Baseball Scrum

I think I recently experienced what can only be described as one of the most satisfying feelings in the world: pegging a batter on purpose with a baseball. It is truly exhilerating.

I tend to have really good control, as evidenced by my 4 to 1 strikeout to walk ratio. On the rare occasion that I do hit a batter with a pitch, it's usually when I'm ahead in the count and a curveball slips out of my hand. That just sucks for a plethora of reasons, most important of which are that you let the batter reach first base where he didn't deserve such reward and the fact that if you're going to hit someone, it should be with a fastball and should at the very least leave a bruise. Every now and then, however, I get the rare opportunity to intentionally throw at someone. A lot of the time I get so excited at this prospect that I end up throwing nowhere near the batter, and tend to throw it right over the plate. Yesterday, however, my control to the batter's rib cage was under much better control. I pegged four batters yesterday - two unintentionally and two intentionally. One on a curveball that the batter leaned into, one that grazed a batter's shirt, one with a fastball to hip flexor after a runner stole third up by nine runs, and one with a fastball to the lower ribs to a player who deserved it so bad he might as well have begged to be thrown at. This last batter was the most exciting, as the pitch before he got plunked went behind his head, so there was little doubt what my intent was.

Anyways, the game got cancelled after a few members of the opposing team, including some people in the stand began threatening me a little too intently. I guess that's just how I roll.