Softball game
We had another great softball game last night. We had almost 20 people there so most people only got to play for half a game. Except for me, I got to play the whole game because there were more outfielders than infielders on the second team. We were up 7-2 and were playing some great defense. And it seems like in the 4th inning when all the new guys come ine that we score around 10 runs. We ended up winning 17-2 by slaughter rule. I threw three people out at first from third. And Bill and I got a guy in a rundown at homeplate, which was really cool. We beat them so quickly that we had 25 minutes left before the next game started. So we decided to scrimage because some people didn't get to play very much. What happend next was really scary. Dan was playing shorstop and someone hit it into shallow center. He raced back and made an unbeliveable diving catch. It was just beautiful. But when he landed he knocked his shoulder out of it socket. He lay there on the field writhing in pain but not saying anything. Dr. Martin tried to pop it back in but couldn't. So we called Mo and asked him to come look. He got there in about ten minutes and Dan was just sitting on the ground in pain. Mo popped it back in for him, but it took about 5 minutes of pulling on it. I have never seen anything so scary as that, or seen anyone in so much pain. His face was all contorted and he was breathing so hard I thought he was going to hyperventilate. He was ok after about a half an hour of ice on his arm. But he was still in a lot of pain. Mo said that usually he gives the person so much valium that they can't even stand up before he does something like that. He said the problem was that Dan's shoulder muscles were tensing up around the arm, not letting it back in to joint. Scary, very scary. Dan was ok though and said it had happend a number of times before. I can't imagine going through something like that. We have another game scheduled on friday. I doubt I'll get to playthe whole time though. But for the first time I feel like I have enough strength in my arm to play shortstop and thirdbase and get people out like I should. I want to be like Randy someday where I don't even have to think about it when throwing someone out from the grass. I'll just keep working out I guess.
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