When I woke up this morning, Evan and Noah were already downstairs. Noah asked if he could be a bat boy at the second day of the Marauders tournament. I said yes. I have an extra jersey which Noah wore. I got both boys ready and we left to get to the field at 9:30.
In the first game, the Marauders continued to play great defense. The other team did not score until the fourth inning when the game was pretty much in control. Evan made a sliding catch on a fly ball to right field. He had several hits in the game and was able to slide under a tag at home. By winning that game, we locked up a spot in the championship game for the tournament. Noah sat in the dug out and helped hang the bats up.
We had lunch at the fields and waited for the other semi-final game to play out. The kids had a good time watching one a game from one of the older divisions.
The team won the other semi-final game was the #1 seed of the tournament. They had a very good record and have been together for several years. They had come up from San Antonio. They had their own painted trailer to bring all the equipment. To be honest, I didn't think we would have a chance. But like all the other games, we came out and held them without a run in the first inning. In fact, the team hit two straight singles and then hit three fly balls to the outfield that were all caught. We scored 2 in the next inning to take a 2-0 lead and then again held them scoreless. In the third, we scored 4 runs. And in the bottom of the third, we again held them scoreless. In the fourth, we scored 2 runs to take an 8-0 lead. There is a run limit per inning of 7 runs. If they didn't score a run in the bottom of the fourth then we wouldn't have a fifth inning because they wouldn't be able to come back. But they got a chance to be down by less than 8 since they were the "home" team. We gave up a single, then got an out, then gave up another single, and then got and out and then gave up another single but the outfield got the ball in quickly and the runner from second only got to third. So based were loaded with two outs. The boy up hit a ground ball to the third baseman who stepped on third to end the ball game and the Marauders won the tournament. It was very very exciting.
They had a trophy ceremony after the game. Evan was very excited to get a big trophy. Rachel had gotten cookie cake for the team as well so the kids got cookie cake.
We came home and relaxed a bit and got cleaned off.
For dinner we went to a hibachi restaurant called Fujiyama. All four of us really enjoyed it. Evan had salmon and shrimp, Noah had steak and shrimp, Rachel had chicken and shrimp, and I had steak.
We're home now and the boys are in their rooms.
Until next time...
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