March 25th Games

It was another cold, windy morning on top of the hill at Mt. Paran Saturday morning, the wind chill around freezing. Both Will and Matthew had 9 am games. Matthew and many of his teammates took a while to get warmed up, but the other team seemed to be colder, and the good guys won going away, 14 – 6. the coach quit sending runners home late in the game, and advanced them base to base.

Matthew got a base hit in the second inning, and scored all the way from first, when Christian grounded one to the fence. In the third Matthew got another hit, and in the 5th he hit the ball to the first-baseman, who tagged Matthew out.

Matthew played third base two innings. On a slow roller past the pitcher, Matthew cut in front of the shortstop to field the ball, but didn’t have a play, so he held onto the ball. Time was called, so Matthew fired the ball back to the coach/pitcher…who wasn’t paying attention. The ball barely missed the coach’s head.

He also played centerfield, and also an inning at shortstop. He caught one grounder at shortstop.

As soon as the game ended I hustled down to Will’s game, then in the 5th inning. They played some big boys from Powder Springs. I talked to several people to get a picture of what happened. His team squandered several scoring opportunities and lost 11-9.

Will pitched the last three innings, and I think gave up only three runs. He struck out five, including the last four in a row, striking out the side in the sixth, the 2, 3, & 4 hitters in the order.

Will led off the bottom of the first and was robbed of a hit by the first baseman. He walked in his next at bat, stole second, and eventually scored.

I got to see his sharply hit single to left in the 5th inning. He stole second and scored on Robbie’s double.

In the 6th Will hit one hard up the middle. The pitcher got a glove on it, deflecting it to the second baseman, who threw to first. Will beat the throw by a half step. Again he stole second, but was stranded there.

Will caught at least the first two innings. Both innings were apparently long, with several runs scored. Combined with the three innings he pitched, no wonder he was tired.

Will is hitting the ball hard, but isn’t at mid-season form.

Matthew plays this afternoon, then both teams are off for spring break.