Very Late Sunday Night

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

On Sunday, Evan, Noah, and I went up to Taylor around 9am.  Evan's first game was at 11:30.  He needed to be there at 10:15 and we were stopping to get donuts. 

Rachel left shortly after us for a funeral service for a friend of hers from the Pink Ribbon Cowgirls.

Evan's first game went great.  They won and Evan had a great game.  He was 2-2 with a triple and a HBP.  He made his largest impact behind the plate.  He threw two runners out trying to steal second.  Both were in critical times where the other team had put their first batter on base.  He also caught a foul pop up behind the plate for the second out in the last inning.

After that, we went to get pizza for lunch.

In the second game, Evan caught again.  They were playing the number one seed.  Evan didn't get to throw anyone out but he played well again.  With the opposing team trying to make a late comeback, Evan caught a foul pop up against the net behind home plate and almost fell over but managed to hold on to the ball to end the game.

They immediately had a third game - the semifinal.  Again TRPD jumped out to an early lead.  Evan played third base in order to give him a break.  But with the score 7-3, they brought in Evan to get out of a bases loaded jam.  He was able to get the out.  He pitched another inning where there was an error that led to two runs, but he was able to force a double play to get out of the inning with the score 7-5.  He batted in the bottom of that inning and got hit by a pitch but it was enough time for the game to end and they were on to the championship.

Fifteen minutes later, the championship started.  TRPD jumped out to a 4-0.  Evan drove in a run and scored the fourth run.  The TRPD defense had a mini-meltdown in the fourth allowing the score to be tied.  In the fifth, they brought Evan into pitch again.  He walked a batter and gave up a bloop hit.  With runners at 2nd and 3rd with no outs, Evan induced three straight grounders back to him which should have ended the inning with no runs scoring.  Unfortunately, there was another defensive mistake that allowed the winning run to score.  TRPD was able to bat again but wasn't able to score anything.  But coming in second in a 21-team tournament was pretty good.  Especially playing 3 straight games. 

Noah was there with us the whole time.  Angelo's brother Tony was there for the first game, but after that, he was with me the whole time.  He never complained. He helped me score.  He helped out the coaches some.  He was a trooper.

We finally got home at 10:30 last night. 

We let Evan stay home from school today. Noah has perfect attendance and didn't want to break that.  I let him sleep as long as I could before waking him up.

Rachel went to teach and Evan came with me into the office.

Evan went to Grandma and Papa's for dinner.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...