Austin Bucs

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

While Rachel and Noah are having fun in San Diego, the Austin Bucs were scheduled to play two today for the first day of a tournament.  I woke Evan up at the time I normally get him up for school.  He was pretty tired, but I think he was excited to play.

We had to stop at the bank on the way out and then we went to Donut Taco Palace for our normal pre-tournament breakfast.

In the first game, the starting pitcher struggled in the first inning.  Evan was playing third base.  The runner on third took too big a lead and the pitcher threw over to Evan.  The runner broke for home and Evan threw a perfect strike to get the runner out and end the inning.  The coach put Evan in to pitch in the second inning.  Evan needed 11 pitches to strike out two players and get an easy pop up for a 1-2-3 inning.  In the third inning, Evan went back out to pitch.  The first batter hit a ball between third and short.  The third baseman dove for it and ended up knocking the ball away from the shortstop.  It would have been a tough play even if he had gotten it.  Evan thinks it was an error.  I don't know.  Either way, it was the first base runner that Evan has allowed in 4 appearances dating back to September.  That boy stole second and third and scored on a easy ground out.  Like the base runner, the last time a runner had scored on Evan was 4 appearances ago.  In the fourth inning, Evan went back out there and gave up two solid hits to start the inning.  They were good pitches but the kids hit them well.  It didn't seem to faze Evan one bit and he quickly got the next three batters out to finish the game for a win.

In the second game, we struggled a bit with our pitches.  Darius came in to save us in this game.  Evan had a nice game.  He walked a couple times and scored.  The Bucs won this game to go 2-0 for Saturday.  That should be good enough to give us a bye tomorrow so we can start later in the day.

Evan and I went to Chick-fil-A for lunch.

For dinner, Mangieri's a local pizzeria sponsored the Bucs so we had a team dinner.  We ate outside.  It was just a really nice time.  The kids all were able to run around and play and the adults were able to talk.  The weather was beautiful.  It was a really nice time.

Evan wanted to get dessert afterwards so we stopped at TCBY.

Now we're home and Evan is in bed.  We're just waiting for the final results to be posted to find out our start time tomorrow.

Until next time...