Baseball/Softball Really Do End [Layla/Emma]

Last week, I wasn’t sure that the rain would stop long enough to ever finish Layla’s and Speed’s respective seasons. With four games scheduled for this past week and no real rain in the forecast, I was hopeful.

• On Monday afternoon, Layla got her game in against the White Huskies (to whom, they’d already lost twice). The game went to form. Layla put the ball in play during both at bats but was out at first both times.

• Layla had her last game scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, but the other team forfeited because they couldn’t rustle up enough players. Kind of a downer to end on–but it counts as a win! Layla had so much fun playing this season.

• Speed also had a game Wednesday afternoon against his best friend’s team, Red Devils. Speed’s team won handily (12-1 I think). Speed’s one at-bat that I saw was a walk. He played well as catcher. The female umpire (pictured below) was so funny. She was very encouraging to everyone: telling the pitchers how they’d barely missed the strike zone high, inside, etc., but it was great effort; to batters making any sort of contact; and explaining almost every call to the coaches in great detail. She was good and entertaining.

• Wednesday’s win meant that Thursday’s final game against the Cistercian Hawks was for first place in the league. Speed’s team had just one loss, while Hawks had none. Speed was excited about the prospect of taking the league title (I wasn’t so sure). Well, the stars were aligned as Speed won 17-1. They had three home runs (a grand slam and two three-run homers). Speed had one of the three-run jobs and was a bit irritated that it wasn’t a grand slam because the bases had been loaded until one player scored on a wild pitch just before Speed’s big hit. Speed played SS and 3B but had no chances. They went to Braum’s afterwards to celebrate. Speed had a grin ear to ear even two hours after the game ended.