Dodgers Oct 8th game

I never wrote up a recap on Will’s game from Saturday, October eighth. The Dodgers beat the other Hobgood team 7 – 4 in the 10 am game at Mt. Paran. Will started the game at shortstop, but didn’t get any balls hit to him, though Hobgood scored two runs in the top of the first.

Chris put Will in to pitch the top of the second, and after the leadoff batter dumped a single into right field, Will struck out two batters on three straight pitches, and got the last batter to pop out to him…a ten pitch inning. Will also pitched the next two innings, allowing no earned runs and only two unearned runs. He struck out a total of five batters.

The Dodgers scored seven in the bottom of the second. Will singled to left to drive in a run,
and stole second base. From there he scored on a single to center.

In the final inning Will was playing third base, and tagged two runners out on attempted steals, to end the game. He had been on deck when the final out was made in the bottom of the fourth.

Immediately after the game Anna, Matthew, and I sped over to Six Flags for my company picnic. Anna drove some co-workers around the Hanson cars track, followed by me, being chauffeured by Matthew. Anna had a big lead, but with my coworker Jeff in the backseat, turned around taunting Matthew. Matthew kept the pedal to the metal and gradually caught up. After Anna had stopped at the end of the ride, Matthew plowed into the back of her car, causing everyone in both cars, as well as everyone standing in the long line, to erupt in laughter.

Will chose to stay at the field and play in the YellowJackets game. He played centerfield and shortstop, and turned a couple of double plays. The Jackets were playing the tough Hobgood team that had given the Dodgers their only loss of the season, and though the Jackets had lost every game to the Dodgers, they beat the Hobgood team. After the game Will got to go home with Willie and the other Bartletts, so it was a big day for him.