Winter Haven Senior Softball

Tuesday, February 21st

Call the Doctor

Unfortunately, the flu has spiked this year and cases of the flu are up from previous years. What can you do to avoid the flu?

Drink Water. Water can help strengthen your immune system, keeping the flu at bay. And if you do get sick, water flushes your system, rehydrates you and washes out the toxins. An adult should drink eight, 8-ounce glasses, of fluids each day.

Wash your hands on a regular basis. We touch surfaces all the time, you do not want to touch a contaminated surface and then touch your noise, eyes or mouth. Washing hands cuts down on bacteria that you could transfer.

Take Zinc and Vitamin C to help the immune system.

Clean your cell phone. You hold your phone to your mouth and ear. Keep it sanitized, especially after setting it down in public areas.

We had a case of the bat and glove flu in the game between the Yankees and A’s, on 2/20. The A’s had too few hits, the bats were cold and needed to be placed under a blanket to warm them up. The gloves had dropitis.

The Yankees were in fairly good health and their bats proved it. If you check the thermometer you will see that they scored a healthy 20 runs, to easily win the game, 20-9. They had one, 5 run inning. Two, 4 run innings and a few other smaller innings. The 5 run inning came in the 4^th and gave the Yankees a 12-2 lead. A double, by DeRidder and a HR, by DeBrock started the 5 run rally. Guzzo, Rivera, Alumbaugh and Jacobson finished off the surgical hitting that inning.

The A’s would not recover from that set back. The only medicine to overcome that type of lead is to hit and field. However, the A’s bats and gloves were anemic this game. The good news about sickness is that you can recover. Bat and glove sickness can be cured. It just takes some practice, a little rest, some concentration and effort. Good teams can have bad games, the sick can get healthy.

Medical charts for the Yankees showed these healthy bats:

Rivera: 3/4 with a walk.

Jacobson: 3/4 with a walk.

Toro: 3/4 with a double.

Book: 2/3 and a walk.

Gutenberger: 3/4 with a double.

DeRidder: 3/4 with two doubles.

DeBroeck: 4/4 with a HR.

Healthy bats for the A’s:

Hicks: 3/4.

Zelazny: 3/4.

Written by Nick Matta.