June 24th Ballgame

This was the grandson's last game. The son and dil were both working again so I took him, his sister's and cousin, K-Monster, to watch him play. Because if the high heat I decided to watch the game from "outfield" this time, where the shade is. For warm up the boys even came to the outfield this time. See the diamond off to the left, over where the light pole is, that's where we usually sit.
Here the coach gave them their pep-talk.

The boys were getting lined up to bat...

This is the camera off zoom to give you an idea of how far away we were.

Here he is up to bat...

....and then in the outfield.

...a long shot of the game. If you click on the picture you can see better what's going on.

Our boys took the lead right from the start.

Here was a home run...

...and here is that same boy, exhausted, after running the bases.

Grandson batting, I think he actually tipped the ball on this one, but still no hit.

Here's a couple of our boys runs where one runner almost overtook another.

End of the game, final score was 11 to 5, our win.

The boys were ALL given medals...

And here's the team shot...

Great Games! Great Fun, Boys!

Gotta thank K-Monster for these last two pictures. He ran over to where the team was, half-way there he came back and got the other camera out of the car, and got the pictures. I wouldn't have had a team photo if he hadn't done that! Way To Go, K-Monster!

June 19th Ballgame

I've been so busy that I'm late in getting these posted but I figured I better get them up now because there's more games on Monday. Her PK appears to be having a problem with her britches during warm up. I called her out when they went to their bench so I could adjust her belt.
Her first position was catcher. They had her standing way back from the plate this game.

Batter UP! HIT!

Run!!! Unfortunately, she hit the ball straight to first and she was out.

Hamming for the camera again. Playing outfield.

Up to bat again.

This time she makes it to first base, barely, but safe.

On the way to home plate...

It's a run!

Now she's playing first. Get the ball, PK!

Up to bat, again.

Safe at first!

...on to second...

...run to third...

...touch the base, PK!

On to home and another run!

Game over... Good game for all!

This beautiful little guy had perched on the fence to watch the warm up but flew away before the game started. I don't recall seeing Baltimore Orioles around her up until a few years ago. Maybe it's just that we're getting trees big enough on our side of town now.

They're STILL throwing the paper on the drive!!!! Fortunately it hadn't rained enough to fill up the drive this day.

June 17th Ballgames

Tonight the two grandkids both had ballgames again. Fortunately they were both at the same park at the same time. Unfortunately both their mom and dad had to work, so grandma got to take them to their out of town games. K-Monster came with us along with older sister, the Princess. The picture below is K-Monster getting familiar with the camera. He discovered it had a timer...
K-Monster and the Princess stayed with PK to cheer her on and take pictures.

Since I didn't see her game, I don't really have a commentary to go with the pictures, I just picked out the ones I thought were the cutest. Here's PK getting ready to bat.

PK on the pitchers mound.

Pitchers don't pitch in T-ball.

She sure looks like pitchers I've seen though.

I would like to know what she was thinking on this one. Click on the picture so it enlarges and look at her whole stance and expression. The coach behind her looks rather expressive, too.

I don't know if she has the ball or is waiting for it to come to her.

Always posing for the camera.

Here she's running for home plate...

On first base...

Running for home again...

Another cute smile for the camera...

That was the T-ball game. They don't keep score, everyone wins.

BASEBALL

I need to come up with a blog name for this grandson, I haven't found anything that has felt right yet. This game was machine pitch. There's enough members of this team that the grandson doesn't play every inning. The team starts out warming up.
The coach rounded them up for a talk...

The grandson's position is outfield...

There he is to the right...

He's still not seeing the ball, if he was he wouldn't have swung at any that were pitched to him. Look in the chain link diamond right behind his raised foot. That's the ball. The balls were so low across the plate that some even hit the plate. Needless to say, he struck out. That was his only turn up to bat.

The boys played a good game. The other team lead them by one point up to the last inning when our team made the maximum runs allowed for machine pitch, 5 runs per inning. Below is the grandson being happy about how the game is going.

The boys won 11 to 7. They were a happy bunch of boys.

Good games kids! Good exercise, Good fun!