What a GAME!

This summer Tyler has been playing baseball on the High School (aka ACME) team. He is the only freshmen on the team and has kind of been the blunt of jokes and the normal stuff that goes along with being the baby on the team. Tyler has played first base, catcher, pitcher, outfield, and who knows where else, but he loves baseball so will play where ever they put him in!


Tuesday night started the end of the season tournaments and it's double elimination. The team has not won a game all season and lost Tuesday night, so they played last night. We figured it was going to be the last game of the season since like I said they haven't won any yet. WELL!!! The game started out bad with the opposing team getting 6 runs in the first inning and a few more later in the game. We scored 4 runs in there some place. Then in the top of the 6th inning with our team up to bat and 2 outs we scored 10 RUNS!!!! YES 10!!! That made the score 14-11 Hilltop on top! Our coach changed pitchers then when the other team was up at the bottom of the 6th and IT WAS TYLER HE PUT IN!!!!!!!!!!! I was almost puking! I try not to get to worked up at the kids games, it's just a game and if they are having fun that's all that matters. WELL I WAS WORKED UP DURING THIS ONE!!! OH MY WORD! I was thinking "WHAT IS THE COACH THINKING??" I know where is the confidence I should have in my son!! NOT THERE SORRY!!!!! We NEEDED THIS WIN and I knew if he messed up being the new guy or little guy he'd feel terrible!

So Tyler starts pitching and they don't score that inning. We get up to bat in the top of the 7th and score nothing. I'm thinking okay Tyler pitched, now put in someone else to CLOSE the game!! UM NO TYLER COMES BACK IN! By this time I have Stan on the phone, my battery is almost dead and I'm giving him play by play of the entire two innings he is pitching! At one point Stan says "Jen could you not scream into the phone?" LOL

Okay (I know this is taking alot, but this is GOOD!!) By the way we are playing North Central and they have a pretty good team. SO! N.C. scores two runs it's 14-13 and the tying runner is on base and steals all the way to third. Tyler strikes out the next batter, so there are 2 outs with the tying runner still on third base. THIS IS WHERE IT GETS GOOD!!! Tyler turns around to walk back to the pitcher's mound and the hot shot on third decides to steal home!!!!!!!! EVERYONE IS SCREAMING THROW HOME TYLER!!! TYLER TURNS AROUND WHIPS IT INTO THE CATCHER AND THEY GET HIM OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY WON THE GAME!!!!!!! WE ARE ALL SCREAMING EVEN THE BOYS ON THE FIELD!!!! Stan was still on the phone with me and he's like "WHAT IS GOING ON!!!!" I'm telling him everything that just happened and he's just laughing and WHOOPING! Here Stan is stuck in traffic in Chicago listening to me commentate this game! It was the coolest thing and so funny. This game started at 5:30, had a rain delay, then another delay due to lightening, so it didn't get over till almost 9:00. WHAT A GAME!!! Of course the one time I didn't bring a camera! UGH!!!

We play tonight again against Montpelier, so we'll see how it goes. It would be AWESOME if they could win, but we are just so excited they won even one game! So Tyler is waiting for the newspaper to come out today to see if he made the paper for the save. I hope everyone has been able to understand this, it's so hard to type what you are trying to say. It was just so great I wanted to share it with whoever reads this blog!