Friday, July 17, 2009

Greatest or Worst sports moment of my career?

We all know we have a strange competitiveness with sports, and softball is no different. I have played in the Orem softball league for a couple of years now, and previously had won a championship. The team is sponsored by Codale electric, an electrical supply store. Well, last night was the end of the tournament. Our team had already gone undefeated during the season and we received the regular season championship T-shirts. Last night we had a game at 6pm and if we won that game we would be in the championship game of the playoffs.

And so here is where the debate will begin on whether or not this will be my best or worst sports moment of my career. On my first at-bat, I got a single, and on the second at-bat I noticed that the right fielder was playing awfully close, I'm sure that his teammates had called him in closer. So I grabbed the synergy bat with composite nano technology and knocked the softball over the right fielder's head. I turned up the speed and came cruising into 3rd base and Tyson Bigelow starts to make the slow sign and then quickly changes to the turn and run home sign. As I turn the corner I notice that I took a bad angle and I knew I was in trouble. My cleats start to lose traction and about half way home I took a nose dive into the reddish dirt (scraping my knee up pretty bad). Well, I look up and, half expecting to see the catcher holding the ball, I notice that the ball has not been thrown home yet. So, I try to get back up and finding that to be kind of tough, I start to crawl to home base. The second baseman relays a very nice throw home and the catcher, distracted I'm sure by the hilariousness of me falling, drops the ball and I miraculously am safe. I don't think the umpire even believed that I would be safe after a fall like that. Anyway, it was pretty funny and everyone had a good laugh, even Stacy.

Well, needless to say we ended up winning that game 16-4, played in the championship game and got up 20-0 in the third inning, and ended up winning 20-5. I did however have my most productive night of my career, I went 8 for 8 with 3 home runs and a couple of diving catches.

3 comments:

  1. On one hand you got a home run. Which I'm all for. But on the other, you embarrassed the entire family by crawling home. Couldn't you score with some dignity?

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  2. I'm with Alli. I think it's more of an embarassment than a heroic effort. I mean, Matt, you crawled home... It did give you a nice shirt though.

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  3. matt, i prefer to recall your other heroic effort on the baseball field involving Tyson and the little league home run....wish we had a picture of your trip around 3rd base

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