Pirates

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning when I got Evan up, he was in a very good mood.  In fact, as we were walking down the path to school, he decided to do a "silly dance" the whole way to the school.

Noah is not going to be able to do gymnastics on Thursday so we put him in a make up sports class today.  Noah had a good time at sports class.

I picked up smoothies for Rachel, Noah and me around lunch as I had to stop at the bank next to Smoothie King.

Rachel tutored this evening.

I have the name of this post as "Pirates".  Most people would assume I mean the Pittsburgh Pirates.  In this case, I'm talking about the little league Pirates.  Both Evan and Noah's team each played the Pirates.  Noah's team had a scrimmage against the tee ball Pirates and Evan had a scrimmage against the coach pitch Pirates.  Both games ended in ties.

Noah's game was first.  I helped warm up the kids and then I stopped and took Evan over to his field for his batting practice.  I came back and helped in the dugout with Noah's team.  Noah had one opportunity in the field at third base and missed it.  But at the plate, Noah got three hits.  He is hitting the ball much harder this season.

Then we went over to Evan's game.  Evan had a big 2nd inning. He was in the pitcher's position.  A kid rocketed a ground ball that somehow Evan got his glove on it.  It didn't stay in his glove and he momentarily lost the ball so he didn't get the boy out, but it was a great play.  In the bottom of the second, he crushed a line drive to right center which they played well holding Evan to a single.   In the third inning, Evan was at third.  He made a diving stop to his left to get a ball and raced to third to tag the base.  He dove to try to touch the base before the kid running from second got there but just missed (He touched the base with his glove hand but was holding the ball in his bare hand.  Also he could have just tagged the kid as they were running side by side to the base).  The next two times at bat he hit the ball hard right at the shortstop.  He got a single on one and hit into a force on the other.  Generally, it was a good game all around.

We got home at 8:30 after leaving the house at 4:45.  The kids are now in bed.

Until next time...