Awesome Baseball Weather!

We had our 1st baseball tournament this last weekend in Medford. Was kinda concerned about it being too early (the team was only picked the Saturday before and they had one practice). It ended up being a really good weekend. The weather was just about perfect. I think on Saturday it was about 65-70 (see all the blue sky) and it felt sooo good to sit in the sun (would probably have gotten a tan on my face, but my back was to the sun). We won the 1st game (WOWSA!) by 1 run in an extra inning, good way to start. Lost the 2nd game Saturday, but that was ok. Won the 1st game Sunday and then lost the 2nd game, which was ok, because if we would have won, we would have played at 2:00 and then still had a 3 hour drive home Sunday afternoon. It was fine, we won 2 of 4 and that was better than we thought!!

Here is Drake getting the pre-season/pre-game pep talk from assistant coach dad :)......
He had some good plays. He has several throws to 2nd when a kid was stealing and came pretty darn close to getting them out. He did throw a kid out stealing 3rd base, that was sweet. He also tagged a kid out running home (he had another one that I swear the kid was out, but ump called him safe, where's the booth review when you need it.) He just looks soo small in his catchers gear/crouch...
He also "got" a home run. Notice I didn't say "hit" a home run. He hit a little blooper over the 1st baseman's head, it stayed fair, and he made it to first. We had a runner on 3rd, so the right fielder threw the ball to the catcher. The pitcher walks towards home plate to get the ball, next thing I know Drake is stealing 2nd. The catcher/pitcher (not sure which, happened so fast), threw the ball to 2nd to try to get Drake out. Then the runner on 3rd ran home. Not really sure what happened, but the infield was throwing the ball around and Drake ended up scoring. Kinda a funny way to get a home run, but hey a run is a run and it counted on the scoreboard, so that is all that matters! (We won that game!)
Overall a good baseball weekend. May we be so lucky to have them all be that nice!!Oh and the fields were AWESOME, Turf all the way!.......

Gunner has been practicing, don't have any pics yet, but I will trust me! He starts games on the 19th, can't wait to watch some high school baseball!

And last but not least, I really didn't post any pics from Drake's b-day. But a good time was had by all at the Globetrotters. Here's a pic of the motley crew outside the Rose Garden before the game started.........