The kids practiced their piano first thing, with Peyton jumping up to start. She left Brandon to the cartoons by himself, then she left with Dave for a coffee run. Brandon was then up. By the time they came back, Brandon was done and finishing up his writing work. We were up for snack duty today, so that’s why they had to make the grocery run. Dave ended up only buying beans, so that meant I got a share of the homemade coffee today. Yesterday, I didn’t get any, since he had his coffee out. Peyton got ready to go early, while Brandon needed to finish up more work before he and I headed out. We arrived about 10 minutes before the start of the game. Peyton’s team was up first, as we were the visiting team. Peyton was lead off batter, only because she was there first today. Here’s her first at-bat.
She started at first base, and she was happy about it. Brandon was all ready to go out on the field if needed, since we were short 3 players. We ended up borrowing another member of the other team to fill a hole in the outfield. I tried and tried to get her “in action” making plays. I was able to capture her ready position, but then, when I wasn’t filming, she made plays! Maybe that’s the strategy. She got two balls hit to her, in two different innings, which she stopped, and then picked up on her own, and ran back to first base for the force out.
(That’s the coach’s wife shouting, not me!)
Second at-bat:
The cheers are so cute, except the teammate (the second baseman again) couldn’t spell 😉
The third inning, the girl playing second (seen in the videos just playing around in the dirt and spitting into it, not ready) asked coach to play first. The coach asked Peyton to come off first and play second. I don’t think she was happy about it, and threw the ball at the girl, who shouted, “Hey!”. Peyton ended up having to go retrieve the ball. To be fair, Peyton threw the ball to the girl, and the girl just didn’t catch it, but it did look like she was throwing it AT her. No sooner that they switch that the girl got the same kind of ball hit to her, and she fielded it and threw it back to pitcher instead of making the play, which would have been doable, to first. I texted Dave only so that I wouldn’t say anything mean aloud. His response cannot be written here. I was surprised he responded from the field 🙂
I stayed long enough to see Peyton’s last at-bat, then I had to take Brandon to his game. I knew the girls were getting trophies, and they wanted to take a photo together as a team. So, I switched phones with Dave, since his pictures aren’t as good (and he knows it!).
But Dave struck her out on her last at-bat for the season.
Brandon was on time to warm up for his game, and it took Dave and Peyton most of the time to make their way over. They arrived just as the game was underway. We were the home team, and Brandon was out in the outfield. Dave was given the score sheet as soon as he sat down though he hadn’t eaten lunch yet. The food was attracting bees, so we tried to scarf down what we could before being attacked. I kept score for Dave for a few batters while he finished up his food. It was easier keeping score knowing that he was checking behind me.
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Brandon’s first at-bat, I took the video right at the fence.
Then, the second at-bat, I got lazy. I was also swatting at bees while filming, which didn’t do it justice.
I missed my chance at the unobstructed home run!!!
The team parents were laughing that Brandon didn’t look like he could make it all the way home. I told them, “He’s not a distance runner!” And Dave chimed in, “He’s never made it all the way around like that!” though that’s not right, since last fall ball, he hit a homer. But that was off of Dave, and this was off a kid.
His third at-bat, I went back to the field level.
This is the reason you always run out the play. He should’ve been out, but the first baseman bobbled it.
They were playing a team with 5 girls, who could all hold their own! One girl hit a legit home run, deep to center field. Our pitcher’s dad was even riding him about it! She was shorter than Brandon, and built like him, but she took the ball deep! Our parents were in awe of her swing. Dave asked Peyton if she wanted to go back to playing with the boys, and she declined. The game was finally over, and Brandon’s team bested the other by 3 runs. Brandon was rewarded the game ball today with a big smile on his face!
I took Peyton home first, while Dave hung out with Brandon. She wanted to practice pitching with Dave, so she started reading her online book first and didn’t shower right away. He got home, and they went outside to pitch. She didn’t get to during the game, but Dave was hoping she would, since she was coming around. He said she was throwing strikes in the backyard now. Coach wanted Dave to coach next year, and he would help. Dave is not sure he wants to get sucked into the girls’ side, but he disagreed with some of the moves that the coach made, especially rewarding a kid who didn’t listen in favor of pulling Peyton off first. I told him if he does coach, he can make the decisions and not complain. He even told the league VP for the boys that he might coach the girls, so we’ll see how that works out.
He’s trying to figure out how to strategize to make his team competitive. Basically, he’s trying to figure out how to get the kids that listen on his team and weed out the rest. It’s a longer season, so it’s that much more important to try. We’ll see how it all works out when time comes. Peyton and I will miss Brandon’s last game next week as we’ll be at Reagan’s red egg party next week.
