AllCdnboy's Blog - Day's of a Geek

Been playing rec-softball for a couple years and it's been a huge change from hardball. But, I'm finally getting the hang of it. I'm really just too impatient for the ball to come all the way to me. I've gotten a few homeruns on the short park and a couple of the tops of the fences on the longer fields, but nothing substantial. I've totally changed my stance this past week to make the time that I actually swing at the ball a lot longer (very open stance with hands way up in the air). I got my usual line-drives, but a little cleaner my first 2 at-bats, but the 3rd was what I've been waiting for ... homerun over centerfield that was gone when it left the bat ... I'd estimate that it was around 330 ... man did that feel good. Unfortunately, my next at-bat, when it really would've counted (bottom of the 7th, tie game, runner on 1st), I tried too hard to put it out and it was a high (and i mean high) fly ball to rover ... she couldn't handle it, i got on, but we couldn't pull it out. Wish I figured this stance out at the beginning of the year ... i guess there's always next year (only 1 game plus playoffs left).