Rain and Sports

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan had two baseball games scheduled today.  One at 8am and one at 9:30am.  He had at least one football game scheduled at 1pm.  If they won at 1 they played at 2 and if they won at 2, they would play at 3.  We woke up and it was raining.  I checked and all the games were still on.  Noah wanted to come with Evan and me.

We left, stopped at the atm, and then stopped at Donut Taco Palace and went out to the fields.  The temperature was in the high 50s.  There was a constant light drizzle and it was windy.  So it was pretty cold.  Noah ended up sitting on the bench with the boys to stay warm.

Evan got the start in the first game.  It was his first start of the season and only the second time he has ever started a game.  He started the game by striking out the side.  He looked great.  In the bottom of the first he crushed the ball to left.  The left fielder dove for it and trapped the ball on the ground. You could actually see the ball roll.  The umpire called Evan out.  Where is the replay!?  Evan got struck out another batter in the 2nd.  Then he was screwed by the umpires twice.  The first time the umpire told the batter to take first base on a walk on the third ball and not the fourth.  I don't know how he got to four balls.  We keep track of that stuff and I was keeping track in my head.  Then he we got the third out at first and the umpire called the boy safe.  Again, it wasn't really a tough call.  It didn't seem close to me.  A run scored on the play.  Ultimately, that was the only run that Evan would allow.  In the third inning, he added two more strikeouts including one to end the inning.  We scored a ton of runs.  Evan had a solid hit and RBI in the third inning.  Our big innings took up enough time that the game only went three innings.  So Evan pitched a complete game - 3IP, 1 Run, with 6 strikeouts.  So of the 9 outs he recorded six of them by strikeout.  He looked great.

In the second game, Evan walked and singled again.  He also had a great play on a slow roller at third base.  The Bucs won that game as well.

We left the fields and went to Texadelphia for lunch.

The football fields were gross.  The were covered in water.  Anywhere you stepped, even if it looked like there was no water, when you stepped, you'd sink and water would come out of the ground.  The team seemed tired and not aggressive.  Unfortunately, the team lost that game.  It was for the best.  It saved them from having to play two more games.

We came home and put on dry clothes.  Then we relaxed.

We had a Post-Halloween party to go to at our neighbors.  We went there at dinner time.  It was very nice.  We enjoyed ourselves.

After that, we did a quick shopping trip at HEB.  The boys seemed very hyper.

They are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...