Akamites 21, Catfish 8

Dear Catfish,

Another difficult loss against the Akamites last night. They were leading by something like 9 to 1 in the early innings, but somehow, it didn't seem all that bad. On paper it didn't look so good, but our spirits were high. Karie had started off so well with a solid hit landing her on 1st base. We didn't manage to bring her home--yet we were confident that we would prevail. And gradually as their runs built up in proportion to ours, things looked less rosy, perhaps; but still we had it in us to try for a rallying 6th and 7th inning. Unfortunately, this wasn't to be, as co-cap Lowenthal took a drive off a bounce to the choppers. It's a good thing he iced it right away, or his pretty face coulda had some damage done to it. At any rate, he was out (which many of us didn't realize) at the moment the ball hit him, and so his triumphant dash across home plate didn't count, and neither did the other two who had followed him. I believe that was the 6th inning, so we still had one more chance, and Evan (please correct me if I'm misremembering) I think, did manage to score in the bottom of the 7th, but that was all we could muster.

All in all it was a somewhat disappointing send-off for Jeremy Dee-yotch, but he did make it memorable for us by goofing around in the outfield and missing some fly balls on purpose, and even popping out a couple times, just to get a laugh. Either that, or, good riddance, dee-yotch! i guess you ain't all that after all! No, but seriously, we will miss the Deeyotch and always remember him fondly. And let it be known he did have at least 1 great catch in the outfield and also a solid hit or two. Erin, while running the bases, had a bit of a scuffle with the Akamites pitcher, who was refusing to move his large bulk out of her path. She scolded him resoundingly with some cuss words that frightened him, but I believe they made up in the end. I once again glowered internally at that one Akamite person who always wears an entirely white outfit, and stands there bored at the plate while I toss my best pitches by him. Southpaw closer Costello did a fine job utterly confusing one of their monster-batters, a leftie who kept smashing things way out into right field (the domain of our newliest acquired Catfish, Katie Helke, who remained strong and unintimidated)--Costello had this guy crying for his mommy. It was a touching sight.

And I have to mention that Cecere and Doetsch turned yet another very fine double play, in one of those brutal innings where I was pitching, and pitching, and pitching. Nicely done, Fish.

Those are all the notable moments that I can bring to mind at the moment. Anyone else, please share your reveries / pix (many were taken last night, by myself til camera crapped out, by Ebi, now our team photographer, and of course lemony's camera, which was passed through many hands), at our impenetrable blog: http://impenetrableblogoffish.blogspot.com/

Next Wednesday, we'll play the Whybunts (I think). Keep the Faith, Fish.

Judy