April 30, 2008--Jay's first game

Jay had his first baseball game last night. We all went. It was actually the first time I've been to a real baseball game. We used to play with the neighbor kids growing up, but that's all the exposure to baseball that I've had.

The uniforms from the sponsors hadn't come in yet, so they told the kids to all just wear shirts with a number on the back. They must have also had said for them all to wear red shirts, but somehow we missed that part. Jay didn't have a red shirt with a number anyway, so he wore a purple one. He was feeling really out of place wearing a different color of shirt, but I think he'll survive. Besides, their uniforms come in Friday.

Since Jay's team was kind of thrown together at the last minute and began practices late, they really hadn't had much time to work on things like batting or stealing bases. They'd worked a lot on catching and running, but that's about as far as they had gotten. So they lost their first game, 7-1. They were really happy for the one run they did get.

Jay struck out both times he was up to bat. They have him batting left handed for some reason. He's right handed, so I'm not sure what's up with that.

It was cold, though. We all wore jackets, and we wished we had worn coats. I finally took Timothy into the van and read a book. The purple shirt Jay was wearing came in really handy, because I could see him all the way from the van and I could get out and watch him when he was up to bat. If he'd been wearing a red shirt like the other boys, I wouldn't have known who was who.

At one point in the game, one of the boys hit the ball over the fence and it busted out the windshield of a van out in the parking lot. It was interesting.

Jay's next game is Friday.