So it’s the first game of the season and just like Marshall had predicted we lost really bad. Of course my sister put us in competitive softball, so we lost 23 -4. Definitely not how I would’ve liked it to go down, but we have 9 more games to improve.
Now let’s talk about that picture up above. It’s the second to last inning and we’re down by … let’s just say a lot. I just got a base hit, so I’m on first and my lovely boyfriend is up to bat. He hits it deep into right field and as I get to second base he yells, “keep running to third Delisi!” So I run to third and I can feel them relaying the ball to the pitcher and then to third. 10 feet to third base I know I need to slide. I can’t run into third base because he’s this gigantic man who I can’t run over, I can’t slide feet first because he’s expecting it, I can’t slide face first because I love my face too much, which leaves me to how I slid into third. Remember the electric slide? Well let’s just say I slid a good 5 -8 feet on my knees leaning back so he can’t tag my chest and then touched third. The ball got there first, so I was out.
As I walked back to the dugout I was livid. Marshall saw I might get out at third, so instead of running to second he stayed on first. Had I known that, I wouldn’t have slid and done a hot box instead! When I arrive at the dugout the team is amazed I even slid into third, but more amazed at how banged up I am. I tell my sister I didn’t want to be out and start to tear up. ‘There’s no crying in softball,” she yells to me. My left knee has a huge gash and is bleeding profusely. As Amanda pours water on my leg I start to scream. I finally sit down and she wraps my leg in gauze and here comes my mom. Wonderful Kodak moment right?! Ohhhhhh Mom.
So that’s the story. As I left the field everyone kept asking what the heck I was doing. I used to actually be the example of how to slide back in the day when I played, but I thought I’d confuse third by switching it up. Either way I’d either have two banged up knees or an even worse left thigh regardless of my sliding shorts.
Moral of the Story: No one slide on the Time Warner field! EVER!
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