Baseball is Back

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Baseball is back.  Evan is playing on both the "A" and "B" teams for TPRD.  This weekend, both teams are playing.  He was scheduled to play in 3 games today.  The first game time was at 8am.  That meant that I got up at 5:30 and I got Evan up 15 or 20 minutes later.  We went to Donut Taco Palace on the way to the fields.

In the first game, Evan started at catcher.  It only took until the second inning before he threw his first base stealer out.  That one was when the runner was trying to steal third.  He almost had another one at second.  He also led off the game hitting for his team.  It didn't go so well - he struck out - but it was an honor to be the lead off batter for the season.  In his second at-bat, he worked the count to 3-2 and then took a ball off his leg, just below his knee cap.  He acted like it was nothing, flipped the bat towards the dug out, and jogged to first.  Bases were loaded at the time so he drove in a run.  His friend Cooper was up next and Cooper hit his first career home run - a grand slam.  Evan was very excited for Cooper.  TRPD won the game.

The "B" team was up next but Evan caught the entire game and another player had to leave early so they gave Evan the game off. 

In the third game (but Evan's second game), he was the starting pitcher.  Rachel came to watch Evan play.  He gave up one hit and some poor defense (including a failed pick-off move by Evan) resulted in 2 runs (the only runs he'd allow all day).  Nevertheless, he struck out two batters.  In the second inning, he struck out two more batters.  He made a nice defensive play in the third to field a comebacker and easily got out of that inning.  TRPD was leading 3-2 after Evan's three innings of pitching.  Unfortunately, his replacements did not fare as well and TRPD lost the game.

We came home and ate quickly.  Then Rachel, Noah and I went to a "Mardi Paws" parade.  It was a Mardi Gras parade put on by a local dog food company.  Rachel got invited as part of the blog.  We took Chewie.  He enjoyed seeing all the other dogs but it wasn't quite what we thought it would be. 

We came home and relaxed for a bit and then went out and got dinner at Freebirds.

We're home now and the boys are getting ready for bed.

Until next time...