More Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Rachel always has me write the blogs on game days.  She knows how excited I get about the games.  Evan and Noah had their first baseball games in two weeks since last week's games were rained out.  Both boys were excited.

At around 10:15, I got a text from Noah's coach.  He was asking me if it was ok if he started Noah at the pitching position.  The pitcher has to wear a chest protector and face mask.  I told Noah and he was super excited.

We had lunch and then I took the boys to the fields.  Rachel was going to come later.  Evan had a catch with one of the kids from the team while Noah and I had a catch.

Noah's team was the visitors and so they batted first.  Then I put the gear on Noah and he went out to be pitcher in the bottom of the inning.  Two balls were hit to him.  He fielded both.  On the first one, the ball slipped out of his hand and went backwards on his throw to first but he had a great throw on the second one.  Later he played second base.

Evan's friend Jack was the one sitting out the bottom of the first and I hadn't taken Evan over to his field yet.  So the two of them were able to play in the dugout.  We have some pictures of them being silly down below.

I ran Evan over to the batting cages for his warm up and came back.  Unfortunately, I missed Noah's first hit.  I guess he got a hit and the boy behind him hit a home run so Noah came around and scored.  He was excited to tell me about it when I got back.  Noah got another hit in the game.

In the top of the first in Evan's game, he came up.  He seems to be getting comfortable with the new bat I got him before the season which was a bit heavy.  He had a great swing and laced a double into the gap between right field and right center.  In his next at-bat, he hit a grounder to first and he attempted to slide into first which earned him a rebuke from both his coach and me.  But then he singled in his third at-bat, again to right field.  He got a kid out when he was playing second base on a force.  And he generally played well in the field again.

After the games we watched the Steelers game recorded.  I did not have to put the boys to bed so the Steelers won.  You may dispute whether has any impact but the facts are clear - the Steelers are 2-0 in games the boys watch the entire game and 0-2 when I put them to bed (with the lead).  I'm just saying.

The boys are in bed now and, I think, sleeping.  Nope, Evan just came down telling me he can't go to sleep.

Until next time...