 over the weekend I let my screen recorder run over some softball games that are taking place it's the regional tournaments and then I just went through the footage and I just said let's see what I can find so this isn't the best it's not the greatest but it's what I found from the few things I screen recorded let's get into it like I saw this batter step up with a black eye no idea what happened no idea how she got it she had one though and then I saw this guy looking somewhere else after the pitch and that made me giggle I saw this batter come up for George Mason who was down by one run to Duke in the seventh inning and she took her practice swing and I thought that's normal and then she stepped in the box and she licked her bat a big old tongue swipe and I thought that's not normal that's a little odd is that going to help her out she's got a 1-0 count pitcher leans back tosses swinging a miss didn't help didn't help but she liked the way taste maybe because she steps out she looks at her bat again she goes let me get that same spot licky licky she likes the bat and it got to be a superstition maybe a big pweag fan and the next pitch ooh she takes that's a strike strike two I'm guessing she licked the bat again but they cut away and strike three so it didn't work this time but maybe it's worked in the past and maybe it'll work again in the future for the bat liquor on George Mason I kept going and I saw this game I saw this Auburn batter get hit by the pitch oh and she did not like it she walks down the pitcher was like does it did she swing does that count as a swing and the batter turns says no it hit me in my forearm right there right there that's where it hit me I didn't like it and here's the replay and the ball comes and just bam right on the forearm vibrates her whole arm the next time she comes to the plate she's got a 2-0 count that's the count you want to swing in she's got the bases loaded it's a one-run game she says hit me again never mind I hit you this time over the fence grand slam onto the plate celebrates with her teammates and she's gonna tell them like I told her I don't like that shit hit me again bitch yeah hit me again bitch yeah remember you hit me right here as payback oh duke was losing to charlotte now if charlotte loses they get eliminated if they win they go to a elimination game both teams they play again because double elimination o2 and watch this batter just foul that one back foul that one back foul this one back staying alive o2 and then she takes that one she fouls it back the next one she's gonna put in play it gets all the way to the wall splits the gap and she's gonna slide into second tying run on the base pass yeah let's fucking go and then the next batter also an o2 pitch that one's up the middle the pinch runner's gonna come around duke ties it up they don't want to play another game they just want to win this one next batter first pitch slices it down the line are they gonna send her no but the go ahead runs on third next batter right back to the pitcher and they come home and get that out but it goes to review and I was thinking well I don't know is there something I don't know about softball because I mean clearly she's out there the glove hits her before she gets to the plate and then the rule is basically the same as MLB you can't block the plate without the ball but once you have the ball you can block the plate all you want and that looks pretty clean to me but they say safe and the fans are like what the ball beater what are they talking about I guess this is what they want to catch her to do when she sets up they want her to not be there but there so even though the runner's way far away she has a lane I don't know I don't really like that call at all in the Long Island Alabama game this was kind of wild the left fielder she runs out for this ball she's gonna get her glove on it and then bounces up it lands on her head then her shoulder and she completes the catch bare-handed she's all jazzed up about it because she's like what are the odds of that so the ball goes off her glove lands on top of her head and then onto like her shoulder and she's gonna grab it you look at both frames at once it hits doink her head keeps it alive and then rolls onto her shoulder then she's like I got it they went and reviewed it and they're like yeah that's cool out great catch and then something similar happened in the Louisville Indiana game this ball's popped up second baseman's like I got it I got it I got it second baseman catches it shortstop kind of knocks it out of her glove and then she catches it bare hand and second baseman is like what because she's all excited like hey I caught it look I caught in the second baseman's like yeah I mean I caught it and then you knocked it out of my glove and then you caught it so I don't know if you get credit for doing well because look it's in my glove and you knock it out and then you catch it second baseman's not giving her extra credit for that I just caught it you didn't have to do any of that so those are some of the things that I saw