Thursday we went to a Chicago Bandits Professional Softball game at the Rosemont IL, New Softball stadium at the Exhibition complex.
Our team was losing the entire game until the 7th inning.
Score was 5 to 4 with two out and one on first base.
Suddenly the earth seemed to move, silence hit the crowd as Big Bertha moved to the plate.
Batting from the left side of the plate.......the large baseball player looked like she couldn't move very fast.
The count went to a full 3 and 2.....Bertha seemed to smile.
The pitch was near perfect.....as low and far over the plate as a strike could be.
Bertha seemed to be caught offguard but was committed to a swing.
Her arms reached for the pitch and hit it with the end of the bat......while she grimmiced and the ball jumped off the bat low but hard.
It slowly rose toward the outfield and was still rising as it flew over the center fielders head.
It started to lower but disappeared over the center field wall for a WALK OFF HOMERUN.
Bertha looked like a struggling wildebeast running the bases......and approached her entire team at home plate and the umpire....with his eyes on home plate. As she sort of jumped and landed on the plate....the ump called a home run and the crowd of almost thousands cheered.
It was a fun night...hope you enjoyed it too.
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