Take Me Out to the Ballgame
It's spring in Utah, and that means only one thing for our family. Baseball.
Both boys are playing. That means Monday through Saturday full of baseball. That means games, practices, more games, practices and more games. Every once in a while their games are on the same night. At the same time. In different locations. And one of us is out of town. THAT gets a little tricky, but it's only happened once or twice this season. Most of the time their games are on different nights. When they're on the same night, one is usually early (5-6:30) and the other late (6:30 to 8). They make for LONG days for all of us, but the boys certainly sleep well this time of year!
I was finally able to get some pictures at their games this week.
Jack had a GREAT game last night! Their team (the Mets) won 13 to 'something less than 13' (it gets hard to keep track, but it was less, that much I know!) He scored the run that clinched their win with a slide into home.
I This was the hit - Jack, the on deck batter and the catcher are all staring at the ball as it sails high over the head of the 2nd baseman.
The look on this face standing at 1st base is priceless. You can just see the pride in his face. That paired with the right fielder behind him, obviously bummed that they missed the play! (caution, proud mommy coming out)
And the best one of all, Jack stealing home, sliding with the ball right at his back. If you know Jack, you know that sliding into home for him is a BIG deal. He's always struggled at sliding. The rule in the league is that you can start stealing home halfway through the season, but you HAVE to slide (for safety reasons) or it's an automatic out. And all slides have to be feet first, also for safety (as opposed to sliding arms first, on your stomach like they do in the big leagues). That's a scary thing for some of the boys, knowing that they have to slide into home. He still needs a little work on his slides, but he's made huge improvements over last year. HUGE.
Here are some shots of Sam's game earlier this week
One of his cousins is also on the team. And 2 of his second cousins. And Nick's cousin is the coach (dad of said 2nd cousins). They had to get creative with the names on the back of the jerseys with so many related kids on the team!
That's eye black on his face. Meant to help keep the sun out of their eyes. Coach likes to put it on the kids because they think it's fun, makes them feel grown up.
Incidentally, eye black is not easy to get off. I've tried many things. Many that have left Sam begging me to stop! If you ever find yourself with eye black on your face, try a little vaseline. Works like a charm.
Catcher is Sam's LEAST favorite position to play. Last year he was
playing catcher and the ball took a bad bounce and managed to work it's
way through all of the padding and hit in a bad place, if you know what
I mean! (Not that THAT's a bad place, but you get my drift...). Poor
guy, now when he plays catcher he always trys to sit about 10 feet
behind the batter...
After the game is over and after the coach talks with the kids about the game, they run sprint to the snack shack for treats. Boy, you should see them run! If they put as much energy running bases as they do into getting 1st in line to the snack shack, we'd surely be undefeated...
Speaking of 'take me out to the ballgame', tomorrow the Jazz are playing the Lakers in game 4 of the NBA playoffs. We'll be there! The boys have their official Jazz jerseys laid out and ready to go. We'll be doing Mother's Day Brunch and one of Nick's sisters house with the family and then head to the game from there.
GO JAZZ!
And Happy Mother's Day!


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