Blue Jays Make It To State!

Jared’s team somehow managed to make it into the playoffs and this Baseball is way more serious than I realized it would be!  They play early games and if they win, they play later games.  To my surprise, even when they’ve lost games they later games to play for “winner of the losers.”  A few weeks ago they won both double header playoff games and that put them in the tournament.  On Wednesday, they had a 5pm game which they lost, so they were playing another time that lost again, at 8pm that evening!  It was a LONG night!  Michael was out of town, so it was just me and Jare; I got a sitter for the others.  The game was ho-hum for about an hour (games are typically 1 hr and 15 minutes), and then the last few minutes, we started making all sorts of runs!  We tied and had to play an extra inning and ended up winning!  It was intense; ended up with coaches yelling at umpires and kids getting banged up from running into each other on base.  But, Blue Jays came out on top and Jared was grinning from ear to ear!  So much that when he finally made it to the shower that evening around 11:00 he was screeching opera songs and whatever other hits that were on his mind, from the top of his lungs!  I could hear him upstairs and had to remind him that everyone else was sleeping!  He’s VERY excited.  That win meant that he would have one more game for 9th or 10th place out of 25 teams and that they would get to compete in the UT State tournament sometime in July! **Note the crazed look oh his ecstatic face!**