Proud Daddy Time

Bo sent this email to his friends and thought I should post it here. So here it is:

The setting: Little league baseball field, The first all-star game for Benjaman’s team. Benjaman’s team is down 2-1 in the 3rd.

Benjaman steps up to the plate with runners on 2nd and 3rd then when the count was 2 balls 1 strike, he blasts a rocket over shortstop. Both runners score and Benjaman is on 2nd. The next batter walks to first. And the next hits a perfect dinger to right and Benjaman and one more score. The last batter stole home for a 5 run inning. Now we’re up by 4, the score is 6-2. That was a good inning.

In the bottom of the same inning, Benjaman is playing in right field. 2 outs and a runner on 1st. Batter hits a hopper down the first base line. 2 hops and the 1st baseman errors! Not to worry, because Benjaman was literally 3 steps behind him when he erred. The batter sees the error and turns the corner headed for 2nd. Benjaman, in one smooth motion scoops the ball and with zero hesitation fires it to 2nd with a perfect throw and shoots down the runner!

Then, just when we thought we had it locked, a long painful series of bad pitching and infield errors ended the game is a loss of 9-6.

Benjaman’s game however was perfect, 2 hits, 2 RBI, 1 score and 1 fantastic defensive play.

I was practically climbing the backstop cheering that boy . . . . I gotta stop now, I’m tearing up, can’t see to write!