Exciting Game

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning was a typical morning.  I woke Evan up and took him to school.

When Noah got up later, he was mad that I hadn't woken him up at 7am.  He has been wanting me to wake him up so he can play the Wii.  Rachel and Noah went to the bank later in the morning.

Around noon, Rachel took Noah to Cole's house.

She picked Noah up and then picked Evan up from school.

In the afternoon, Evan played baseball outside.  Rachel went to tutor and then I got dinner ready for the boys as Evan had a baseball game.

Evan's two coaches were both not available for the game.  The first base coach took over to pitch and a couple of other dads, including myself helped run the game and coach the bases.  Evan's team began the night in 4th place and they were playing the third place team.  The game did not being well.  The other team scored their five runs while Evan's team had a three up/three down inning.  In the 2nd inning, the other team scored 3 runs to take an 8-0 lead.  Evan's team scratched and clawed to score 2 runs.  Evan ended up hitting basically a swinging bunt and ran hard down the line.  He was clearly safe but the umpire didn't signal anything and kind of looked at me.  I said "he was safe".  The umpire called Evan out.  I didn't yell at the ump but I made a fairly big scene and a "you're kidding me" gesture.  I ended up apologizing to the umpire after the inning.  Evan was not happy about the call and was still complaining about it after the game.  Somehow, Evan's team started limiting the other team from scoring too many while they were scoring their 5 runs.  It ended up coming into the bottom of the 6th (the last inning) with the other team up by 2 runs.  Evan's team had runners on first and second with two outs.  The boy up singled into the outfielder and the outfielder bobbled it.  One run scored, and the runner from first got to third and they sent him home who ended up scoring.  The batter took third on the throw home and the catcher threw to third to try to get him out.  The third baseman missed it and the batter came home for the winning run.  It was very exciting.  The kids on Evan's team were really excited.  They were going crazy.  It was just a nice win for those kids.  They really tried hard and never got down.

We came home and I got the boys ready for bed.  Evan was exhausted but Noah seemed to be awake.

Until next time...