Baseball, Part 2

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

At 8:45, Evan and I left the house to go to his game.  We wouldn't get home until nearly 8pm.  His game was at 10:30 but we needed to be there at 9:30am.  By the time we got there, it was already hot.  We are having an unusually hot spell this weekend.  I don't know what the end result was for the high but it was predicted to set a record.  After warm ups, Evan was complaining he was hot.

Unfortunately, Evan's team lost and was eliminated from the tournament for the game.  He had one big hit, and another single.  The big hit was a very very high and very deep flyball to left field that wound up as a triple.  But where he really shone was in the field.  Because the kids were hitting it to the outfield he played some outfield and some third base.  He did very well in the outfield make sure nothing got behind him.  At third base, he actually bobbled a ball but still was able to fire a bullet over to first to get the boy.  He also made a nice tag play when a boy was trying to come to third on a non-force play.  Evan made a great catch and swipe tag.

After the game, Evan and another boy from his team Chase and I went to a sports bar restaurant to watch the Steelers game.  The fields are far enough away from home that it didn't make sense to drive home just to turn around and drive back up again.  Evan's coach and his family joined us as did Mario, Evan and Noah's former coach and his family.  We had a very nice time watching the game.

Then we drove back to the field for Noah's game.  It was a very very tense game with some, ahem, questionable calls by the umpire.  The other team's parents/fans also were a bit rowdy and got under my skin a bit.  Their kids were hitting every ball to the outfield.  One kid hit the fence on the fly hitting off of a tee.  It was unbelievable.  But despite all that, our team played hard and we only lost by one run.  In fact, going into the bottom of the 4th (the last inning) if we could have possibly managed to get three outs before giving up 3 runs we would have won.  So I was very very proud of the kids.

Aunt Susan, and her daughter Lauren along with Lauren's husband and two kids came to watch Noah's game.  After the game we went to dinner at Smashburger.  The boys ran around constantly with outside with Lauren's two-year-old.  I don't know how they had the energy.

When we got home, the boys had showers and they are now in bed.

Until next time...