Better late than never...

Last week Ethan's team was in the running for their leagues championship game. They were playing the Red Socks and in the 3rd inning it was tied 3-3. It was a pitching dual, both teams were pitching great! Now, these boys usually only get in 5 maybe 6 innings in an hour and a half and that's only with quick innings. This game went almost 9 innings! In the bottom of the 8th inning, there were 2 outs and bases were loaded. Ethan gets up to bat, he watches 2 balls and a strike go by. The next pitch he swings and the ball goes rocketing out to center field with no chance of being caught! They won 4-3!!!! The next day was the championship game against the Orioles. They played great but, ended up losing 9-7. All in all Ethan's first season in the majors was a great experience, his team took 1st in league play and 2nd in the tournament. Not a bad season at all!!!

Makenna had a tournament during the same time. Her team has not placed in a tournament yet this year, which is not what she's used to. Her team picked up a pitcher who did an awesome job and helped them out in the championship game. Again with the tied games! Her games are only 70 minutes long, which only gets in a good 3 inning game. They were tied 5-5 after 70 minutes. Now softball is not like baseball in that girls don't keep playing until there is a winner. We have a stupid international tie breaker rule. You put your last out on 2nd base and play the inning from there. We gave up 3 runs, switch, and we got back our 3 runs. Now we are tied again only 8-8 this time. Well, now you put a runner on 3rd and 2nd. Our girls held them to no runs. We get up and they held us, their catcher wasn't letting anything get by her so we could steal home. They ENDED THE GAME!!!! How do you end a tournament game in a tie?! Men made up these stupid idiotic rules, if a woman had come up with rules we would continue to play until someone scored and actually won the game! So, because the team we tied with beat the team we lost to we came in 2nd. The girls actually played like a team and they deserved to place in this tournament. They played great!

All in all it was a super weekend of ball!