Home Run!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning it took a little bit to get Evan up.  He was sleeping pretty hard.  But he's always in a good mood when he wakes up so it was no problem.  It was a bit colder so he wore a sweatshirt on the bike ride to school.  As soon as we got there, he handed me the sweatshirt to bring home with me.

Noah slept until about 9am.  Rachel had to go to Westlake High School to meet with a teacher of one of her students.  The student got a bad grade on the test but would not allow the students to bring home the test to learn from.  She made it difficult to find a time for Rachel to come in to see it.  It's teachers like that that give all teachers a bad name.  I have no time for people like that.  Anyway, Rachel couldn't take Noah to school so I drove Noah in.  He was in a fairly good mood as well.

When Rachel got home, I was leaving to go to a meeting with a new client and when I got home, Rachel had to leave to get Noah.

I picked Evan up from school since Rachel was tutoring.  When I got home, Gabby came and watched the boys until I finished working.

Evan had a game tonight so when I stopped working, I had to quickly get dinner made, Evan's bat bag packed and in the car, get the boys to eat, make sure I didn't forget Rachel's dinner that she had gotten ready for herself and get the water ready.  I got the boys eating first before I ate and they both finished their dinner.  I think got Evan in his uniform and we left for batting practice first.

Evan's game began at 7:30 under the lights.  They changed up the line up for this game and Evan was batting fourth, the clean up spot.  He singled in his first two at-bats.  In the fourth inning, with two runners on, Evan came up and laced a line drive up the middle that split both the shortstop and second baseman, as well as the left and right center fielders and rolled all the way to the fence.  I looked at Evan and he was running as fast as he could so I knew he had a chance to come home.  The shortstop got the ball in the outfield and was running it in and they sent Evan home.  He beat the throw to the plate for a 3-run home run.  He was really happy.  In the bottom of the fourth, they had Evan at third base again.  With a runner on first, the batter smacked a ball a bit to Evan's left.  He moved sideways and got the ball on a hop, turned and fired to 2nd.  Unfortunately the second baseman could not hold on but he almost did it in back-to-back games.  If he keeps playing third like that, he may stick there.  Earlier in the game, while at 2nd, Evan got the throw as a cut off and the third base coach for the other team went to send the runner home. Evan threw a rocket home to the catcher forcing the runner to literally crawl back to third after he turned back to third and fell.

Needless to say, both Evan and Noah were super hyper as we came home at 9pm. They are in bed, but I'm pretty sure they are still up.  They were running around.  It was a fun night though.

Until next time...