Tonight was the First Annual Downtown Kickball All-Star Game between cross town rival leagues; the Downtown Kickball League and the Arena District Kickball League.
The Arena District team came into the game as heavy favorites due to their league’s reputation as a more hard nosed/serious competition. While The Downtown leagues was seen as the disorganized underdog.
The game started off with both teams really feeling each other out and trying to determine weaknesses. The Arena League team scored 3 runs their first inning, while the Downtown League only managed one run. In the second inning we managed to rally and tie the score but a late run by the Arena team put score almost out of reach at 7-3. This is when members of Continental Office team took the field and made a difference.
As the second kicker at the beginning of the 6th inning I kicked to shallow center field and managed a single. A couple kickers later the game was tied 7-7 with yours’ truly scoring. After our third out we managed to hold the Arena team to a quick 3 and out and then we had victory within our grasp. Our first kicker managed a single. With the winning run on second and no outs I utilizing every ounce of kicking power I had left in me to move our runner to third. This of course meant kicking the shit out of the ball but it was some how caught for an out. Due to the length of the kick it gave our runner a chance to tag up and get to third thereby setting up the winning score. Our next kicker pop up a sacrifice kick and victory was ours.
