More Playoffs

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This morning, we walked to school.  The weather has started to get warmer again so it was nice, in the low 60s with no humidity and no clouds in the sky.

Rachel had a doctor's appointment at 9:45.

When she was done we met at Wholy Bagel for lunch.  It was our first time going there together in the last few weeks.  The last few Fridays we've had something going on so one of us went and picked it up and we ate at home.

So Evan had his first playoff game this evening.  Going into the playoffs, the way I guessed based on how each team was playing was that Noah's team would go far and Evan's team would lose right away.  As you know, Noah's team lost and was on Wednesday.  For Evan's playoffs, the first round is single elimination.  If you win you enter into a double-elimination bracket.  Evan's team was the 5th seed in an 8 team league so they played the fourth seed.  We've played that team twice in the last 10 days and lost both games.  Well tonight ended up differently.  I pitched tonight.  The normal pitcher is out of town.  Evan led off with a single and came around and scored.  The kids managed to put enough hits together to get 5 runs.  The Phillies - the other team - scored 5 to tie it.  Unfortunately, we didn't get any runs in the top of the 2nd.   Evan grounded out to end the inning.  But Evan made a couple good plays at first base including a catch a pop up and the other team didn't score either.  We entered the fifth inning which was the inning where the run limit increases to 10 up 12-8.  If we could some how score 7 runs we would win the game.  We scored two to go up 14-8.  Evan came up with two men on and tripled to make the score 16-8.  He scored on a ground out to make it 17-8.  We got out with the next batter but we went into the bottom of the 5th (the last half inning) up 17-8.  They managed to get 5 runs and had bases loaded when we got the last out.  It was very exciting.  The next game is at 4:30 tomorrow.  If we win, we play on Sunday, if we lost we play tomorrow at 6pm.

After the game Evan and Noah first played with some of Evan's teammates and they hung around and played with some players on the other team.  They had a good time.

The boys are now in bed.

Until next time...