Season Kicks Off

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

The baseball season kicked off this weekend with Evan's first tournament.  I know that there has been snow all over the country, but here in Austin it was around 80 degrees the last two days.  Evan's first game was not scheduled to start until 4:45 yesterday, so we had a very easy morning/early afternoon.  Rachel and I took a walk and then had lunch.  Evan and I took Noah to his football practice.  Noah scored a touchdown on a big run at his practice.  From there, Evan and I left to go to the tournament.

Evan played right field and then later came in to pitch in the first game.  He didn't get a whole lot of opportunity in right field.  When he pitched he did well.  He had some bad luck and bad defense, but overall, I thought he looked good.  He's a bulldog when he pitches so he doesn't let that stuff bother him.  He gives it his all every time.  The team lost the game, unfortunately.

Rachel and Noah came out for the second game.  Evan caught in that game.  He did well catching.  He becomes a leader when he puts the catcher's mask on.  It's fun to watch.

At the plate, he walked once, struck out and grounded out twice.  The team lost both games so we had to be back at the fields this morning at 8am.

In the first game, Evan caught again.  He came close to throwing the first runner of the game out at second.  It was so close that the other coach stopped having the kids steal on Evan.  We know that coach, but the coach didn't realize it was Evan behind the plate until later.  He came to me later and told me that was his fastest kid that Evan almost threw out.   Evan also had two hits, including a bit two out hit that kept an inning alive and led to the team winning the game.

We came home and brought Evan's friend on the team, Ayden with us.  Their next game was not until 3pm.

Evan, Ayden and Noah all played together and made bottle flipping videos.  I made them waffles and eggs for lunch.

After lunch, I took Evan and Ayden back to the field.  Rachel took Noah to his football game.

Noah's team won the football game.  Noah said he caught a pass and had a short run.  He also pulled at least one flag.  Noah said he had a good time.  I was disappointed that I didn't get to see the game.  I'll get to see Noah's game next weekend.

In Evan's baseball game, he was back out in right field.  In the bottom of the first a big left handed kid skied a ball to deep right.  Evan tracked it well and settled underneath.  He casually put his glove up to catch it and then dropped it.  It rolled to the wall.  Meanwhile, the boy tried to stretch that hit into a double.  Evan picked up the ball off the wall and threw a perfect strike to second base to get the kid out for the third out.  Evan literally jumped in the air, screamed and pumped his fist.  He raced in while the coach was cheering for Evan.

One inning later, with two outs, a boy crushed a ball to right center which bounced off the wall.  Evan bare handed it off the wall, turned and threw directly to second again - and again getting the runner out.  Evan reacted the same way except he held up two fingers and yelled "Two!!"

In the top of the third, Evan came up to bat.  The boy who Evan got out in the first was pitching and had a perfect game.  The first pitch almost hit Evan.  He jumped out of the way.  The next pitch hit him in the leg.  Evan got knocked to the ground but got up and ran to first.  Unfortunately the pitcher, who was left handed, was able to pick Evan off at first base.

TRPD ended up losing but Evan seemed happy with his performance this weekend.

For dinner we had leftovers.

The boys are in bed.  Until next time...