Wins and Losses


For this past week, since Tuesday, I have been spending my evenings at the Bethel Softball Complex of the Merchantville/Pennsauken Little League.  I am announcing and the Official Scorer for the Section 4 Little League Tournament and I am having a great time!  One issue I realized on the 190th day of 2022 is I am getting too connected to the teams that play night after night.  It is a double elimination tournament so, by the 3rd night of the tournament (Thursday), elimination games start to occur.  On Thursday, I was slightly sad for the two teams that lost, both going 0-2 in the Tournament.  On Friday, I felt bad for the team that went home, at 1-2 in the tourney.  Tonight, on 7/9/2022, I truly was really sad for the team that lost.  It was a hard fought battle and the Home Team walked it off in the bottom of the 6th.  It was one of those games where both teams fought and scraped for their runs and both played well enough to win.  My Two for 2022 are wins and losses.  I am not an "everyone gets a trophy" kind of guy, and learning to lose, gracefully, is one of the best lessons one can learn from youth sports.  But I was truly sad as the losing team was leaving the field.  I tried to give them words of encouragement.  Finishing 3rd in a Sectional Tournament is an achievement (heck, GETTING to Sectionals is usually an accomplishment) and, in every game, there is a winner and loser.  Tomorrow is the Championship Round.... looking forward to a great game, or even two depending on who wins game 1! 

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