Taking One For The Team

This past Friday I played in a kickball tournament in Richfield.  Last year my team played in the same tournament and won the whole thing.  We went back for the repeat.  It was 8 teams, single elimination.  Our first two games we won by the score of 11-1 in each game or something like that.  But the championship game was much closer.  I came up to bat in the 5th inning with no outs and our team up 2-1.  I made it safely to 1st base on a kick to left field.  I should have stretched it into a double but I played it safe since there weren't any outs.  The next batter kicked into a fielder's choice and as I was running to second base, I knew it was going to be a close play.  As you may recall a couple of weeks ago, I suffered an abrasion on my lower left leg.  And it had just finally healed.  Like I said it was going to be a close play, and knowing how scarce runs were, I had to slide.  I made it into second safely but paid the price.  This is the price.

  Unfortunately the next batter kicked it right to the 3rd base man and I ended up being a force out at 3rd.  We did end up winning the tournament with a final score of 2-1.