Noah's championship game was set for 9:30 this morning. We were supposed to be there between 8:30 and 8:45. I woke Noah up at 7:30 and got him ready. He woke up easily but then was kind of cranky as we were going to leave. I just think he was tired. I woke Evan up as well because he wanted to come with us.
On the way over, we stopped at Donut Taco Palace I.
When we got there, Noah's coach, Mario, and a couple of the fathers/coaches discussed the lineup. Mario had made two lineups. One was a departure from what he had been doing and one was pretty much what he had used throughout the playoffs. The championship game format is much different which is why Mario was considering the different lineups. All games up until the championship are timed at one hour. As I mentioned yesterday, a half-inning ends when 5 runs are scored or 3 outs are recorded, whichever comes first. The championship game is 6 innings, untimed. The way a half-inning ends is still the same. Each coach is required to play every kid in the infield at least in the first three innings. In the end, we went with the same lineup.
After the first inning, Noah's team was winning 5-4. Noah knocked in the 5th run that inning. After two, the score was 10-9, again with Noah's team in the lead. In the third, Noah batted 2nd and got a hit. He came around to score. At the end of 3, it was 15-12. Noah's team held the other team scoreless in the 4th and Noah's team scored 4. So after 4, it was 19-12. Jack, Evan's friend, almost single-handedly held the other team to no runs. After a leadoff single, Jack caught a pop up playing in the pitching position and raced over to first and tagged it for the double play. The next batter grounded to Jack's left. Jack fielded it and ran and touched first base for the third out. In the top of the fifth, the other team scored 4 to make the score 19-16. While the game was scheduled for 6 innings, if Noah's team scored 3 runs, the game would end since it would be 22-16 and there would be no way for the other team to come back. Noah led off the inning but grounded out to the pitcher. That's the only time all year he hit the ball to the pitcher. The next boy singled followed by another ground out. The next boy singled scoring the first run of the inning. The next boy up grounded to the pitcher. It looked like a sure out. The pitcher threw the ball to the first baseman perfectly. As if in slow motion the ball went right into the first baseman's glove, rolled around for a bit and just fell to the ground, and the runner was safe. Jack came to the plate with the game-sealing run on first base. He hit a really hard low line drive that dropped between third base and shortstop and rolled all the way to the fence. Jack wound up with a walk-off triple. All the older kids raced out knowing what happened. We had to tell some of the younger kids to get out there and celebrate. It was a good time.
Following lots of pictures and the trophy presentations, the kids celebrated with a pinata. Evan, who originally seemed happy started getting more and more jealous and ended making things really really difficult. I think he was really jealous of his brother and his friend. Especially since this was the team that ended Evan's season a year ago.
Rachel went to tutor and we came home. I made lunch for Noah, but Evan said he wasn't hungry. Noah played Wii for a while and Evan and I went out and played a bit of baseball.
When Rachel got home, the boys and I left to go to Matt and Rachael's house. In the month of May, Matt, Rachael and Maddie have birthdays so we went to celebrate. The boys immediately disappeared playing Legos with Ben.
We left later and met Rachel at Carino's for dinner. Noah was in a bad mood most of dinner making it difficult.
Rachel stopped at Petco to get food for Lizzy on the way home and I stopped at Walmart to pick up some Wii Remotes.
When we came home, the boys showered and we put them to bed.
Until next time...
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