Game 6 - Mon 4.21 - L

Yesterday's nail-biter was another very competitive game, which seems to be the theme so far for our season. And although, once again, we got the short end stick, our girls are waking up out there and more importantly our offense is waking up and scoring some runs. We still have the tail end of the 1st half of our season, plus the whole 2nd half to improve on our progress. I know we can do it.

FINAL SCORE
Whos: 8
Tsunami: 9

RECAP
The Whos took to the field on Monday with a gleam in their eye and a renewed vigor. Coming off of a 4 game slump, the Whos were hungry for the win on a cold Monday night at the Duck Pond.

The first inning set the tone for the Whos game. After a couple of walks we finally mounted an offense with some hits and managed to offensively break the run limit by 1 - obviously only 4 were allowed officially, but it was what the Whos needed to get into the game. Jade and Casey hit a couple of balls to make the Tsunami defense run around a bit and Kas brought all runners home with a Grand Slam to retire the side.

On defense, Shelbey, still displaying her good attitude overcame a little adversity and kept her head in the game to strike 2 girls out. Then after a few runs a pop-up to right field was caught out by Kas who decided to come to play last night, holding Tsunami to 3 points. Good stuff!

Inning 2 was a quick affair as, despite a couple of hits the Tsunami girls were able to hold us to 1 run.

Jade took the rubber for us in the 2nd and after letting 2 get by us was able to hold Tsunami to 2 (with the help of Maricella's heads up outfield play holding the runners in place) giving the home team the lead (W: 4-T: 5).

As the Whos took to the plate for inning 3, we knew that we had our work cut out for us and the pressure was on. Shelbey took a hit for a walk. Destinee got hit as well. I was beginning to wonder if the Tsunami pitcher was going to injure us until we couldn't play anymore. But with a big hit from Gaby and a couple of walks, we were able to notch 4 for the inning and take to the defense.

Shelbey took to the rubber again and although we had some solid defense, with Kas catching another out and a near miss play at 1st by Cambria and Mari, keeping the runner alive, Tsunami put another 3 on the board to tie up the game.

We went into the 4th inning with a tie game, we got a couple of hits, especially a nice strong one by Casey, which unfortunately was stopped in the infield preventing her getting on base. Although we put runners on base, by the end of the top of the 4th, we came up empty.

The pressure was on Jade at pitcher and the Who defense to hold the Tsunami rush. Tsunami took their turn at bat and with a couple of well placed hits and some good stealing managed to bring 1 runner to break the tie and win the game.

GAME BALL
I have to say for this game it was hard to pick the game ball recipient since there was such good play out there. Kas impressed me with her effort and her key plays. Mari continues to bring it with here fielding and base coverage. Cambria is always our happiest, most enthusiastic player out there. Both Maricella and Casey are starting to do some good work out there, but the edge would have to go to Casey due to her much improved batting and effort and enthusiasm. There's still some stiffness out there, but it's great to finally see her start to 'Unleash the Beast'. Good job Casey!