Naomi playing softball...

Here is a video of Naomi’s in her 2nd softball game with her team the Pink Panthers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfg8Gov-sD8

In her league things are different. It was supposed to be a T-ball softball league, but apparently all the teams agreed to change it to coach pitch/Tball which is much more fun. The batter gets 4 pitches from the coach and if they do notget a hit in that 4 pitches, they get 2 chances off a Tee. Odd numbers but suffice to say, at this point in the season, most girls end up hitting offthe tee anyway.

Naomi joined the team late and missed all the preseason practices. Sheliterally started with the team on the opening day game. (and in that gamewent 1 for 1 with a single and run to her credit. She also fielded an out at third, so the coach has already zeroed in on her. She went to 1 practiceand then here we are at game 2. Again she was perfect 3 for 3 at bat (only having to use the tee at her first at bat) and the team is still undefeated.

In the video there is a long time between her first on base and the next batter’s hit. She was stranded on base after the second hit “because they had batted through the order” or “because they scored 4 runs” – not sure which, but it did not make any sense to me either way.

Then at the end of the game, the home team insisted on a hard stop at the endof the hour, even though they still had an at bat in our coaches mind AND they were losing by 4 runs... There coach was arguing the point so, as confused as she was, our coach excepted the victory and allowed them to call the game.

We won (12-4), so no one is worried about it, but I guess I need to learn the rules so I can keep up.

~jeff