Weekend visit

We had a great time with Mary and John this weekend!  They got to see tons of baseball. Quinn had a game on Friday night, they lost.  Then he had a game on Saturday morning, they won.  Quinn also got to play up a league in AAA for the Cardinals, they won. 3 games for Quinn!  Zero games for Walker since the Flames had the weekend off. Don't worry, she will be back at it this weekend!

Warrior Nation

After a thrilling victory on Saturday, the Warriors had to come back to face the team they played on Friday and lost 15-0, The East Side Titans.  The Warriors kept close, 4-4 through the middle of the 3rd but the Titans broke the game open in the bottom of the 3rd scoring 7 runs.  Even though the final score was 15-4 the Warriors had everything to be proud of!  The game was much closer than what the score was.  So proud of all of those boys. Quinn got a hit every at bat and made some great plays in the field. 

After a great pool party at a team mates house, if was off to bed. Quinn had to be at the ballpark at 9am for practice. This weekend is the regional Little League tournament.  Murphey Candler has 3 teams in the 8 year old division, blue, gold and white. Quinn is on blue. They practice every day this week with the tourney starting on Saturday and going until next Saturday.

Walker also has a tournament this weekend in Sandy Springs. It looks like we will be going in two different directions!

Today we are off to the Braves game!  Go Braves!

Ball

The Mudhens won today 17-9 and the Outlaws lost 5-2. Both teams are 2-1 for the season. Walker has her first Cobras games tomorrow.  The Cobras are the tournament team that she plays on.  They have two games tomorrow.

Pictures from Opening Day

Back to the Ballpark

Quinn had his first baseball game yesterday afternoon.  He is playing fall ball for the Lugnuts in the Costal league.  Jay is his coach.  The nice thing about fall ball is that they practice on Saturdays and have games on Sundays.  I would have taken some pictures but am not totally back in the ballpark swing of things. One thing I did not forget was my chair!

Walker has tryouts for the Flames, the 10u travel team, on Sunday.  If she does not make it she is still playing fall ball at Murphey Candler.  Her evaluations are this week.  Practices and games are soon to follow.

Both kids had a great first week at school.  I start with orientation at the end of this week and school starts at the end of August.  It is good to have a routine again

What I forgot about the Summer Sizzler

I cannot believe I forgot the most important part....Walker hit a screamer between the first baseman and the first base bag for an inside the park 3 run home run.  That hit gave them the lead and the victory in one of their games.

End of Season Pictures

Here are a bunch of pictures from the end of the season

Back to the Ballpark

Softball has started up again for Walker and the Cobras.  They had the pool play on Friday and Saturday to figuire out seeding and today they play the single elimination tournament.  They won two and lost one over the course of two days. Walker has been playing great and really enjoying it. Her team has a great group of girls and parents on it.  Quinn spends his time climbing fences, getting into posion ivy and keeping score. His ball collection is not doing so great on this tournament. The park we are at is recently renovated so there are not many balls laying around.

Fire Loses! Fire Wins!

Red Fire lost to the green team, again, on Tuesday 12-13 in the bottom of the 6th inning. It was a tough loss for the girls!  The bounded back tonight to beat the light blue team, the one that they beat on Saturday, 15-9, to play in the championships on Thursday.  9 out of 10 days in a row at Murphey Candler!  It is the playoffs!

I forgot the most important part!  Uncle Matt is in Atlanta for the night so he got to spend some quality time at the ballpark! 

Mudcats Win!

The Mudcats defeated the Lugnuts 7-5 tonight to make it to the International League Championship game on Friday.  The Mudcats had lost twice before to the Lugnuts but tonight defense won it. 

Walker plays tomorrow in another of her playoff games.  They are playing the green team, another team they have not beaten all year.  We are on a roll, I smell victory!

How Walker got a triple play

There was no one out and runners on first and second.  Walker was playing first  base and caught a pop fly. The runners had already started to run so she stepped on first and then ran to second to touch second before the other girl could get there.  Triple play!! She is very proud of it!

Triple Play

Last night in Walker's softball game there was a triple play!  One of the girls caught a pop fly, partially with her upper lip.  She then tagged the runner that was heading from second to third.  She then threw the ball to second and the girl on second through it to Walker who touched first, TRIPLE PLAY!  It was a great play, one that most of the coaches have never seen happen in softball.  The girls were playing the green team, one they had not beaten yet.  It was a great hard fought game but they lost 9-8.  Hopefully we will get to play them in the tournament and avenge the losses.

Quinn plays tonight and again on Saturday. Walker has two games on Saturday.  The season is winding to a close.

Finally

I have been trying to get these pictures of Quinn playing up here but have not had time. It is eaiser to take pictures of Walker.  Her league is a lot less formal and they will let you on the field to take pictures.  It is harder to access Quinn's field.  The are a lot less access points. I guess the boys need more corralling then the girls do!  Back we go tonight for 2 more games.

Ballpark update

WOW!  Walker's 2 games were amazing. They were fun to watch and cheer!  Since it is a select team all the girls can play.  They won the first game 19-7.  They won the second game in stellar fashion.  The other team  caught up in the bottom of the 4th as the rain started.  They went ahead 10-8.  Top of the 5th the rain stopped and Walker's team went ahead 15-10.  Bottomof the fifth...Walker caught one for one of the outs and threw to 1st to help with another.  The Red Murphey Candler Select team won 15-12.  Great game, very exciting!  Thanks to Abby, Julia, and Kelly for coming out to watch! 

Back at the ballpark

Walker has been selected to play on a select/allstar team. They play  on Sundays. Today they are playing 2. One at 1 and another at 4. We were here yesterday from 9:15-3:45. Walker played first and then one of her coaches asked if she wanted to play up a division and play another game. She loves it so much she said yes! Off we went to another field.

 In the meantime Quinn headed over to his game. Quinn played great. A hit everytime! He also made some great plays in the field. Walker won both of hers and Quinn lost his.

Both kids are loving playing. I keep food, water, a chair, blankets, mittens and a scarf in the back of the car. You never know.

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Results from Friday

Both kids won their games!  It was kinda wild from a Mom standpoint.  Walker left for her game midway through Quinn's game. Jay went with her(he is helping out for both teams).  After Quinn's game we got something to eat at the concession stand.  Quinn decided to leave his bag there and head to the other side of the park to Walkers game.  Luckly Scott was still here (Scott, Crissie, Bo and Cole came to watch the kids) and he brought it back.  Midway through Walkers game she realized she left her sweatshirt over at Quinns game. So over I went.  It was a lot of back and forth.  I am sure this will not  be the only time! 

Here is how they did. 

Quinn was part of a toss from center field to second for an out.  In this league, from what I have seen, it is either fluke plays, strikeouts or run limits that end the innings.  He  got 2 rbi's.  The final score was 11-9.

Walker ran someone down twice to tag them for the out. Once between second and third and once between first and second.  She finally figuired it out.  Before when she ran someone down she had the ball in one hand and the glove in the other. She then tagged them with the glove, no out. This time she had the ball in her hand and her hand in the glove.  The final score was 11-3.

Two more games on tap for today!

What's on tap

No, not beer.   But if you are curious what we have it is Sweetwater 420, Thanks Bill! 

Anyway, here is our weekend schedule.  Friday 5:30 baseball 7pm softball   Saturday 1:30 baseball 3pm softball.  50to  Bags of mulch to spread and 1 playset to haul to the curb.

Quinn had is first game last Sunday.  They lost  6 - 7.  It was fun to see him plae in his first real game. I have pictures which I will post this weekend.  Walker had a game Tuesday which they won 14-6.  They pounded the purple puppies.  She hit a huge shot into left field in the air the whole way.  It was awesome.  Off to the ball park!

Cancelled

All games and the opening ceremonies yesterday were cancelled today and yesterday due to wet fields. It has rained every day since Wednesday with a serious downpour yesterday.  Quinn is making his game up tomorrow and Walker one day this week. 

Photos from Opening Day

Quinn's coach likes to call him Pedroia...as in Dustin Pedroia 2nd baseman for the Red Sox.

Slugger gets ready to bat. She was awesome!

Quinn with Adelaide on 3rd looking fabulous as usual!

Today was opening day for tball and softball. Both kids played softball and Quinn also plays tball. I will brag about my kids for a minute and say that they did great. The one that surprised the most, Walker. She had 3 hits all of them solid hits in the infield. Quinn loves just being out there! They are letting him play softball with the bigger kids. Softball is a bit hard for him since he is that much smaller than everyone else but that does not matter, he can still play. He hit a home run in tball. It made it out of the infield in the air. It was a great day at the ballfield. See you there next Saturday!