MPR softball won Thursday night’s game via forfeit, as Sine Die didn’t have enough women.  So, technically the score was 7-0.  But the two teams played anyway, sometimes through a light mist, and MPR won that contest as well 21-15 (aided primarily by scoring seven runs in both the 3rd and 4th innings).

But this story has very little to do with the game, except for one at-bat.  An at-bat that will live in infamy by Johnny Rothman

Johnny’s trip to the plate in the 3rd inning saw a monster swing and a miss for strike one.  Surely he wouldn’t do that again, would he?  He did.  Maybe his new nickname should be “Johnny K” – it was amazingly spectacular, folks.  Here’s a shot of him after that at-bat…

Fortunately for him, the K wasn’t recorded.  But his next at bat was…

Click here to see a video of Johnny’s at-bat AFTER his big K

There were, however, other highlights.  The game marked the debut of Emily Bina, who hat a hit and scored twice…

… and the return of Ben Wareham, who appeared quite confused the whole game…

Ben apparently forgot how to play softball in China, as we went 1-4.  But Andy Ducett went 3-3 and Jim Bickal went 4-4!  Tim Post had a very impressive roll-over in right field, and Captain Tom was a loud, beligerent mess the entire game… probably the result of being cast off by his own team to play for Sine Die – who was short a few players – only to be cast off by Sine Die once a few more of their players then showed up.  Captain Tom was a man without a team Thursday, and he yelled a lot.

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