After a week full of drama performances, this week was all about baseball. Peyton had her usual practice on Monday, while I had Brandon at piano. Then, it was Peyton’s make up game on Tuesday. She got to pitch the first inning.
Brandon’s game was on Wednesday, and he was a middle reliever, pitching to his former teammates from last fall. They were the visiting team, and Brandon was up at some point (I have a harder time watching, since his games are longer and I have to worry about Peyton).
Here he is with two outs. I was showing Dave because the two runners didn’t move with the pop up. “Two outs, you run on anything!” didn’t sink in here. Both players froze, otherwise, Brandon could have had a (lucky, as he should have been out) 2 RBI’s.
Here’s his pitching:
last at-bat. Not sure now how we beat the throw. I think it was an overthrow, as he got an extra base.
That was awkward. Especially when he struck out one of his former teammates, who was known to swing a lots of pitches. Lucky, we were on the opposite end of that this year. But we still lost by one run in a hard-fought game, 10-9. Thursday, Brandon had practice, but I pulled him from it to do “homework” as he had not been fulfilling his school responsibilities. Dave was still out of the house though. Finally, the week wrapped up with Peyton’s make up game. We were playing a friend of a friend in E. She and M have known each other since pre-school and Peyton and E have been to mutual birthday parties. I’ve talked to her mom more, so at first, I couldn’t figure out if that was E out on the field, along with her dad, head coach. For some reason, I thought they were a light blue team. But when I heard it was “E” that the team was cheering for, and then later saw her mom, it was confirmed. Peyton’s team was short on players. They had 7, meaning only one outfielder. The other team was in the same predicament, so any ball outside of the infield was at least a double. The rain had been threatening all day, and it was starting to sprinkle just a bit off and on during the game.
Since we were home team, we were in the field first. Peyton played short stop and got a few balls hit to her. Her biggest accomplishment though was calling out the plays. She’s been reserved in doing so, but today, with a bit of coaching, she called it out loud and clear!
First at-bat (she batted 7th today).
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The second inning, she played first base, and she missed one throw for the out, but she picked up the second one! It was like a redemption catch, and I thought it looked like she picked up her foot from the bag, but the ump called the batter out.
Second at-bat.
She got it to the outfield, but what wasn’t seen was her falling down on first base. Oops. To her credit, it was slippery.
The final inning, Peyton played third base. She wasn’t wearing her fielding mask, as Dave had dismissed having her wear it that inning. She’d worn it for short stop and first base. But we think it was E who got up, and she blasted one of her dad right at Peyton. Peyton stopped the ball but it flipped up off her glove and hit her. It knocked her visor off, and she came up holding her face. The coaches ran over to ask her how she was, but then the waterworks came! She walked off the field, while Dave grabbed an ice pack. I didn’t see anything red, and in fact, I’d been texting Michelle b/c E was up and her dad was pitching. Soon, the girl who had gone to the bathroom returned and took over for Peyton and made the out at third as it was hit right to her. Now it was time to bat. Peyton’s forehead was not even red! i asked her if the ball hit her directly, or if it went off her glove. She said “off my glove”. At least the glove took the brunt of it. I think she was more surprised by anything and all the teammates coming up to her to ask if she was okay. They were all really sweet. So Peyton had her batting helmet on, with the ice pack hanging out, laughing because we were joking with her about that combination and how silly she looked.
E ended up pitching the last innning.
Peyton was fully back in the game, no ice pack needed.
One of Peyton’s teammates broke her arm on the monkey bars just yesterday. She still showed up to be with her teammates. Her arm was in a sling. Dave had her keep the line up and sit on the bench. I was talking to her dad for the first time today. We were talking about both of our 10 year old boys and other sports they play. He mentioned the league that F, G, and H play in, and I told him I’d heard about it. He asked if we needed an “in” to play. I’d told him that we had friends who were going to get us in, and he told us to sign Brandon up, too! Such a small world!
We may not get to play tomorrow morning, as it’s raining now.
We’ll have to wait over a week until our next baseball/softball outing