It’s July 3, which hopefully means for many of you, work is slowing down and you’re getting ready for the holiday.
If you’re looking to pass the time, Google found an extremely good solution: The site’s Doodle on Wednesday is a playable baseball game in which a bunch of July 4th-themed food attempts to score as many runs possible against a surprisingly-tough peanut pitcher before striking out.
We here at For The Win take our Google Doodle games very seriously — we spent half the day in June of 2017 trying best each other in the cricket game they created. So in the interest of journalism, I have spent the morning attempting to dominate. Thus far, it has proved fruitless (I’m sorry in advance for all the dad jokes) as my career-high is 24:
The best way to win, obviously, is by hitting, er, taters (again, sorry). And I thought that was totally doable at first because the peanut throws some slow pitches right down the middle. But then it started hurling all kinds of stuff — a zig-zag pitch, a swirling slider of sorts, a slow-pitch softball type of thing, and a ball that disappears as it’s coming your way.
The best thing is that simply getting the bat on the ball results in at least a single, so you don’t have to swing for the fences. And just when I thought I had gotten used to the timing, the lobbing legume pulled out a fastball out of nowhere.
Good luck, both in scoring lots of runs and being productive.
