Ukraine Adoption

Triple play

OK, this doesn't have anything to do with Tara and her adoption from Ukraine, but it's a quick story worth telling. Austin's Little League team (the majors, age 11-13) had its final play-off game last night. This was the sixth game of the series. The winners of this game were to be the champions. The trophy is waist high. There was a big crowd!

So Austin's team, the Red Sox, were ahead 7-1 in the final inning, the last at-bats for the Athletics. All the Red Sox had to do was to stop them from scoring. But a few mis-haps in the field and a few walks later, the score was 7-3 with the bases loaded and no outs! It didn't look good for Austin's team. The tying run at the plate, if he hit a grand-slam. He was a good hitter. Our pitcher was visibly shaken up. Austin was playing second base, his eyes jutting this way and that.

The batter smacked the ball waaay into right field! Our right fielder ran forward (no, back! go back!) he stopped and reached all the way up behind himself...the ball landed in the tip of his glove! He caught it. He jumped up and down, we all screamed! He threw it to the pitcher, who ran to touch first base because the runner didn't tag up. Two outs! The coaches were yelling, throw it home! throw it home! So he did, and our catcher tagged the runner who was so caught up in the excitement of our team catching the ball that he forgot to run right away.

Three outs, a triple play! The Red Sox won the championship. What a game. What a game. Congratulations to the boys who worked so hard this summer, and it paid off.