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By Monique Danziger Monday, May 22, 2007—All signs pointed to another jolly good romp on the part of the Alliance to Save Energy Killer Watts, who met the National Farmland Preservation Trust Aggies for the first time this season. Missing a couple of key players, but still possessed of a solid roster, the Watts looked spry and upbeat going through their warm-up paces. The Watts were also back in familiar turf having set up shop on one of the short fields tucked behind the Reflecting Pool and World War II Memorial. These fields, unlike those on the Ellipse or around the Washington Memorial, truncate abruptly at a rope fence beyond which is underbrush and woods. After a protracted warm-up, the other half of the Aggies’ team finally appeared out of the shimmering, late day haze. While the addition filled the Aggies’ out to regulation strength, the team was still one girl short of the league required 3. As is customary, the team managers shook hands and agreed upon the standard rules for these particular fields: balls hit over the fence were automatic homeruns, under or through the fence would be an extra base. In the time it took to shake hands upon the game ground rules and walk back the 10 feet to the Watts’ base camp the Watts lineup leadoff standbys David Mann, Emily Curley and Matte Elkins were out. With the Watts first-at bat fruitless and over too-soon, the Aggies stepped up to the plate, broke out their rotor tillers, and proceeded to lay the Watts out like so much sod. At-bat the Aggies enjoyed a cornucopia of solid connections that sent the majority of their hits out of reach of the Watts defense, who beat a well-worn path through the backfield underbrush beyond the roped perimeter fence. Never flagging, the Aggies easily harvested every lazy pop-up, wavering drive and rollicking grounder the Watts-who appeared to have forgotten how to bat-planted in the airspace. Whatever the Aggies might have lacked in performance-and they didn’t want for much-the Watts gave away themselves. Watts fielders missed, dropped, fumbled and generally threw away the ball reaping a bumper crop of errors. In the end, the Watts would manage to bring home 5 runners to put the final score at somewhere around 15-5. Take heart softballers, glory is often forged in the fire of adversity. So by all accounts the Watts should be wielding a Zeus-sized Thunderbolt of Softball Fury for their next game, which will be against the National Environmental Trust Tree Sluggers next Tuesday, May 29th. Thanks and see you all next week! |
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