GAME 6.
VECTORS OVERCOME ROOSTERS WHEN THEIR BATS ARE SILENCED BY DON.
The VECTORS won
the 6th game of the Medical Circle Softball League
Series this Fall when the Roosters’ bats were essentially
silenced by Frankie Don on Saturday November 3, 2007. The game
followed the 7th inning attempt by the ROOSTERS to
overcome the VECTORS record delayed a whole week for reasons too
numerous to count, several players out.
The performance
of Frankie Don improved as the game went on. His methods
combined finesse and a touch of the malice we saw with the
veteran undefeated pitcher of the VECTORS Aristeo Seiguido. The
VECTORS would no comment if Aristeo had been planting his
methods on the youth of the VECTORS but the fans and several
commentators present in the well-attended game did make the
connection.
The Fall series
is coming to an end with a remarkable set of records, stats and
experiences. There is once aspect, however that had not been
discussed in much detail, the injuries! In this series, as in
any sports activity, injuries are the most common cause of
detained growth, derailment of careers and individual and
collective failure.
This is a brief
summary of the injuries reported to the Medical Circle Softball
League Officials.
|
Player |
Injury |
Position played
|
When injury
occurred Outcome |
|
Wafredo Lopez |
Plantaris muscle rupture |
Right field |
6
weeks into intensive PT still unable to run.
Moderately Serious |
|
Antonio Gordon |
Left Knee Strained ligament |
Second base |
Less than one-week mild disability. Potentially
serious |
|
Amy
Miteff |
Left Knee Strained ligament |
Catcher |
Momentary discomfort. No serious. |
|
Ana
Lucia |
Left Superior Iliac Ligament stain |
Right field |
Less than one-week mild disability. Potentially
serious. |
There may have
been other injuries not obviously observed or reported. Let us
look a t the number of “players missing in action.” It is noted
in the league records that the ROOSTERS had four players who
only played one game and there is no knowledge of how they did
or why they did not return. This statistic for the VECTORS is
seven players playing only one game and never seen again. The
four ROOSTERs amount to 17% of the total number of players in
the ROOSTERS team while the seven VECTORS surpassed the
percentage amounting to 41% of the VECTORS players. Although the
overall average age of the VECTORS in this series seems less
than that of the ROOSTERS, the injuries noted above are
distributed half for the veterans and half for the youngsters.
The amateurs sports writers association has suggested that age
of each player be collected into the entry forms so that teams
may have similar age make-ups.
Obviously, the
best way to prevent injuries is training, preparation, and quick
protection of any minimally injured function to prevent
progression and further disability. The preparation for the nest
series begins NOW with a self examination of mental and physical
attitudes, life style review and modifications and a
determination – with a goal in mind – that changes are for the
better: for feeling better, doing better and eventually being
better.
The last
game of this Fall 2007 Series starts TODAY, November 10, 2007,
in FIELD NUMBER 4, at TROPICAL PARK. SEE YOU THERE.
