Evan "Mariano Rivera" Belkin

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

I got Evan up early for the start of his last tournament for the fall season.  We stopped at Donut Taco Palace on the way down.

Noah had gotten up just before we left.  Since Noah was up, Rachel decided to come to the first game.

In the first game, Evan played third the whole game.  At one point he fielded the ball almost on third base and threw across the diamond to get the out.  He singled and scored in the game as well.

There was some time in between games.  I packed some snacks for Evan.  Then we practiced a bit.

The second game was a tight game.  After two innings, we were losing 2-0.  We came through for 6 runs in the top of the third.  In the bottom of the third, our pitcher gave up 2 runs and walked the next two batters.  At that point the umpire announced that time had expired and we would finish up the game.  The coach brought in Evan with runners on 2nd and 3rd with one out with us leading 6-4.  Evan struck out the first batter that he faced.  The next batter worked the count to 3-2, though umpire squeezed Evan on two calls.  One of our coaches who normally is pretty quiet was giving the umpire a hard time on those calls.  On Evan's sixth pitch of that at-bat, he threw it in and the boy popped a weak pop up to shortstop for the win.  Evan was really excited.  He said he should be wearing #42 since that's what Mariano Rivera wore.

We came home and had lunch then watched a movie.

For dinner, we went to Trattoria Lisina.  Evan ate well there.  The boys enjoyed it.

The boys are about to get ready for bed.

Until next time...