Three!

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan didn't have to play until 4:00 today so we had no reason to get up early.  I don't know what time the boys got up but hopefully they slept in some.  I can downstairs around 9:30.

Evan and Noah ended up going out and playing with Jack for a while.  Then they went and played in the front yard.

Rachel went for a run.

I made lunch for Evan and got his uniform ready.  Around 1:20, I took him to meet Reid's mom.  She was going to take Evan and Reid up to the fields for warm ups.

Rachel took Noah to a birthday party shortly after I got home.

I waited an hour and then drove up to catch the end of Evan's warmups.  Luckily I got there early because the game actually started early.  In the first game, Evan batted fourth.  He came up with a runner on.  He crushed a ball between short and third for a single knocking in the run.  Then he stole second and stole third and scored on a grounder.  Later in the game, he had a great at-bat that ended up in a strike out but the ball got past the catcher.  He ran to first safely and the moved to second when the catcher threw the ball away.  He stole third and scored on another bad throw.  TRPD won that game.

But Evan saved his best for the second game.  He started the game at catcher.  In the bottom of the first, a runner tried to steal second.  Evan fired a perfect throw but unfortunately, the shortstop dropped it.  Later in the inning - with two outs - another runner tried to steal on Evan and this time Evan's throw was perfect and the shortstop held on for the out.  In the bottom of the second, there was a runner on second.  He tried to steal third.  Evan easily threw him out.  In the third, another runner tried to steal second and Evan threw him out.  No one could believe that Evan threw three runners out.  This is not like Little League where the runners can't lead off.  This is like Major League Baseball where runners get leads and the pitcher tries to hold them on.  Yet Evan threw three runners out and should have thrown a fourth out.  After that, the team just stopped running.  They couldn't take the chance.  TRPD won that game to finish 4-0 for the weekend.

On the way home, we stopped and got Popeye's for Evan.  That's what he wanted for dinner.

Rachel and Noah had gone to an Oscar Party that Jack's mom was throwing.  Noah played with Jack during the party.  They just got home.

The boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...