Well, The Schmitthead's experienced a lot of heartache this weekend with a final result of 0-3. Yep, we didn't win one game which was a little disappointing, but everyone had a lot of fun.
Friday night we lost by 1 run, but we were sure it was a tie. They claimed they had 7 runs, and we thought 6... thinking about the game afterwards, we think they counted a runner who was thrown out at the plate (by yours truly). This was probably the game we should have won which was against the Baden volunteer firefighters, actually.
Saturday morning we played a team who looked really good the night before, but we stayed with them and were actually winning at one point. ...Until a couple of innings where they scored a lot, mostly from our dumb errors. Very frustrating, but to be expected with a bunch of non-ball players. That team surprisingly made it to the finals (where they got spanked).
The third game was much like the second where we hung right in there with the other team and might have been leading at one point as well until a few really bad innings.
But all in all, it was a very fun weekend and everyone enjoyed themselves and said they wanted to play again next year. Our neighbours invited everyone back to their yard for a swim after our last game which was really nice because it was a really hot day.
There was a pig roast in the Baden park in the evening, and we went but didn't stay long. The chef said they had 400 lbs of pork (2 pigs?), and when we got there just after 8pm, it was almost gone - and the last games hadn't finished yet! I don't think everyone got some, so they had burgers and hot dogs as well. A few guys beside us were claiming that they had 4 pulled pork buns and 2 hamburgers and some other stuff. It's no wonder they ran out! They didn't limit the number of times you could go back for more, so it was basically an all-you-can-eat pig buffet!
Anyway, it was a great day and I hope they decide to run that again next year. It was a huge success - they actually had to expand the teams to 20, instead of 16 like they were hoping for, and at one point I heard they had 3 teams on the waiting list. Maybe it'll be even bigger next year?
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