Game 9 Update

I am glad I did not decide to title these updates "Game x Highlights." Otherwise, this would be a pretty short post. No, it would be a very short post.

Luke had made it down the batting order to the sub section, meaning he would only play in the second half of the game. Today was VBS at church and because of this and the aforementioned sub situation, we decided for him to just go to VBS. The only caveat to the above mentioned sub situation is that if there were several players gone, we might need him to be there to play. OK, we DID need him to be there, since we only had 8 players.

I have mentioned before the quality of play of the Red Sox girls. Did I mention that they have a boy that can throw it on the fly to the first baseman from deep shortstop? Did I also mention that said boy was playing shortstop because the Red Sox coach felt sorry for us after said boy fielded and threw to first for the out our first three batters? Even the umpire said she had never seen a three up three down inning.

Our pitcher, the original coach's son, decided that he was going to try to run the runner down on every play. We tried and tried (his dad was right on the edge of being overboard in yelling at him) to get him to throw the ball, but never did get it to happen. If I coach next year, I am going to do a whole lot of things different from the start ... like insist that everyone learn to throw to first.

Needless to say, this was not our shining moment. We missed Luke and Teigan and just did not play well. Some days are like that.

Thursday is the last game ... we play the Purple Diamondbacks. Then off to the team party! Which, when all is said and done, isn't that the best part?