Tuesday, May 12, 2015
A win! A win! Only the second game of the season, and we won! We defeated the other team 14-11, and get this...we hit 3 home runs tonight, including 2 grand slams, one by me! Not over the fence of course, but really not far off. I hit it about as squarely and as hard as I ever have, and it exactly split the left and left-center fielders, over their heads and just out of reach, so by the time I was rounding second one of them had just picked up the ball. And from then on I gambled that he couldn't throw it back all the way in time, and ran right past the 3rd base coach telling me to stop, and scored easily. Wow, my first home run since...looking it up now...August 6, 2002. And where were my wife and kids? At the Orthopaedic Capital Center for Alex's D.A.R.E. graduation, which apparently was an awesome event and featured nationally renowned speaker Retro Bill. I had no idea until after we were all home again that it was as big a deal as it is. Alex won one of the self-esteem awards, which is also awesome, and got his t-shirt by all his friends and Retro Bill himself.