Softball begins...

So yesterday was Monday obviously, which I have to say is the worst day of the week for the fact that it’s the beginning to a new school week and the next weekend is that much farther away. Also yesterday was the first practice for softball. Which I have to say was kind of hard because of the fact that haven’t really done that much stuff with softball drills for a while and I think it might take me awhile to get back into the groove of the drills but I don’t really think that it will take me that long to finally get where I need to be. But this I hope it’s going to be a good year and it’s a fresh start. Everyone starts with a 0-0 record and everyone is on the same level record wise. Teams might be rated but that doesn’t really mean that they can’t be beat. Believe me I have had plenty of occasion where I have pitched and won a against a team that has gone to state multiple years in a row, and have won against a team that has a pitcher that might be one of the top in the state, and have been able to win the game with them not scoring any runs. I think that those kinds of wins really boost confidence. It somewhat shows you that even though they might have a really good pitcher or a really good team in general that the can’t be beat but they can, and that’s they best feeling in the world when it’s you that are the ones to beat them, especially when you have kind of had a little bit of a rough outing with games, it’s a real confidence booster. Especially for the whole team and not just one player. I mean when a whole team goes into a game that they think won’t even happen for them, and then they come out with a win it makes the whole morale of the team go way up. That happened to us last year multiple times. Once when we played Solon, which is a softball team that has a monster power of its own. They have been to state multiple years in a row, they have intense pitching and there batting is ridiculously good. But even though we kind of thought that we were going to go into this game and that we were probably going to get beat, but yet we still had somewhat of a chance, and the come out with a win of beating them by 3 it’s was a good day because that tournament we when 4-0 and made it to the championship game again same as the year before and played the exact same team that we did that year in the championship game and this year we were the ones that came up with the win. And for me as a pitcher of that game, at the beginning in came into the game going thinking oh jeeze this game is going to be tough…because while warming up for the game I wasn’t really that confident in my pitching at the time and was scared that it was just going to go down the drain and they were going to score like 10 runs in the first inning or something like that, but I realized after awhile that even though my warm up pitches were not the best that my pitches were actually working when I thought that they were never going to work. I think that was the most exciting and intense game I have to say of the entire season. I think those are the kinds of games that I learn from. Like realizing that even though a team can be that could they still can be beat. I also think that those are the kinds of a game I grow stronger as a pitcher and that’s what I like about the game of softball, things that are totally unexpected can happen especially when they are for the better. This year is a new year and I’m excited about what it has to bring.