by Yip Yong Kin
Softball 2011 is just another season, or not. Depending on how you see it.
The usual misfortunate life event befall onto my family this week.
It started out great with a friendly game vs NJC.
Then there is the good news of the start of softball 2011 season.
And life's bomb shell drops every once in a while.
My uncle was told of having an early stage stomach cancer at age 51.
The families are rallying around him this weekend.
He seems optimistic except for letting out the wish of him able to live another 10 more years to see his son getting married. A death wish, no doubt.
To be within the context fo softball.
If I were to live for only 10 more years, my question in terms of softball would be how many more games can I play with the club? Thank you my friends.
How many have I played is not important anymore.
Have a 10 year wish list, and live your life as if it is your last 10 years because it will definitely be true one day.
Be there for us in 2011.
Something to break the sombre:
Lost man to holy man: What is life?
Holy man: I don't know. My computer and smartphone are down.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Monday, September 6, 2010
2010 League Team Stats by Lo
Finally our 2010 season has come to an end after a long 3+ months. I would say it is not exactly how we want to end our season, taking 2 consecutive 1 run losses to NUS and ORA. Nevertheless, I believe we gave our best shot and I think it is still a very exciting/entertaining season with some tight situations, memorable comebacks, etc.
Now talking about 2nd round, which is essentially just our game with ORA last Sun, there really isn't much to talk about. We only manage a bat avg of .211 as a team, the 2nd worst performance this season besides the Hunters game. There are only 4 hits altogether. Other than a well executed bunt hit by Spider, rest offense comes from our 2 pitchers: Alex hit safely twice with 1 RBI and Zhiguan hit a 2 RBI triple. Although a late rally almost make this another memorable comeback, basic lack of offense and some fielding errors simply proved to be deciding factor for our loss. (ORA outhit us with .368 avg)
Moving to season overall, we manage a 4th position this year, slide a position from last year. Our captain Goh once again showed his worth, finishing with .474 avg and 10RBIs, ranking 1st in both avg and RBI. This is also the 2nd consecutive year he ranked first with highest batting avg. In HR category, 4 players tied with 1 each (Yongbin, William, Hongwei, Qingwei)
In term of defense, our pitchers has a combined ERA of 5.80 this year (vs. 3.40 in 2009). There is much room for improvement on that. Fielding wise we has made on average 3 errors/game, also bit on the high side, especially most of them times, these errors always resulted in run scored.
To conclude, I think this year we still had some good offensive display in league with 10 players hitting above .300. What we need to do, in my opinion, is to continue to train or play every week if possible, so we can stay sharp and fine tune things that we probably has no time to focus on during season. (For myself as example, think is just how to last for more than 3 innings of pitching!).
Let's aim to do better in the coming NUS open!
That's all folks.
Chung Hao
Now talking about 2nd round, which is essentially just our game with ORA last Sun, there really isn't much to talk about. We only manage a bat avg of .211 as a team, the 2nd worst performance this season besides the Hunters game. There are only 4 hits altogether. Other than a well executed bunt hit by Spider, rest offense comes from our 2 pitchers: Alex hit safely twice with 1 RBI and Zhiguan hit a 2 RBI triple. Although a late rally almost make this another memorable comeback, basic lack of offense and some fielding errors simply proved to be deciding factor for our loss. (ORA outhit us with .368 avg)
Moving to season overall, we manage a 4th position this year, slide a position from last year. Our captain Goh once again showed his worth, finishing with .474 avg and 10RBIs, ranking 1st in both avg and RBI. This is also the 2nd consecutive year he ranked first with highest batting avg. In HR category, 4 players tied with 1 each (Yongbin, William, Hongwei, Qingwei)
In term of defense, our pitchers has a combined ERA of 5.80 this year (vs. 3.40 in 2009). There is much room for improvement on that. Fielding wise we has made on average 3 errors/game, also bit on the high side, especially most of them times, these errors always resulted in run scored.
To conclude, I think this year we still had some good offensive display in league with 10 players hitting above .300. What we need to do, in my opinion, is to continue to train or play every week if possible, so we can stay sharp and fine tune things that we probably has no time to focus on during season. (For myself as example, think is just how to last for more than 3 innings of pitching!).
Let's aim to do better in the coming NUS open!
That's all folks.
Chung Hao
Monday, August 30, 2010
More high than lows.
The Lows:
This is the first time that the Oboyz has faced live batting after a one month off in the schedule.
The ORA result might have showed us that Oboyz still need to keep swinging their bats to compete. However, the training has been a luxury to us as highlighted early in the season by William. Having the games every week may have help the bats but the schedule is really out of everyone's control, eluding even the organisers, LOL.
The Highs:
One thing that has not decrease is the joyful moments that was ever present during the season. The games at Anchorville turn out to be a great picnic event where almost everyone turn up.
To quote William, "There is no solution to this(getting everyone together all the time). We cannot turn back time, we can only move forward, hopefully as a team."
I say time is not on our side, Oboyz may soon turn to Old boyz before we realise it. Whahahah.
Watch out the permanent Disabled List column as Jessen may be there in the near future. Hohoho.
By Yip Yong Kin
This is the first time that the Oboyz has faced live batting after a one month off in the schedule.
The ORA result might have showed us that Oboyz still need to keep swinging their bats to compete. However, the training has been a luxury to us as highlighted early in the season by William. Having the games every week may have help the bats but the schedule is really out of everyone's control, eluding even the organisers, LOL.
The Highs:
One thing that has not decrease is the joyful moments that was ever present during the season. The games at Anchorville turn out to be a great picnic event where almost everyone turn up.
To quote William, "There is no solution to this(getting everyone together all the time). We cannot turn back time, we can only move forward, hopefully as a team."
I say time is not on our side, Oboyz may soon turn to Old boyz before we realise it. Whahahah.
Watch out the permanent Disabled List column as Jessen may be there in the near future. Hohoho.
By Yip Yong Kin
Takes a team to win and lose a game
30Aug10 ORA 7-6 Oboyz
Final league position: 4th
The lost is truly a team effort unless your name is Alex or Zhiguan.
The team is 0 for plenty for 6 players combined. The hot bats turned cold suddenly much like the weather lately. Errors in the outfield from even the sure handed players.
Alex and Zhiguan are the only ones who had hard hits and the RBIs. Alex has also been a defensive rock as third baseman in the game keeping the game close.
ORA had quite a number of hard hits to earn their victory, puntuated by a 4th inning line drive 2 run HR.
Considering that we started with only 10 players, no natural SS and 2B without taking away from pitching department, I think it was a decent result, though traditionally we have been very competitive.
Chung Hao will furnish the stats with more exact numbers. Look out for it.
By Yip Yong Kin
Final league position: 4th
The lost is truly a team effort unless your name is Alex or Zhiguan.
The team is 0 for plenty for 6 players combined. The hot bats turned cold suddenly much like the weather lately. Errors in the outfield from even the sure handed players.
Alex and Zhiguan are the only ones who had hard hits and the RBIs. Alex has also been a defensive rock as third baseman in the game keeping the game close.
ORA had quite a number of hard hits to earn their victory, puntuated by a 4th inning line drive 2 run HR.
Considering that we started with only 10 players, no natural SS and 2B without taking away from pitching department, I think it was a decent result, though traditionally we have been very competitive.
Chung Hao will furnish the stats with more exact numbers. Look out for it.
By Yip Yong Kin
Tough Loss to the improved NUS
Right:The faces said it all about the loss.
By Chung Haoon National Day
To be honest, statistically, NUS actually outplayed us in term of hits, batting avg, RBIs. We only manage a .250 avg, with all our top 5 batters hitless. Our captain Goh provided 2 RBIs with some clutch hitting while Ruojie have 2 hits and scored twice.
Defense wise we are quite good with just 1 fielding error and a solid pitching from Zhiguan, with 9 Ks. It is unfortunate that a little shaky 5th inning spoils a otherwise great day for him. Nevertheless like our captain has mentioned, we have seen lots of improvement as this season progresses.
We have finished the first round with 7 wins and 2 losses, which should place us at 3rd positions for the 2nd round. Collectively we have quite a impressive .335 batting avg with avg 6RBIs/game. Our pitchers have limit our opponent to .288 avg while allowing 5+ run/game.
For individual stats, our captain Goh has caught up with some clutch perfprmances and lead the team with .563 avg and 10 RBIs. Notably our "old bird" Ronghan has perfect record of 3 for 3 and 3 RBIs, while just appearing as subs in 2 games.
That's all folks. See you guys soon for 2nd round!
Written by Luo Chung Hao after NUS's game
By Chung Hao 27Jun10
Initially I wanted to finish compiling the stats for last week and today and send it out tonight, but I was totally pre-occupied with the little one who has been throwing tantrum whole afternoon since we step back home. So the stats gotta wait... (His grandma just came about half an hour ago and coax him to sleep in 5mins...)
Nevertheless, I feel the need to say something about today. First, I would like to apologize for my disastrous start today. Nevermind about the condition of the field or ball, I think I should have adjusted faster. I have allowed my mind to be conditioned in a way that "the ground sucks and nothing I could do...", rather than thinking of way to adjust to it.
Secondly, thanks all for bailing me out from the bad start. I have dig quite a big hole but fortunately you guys have shown total support to cover it. I thought last season's Red sox game was the best portrait of Oboyz's never say die spirit. But I think today's game has has surpass that. It simply shows that we have ability to come back from behind no matter what is the scoreline and our "never say die" spirit is stroner than ever.
But really hope we dont have to use this spirit too much though....
It is an ugly win today in term scoreline and stuff, but personally, I think it is a great game, a true team victory...and a toally wild game that will be remembered.
That's all folks. Enjoy watching England and Germany match!
Written by Luo Chung Hao after the japanese FSBC game on the 27Jun10
Initially I wanted to finish compiling the stats for last week and today and send it out tonight, but I was totally pre-occupied with the little one who has been throwing tantrum whole afternoon since we step back home. So the stats gotta wait... (His grandma just came about half an hour ago and coax him to sleep in 5mins...)
Nevertheless, I feel the need to say something about today. First, I would like to apologize for my disastrous start today. Nevermind about the condition of the field or ball, I think I should have adjusted faster. I have allowed my mind to be conditioned in a way that "the ground sucks and nothing I could do...", rather than thinking of way to adjust to it.
Secondly, thanks all for bailing me out from the bad start. I have dig quite a big hole but fortunately you guys have shown total support to cover it. I thought last season's Red sox game was the best portrait of Oboyz's never say die spirit. But I think today's game has has surpass that. It simply shows that we have ability to come back from behind no matter what is the scoreline and our "never say die" spirit is stroner than ever.
But really hope we dont have to use this spirit too much though....
It is an ugly win today in term scoreline and stuff, but personally, I think it is a great game, a true team victory...and a toally wild game that will be remembered.
That's all folks. Enjoy watching England and Germany match!
Written by Luo Chung Hao after the japanese FSBC game on the 27Jun10
Above: Alex Lim started against the Hunters
By William on 21Jun10
After our little discussion on Sunday, it got me thinking about softball and life.
It's nice to be able to train really hard together as a team, play together as a team and hopefully win some games together as a team. I guess that's what folks term as team bonding.
And at times, it's not the results that count but the process of playing it and going through the ups and downs with friends, not just teammates, but friends, that makes it more satisfactory than the scoreline, or batting average, or number of homeruns you hit.
But unfortunately, we all are at different stages of life, not just compared to where we are 3 or 4 years ago, but even within team. Some have gone on to be fathers, some are going to get married, others are just embarking on getting employed and climbing the corporate ladder.
To ask each and every one to commit their time, and by that I mean real valuable precious weekend time with family/gf, to a pasttime/hobby/passion, is impossible. Each one of us have our own commitments and not all are willing or able to put softball that high a priority in life anymore.
There is no solution to this. We cannot turn back time, we can only move forward, hopefully as a team.
Written by William after to Hunters in the 1st round
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