Back to back weekends

We were in Salinas last week and drove back and forth while this week we were in Modesto.

Peyton had basketball practice on Friday night. I had set the alarm for 6:15 but Peyton, not wanting to oversleep, came into the room at 530! She fell back asleep until my alarm went off. We packed up the car and headed then she and I headed out to Modesto before 7 am on Saturday. It was dark, and there was construction on the road from overnight that wasn’t factored in when I checked our drive time the night before. She fell asleep and I high-tailed it out of the Bay Area and headed east. We arrived 10 minutes before warm ups began, but that was still 15 minutes after I’d wanted to arrive. My mom let us there from Auburn and we met in the parking lot. We were behind the coaches for awhile so I knew we weren’t too late. The first game was at 930 am, then 220 and 350 pm. Their first game was the hardest to get going. Somehow they were not putting together their best, making errors here and there. It didn’t help that coach was Hangry!

They managed to win by one run though it should have been by more than that. They had a long break to eat lunch. There is a family with an RV and we hung out in its shade.

Rough life. There is a tv inside and outside.

The girls hung out before they had to go back on the field.

The adults hung out outside until we had to go back in, too. We set up for the warmest part of the day. Meanwhile Brandon and Dave were back at home with Brandon’s two baseball games.

Peyton’s team went 3-0 for the first day and ended up with the number one seed going into Sunday. That meant the first game would be at 145! We would get to sleep in!
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We had two queen beds. We checked into the hotel and then promptly met the team at the pool. I watched the girls before another mom and coach showed up. My mom stayed in the room to watch the NLCS final game. We hung out until pizza was delivered. It was almost 9 by the time we headed out of the pool area. We even saw some of the last team we’d just beaten but they were nice to offer pizza to us. I didn’t want to accept given that we would have had to feed at least seven girls.

Peyton showered up and went to bed. She bounced between my Mom’s bed and settled finally in mine. I set my alarm for 9 to get to breakfast in time. But Peyton woke up by 830 am. We went to get breakfast, Peyton read her book that I brought while I hung out with the moms and girls in the RV. Turns out they parked in the parking right by my car. I’d packed up our stuff ahead of out checkout time and let Peyton read quietly.

Warm ups started at 1245 pm but Dave and Brandon, who had been up since 6 am, and played one game, showed up just after noon. We watched one of Peyton’s old teammates play her game that started before ours.

Then we were up to play. It was a game we were supposed to win, as we were the one seed but you can never know what happens in these games. They’re all still learning. We were playing the team from the pool that we’d beaten the day before. And it started out a bit slow, but slowly we pulled away to win 7-3. Then our next game was against the only team that has beaten us this fall season.

They were also the last team that beat us in Tahoe. They brought out their fast pitcher but the girls were seeing it better. Peyton struck out her first time seeing her, the first out in 6 batters, but we scored two after the first inning. Then the next time she saw her, she went down 0-2. But fought back to draw a walk. I think she fouled off three pitches and then waited on the four balls. Overall, we were able to stay on top as the home team as time expired. I’m sure we will face them again. And they will bring it. The team ended undefeated in this tourney with five wins in two days. Peyton played short stop for every inning on defense. She made some great plays. After Saturday, Coach told me, “Peyton made every play hit to her. Except one.” I knew exactly which play he was talking about too. Tough guy to please. The other coach told her directly how proud of her he was while we were at the pool. Sunday she made a backhanded play and stopped the ball from going to the outfield. It would have been a stellar play, but it ended up hitting her in the leg first, so she just stopped it and didn’t fire to first base. Later, she told me it hurt “just a little”. I didn’t even know she was hit! She had another back handed play that took her off line a bit so she missed getting the ball there in time. I had a hard time capturing the footage on defense. I have to record every play in the hopes of getting her on defense. But here’s her offense:

The team calls her “Junior” PeyDay. Junior for a swing like Ken Griffey Junior. She likes it now.

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