Protest’s are acommin!

I was able to sleep in until nine o’clock this morning. I got a call about getting some breakfast. So I took the opportunity to eat and Grandpa said I could come to his room to chow because the breakfast room was full. That is what I did.

Afterwards I went back to my room and just sat around for while. I watched some TV and read the newspaper. We decided we would leave at noon to get to the field and watch the Rockets play. I turned out that we did not watch them. Robert and I found some shade. I talked to a lady who was a mitt repairer. She fixed my broken lacing and tightened up the ones in the fingers. It cost ten bucks.

I waited around in the shade until people started to show up. We were going to get our team photo done today. So once everyone got there we got the photo taken. Then we took a practice field and warmed up our arms. Then we did some defensive drills and then I pitched batting practice. We went to the field where we were supposed to play. The games were about thirty minutes behind schedule. So we had to wait until the game that was playing was done, plus there was another game between us and the current game.

We sat around watching that game. Then it was our turn. We had the first at bat. My first hit was a good one. It got over the head of the outfielder and rolled a way. I made it an inside the park homerun. I was pitching. I only walked one. I was pitching well today. I felt like I was in a grove.

My next two at bats were not all that good. I made it on base both times, but they were not good hits. I was not happy with them. They were more or less pop-ups. Then my last at bat the bases were loaded. I was looking for a good base hit. The team we were playing against were watching us yesterday and knew I could go to right field so they were playing that line pretty tight. So I was looking to go to left field. I just swung away. I was not trying to crush it, but I did. It burnt the outfielder. Then with the short grass it rolled and rolled. It went to the next field over. The field we are playing at have four fields and they share the same outfield. So when you hit one long enough it would go to the next field. Up to that time I had not seen someone do that. But mind kept going all the way to the infield of one of the other fields. I was running hard until I got to second base. I saw they were still running for my ball so I slowed down and jogged the rest of the way home. It was an inside the park grand slam.

But it was not long after that when they protested my player ratings. If it is found that I have the wrong rating, they will ban me from the rest of the tournament. But as it turns out they did not do the protest correctly and we won it on a technicality. The problem is now I have a target on my back and all the teams will be looking at me for a protest.

For the second game, because at that time we did not know the protest would go through, I was benched by my team to make sure that something did not happen and a second protest was lodged against me. So I was the first base coach and rooted for the team. We won the next game as well. So we went three and oh in the round-robin portion of the tournament.

After that game we went to watch the Rockets play their last game. The commissioner of the ECSA league (The Seattle League) was talking to my and my coach. He was saying that the Rockets were at the field diagonal to the one we were playing on when I hit the ball to the other field. The people on the team saw the ball going and they were all making a big deal about it. Then the commissioner saw I hit it. So he was trying to get the people on the Rockets to not talk about it so we would not bring extra scrutiny to me.

After the Rockets finished their game we went to watch another game that the boyfriend of a guy on our team plays for. After their game the people from my team and the other team we went to watch all went to Apple Bees for dinner.

It was a good day. I had a lot of fun. But now I have to watch my hitting for the rest of the tournament to make sure I do not get protested out of it.