Steelers and Bucs

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan's baseball games weren't supposed to be until late afternoon, so it gave us the opportunity to sleep in.

When I got up, the boys were playing in the game room.  I went downstairs and took care of bills and other things around the house.

At noon, the Steelers game started. Both boys came down.  Rachel came down and went for a long run.  It was a nice sunny, cool day - a good day for a run.

The Steelers game ran longer than I had thought.  They ended up winning.  After the game, the boys went upstairs to start cleaning up the game room.

I got some food ready for Evan before we left for the baseball game.  He ate it and we both got ready and left for the game.

Noah and Rachel went to Brody's party.  It was a Star Wars party.  They were showing Star Wars to all the kids.  Noah had a good time and stayed until 8pm.

When we got to the fields, the games were running late.  We had to argue with the tournament director a bit but we only started about 20 minutes late.  The Bucs took the lead after one inning, 4-1.  Evan was playing third base.  In the second inning, Evan was holding the runner on at third.  The pitcher threw over to Evan and the runner broke for home.  Evan fired a bullet home getting the runner.  Evan popped out in the bottom of the second.  In the top of the third, the other team had bases loaded with no outs.  The coach called on Evan.  Evan struck out the first batter.  He had two strikes on the second batter.  The runner on third came off the base a bit much and the runner took off for home.  The third baseman threw home to get out #2.  The next pitch was a strike for the third strike and the third out.  No one runs scored.   In the bottom of the third, we scored 4 runs.  Evan got a hit and scored the 4th run.  In the top of the fourth, Evan struck out the first batter.  He got 0-2 on the second batter.  That batter then fouled off a few pitches in between some balls.  The count got to 3-2.  Evan didn't seem to be phased and threw strike three for the second out.  He threw two strikes on the next batter.  The batter then hit a ball back to Evan who threw to first for the final out of the game.  Bucs win 9-2.  The final line on Evan, 2IP 0R 0ER 4K.  So this weekend in five innings, Evan struck out 10 batters.

We had a little ceremony where the boys got rings.  This was the biggest ring of all.  Evan was very proud.

Evan wanted to stop at Subway for a sub on the way home.  So we picked one up.

The boys are now sleeping and I'm about to go up to bed.

Until next time...