End of Baseball

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan's last baseball tournament started today.  We were playing down in San Marcos.  I woke up at 9am and Evan was already up.  The boys were watching Back to the Future III.  We got ready and left.  On the way down we stopped at Donut Taco Palace.

It was sunny when we got there and very hot.  The air was very stagnant and humid but we were glad to not have clouds.  The team warmed up and then we went to the field we'd be playing on.  The game before us was running very late.  Rachel and Noah got there while we were watching the previous game.

The Bucs played very well.  Evan walked in his first at bat and stole second but was stranded at second.  We took a 4 run lead into the top of the 4th.  We brought Evan in to close out the game.  He got the first batter to pop up on the first pitch.  Evan got ahead of the second batter but the boy started to foul off some pitches and ended up walking.  The same thing happened with the third batter.  Runners were on first and third for fourth batter and Evan seemed like he had had enough playing around.  He quickly struck out the fourth batter then got a soft grounder from the next batter to end the game.

Just after the game ended we started seeing a lot of lightning.  They postponed the game for 30 minutes.  We went into the snack bar and waited.  But it just kept getting darker and darker so we went to the car.  Just as we got to the car the skies opened up and it just started to pour.  They cancelled all the days games so Evan and I drove back home.  Rachel and Noah had left at the conclusion of the first game.

We had leftovers for dinner.  When dinner ended I got word that San Marcos had gotten a ton of rain and the entire tournament was cancelled.  So unfortunately, our season came to an end today.  But Evan did well and I think he was glad he got on the mound today.

We went to Dairy Queen for a celebratory dessert.  While we were there I got a text from the father of a boy on Evan's team.  They wanted to know if Evan could sleep over tonight.  So when we got home, I drove Evan over and dropped him off.

We're going to have a team lunch tomorrow and that will be it until August.

Until next time...