The Bonner Buzz: A Bad Day of Baseball, is better than a good day at something else...

And this, was NOT a bad day at baseball!

Here we were, almost 3 hours into the championship game, the 8th inning and...

Wait, let me back up a bit

So this weekend, we were playing at Big League Dreams in Mansfield (yes, it is a long way out there)

We had 2 pool games Saturday morning, First one at 8am, which means we had to be there by 7am, and it is a hour drive from our house, so we left at 6am... get the picture? Well, we lost both of them, we just were not hitting ball. Did great fielding and kept the score low, but could not put runs on the board

Problem was, there were 4 teams that started their bracket Saturday evening. so we ended up having to go back down there Saturday evening to stand around and wait for a couple of other games to be over. Of course those games ran long, and neither was a run away. We ended up seeding 9th and did not play Saturday evening. It was still 10pm by the time we got home. (refer back to leaving the house at 6am that morning for the first game)

Sunday morning our first game was, you guessed it, 8am

do I need to repeat what time we had to leave to get there?

No?

I didnt think so

First game was against the #8 seed, we won that game, Got to take a break, go get some food and come back to play at noon

on a small note about that game, we scored our best inning ever (that I know of) during that game. Going into our half of the inning, the score was 4-5, in our favor
at the end of our half, it was

The game ended with that same score.
MAN, did they come out swinging today!

Second game was against the #1 seed, who we played on Saturday and lost to.

We beat them also

Then we were back to back games, so we had about a 10 minute break and were back on the field

Third game (semi finals) was against the #5 seed, who we played on Saturday and lost to

We beat them

another 10 minute break, and into the championship we go, playing the #3 seed

Time expires, and we finish the 6th inning tied up at 8
We finish the 7th inning tied up at 12
in the bottom of the 8th, we lost the game 14-13
Game lasted 2 hours and 55 minutes and was over at 7:05PM (do I need to remind you we were AT the ballpark at 7am that morning for our first game, and left the house at 6am)

The boys played so well, they played harder and harder each and every game, got better, more determined. M came into save situations in 4 out of the 6 game and saved every one of them.

The boys were so tired, so worn out, and it was HOT. They were still digging deep and bringing it.

We are all so proud of them!