That Great American Past-Time

Its been quite hot and humid for the last while. That means we hide in the house in the air conditioning as much as possible. Then yesterday early in the day a storm came through, rained on everything and brought some much cooler air behind it.  Since there was a baseball tournament going on here in town we decided to get out in the cooler air and take in a game. We had no idea when who was playing or who anyone was playing so we decided to just take our chances and show up at one of the bigger fields in the area.

So as it turned out we got to see about a game and a half, including the home team.  The home team was the second game so we got to see it all.  Pretty good, eh?  So we got there around 7:00 and two teams from out of the area were battling it out.  Actually, one was beating the other quite badly, though they were not shutting them out.  That game ended ten to three.

We got to see lots of action and these teams were at a level that a lot of the playing was pretty good.

Lots of pitching.  Didn't see any batters get hit. I guess that was good.  Did see a pitcher get hit once.  Another near miss.

Lots of balls.

A good number of strikes.

I thought the umps were pretty good.  Personally, I like to watch the umps as  much as anything else in the game.  A dramatic ump can be real fun to watch.

Lots of style in the pitchers.  They each have their own little "dance" they do to get the ball to the plate.  I find it amazing their arms don't just fall off by the end of the time they're pitching.  I guess they do get pretty sore and beat up.  There was one that kept losing his balance at the end of his pitch and a couple of times nearly fell down.

Saw some hits, they are the exciting parts of the game - how far will the runner get? Saw plenty of good plays out at the bases.

Saw some good plays at first base.

And quite a few home runs.  In the end, the home team did skunk the team they played seven to zero. At the last play of the game the ump mercifully called a catch at first out and ended the game.  But you know how umps are; they're blind.  It looked safe to me. 

It was a good time. The tournament is going all weekend.  We will probably go back tonight and take in another game.