The third time was the charm. The Originals beat the Wolfpack for the first time in three head to head matchups tonight at the Drew street Softball facility. The prior two losses were in last Season's scheduled play, prior to the incredible playoff run the Originals displayed during the most crucial part of last season.
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Unfortunately , that playoff run did not include any payback for the Wolfpack, as they were defeated by the eventual runner up, Pete and Shortys. This regular season game was decidedly different. After a full seven innings of competition, the final score was: Originals 16, Wolfpack 13.
-The originals jumped to a commanding 13 to nothing lead, scored a 14th run in the fifth, and held on as the Wolfpack clawed there way back into it in their half of the 6th, to make it only a 14 to 13 game going into the 7th. They had the home team advantage of batting last during that inning, but in the top half of the 7th the originals added two insurance runs to make it 16 to 13. The Wolfpack failed to score any runs in their half of the seventh, and the Originals chalked up a January win.
-"Its a long season but winning in January is how you get to the Superbowl and that's just what we did tonight. We won in January" said team right fielder and co-captain Ben Keener. (no one had the heart to explain to him that this is just Men's Hack League Softball and not the National Football League)
-After the game, money front man, and "Mr. Intensity, " First baseman, "Karl Forrest", declared it a great comeback! When it was pointed out that at no time were the Originals ever behind in this game, and thus technically it was not a comeback, Karl simply changed the definition of what a comeback win is. His point was that in the bottom of the 6th when we started that half of the inning, we were up 14 to 6, but after giving up 7 runs in that frame, "it damn sure felt like a comeback, That was some serious Butt Clenching going on, is all I am trying to say" -The butt clenching part was oh so very true.
-Here is the near perfect analogy for this Softball game. It was like we were this years Minnesota Vikings, and we had given up 4 turnovers in the NFC championship game, yet found ourselves tied and in field goal range after already having nearly double the offense of the New Orleans Saints, with less than a minute to play. Brett Favre rolls right, and instead of dumping it off to the wide open back in the flat, or just running it, He throws across his body and creates the 5th turnover of the game, with his pick to Porter. The Saints go on to win the overtime coin toss, march down the field and win the game.
-The Originals also gave up numerous turnovers in the bottom of the 6th in the form of kicked balls, and also using their gloves like they were croquet wickets, plus all those "Bad News Bears" types of throws. We were Adrian Peterson personified, except not the part where we run over people and by People, We were the Adrian Peterson that kept putting the ball on the ground.
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The difference though, is that the Originals did not throw the ball back across the field and their body in the final fateful moments of this game. Like the Savvy Veteran team they are, they chose to run the Ball to the 25 yard line in the top half of the 7th and then we brought in our kicker to split the uprights in the form of a four up and 3 down bottom of the 7th, while stranding the only runner that got on.
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Speaking about the WolfPack's play, Team Score keeper Lacy Lewis observed: "Their problem was that THEY made 3 outs in their half of the inning before scoring the 4 runs they would have needed to win" She truly understands the game of Softball and the nuance and intricacies of the game within the game.
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The bottom of the 6th was stressful. As previously noted, it caused the entire definition of what a "comeback win" is, to come into review by Karl Forrest. The small group of players on the team that are not lawyers, clearly observed that Karl is one, and thats just how they roll. Always trying to make loopholes if they can't find one thats already there, and then just beating you down with ancillary arguments to try to confuse you. Bottom line Karl, if we were never behind in the game, it IS NOT A COMEBACK WIN. All the other lawyers on the team were very intrigued by the unique argument that because they made it so close, it felt like we came back and should be categorized as such.
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Ms. Constable, who is the wife of our teams version of Johnny Bench, actually went into Labor just watching that part of the 6th. "Nothing like watching the team you have been rooting for since you were a small child, kick it around like you guys did to cause a woman to go into Pre-mature Labor" she said. As of the writing of this article no information on an actual birth has been relayed, but Ms. Constable was adamant that she would not be naming the child after a butterscotch Candy in the teams honor.
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Which brings up another analogy: This game was like a microcosm of the Dallas Cowboys play during the month of December. Many players on the Originals are huge Dallas Cowboy fans, especially the Second Baseman and Right fielder. After the Cowboys lost to the New York Giants and San-diego Chargers in the first two weeks of December. it seemed just like the bottom of the 6th inning for us. Yet just like the Cowboys, this past December, that was not who we are as a softball team. We are veterans of the softball wars and even though we may throw up all over our shoes on the way to the dance, We shake it off and pull it together in the end. Just like the Cowboys won their remaining three regular season games in December and early January to get into the playoffs, the Originals righted the ship in the 7th.
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In summary, This game was just a monumental comeback of epic proportions in which we were never behind and then we won.
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