A solid set, but a missed opportunity : (

All year long I've been killing our house shot in Game 3, and that has usually been due to my ability to move left and use my Brute Strength. With that in mind, you would think that when the lanes are clearly breaking harder during practice, I would know to start with the Brute Strength from the very beginning? You would think that, but you'd be wrong!

Game 1

8/ 9/ 81 X X 9/ 9/ X 9/ XX9 - 203

As stated above, the ball was clearly reading quickly and jumping big time on the backends from the start of practice. As such, I decided to go with my smoothest ball, the Mastermind Einstein. The logic was that the predictability of the Einstein would allow me to avoid jumping too far left too early and minimize errors. Sadly, that wasn't the case as poor execution and poor ball reaction doomed me to the terribly-slow start you saw above in frames 1-7. After that, I grabbed the Brute Strength, moved way left, and had a much better look.

Game 2

9/ X X X X X X 9/ X 9/X - 249

Two ringing 10-pins and a 4-pin on a slightly-slow shot was all that stopped me this game. The Brute Strength gave me the perfect blend of push up front and strong, yet controllable, backend reaction. This 249 could've easily been 270 plus.

Game 3

81 X X X X 9/ X X X X9/ - 247

Really, the shot in the first frame was the only truly bad shot I had after Game 1. I fell off balance, which caused the ball to get wide too early and go through the face for a 3-10, which I thought I converted. From there, the only non-strikes were a half-10 (bad release) in the sixth and another slightly-high 4-pin in the 10th.

In the end, the ball change helped me go +96 for the last two and +99 for the night, which is certainly nothing to complain about. My only complaint is that I didn't realize from the start that the Brute Strength was the ball of choice all the way through. If I had, I am quite confident I would'be been closer to +150 because the reaction I had was just THAT good. Live and learn I guess!