Waitsburg Softball Tournament

Our first game this morning was at nine-fifteen am. I was up around five in the morning. I could not sleep because I was pretty warm in my truck. I got up when I saw Jake was up and about around six in the morning. We made a fire. I sat around the fire with some of the others while I was having some granola bars from breakfast.

We went to the fields early to do some batting practice. Then we went to our first game. We were playing a team we should have won, but we could not get our sticks going very well. We ended up losing by a couple runs, nothing major. Because of the loss our next game was going to be out at field three. That was a baseball field. So the bases were actually on the grass rather than the dirt.

We did well in that game going on to win. Kelly had redone the batting order. I was hitting ninth, but I did okay in the first game, so I was moved to eighth. One guy who was doing really bad was moved to tenth. He also moved a couple other people around in the line up. That line up we seemed to score more runs so we kept it for the next game. We won the second game and had a four hour break. We went back to the camp and had some food. I also took time to rest in my truck.

We got on the road and to the field in time to see we were nearly thirty minutes early because the game on the field before us was going long. I found out there were no time limits. Because of that we were able to play the whole game. But there was a mercy rule of ten runs, not twelve.

The umpire had a strike zone that was nearly impossible to hit a strike. Jake struggled for a long time. After the first two inning they had seventeen runs against us. We were down by thirteen. But we went to work finally with our sticks. We got patient at the plate and allow the umpire to issue some walks and got some well timed hits.

Then we made a run in one inning and scored a lot of runs. Soon we were up. The game went all seven innings with us winning twenty-eight to twenty-four. We also had played in what felt like the longest game I can remember playing. When it was done we play nearly an hour and fifty minutes.

When that game was done we went back to camp. Got the fire going. We had dinner together. Sat around the fire and talked about a lot of different things because finding our way to bed. It was around eleven o’clock at night when I went to sleep.