Baseball update
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la_rainetteFirst baseball match - well, T-ball actually - yesterday evening. With Froglet looking fetching and radiant in a uniform clearly meant for an overweight, teenage bullfrog ("I love it, mommy, I love it! It looks like a dress!") :D
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darthfox for explaining the rules, and bookwench31 for encouraging me to go and enjoy the kiddie game - once I figured out what was going on, I had a blast!
A few snippets from the evening:
La rainette: "Hey, look! What are these pizza boxes doing on the field?"
Coach: "Er, no, they're bases."
La rainette: "oh, sorry. Wooops"
Coach, to Froglet: "Come on, Froglet! You're the pitcher!"
Froglet, to us: "What's a pitcher?"
Husband (who'd left work extra-early to watch his daughter's first match): "We don't know! GO, GO, GO!!!"
La rainette: " Men and ballgames. Huh!
Husband, to Froglet, as she leisurly skipped over to first base: "RUN! RUN! Is she going shopping or what?"
Froglet giving us the thumbs-up right after missing a crucial point.
One ball sent into the field, and two balls coming back, an no-one has the faintest idea which one is which, or where a second ball could have come from.
Froglet running over to us, and jumping on my lap, exclaiming "I love you, mommy! I love you so much!" while the ball zooms right past the spot where she's supposed to be standing.
Froglet's teammate coming over and yelling enthusiastically: "We won! We won! 38 to 40! We won!"
And Froglet's utter delight, and my dismay: oh bugger, I now vaguely understand what's going on on the field, but HOW DO YOU BLOODY COUNT THE POINTS?
OK. I clearly need more training. *g*
Thank you
darthfox for explaining the rules, and bookwench31 for encouraging me to go and enjoy the kiddie game - once I figured out what was going on, I had a blast! A few snippets from the evening:
La rainette: "Hey, look! What are these pizza boxes doing on the field?"
Coach: "Er, no, they're bases."
La rainette: "oh, sorry. Wooops"
Coach, to Froglet: "Come on, Froglet! You're the pitcher!"
Froglet, to us: "What's a pitcher?"
Husband (who'd left work extra-early to watch his daughter's first match): "We don't know! GO, GO, GO!!!"
La rainette: " Men and ballgames. Huh!
Husband, to Froglet, as she leisurly skipped over to first base: "RUN! RUN! Is she going shopping or what?"
Froglet giving us the thumbs-up right after missing a crucial point.
One ball sent into the field, and two balls coming back, an no-one has the faintest idea which one is which, or where a second ball could have come from.
Froglet running over to us, and jumping on my lap, exclaiming "I love you, mommy! I love you so much!" while the ball zooms right past the spot where she's supposed to be standing.
Froglet's teammate coming over and yelling enthusiastically: "We won! We won! 38 to 40! We won!"
And Froglet's utter delight, and my dismay: oh bugger, I now vaguely understand what's going on on the field, but HOW DO YOU BLOODY COUNT THE POINTS?
OK. I clearly need more training. *g*
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Date: 2004-05-20 05:57 pm (UTC)er ... one at a time. easier than other sports that way, really.
every time a runner crosses home plate, the team scores one run (gets one point). so no more than four runs can be scored on any play -- that would be if the bases are loaded, i.e. if there's a runner on each base, and the batter hits a home run (in which you run all the way around the bases and back to home plate on one hit). since you have to stay ahead of the runners behind you -- remember? -- the batter can't score ahead of the first base runner, who can't score ahead of the second base runner, who can't score ahead of the third base runner. in short, home run, bases loaded, all four runners score. this is called a "grand slam".
the exception to all this is that any run scored on the same play as the third out doesn't count.
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Date: 2004-05-20 08:11 pm (UTC)This is the first rule in baseball that seems simple to me (maybe because I've absorbed enough basic information for it to make sense, thanks to you).
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Date: 2004-05-20 06:30 pm (UTC)Actually, kiddie ball like that is probably not the best way to learn the rules of the game, cause the rules usually get ignored in those games. :D
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Date: 2004-05-20 08:09 pm (UTC)At least it made me feel very good about myself :D