Back on the Field

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan had his first tournament as part of TRPD this morning.  He had to be in Taylor at 8:30 this morning.  It's about an hour away so we left at 7:15 which would give us a bit of time to stop at Donut Taco Palace.

The warm up on TRPD is quite intense.  They hook up bands to stretch their arms.  They have to do a whole series of exercises and stretches to get ready.  They also bring wrist/ankle weights to help loosen up their arms.

In the first game, the team was losing 6-0 and the opposing team had runners on second and third.  I didn't find this out until later, but Evan told the coaches he was a closer.  So they brought Evan in to get out of the inning.  He quickly got ahead 0-2 on the batter.  Then he threw a change up to get strike three.  TRPD scored 4 in the top of the next inning and Evan came back out.  He got three quick outs throwing all strikes with the exception of just 3 balls.  If you ask Evan, they were all strikes and there were three bad calls.  Unfortunately there was not enough time to start the next inning so they lost 6-4.  I think everyone felt that if we had gotten another inning, we would have won.

In the second game, Evan played some outfield and third base.  He knocked down a hard shot at third base but unfortunately over threw the first baseman.  He had a couple nice plays in the outfield.  Evan has some room to improve in hitting and fielding, but overall it was a good first day.  Evan had fun.

Noah drove with Evan and me in the car.  He had come up with Rachel.  We stopped at 7-Eleven on the way home and got Slurpees.

For dinner, we went to Evangeline's Cafe.  The food was good, but the service seemed slow.

Evan plays again at 11:30 tomorrow morning.

Until next time...