Mama's House

Still looking for our first win and that chance to dogpile on the mound. However, there was marked improvement after losing our first game 22-4. This time we were able to go the full 7 innings and kept the score to a respectable 11-5 loss. Some of the highlights were:

• Sara touching home twice in three plate appearances, justifying her leadoff spot in the batting order.
• Annette making not one but two nice defensive plays. One on a slow roller to the mound that she ran up on and made the throw in time to first and the second one a heads up play backing up a botched cutoff to make the assist at third.
• Mehran making his own web gem on a liner to second.
• Brian hitting a two run homer and keeping his batting average at a perfect 1.000 after 5 at-bats to start the season.

I suppose that means we dedicate tonight's game to Melanie.

Hey,

So what are the June happenings? Specifically, when is this 25th anniversary thing. We are probably skipping Vegas so we can come for a week in June, right now that would be the last week of June (about 20th - 27th) with our only wish to play in one of the family softball games.

Throwing a softball.

A summary of the tips:

• A circular motion will aid your throw by providing more natural momentum than simply bringing your arm straight back and then forward.

• If you are playing outfield you will almost always be making a longer throw, so when you remove the ball from your glove, your arm and hand should drop down and by your back knee.
• If you are making a shorter throw in the infield for example, you may take the ball out of your glove and move it back and down slightly.

• When throwing you want your front shoulder to point in the direction of where you are throwing.
• Your back foot should be perpendicular to the target and your hips should be closed and also pointing in the direction of the target.
• Once you have everything lined up, you'll want to step toward the target with your lead foot, push off your back leg, and throw the ball using your entire body.

Check the link for details and some instructional images.

On this day:

1997 - Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win golf's Masters Tournament.
1953 - CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
1899 - Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor was born.
1980 - Quentin Richardson, American basketball player was born.
2005 - Jayden acted like a brat.
2008 - Lindsey asks for Darryll's phone number and tisked tisked Wayne for not having it on hand.