There is a semi-obscure batting statistic - ISO - Isolated Power, it stands for. There are question marks regarding its usefulness for establishing the value of a player to a team, but some simple souls like it, because it's very easy to calculate. You take a player's slugging percentage (SLG) and subtract his or her batting average (AVG) . The result indicates how hard said player hits the ball.
Renewing what has become our most bitter rivalry, with the Kamikazes, the big black Tecumseh machine exhibited a different kind of Isolated Power; power in a vacuum.
It was a tough loss, but a game that we'd have won under Marquis of Queensbury rules, having dominated for the first five innings. Unfortunately success in softball is measured by the somewhat cruder yardstick of runs scored.
Seth Harman, that was a sweet hit. You may have a future in this game.
Jennifer Alexandra Cruickshank, firstly, do you have a middle name which I haven't just made up? Secondly, you have absolute power, and my position is non-negotiable.
Tecumsehs all, may we triumph with the glass where (or at least reasonably adjacent to) we have struggled with bat and ball. I'll be thinking of you.
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