Showed up and mysteriously, my equipment felt like it belonged to someone else.  Everything felt very heavy and the fit wasn't quite right (even after adjusting tape).  My first warm-up shot, of the maybe 6 total, that was thrown at half speed across the middle, ended up missing the 2 pin left.  Ramping up to full speed, confirmed the lack of "hold" anywhere on the lane.  Switched to my weakest ball for the last two warm up shots, only to find that I can't seem to get out of the thumb cleanly and tugged both through the face.  League starts and after 5 frames, I have accumulated two splits and half of the back row on the score sheet.  Continue down this path, fighting over reaction on the lanes and actually getting out of the ball clean enough to throw a decent shot.  It happened twice.  Games two and three, I managed to throw a few better shots, but being forced inside 4th arrow generally yields awful carry and this night was no exception.  Ended the night with leaving eight single pins in the back row, a 7-10, a 8-10, and a handful of other "designer" splits.  Covered all make-able spares and still didn't break 600  . 
To rub salt in the wounds, other team on our pair (180 average bowlers) had best night of year, all shot between 630 and 680. 

One of the more frustrating nights I can remember in recent times...

Scott

Several times Murphy's Law.

Lane,
    I want to preface this by saying I believe you to be a much better bowler than myself and I mean no disrespect to you in this reply.
 
But isn't that what practice should be about? If you are worrying about your scores during a practice session, then you aren't doing it right. Practice should be about gaining/adding to your skills. Take a game and try to hit the first arrow every shot or try to make sure you are doing something correct in your footwork, etc. It should be about drills to improve your game, if a coach has given you any. The very last thing to worry about is score. I do understand that the conditions you saw may preclude you from working on certain things, like your release or other things that seeing the ball reaction can let you know if you done them correctly or not. And maybe that is what you meant, but it didn't come across as such to me. Again I mean no disrespect, just wanted to highlight what I thought was a flaw in your thinking.

Agreed Jorge,
It took an attitude adjustment on my part. I changed something with my footwork a few days earlier so at first it was playing with my mind.
Once it became clear that I wasn't going to see ball reaction I just worked on the footwork and timing while trying to ignore the score. Thanks for the insight.

I once had a night where I threw 5 straight 7-10 splits.

I once had a night where I started with the front 5 strikes.....and then proceeded to go 7-10, Big Four, 4-6, 6-7-10, and then proudly finished it off with the 4-7-10 split!!!

And I did not hit 200!     It happens! Can't make this stuff up!

I've had it happen before and it happens to everyone.  Last year, I was having a rough night with over/under and ended up with back to back 4-7-9-10 splits due to the ball finishing super flat.  I had never seen that before that night.  Though I did convert it once by throwing it hard at the 9-10 and sliding the 9 into the 4-7.  To follow up, I then threw a pocket 7-10, of course leaving an open by just making the 10.

The best thing when these types of nights happen is to try and pick something to work on.  For example, picking up the makeable spares is a good thing.  You can also use it to maybe focus on footwork, ball position or something like that.  Even though it may be frustrating, it can still help your overall game.

1 week later, I ended up shooting over 700 with having a great line all night.