to the long awaited event of Jillian's softball debut.
But the story doesn't start or finish there. So lets start from the beginning;
The sun has just broken through the dark and Jillian is heading of to the coffee shop for the early shift. Sore, cold and barely awake after a hard day training the day before. Jillian still is able to muster up the energy to be a shining light. Finally 11:30 comes around and Jillian can put her feet up and rest her eyes. Though this relief will only last a short time, as game time is creeping up.
Jillian starts to get ready. You can see nerves, excitement and exhaustion in Jillian's face as
we arrive at the field at the same time as the coach (Jillian's Dad). You see this puts a few more butterflies in the stomach of Jillian. For Jillian not only has the pressure of the game, It is also fathers day. Jillian finally gets to put the team colors on.
Jillian scrapped together enough energy to play both games and had some amazing plays.
here are her stats.
Overall, Jillian batted 7 times, and got 2 hits, batting .286:
1st game:
2nd inning, ground-out to shortstop
3rd inning, ground-out to pitcher
5th inning, SINGLE, driving in a run, and eventually scored a run
... AND: defensive play of the game -- 3rd inning, playing right field, Jillian snares a long fly ball, killing their inning!
Let me fill this in a little bit. They put Jillian out in right field also known as no mans land. Thinking that wouldn't be a ball going out there. But as always Murpy's law comes into play and a huge fly ball gets put out to right field. it is a about 15metres(I am not converting from the metric system any more. The yanks need to step to the metric plate. ) away from Jillian. With plenty of time Jillian is waiting under the ball. I think everyone was holding their breathe at this point. And as the ball landing safely in Jillian's glove a large roar came from everyone. It took Jillian a second to realize she had to throw the ball, as it was still in play.
2nd game:
1st inning, struck out on a called 3rd strike, but Jillian didn't realize she started with 1 strike -- coach's fault!
3rd inning, ground-out to pitcher
4th inning, SINGLE, and then later forced-out at 2nd
6th inning, ground-out to pitcher
Jillian filled in runner for one of the other women and made some great ground for the team. I like to believe that Jillian was that main contributing factor to "The Incredibles" winning both games. Bias? maybe.
Jillian knocks a ball around....
Jillian gets to home base...
Here is a fathers day special.
Big Poppa hitting a solid base it...
The day was not over by any means. For it was fathers day, so we had another family dinner. Which I did not get to enjoy as I had to work. Bitter? a little.
Later that night The Hodgii (Natalie and kevin) and Big poppa (father in-law) came to the movie theater to see "year one". They had mixed reviews on it.
Big Poppa helped me close down the theater. And when I say close down I mean basically hold my hand as I am a wimp and it is mad creepy up top in the projection booth.
Well that ends the Sunday adventures of Team Mitchell..
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