Can't Buy a Break...

The second game of Wylie's playoff baseball series against Mineral Wells didn't go much better than the previous day. There isn't a whole lot more painful thing to watch than a baseball team that's hitting the ball, but not getting hits. It seemed like every time the Bulldogs hit the ball they were hitting it to someone, or they'd get a hard hit up the middle and twice it hit off the pitcher's glove or foot right to the shortstop to make an easy out. The best way to describe this day for Wylie is, sometimes you just can't buy a break. The photos, however, turned out a little bit better than the day before... too bad the light wasn't as nice.

Baseball Playoffs...

Here we are in the third week of the baseball playoffs and for the first time this season I'm shooting Wylie's baseball team. Part of it had to to with weather, the one in-town tournament they were playing in got rained out. And after that, the Bulldogs played only four games at home this season. Then, with the golf, tennis and track state tournaments going on I ended up missing the first two rounds of the baseball playoffs. So, here I was in the third week of the playoffs shooting Wylie playing Mineral Wells in Eastland. The game wasn't all that great from a shooting perspective, not a lot of hits, no extra base hits and only a few close plays, but a did manage to pull out a couple of decent shots.

Playoff Opener...

The opening of the playoffs usually start out with a couple of games on Thursday night, then going into full effect on Friday and almost as many games on Saturday. This year was kind of weird in that there was a full slate of games on Thursday and Friday and then only a few fairly insignificant games on Saturday. So, it started out big with Wylie playing Burkburnett. Wylie hadn't had the best season, partly because they had played a hellava tough schedule. So, with the playoffs starting everyone had the same record again, and you lose you're out. Well, they came out acting like they were a lot better than their record showed and took down Burkburnett pretty easily winning 40-23.