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The Spiral Of Silence  Opponents carry injured home-run hitter around bases PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - With two runners on base and a strike against her, Sara Tucholsky of Western Oregon University uncorked her best swing and did something she had never done, in high school or college. Her first home run cleared the center-field fence. But it appeared to be the shortest of dreams come true when she missed first base, started back to tag it and collapsed with a knee injury. She crawled back to first but could do no more. The first-base coach said she would be called out if her teammates tried to help her. Or, the umpire said, a pinch runner could be called in, and the homer would count as a single. Then, members of the Central Washington University softball team stunned spectators by carrying Tucholsky around the bases Saturday so the three-run homer would count - an act that contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs. Central Washington first baseman Mallory Holtman, the career home run leader in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference, asked the umpire if she and her teammates could help Tucholsky. The umpire said there was no rule against it. So Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace put their arms under Tucholsky's legs, and she put her arms over their shoulders. The three headed around the base paths, stopping to let Tucholsky touch each base with her good leg. "The only thing I remember is that Mallory asked me which leg was the one that hurt," Tucholsky said. "I told her it was my right leg and she said, 'OK, we're going to drop you down gently and you need to touch it with your left leg,' and I said 'OK, thank you very much."' "She said, 'You deserve it, you hit it over the fence,' and we all kind of just laughed." "We started laughing when we touched second base," Holtman said. "I said, 'I wonder what this must look like to other people."' "We didn't know that she was a senior or that this was her first home run," Wallace said Wednesday. "That makes the story more touching than it was. We just wanted to help her." Holtman said she and Wallace weren't thinking about the playoff spot, and didn't consider the gesture something others wouldn't do. As for Tucholsky, the 5-foot-2 right fielder was focused on her pain. "I really didn't say too much. I was trying to breathe," she told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday. "I didn't realize what was going on until I had time to sit down and let the pain relax a little bit," she said. "Then I realized the extent of what I actually did." "I hope I would do the same for her in the same situation," Tucholsky added. As the trio reached home plate, Tucholsky said, the entire Western Oregon team was in tears. Central Washington coach Gary Frederick, a 14-year coaching veteran, called the act of sportsmanship "unbelievable." For Western Oregon coach Pam Knox, the gesture resolved the dilemma Tucholsky's injury presented. "She was going to kill me if we sub and take (the home run) away. But at the same time I was concerned for her. I didn't know what to do," Knox said. Tucholsky's injury is a possible torn ligament that will sideline her for the rest of the season, and she plans to graduate in the spring with a degree in business. Her home run sent Western Oregon to a 4-2 victory, ending Central Washington's chances of winning the conference and advancing to the playoffs. "In the end, it is not about winning and losing so much," Holtman said. "It was about this girl. She hit it over the fence and was in pain, and she deserved a home run." Happy Birthday to the lovely and talented xfieryphoenix - I love you!!!!!
Double Birthday wishes! Happy Birthday to the wonderful and beautiful marylynn!and Happy Birthday to the talented and gorgeous staceyloobug!
Lookie at where my brother is taking me when I visit him at the end of the month: http://www.launionmaze.com/cornmaze.h Current mood:  excited.
thank you, thank you, thank you.... it's football season. Happy Birthday, matika!
Happy Birthday to Martin "Tre" Kelly! He's ONE today!  Tre with his mommy jenlohrkelly about two and a half months ago.
I had dinner with my father today. Gah. He's trying, I guess. We just really don't have anything to talk about anymore. After we stopped working at the same place, we at least lived in the same house. Now, three plus years removed from that we have NOTHING in common. At all. I think I'm the mailman's kid. Really. Though, interestingly enough, he brought up the subject of money and paying for my possible-future-hypothetical wedding. Of course, he did it by telling me that Flaugherty House was too expensive (Your cousin Melissa (not really my cousin, BTW) said that Flaugherty House was over $50 a head, plus bring your own liquor, and her father wouldn't pay for that.), and I knocked him down by saying that you really can't get estimates until you have a date and a figure for how many people - neither of which I'll really have until I get a ring. So then he moved onto the honeymoon topic, and I told him we wanted to go to Hawaii, but didn't know if we'd be able to do so, financially. After that he moved onto the dress (yes, I showed him the pictures - he didn't seem impressed). He finally left it at, "Once you set a date we need to sit down and have a serious conversation about money." Now, not once, other than totally jokingly a few months ago, did I even ever imply that I wanted him to pay for the wedding/give me money. So the fact that he's thinking that way is half the battle, really. /// Work today really blew. I had to do email, and I guess I fucked myself over by doing too good a job the last two weeks on my email days, because I'm not allowed project time anymore - I have to simultaneously do email and take calls. Not easy. At all. But whatever, I'll do this too, and do it extremely well, and I'll get crapped on for it and then someone will appreciate it and throw me some kind of bone. I emailed Trang, the HR lady in Harrisburg who handles FMLA, to see if she got my paperwork, and she never emailed me back. I'll call her tomorrow if she doesn't email me back. I still need to call the landlord and the surgeon, and HealthAmerica about the claim for the ER doctor from The Great Taco Cooking Incident of 2007 (they've had the claim for two months now and it is still showing in "other" status online, meanwhile they already paid the hospital...) One thing at a time, right? I'm an ass. I missed wallbrat's birthday on Friday.=( Blame it on Mrs. R's jello shots. Really. The woman is a magician. Anyway, happy b-day, a bit late, wallbrat.
Under the cut... the. best. picture. ever. ( Whatcha Smilin' About? ) |
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