Ok, Time for Plan B?

Well, it's Thursday evening so I've had plenty of time to "process" our weekend. Here's what I came up with:

• Hitting was better than ever.
• Fielding was pretty strong, though we lacked (again) on some of the routine plays.
• Out of about 20 innings, we played 17 spectacularly.
• Out of the 3 innings we didn't play spectacularly, 2 cost us 2 losses (1 each).
• Attitude is amazing when it's on.
• Attitude is amazing when my attitude is on.
• My attitude is on when the girls' attitude is on.
• "I'm getting better at fighting the future. (Some day you'll be fine.) Yes, I'll be just fine." << Click after you read the post.

You know...I don't know what else to say here. I could have made defensive changes that may have saved our games, but it's hard to make defensive changes in the middle of the inning. And, either way, we really lost the games on the little stuff like past balls, missed grounders, overthrow, blooper-hits that weren't fielded properly, etc.

One thing I did hear a lot of this weekend was: "what's the score?" I've got my different theories on this, too. First, I feel like the players deserve to know what they're up against -- and sometimes it can bolster them into giving more to fight back. But, on the other hand, I wonder, "what's it matter?" If the score's a lot to a little, they're likely to give up. If the scores a little to a little less, will they give up or get comfortable? Knowing my girls...well, knowing my girls, I think it's best to keep the score from them. I think that's what I'll do this weekend.

I know that this weekend will be tough. The competition seems like it will be more consistently solid this weekend. Last weekend, I think we faced some decent competition then went on to face a really tough competitor right after. That's a tough transition to make for the girls. Oddly enough, we started off all of our games very strong. It was like we just got too tired/downhearted to continue on during those tougher games -- which happened to be games #3 on Saturday and #2 on Sunday. I'd like to say I really understood it, but I don't. 

And, you know what? I just got a crazy idea to play a 4-man outfield with 3 girls. Hmmm...it's just crazy enough to work against the stronger offensive teams, and surely crazy enough to signal that it's time for bed.

One more day and then we take the field again. :)