Champagne flowed, and confetti streamed down as the Desis finally got a win on the board. Celebrations that began friday night, continued throughout the weekend, till the late hours of sunday night. And a win which was a total team effort.
Being the home team, we batted first, putting on 3 runs in the first innings. As has become a habit, Amit got a base hit, followed by Leena, and Appu, and very soon, most of top order batting lineup had a go at the mediocre pitching from the Lutherans, where they walked two, and struck out none, in the top of the very first inning.
Lutherans scored one in the first inning with Karthik pitching real well, I took a catch in the outfield, and Appu catching one at shortstop, one got tagged out. Our second inning, we scored 3 more, with Preetu getting walked, Venu getting a base hit, and I dont remember the rest.
Lutherans put on 3 runs in the second inning, with some powerful hitting, and a couple of fielding errors on our side.
Top of the third, Dumma scored a run, and one more run was scored. Desis were leading 8-4 when the Lutherans got the last inning to bat.
We get one out, we walk one, Lutherans score twice, and this is when the unthinkable happened. The batter hits directly to Appu at short-stop, he throws to Leena at second base, getting the second out of the inning, and she throws to Dumma at first to get our first two-outs, and we had won!! What a way to win!! yooohoooo!!! Great team effort!!!!
Celebrations and team photo-ops followed, and we took our celebrations to the Tied House in downtown San Jose.
A good win, and with this, we are placed perhaps third in the overall standings, with 1 W, 2 T, and 2 L's.
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