Yes, it did. Good thing I got up on the bench and gave that pregame talk. Wow, who knows what might have happened otherwise? Could have been bad.
Where to start? Perhaps with the 11-run Franklin Institute first inning. That would make sense. On that pace, assuming no bottom of the seventh inning (fairly safe), that put them on a pace to score 66 runs in this game.
Well, we held them to less than half that, so we've got that going for us.
Franklin had 36 hits in six at-bats, which is impressive. They batted around five times. We batted around three times. We had just 12 reach base safely. It was a combination of things. They caught the ball very well, which helped. On the other side, they just pounded us. Thirteen extra-base hits.
And, so, we lost, in a repeat of last year's first-round playoff defeat to Franklin. The final was 30-5 and it felt like every bit of it.
But we went out as a team. We went out with two hits each from Brian Donlen (robbed of a third), George Miller, Jon Clark and Mark Nevins. We went out with some good defense when the ball was in the same area code, and with class, which made one of us.
Hey, it's softball. We'll be back.
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