventually run ruled them the next inning. Crazy sport.
The next game was very important. Karlsruhe has a good American pitcher, a big lefty with a drop ball who hadn't had an earned run all year. Hitting wise this game was no problem for me. I think it had to do with the fact that I was use to seeing lefties with curve and drop balls (Julie Dimatteo and Ali Grab). Unfortunately, Mandy was having an off day. After the first inning Karlsruhe was up by a couple of runs. After they scored we came back and took the lead even going up by three runs. By the fourth or fifth inning we had a solid lead. Then....some fatty pitches and a couple of errors later it was a tied game. They held us to zero runs the next inning and another bad inning put us in a three run deficit. We had some solid hits and runners on but couldn't manager to come back. It was a tough loss but it wasn't the end of the world seeing as though we are still tied for second place and we would win the tie breaker rule if at the end of the season we are still tied with Karlsruhe. Also, I was very impressed with our hitting we put up 6 earned runs against a pitcher who hadn't given up any all season. This will be good as we face the first place team,Mannheim, this weekend.
We had a week off from games but I still had to coach the second team. Actually, I was the head coach for the second team game. I was not told any of the other coaches were not going to be there so I had to make the line up and organize everything on the spot. It was somewhat stressful but Sarah (who is on the first team but sometimes plays for the second team) helped me. We were successful in our head coaching debut winning both games! The first in four and the second in three. The hardest part was getting everyone playing time. With only seven innings to work it was pretty difficult. Not too mention the fact that neither Sarah or I knew the substitution rules. We both joked that we never had to think about it because we have always been players and the coaches handled stuff like that. It was a good game and all of the girls were very excited afterwards.
Aside from softball, I have done some pretty interesting/fun things:
Watched the World Cup game at my host family's house with my host family, their friends Nikki and Ingi (who are always around) and Nils. It was an intense but great game and everyone was cheering for the U.S. which was nice. After they choked the game away I was sad so Mascha offered me a shot Vodka (real Russian Vodka of course!)
I went to this festival with my host family. We had to get up at 3am (Yes, 3am!) and leave the house by 3:30 to ride our bikes 35 minutes to downtown Munich near the English Gardens. There was 12,000 people at this festival eating, drinking, and dancing. It was a crazy experience and I was veryyyy tired afterwards!
I also finally saw the last Harry Potter movie with Mandy, Lisa, and Nils. It was very good :-)
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