{"id":10927,"date":"2022-02-08T13:53:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T18:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2022-02-11T06:21:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T11:21:48","slug":"the-only-consistent-thing-in-senior-softball-inconsistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/08\/the-only-consistent-thing-in-senior-softball-inconsistency\/","title":{"rendered":"The only consistent thing in senior softball: inconsistency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last Thursday my team lost, 8-3, to the worst team in the league. It was their first victory and they were very happy. We played terribly. No one was hitting. Scoring just 3 runs in 7 innings of slow-pitch softball is just pathetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we beat a better team, 20-13. I cannot explain how a team can hit so poorly one day and hit so well a few days later. Everyone was hitting. Just inexplicable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I played an early game as a pool player, then played my team’s game. Two games, 8 at-bats, one walk, three singles, two triples and two home runs. I can’t recall the last time I hit a home run. Two in one day? Inexplicable. And 7-for-7? As Vizzini says in The Princess Bride<\/em>, inconceivable<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good day of softball. But can I hit that well consistently? Not a chance. Inconsistency is the name of this particular game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Thursday my team lost, 8-3, to the worst team in the league. It was their first victory and they were very happy. We played terribly. No one was hitting. Scoring just 3 runs in 7 innings of slow-pitch softball is just pathetic. Today we beat a better team, 20-13. I cannot explain how a … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2Qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10931,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/10931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}