- Feb 13, 2020
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We had a tournament today and our team ran into a bit of an issue. We only had 8 players and one of the missing players was our main pitcher. Since we didn’t have a pitcher we had to put our 1st baseman as our pitcher since she pitches a bit. Then since our catcher was missing we had to put our second basemen as our catcher since she is the only other player who can catch. In order to fill in the two missing positions we brought our LF and RF in to play 1st and 2nd. However, we ran into a big problem with the outfield. The only other person we had left was an injured former 2nd basemen. Since she was injured (not to bad but bad enough to slow her down a bit) and had never been too fast we knew that she wouldn’t be able to help much in the outfield. So we had to move our SS, who is our fastest player (and my DD), to play outfield (thankfully we had her practicing outfield every now and then so she was pretty prepared). However this meant we had to put the injured girl at SS cause even injured she was still our next fastest girl (everyone else on the team besides the SS and CF are pretty slow). During the games the outfield actually did really well and didn’t let anything get past them (I was so proud of my DD and the CF who is my DD’s friend). However, the infield struggled quite a bit. The LF at first missed some throws that were catchable, the RF at 2nd actually didn’t do bad, and the SS missed a lot of balls and let some hits that could’ve been outs turn into singles and doubles (I can’t be too hard on her though as she was injured). In the end we lost 10-6. Do any of you guys know how to be able to efficiently play with 8 players. We will only have 8 again tomorrow. Should we keep the SS at short and hope for the best in the outfield? If you have any suggestions I would really appreciate them.