Puck's team "won" she informed us after the game, which is great I suppose for her to think that. I don't know maybe we should feel bad for letting her think that. I mean after all, it is developmental t-ball. Everyone bats, everyone crosses home plate, there are no outs, and they don't actually keep score. So really, technically the score was like 20-20 and the commissioner decided to let the game end a tie. The main thing though is that Puck had a blast getting to play. I guess one of these days she will know what's really up with it, but for now, well no sense is bursting the 4-year-old "I'm the winner" bubble.
Tonight Boo had her second game. I have to say that it didn't go quite as swimmingly as the one on Monday night. Our team played the team from Raines this evening and I do believe that we tasted defeat for the first time. Boo played pretty well, but we a nervous moment with her in the first inning. We were a player down tonight so she ended up starting the game at first base, which is a place that she has never played before, not even in practice. She was nervous going into the game and then she's in a place where she has never played before and so that added to it.
Well early in the inning a ball was hit to the middle infield and the fielder got it and threw it to Boo. She missed it and it rolled past her and to the fence. Instead of turning and running to get the ball like she normally would, she kind of hung out there at the base like she didn't know it was up to her to go and get the ball. After the play ends though, the first base coach goes and gets the ball for her, and then starts walking toward home and is motioning for one of our coaches to come over. The next thing we know all our coaches are headed that way and are around Boo helping her to walk back across the field to the dugout. Turns out that she got really dizzy and her vision went all white and her stomach was hurting, and she got close to fainting out there.
Her Moma of course hurried out of the stands and into the dugout and they got her a nice cool, wet towel and got her cooled down and calmed down (from the nerves) and she was fine. In fact she went up to bat fairly early on in the inning and got another hit (she had three more hits tonight which brings her total up to 6 and makes her 6-6 batting so far this season). When she went back out in the field she got moved back over to shortstop where she has been playing in practice and did pretty well the rest of the game. It was a little bit of a tense moment though at first. Of course, the Moma has lots of experience with the whole passing out thing, so it's good she was there to sit with her. I'm going to post a couple of pictures here from Boo's first game this past Monday.
Tomorrow will be yet another adventure with The Wild Things I'm sure. Peace and Love y 'all.
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