Damn. I mean, darn. If there was a game that left regret and bad feelings, this was it. It was tied going into the 6th before the Surge scratched out a run. We did so many things well. Wyatt, Nate, and Noah pitched great. Jacob made a major contribution while playing through pain. Mike W had a huge hit. So why the regret? We negated all those good things by coughing up 5 runs in a miserable second inning, which included 2 fly balls lost in the sun, and even though we came back from 5-1 to tie it, just a little more hitting would have been enough to bury the Surge. Bad feelings? Yep. The Surge coaches and players were all classy. But for the first time we had umpiring controversy, with Adam protesting a ruling and asking for the Tournament Director's ruling. The Director sided with us, awarding us a double play. The overruled ump sulked for a few innings, and then when we were poised to take the lead, called one of our runners out on a pickoff play which looked suspiciously like a revenge call. And the Surge had some loud, leather-lunged parents who yelled/cheered nonstop, and when we couldn't shut them up by beating them, we had even non-criers in tears.
Good lesson learned though. We played 5 quality innings. But out here, against a good team like the Surge, that's enough only for a moral victory. It takes 6 to win.
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